River's Timeline

[retroenzo]

Obviously the last episode from her perspective is 'Silence in the Library', but if you wanted to watch River's episodes in HER chronology, what's the best order?

 

[Mr Soak]

A Good Man Goes to War (baby Melody)
The Impossible Astronaut/Day of the Moon (child Melody)
Let's Kill Hitler (Melody Pond regenerates into River Song)
The Impossible Astronaut/Day of the Moon (astronaut suit; possibly after Closng Time))
The Time of Angels/Flesh and Stone
The Pandorica Opens/The Big Bang (no idea when exactly this is, honestly)
Closing Time (small appearance at end? Set just after Angel 2-parter)
The Impossible Astronaut/Day of the Moon
A Good Man Goes to War
The Wedding of River Song
The Angels Take Manhattan
The Husbands of River Song
Silence in the Library/Forest of the Dead
The Name of the Doctor

I'm not 100% on this. This is the closest I can get without going through the episodes themselves.

 

[retroenzo]

That looks good to me. I did spend a couple of minutes earlier trying to work out the Melody/Mels episodes and immediately got lost.

I would say then that the first time you watch "A Good Man Goes to War" episode would need to be stopped after

Spoiler: SPOILER

Melody's abduction

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[cultcross]

This is the Radio Times timeline showing River's life. I haven't rigourously checked it for accuracy

 

[retroenzo]

This is the Radio Times timeline showing River's life. I haven't rigourously checked it for accuracy

That's pretty cool. Also mentions things like Jim the Fish and Picnic at Asgard.

 

[The Wormhole]

A Good Man Goes to War (baby Melody)
The Impossible Astronaut/Day of the Moon (child Melody)
Let's Kill Hitler (Melody Pond regenerates into River Song)
The Impossible Astronaut/Day of the Moon (astronaut suit; possibly after Closng Time))
The Time of Angels/Flesh and Stone
The Pandorica Opens/The Big Bang (no idea when exactly this is, honestly)
Closing Time (small appearance at end? Set just after Angel 2-parter)
The Impossible Astronaut/Day of the Moon
A Good Man Goes to War
The Wedding of River Song
The Angels Take Manhattan
The Husbands of River Song
Silence in the Library/Forest of the Dead
The Name of the Doctor

I'm not 100% on this. This is the closest I can get without going through the episodes themselves.

There should be a note that River's last scene in The Wedding of River Song, where she meets Amy and Rory in their backyard takes place immediately after The Time of Angels/Flesh and Stone. River's still wearing her military church uniform and even says she just left the Byzantium.

 

[The Nth Doctor]

This is the Radio Times timeline showing River's life. I haven't rigourously checked it for accuracy

Decent go, but I much prefer this fan-made illustration, which includes Big Finish audio plays, mini-episodes, and unseen adventures.

 

[Mr Soak]

There should be a note that River's last scene in The Wedding of River Song, where she meets Amy and Rory in their backyard takes place immediately after The Time of Angels/Flesh and Stone. River's still wearing her military church uniform and even says she just left the Byzantium.

Yeah, that's what I was thinking of with the note I put after Closing Time. I knew about that scene but was unsure what episode it was.

EDIT - I've tinkered with my timeline and got the following:

A Good Man Goes to War (baby Melody)
The Impossible Astronaut/Day of the Moon (child Melody)
Let's Kill Hitler (Melody Pond regenerates into River Song)
The Time of Angels/Flesh and Stone
The Wedding of River Song (post-Byzantium River visits Ponds)
Closing Time (small appearance at end leading into...)
The Impossible Astronaut (astronaut suit, with alternate timeline of The Wedding of River Song)
The Pandorica Opens/The Big Bang (no idea when exactly this is, honestly)
The Impossible Astronaut/Day of the Moon
A Good Man Goes to War
The Angels Take Manhattan
The Husbands of River Song
Silence in the Library/Forest of the Dead
The Name of the Doctor