Doctor Who: 14 Cool Details Revealed In Steven Moffat's Wedding Of River Song Commentary

by Danny Meegan

1. The Garden Scene Was ANOTHER Late Rewrite

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Because Amy's brutal murder of Kovarian was implemented at the last minute, the final garden scene also had to be changed at the last minute.

This is because Moffat now needed to make "sense" of the terrible act that Amy has committed, showing how it has affected her and changed her.

This then has the knock-on effect of giving River a big reason to tell Amy about the Doctor's survival. River can see that her mother is troubled and saddened, that she needs to see the Doctor to make her feel better. So, she spills the beans out of her love for Amy, rather than just doing it for the benefit of the audience.

Late rewrites and reshoots are often viewed as a bad thing, but clearly... they can be a good thing sometimes.

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Danny has been with WhatCulture for over ten years, and is currently Doctor Who Editor and WhoCulture Channel Manager, overseeing all of WhatCulture's Whoniverse coverage. In 2022, he took charge of WhoCulture and has grown it into the biggest Doctor Who channel on YouTube, and one of the biggest Doctor Who communities on the web full-stop. He has been writing and video editing since his early teens, and first got a taste for content creation after making his own Doctor Who trailers, off the back of a burning obsession with the Matt Smith era of the show. Like many his age, he first got into Doctor Who with the 2005 revival, but has since gone back and fallen in love with the classic years too. If you need someone to recite every Doctor Who episode in order, or to give you a random factoid about the making of Gridlock, Danny is the person to ask!