Is River Song based on Emma from Curse of the Fatal Death?

[Admiral_Young]

For those who have no idea what I'm talking about...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_Who_and_the_Curse_of_Fatal_Death

Also you can find it on youtube...I didn't make the connection until reading the wikpedia article on the spoof and discovering that Moffat wrote the episode? In it Emma is a companion of the unofficial Ninth Doctor who has decided to retire and is in love with her and they plan on getting married.

I'm wondering if Moffat incorporated any of "Emma's" back story into River when he created her...it's implied that River and a future incarnation of the Doctor fell in love and are married at some point too. Thoughts or am I just thinking too much?

 

[EJA]

Erm, that's not the impression I got, no.

 

[Starkers]

No she's based on the Time Traveller's Wife...

 

[23skidoo]

No she's based on the Time Traveller's Wife...

Actually that's Madame de Pompadour.

And anyway Time Traveller's Wife came out nearly a decade after DS9 did the same basic premise (sans romance) with "The Visitor"!

As for Emma, I never really saw a connection between the two, beyond the fact that Moffat played with the idea of the Doctor marrying a companion.

Alex

 

[Starkers]

No she's based on the Time Traveller's Wife...

Actually that's Madame de Pompadour.

And anyway Time Traveller's Wife came out nearly a decade after DS9 did the same basic premise (sans romance) with "The Visitor"!

I'd say the premise of The Visitor was quite different. A lovely, brilliant episode but time travel wise it's all still very linear. Sisko meets Jake at various points in his life in a very straighforward manner. Both of them are still moving forwards, albeit it at vastly different speeds. the TTW by contrast features two characters who meet each other constantly out of context.

 

[Nerys Myk]

No. I'll explain later.

 

[Stevil2001]

No she's based on the Time Traveller's Wife...

Actually that's Madame de Pompadour.

Don't tell me that Moffat recycles ideas! Surely not!

 

[captcalhoun]

Madam de Pompadour was more like Sisko in the Visitor than River Song or TTW, because the Doctor was always meeting her at different times in her life constantly moving forward in a linear fashion.

 

[Rarewolf]

He does pay homage to Fatal Death though - 'dinner with the architect' pops up in Time Of Angels.

 

[Mr. Adventure]

I think the way Amy interacts with the Doctor is closer to Emma than River Song.

 

[Admiral_Young]

^ That was going to be my other observation. I laughed when Emma asks the Doctor to "explain" and I think he says later.

 

[I am not Spock]

Moffatt wrote that charity spoof all those years ago? Blimey, I didn't know that. Interesting...

 

[Admiral_Young]

^ That was my thought after I'd learn that too...