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Dr River Song Speculation/Discussion ( Spoilers needed for S6/32 discussion)
Firstly, his mum would be a Time Lord, and Time Lords regenerate and time travel. Secondly, we don't canonically know that was his mum, do we? It was never confirmed or even mentioned on-screen.
Didn't the show's producer confirm this?
And even if she did regenerate she's stuck in the time lock with the other Time Lords
Or if not his mother, then some other female relative.
The way River talks down to the Doctor reminds me of the way the women in my family (my mother and sister-in-law in particular) speak to me. They seem to think I'm A: Stupid, B: Still a child (I'm 40 BTW), or C: Both.
Time Lords must have odd relationships with their female relatives then. I don't know any guys who would kiss their mother like this
Spoiler:
Here's a bit from an interview with Steven Moffat in this months DWM.
What does the unmasking of River - played by Alex Kingston since 2008 two-parter Silence in the Library/Forest of the Dead - mean for the character?
"A lot. Well, no, she already knows who she is. It's not going to change her a lot. But the balance of her relationship with the Doctor is constantly changing, because each time he knows her a bit better and she knows him a bit less, so they're heading towards equilibrium. To be honest, I don't think the whole 'who is she?' question is the most interesting thing about her; I think it's the ultimate no-win, tragic love story. She dies when he first meets her, and now he gets to know her and sort of fall for her a bit. That's the fun part to write."
What's more she's a brilliant way into a story. "She can just erupt into the Doctor's life, and cause absolute screaming havoc," he enthuses, " which may continue or may not depending on who she is. But I like the fact there's someone out there who can yank his chain. The main thing that he finds sexy, I suppose, is someone who can put him in trouble, because he loves trouble. He thinks, "River has turned up, it's going to be bad - hooray! And I thought it was going to be a boring day.'"
Is she the character that Steven enjoys writing the most? It seems that way sometimes, reading the scripts.
"They're kind of all fun in their different ways. The Doctor is brilliant fun to write, but he's exhausting, because you're constantly trying to write somebody who's got an extraordinary mind, when you've only got an ordinary one. I have to do that with Sherlock Holmes as well. I love writing River because she's cheeky, but it's all about the Doctor in a way."
"It's who the various people he meets force him to be. He's confused dad-cum-boyfriend with Amy. He's slightly combative, but trying to be fatherly with Rory. With River, the only person who knows more than he does, he's just a little bit annoyed, but at the same time thinking, she is so cool. Plus, she's bad. She's not a completely good person, like him. She's deeply naughty, which he never is."
[snippage]
But most of the fun, says Steven, is writing the foursome. "That's the Doctor, River, Rory and Amy. They're all so distinct. You've got this quasi family unit going on, which is all back-to-front and stupid. You've got Mum and Dad, and the kids. I loved writing those scenes in the opening two-parter with the four of them...."
Oh would this female relative thing just die already! Ive been saying it for months! Years even that shes not related to him! Im right.. why don't people just listen to what I say and let that be true
Anyone think River might just be a kind of crazy stalker that somehow found out his real name and is just pulling him along telling him they were together in the hopes that they might be.
Oh would this female relative thing just die already! Ive been saying it for months! Years even that shes not related to him! Im right.. why don't people just listen to what I say and let that be true
Everyone is entitled to their own opinion.
No ones opinion is more valid than anyone else's.
sigpic Long before you and I were born, others beat these benches with their empty cups,
To the night and its stars, to the here and now with who we are.
Another sunrise with my sad captains, with who I choose to lose my mind,
And if it's all we only pass this way but once, what a perfect waste of time.
Anyone think River might just be a kind of crazy stalker that somehow found out his real name and is just pulling him along telling him they were together in the hopes that they might be.
No really though its very clearly wrong... like wrong to the point of me arguing that Natalie Portman infact plays the part of River Song and that its not alex kingston.. its just something thats very very clearly wrong like we've all seen them making out in the trailer..
No really though its very clearly wrong... like wrong to the point of me arguing that Natalie Portman infact plays the part of River Song and that its not alex kingston.. its just something thats very very clearly wrong like we've all seen them making out in the trailer..
So?
She could be doing it to mess with his head.
sigpic Long before you and I were born, others beat these benches with their empty cups,
To the night and its stars, to the here and now with who we are.
Another sunrise with my sad captains, with who I choose to lose my mind,
And if it's all we only pass this way but once, what a perfect waste of time.
Did you notice that in the beginning stages of 'The Impossible Astronaut'
Spoiler:
when the future Doctor and River have a look at their diaries, I noticed that they were identical. Wonder if River's diary is actually the same diary in the Doctor's hands!
Did you notice that in the beginning stages of 'The Impossible Astronaut'
Spoiler:
when the future Doctor and River have a look at their diaries, I noticed that they were identical. Wonder if River's diary is actually the same diary in the Doctor's hands!
They're not, they just look similar but the doctors is smaller
I dont think Rivers the girl in the spacesuit. Im hoping shes someone unexpected or that will shock us.
I dunno... When the astronaut first appeared and spoke to the Doctor, they raised their visor and I'm fairly sure we caught a split second glimpse of River's hair.
sigpic Long before you and I were born, others beat these benches with their empty cups,
To the night and its stars, to the here and now with who we are.
Another sunrise with my sad captains, with who I choose to lose my mind,
And if it's all we only pass this way but once, what a perfect waste of time.
I dunno... When the astronaut first appeared and spoke to the Doctor, they raised their visor and I'm fairly sure we caught a split second glimpse of River's hair.
Oooo, i just had a really really interesting thought as to who River may be, but it contains spoilers for episode 2.
But my theory could also be wrong, depends what happens in episode 2.
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