I was more weirded out about the retcon. Meet this new best friend we've never mentioned before!

I'd love to see Chiwetel Ejiofor as The Doctor.

Who do we have to petition for this to happen? I mean SERIOUSLY!!!

I'd start a write-in campaign once it was clear Matt Smith was done.

Yeah, that was a bit much. I'm surprised that we didn't get a reaction from Rory when he found out the baby's name.

"Really? Mels?"
"She's my best friend."
"Yeah, but..."
"What?"
"Not much of a role model."
"Maybe she'll rise to the occasion."

I was more weirded out about the retcon. Meet this new best friend we've never mentioned before!

This.

I'm surprised that we didn't get a reaction from Rory when he found out the baby's name.

And that was only ONE EPISODE AGO. It's not like they didn't know they were doing this. Throw us a bone, guys.

I was re-watching a couple of scenes and I'm still amused by "Name one girl you've paid the slightest bit of attention to!"

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"Rory!"

"...and the penny drops."

On rewatch, I liked the episode more. If you ignore all the issues with WTF!River, there were many great scenes and bits to the episode. Like the Doctor asking the TARDIS for a visual interface, and how he doesn't want to see himself as the visual interface as he doesn't like himself. And then all the companions he feels guilty about.

Still, I gotta agree with this io9 review on River: Doctor Who and the One Woman the Doctor Can’t Screw Up

But I have to admit... after "Let's Kill Hitler," I'm... a bit less of a River fan than I was....

But also, the shift from a River who knows more than everybody else to a River who's the only one who knows nothing seemed to sap the character of a lot of energy. She still has power, in that she's able to kill the Doctor, but she knows nothing. Young River is just as pleased with herself as Older River, but from a position of ignorance. If that makes any sense.

And then there's the coda, in which we learn that River became an archeologist for one reason only: To "find a good man." Ummm, eww? So not only are River's birth and death based around the Doctor, but now we find out the only reason she chose her career was so she could get closer to him. River is basically a sort of stalker, and the only reason why the Doctor is so into her, is because she's already successfully stalked him in her future and his past. (And then there's the "and she's a woman" line, which I'm convinced Moffat only threw in to see if he could give some feminists an apoplexy.)

I haven't watched this episode but I like reading everyone's comments so I don't mind being spoiled.

I'm not sure if having a best friend she never mentioned before is a big deal. Amy basically rewrote history and brought back her parents so maybe other things in her past were changed too.

The episode also provides a good example of what can happen if you try to change something that's a fixed point in time. Mels' attempt to kill Hitler not only resulted in Hitler being saved, but in Hitler shooting Mels as well.

"In Soviet Russia, Hitler kills you!"

tommy - brilliant catch.