Dr. Who series 6, part 2

It is never too late for a recap of the second half of Dr. Who's latest season. Right?

I'll use the same bullet point format I did for the first half of the season, please note-From here on out, Spoilers!

• Let's Kill Hitler
• As a direct follow up to the revelations at the end of "A Good Man Goes to War" and as a "first episode" I thought this one worked pretty well. We get "introduced" to River in a fairly exciting story that has little to do with Nazi Germany, but a whole lot of silliness and just a touch of awesome badass Rory.
• I did like it much better the first time through though, now, much like "The Impossible Astronault" and some other Moffat stories knowing what all the mysteries "meant" has seriously dimenished them in my head.
• This story, and the season as a whole revolve around major mysterious questions and are structured in such a way as to keep you guessing, which creates almost all of the dramatic tension. Now that that tension is mostly gone (and we know that a lot of it is simply there to create that very feeling) it seems relatively lackluster.
• I did enjoy the Tessalector, and River's discovery of her new body.
• I did not really buy her "face turn" and subsequent "gift" to the doctor, it seems like a rather clumsy bit designed more to make the story fit to "Forest of the Dead" than anything else.
• Also, so tired of the Doctor almost dying, doing something off camera and subverting our expectations in a pretty lazy way. So we now add the mystery of "why is he in tux?" but if the mysteries are only there to establish themselves, they cease to be mysterious.
• This episode introduces the "Melody" problem as well. The Pond's reaction to losing their daughter, the circular nature of the existence of Mels and all the concerns and questions that arise are eventually addressed, sort of, but in the end the show fell woefully short of addressing the emotionally complex situation it created. There was so much material to explore, and instead the TARDIS team just run off for random adventures...
• Night Terrors
• Like this one. 
• This episode is disappointing  not just because of the abrupt dropping of the main storyline, but because the "creepy" factor once again exists almost solely to perpetrate itself. The "little boy" is fairly uninteresting and the "step father" and "superintendent" characters actually seem to be legitimately dangerous, but that is ignored.
• Amy and Rory are supposed to create tension by almost dying, again. That well was long dry by this point. To the extent that in this episode it is just obnoxious.
• This episode is too close in theme and tone to "Fear Her" which is easily my pick for worst episode of NewWho.
•  The Girl Who Waited
• Fortunately, the next episode was this one, one of my absolute favorites. (Though even here, the plot was put into place by the characters doing decidedly stupid things for no good reason, and the timing leading to the issues was not adequately explained. The entire season, even the good parts was hurt by an attempt to be cool and "timey-whimey" at the expense of story.)
• The production design was really cool, I loved the look of the facility, the robots, and the general brightness of the color palette and the "fantasy rooms" was far superior to most of the season.
• Karen Gillam really excelled as "older Amy" and in playing the conflicting emotions, particularly at the end of the episode. I just wish that "regular" Amy displayed that level of intelligence, toughness and self-reliance from time to time.
• Rory continued to be spectacular, and he even stood up to the Doctor. That is all.
• The God Complex
• I honestly only barely remember this one. I think it was an interesting idea, poorly conceived again.
• The supporting characters really need more depth to be interesting and for us to buy into their fate, this one depended on them, and as such fell pretty flat.
• Once again, the peril to Amy and Rory undermined by the frequency.
• It is interesting that they leave the TARDIS after this adventure though...
• Closing Time
• A decent one-off with the always welcome Craig (and Stormeggdon, dark lord of all!) that is made more interesting by the fact that the Doctor has had 200 years of adventures between "The God Complex" and this episode, and that he has accepted his fate and many events tie together with "The Impossible Astronault" so the audience is finally getting continued progress on the overall story arc.
• The Cybermen main plot is pretty good with the Doctor's job at the shop and the shenanigans that ensue with Craig and the supporting characters.
• But the climax in the "Cybership" is rushed, and too mushy for my taste. "Power of Love" and "Fatherhood" overpowering all is just too schmaltzy.
• The Wedding of River Song
• Basically if you threw every Dr. Who finale cliche (except Daleks) into a big bag and randomly started pulling them out then you get this...
• The alternative universe looked cool and the idea of it always being the same time with all of history happening at once was fun, but was impossible to pull off in any meaningful way.
• The River Song marriage and subsequent discovery that the Doctor she was kissing was actually the tessalector made no sense, the way that somehow her recognition that the Doctor was actually not the Doctor in the "prime" timeline meant that this alternative universe should never have happened at all.
• We still don't get satisfactory conclusion as to why Rory and Amy never pushed the Doctor to find baby Melody, the fact that it couldn't be done because they had already crossed her later should have been explicit and emotional.
• and The ending with the question was ridiculous.

All in all, I didn't dislike the season as much as this might make it seem. I rather enjoyed most of the episodes as I watched them (except Night Terrors) but only "The Girl Who Waited" was pantheon level good and I was majorly disappointed with the answers to most of the mysteries we spent two seasons exploring.
I really am hoping for a more fully realized story in season 7, particularly one less interested in keeping things hidden from the audience just for the sake of hiding things.
And I don't want either the River Song or Amy and Rory Pond stories to end here. Both need a major push in an emotionally satisfying direction then I think the Doctor needs a new companion, and for both of them to have a few less angsty, and less drably lit, adventures.