To be fair, you didn't really need to know that the Silence were mentioned previously to understand this episode (the quick flashback explained it). Last season when I heard "we ran from the Silence," I just assumed they meant the cracks, since the place where everything was wiped from history would be essentially a silent, empty void. The Lodger ship also needed no explanation last year and was easily explained this year. Yes, it's a continuing thread, but not any more detailed that Worf's character arc in TNG (Sins of the Father, Reunion, Redemption, Birth Right). The River Song storyline is more involved, but it's almost a side to the episodes, so, as long as it continues to be enjoyable, I'm fine with it.
Which makes me believe that The Doctor is the first one to put the moves on River not the other way around, from her POV.
Oh, I think that's almost certain at this point. Probably in the same way, where he thinks they've done it before and she's caught by surprise. She said how she was essentially an ignorant girl when she met the Doctor and he knew everything about her.
River Song and the Doctor's timelines appear to be genuinely reversed, rather than out of order, which will be interesting.
We know of at least one future meeting that will be late in both the Doctors and Rivers timeline, the one where he has a new haircut and gives her the screwdriver. has anybody figured out the order River's episodes happen from her perspective?
Yeah, my guess is that story will be at the end. He'll go back to the beginning of her life and their first meeting. Then he'll know he has to go to the future and give her his screwdriver and it'll be the last time they'll meet.
As for the order. This is the earliest moment. When she kissed the Doctor, she felt this was common. In later episodes, she never tries. Since the Doctor was surprised, she realized that this was the last time she'll do it, since, in all the other episodes we've seen, she never did.
In the Weeping Angels episode, she mentions that he'll next see her when the Pandorica Opens. This means that episode is before the Angels episode. So it has to be:
Impossible Astronaut
Pandorica Opens
Time of Angels
(Doctor gives her his screwdriver)
Silence in the Library
ETA: About Amy's pregnancy. She's clearly not pregnant yet. Or, she is and isn't. My guess is the TARDIS is showing something that hasn't happened yet. After all, she thought she was pregnant six months ago. If she were six months pregnant, she wouldn't have run so easily from Canton Delaware at the beginning of the episode, that's for sure.
