Who is River Song (Possible spoiler poll)
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I am torn between the first option and last option, but I went with the last option with "other." I am excited to learn a little more about River Song.
This is a tough one. It would be both great and sad if this was Amy Pond's daughter since we have seen where River ends up.
I had to go with "Other" since I can't see another Time Lord ending up where River went without telling the Doctor who she was.
I had to go with "Other" since I can't see another Time Lord ending up where River went without telling the Doctor who she was.
i'll bet dollars to donuts 'the good man' she killed was Rory. i don't know why, i've just got this horrible feeling that's who it is.
I suspect that, unfortunately, whoever she is it's gonna be mildly dissapointing...although you never know, could be the coolest thing ever!
I go with the first option though, although someone did raise another interesting thought the other day, that she's the Tardis!
I go with the first option though, although someone did raise another interesting thought the other day, that she's the Tardis!
I think that at some point she does become the Doctor's wife, but that doesn't eliminate some of the other possibilities.
I don't think she's directly related to Amy. She could be a Time Lord of some sort, but I doubt it. I think she'll be something we're not expecting.
I don't think she's directly related to Amy. She could be a Time Lord of some sort, but I doubt it. I think she'll be something we're not expecting.
You forgot 'Susan'.
Edit: Bah, I voted evil time lady rani but didn't see the 'another time lady' option below.
Edit: Bah, I voted evil time lady rani but didn't see the 'another time lady' option below.
I'd devote my life to kicking small animals and punching babies and old ladies if this happens. They've already killed the poor guy twice on the show!
Checkmate
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Considering how well she can fly the TARDIS, which she says she learned from the Doctor (who after 900/1100 years still flies it like shit) I'm of the opinion that she's a Time Lord herself and is lying through her teeth for whatever reason. But if I had to guess, she's the Rani who lost her -- I don't remember the term, but the fop watch the Doctor used to hide his Time Lordiness -- and needs the Doctor to help her find it. For whatever reason, she didn't hide her intellect in the device, just her everything else. So she concocted this bizarre scheme to see that through.
I dunno. Just the idea I've had for a while now. 'Course, I think she's genuinely changed her ways during this ordeal and she may even wind up as the Doctor's wife and genuine love. But I'm fairly certain she is a Time Lord.
I dunno. Just the idea I've had for a while now. 'Course, I think she's genuinely changed her ways during this ordeal and she may even wind up as the Doctor's wife and genuine love. But I'm fairly certain she is a Time Lord.
I chose the Mrs Doctor option, though of course that one is not mutually exclusive with any of the others. Wild guess? A human fob-watched into a Time Lord/Lady/Boss.
I don't think she's a Time Lord in any form, a relation of Amy Pond or any other companion, the TARDIS or The Doctor himself. I doubt she's simply an archaeologist but based on Moffat's comments that she's not we have assumed her to be, I wouldn't be surprised if she's not his wife either. I want to hope that whoever she is, it's something we haven't thought of and we'll be completely surprised, but as Starkers said, the odds of that happening is unlikely.
I guess my point is I have no clue.
I guess my point is I have no clue.
Why did I click that spoiler button?
Well, it's not too unexpected. I mean, if River is connected to a regeneration, it does make a heckuva lot of sense. I just hope she's not the Rani...
Someone "appears" to regenerate. May not be linked, then again that some is female.
Why did I click that spoiler button?
Well, it's not too unexpected. I mean, if River is connected to a regeneration, it does make a heckuva lot of sense. I just hope she's not the Rani...
Someone "appears" to regenerate. May not be linked, then again that some is female.
From what I've read, it's the "little girl" responsible for the voice who regenerates.
What that's all about we'll see tomorrow, or next week. Does it start with a 2-parter?
I honestly have no clue who River is. Moffat has personally rejected a couple of those suggestions and says it's much more complicated than "she's his wife". If she's Susan she sure as hell doesn't act in a grand-daughterly way towards her grandfather! I think there should have been an option "None of the above".
I dunno, I think River Song started out as an insanely amazing character, but that Moff didn't know what to do with her. There was NO ambiguity in Silence in the Library that she was his wife from the future, but I think he wanted to introduce ambiguity and mystery and suddenly decided to imply there is a sinister dark dangerous aspect to the character.
He's either forcing misdirection, or revising the original intention of the character.
Now then, if he is simply expanding the character from a human the Doctor one day marries to a more complex concept of a future Timelord companion that does in fact become his wife, etc, that can be forgiven. I don't like the whole River murdered someone thing, and I like the River murdered the Doctor thing even less.
If the little girl is a young River, and the Impossible Astro is River meeting the Doctor for the first time, and if she kills him the first time she meets him much like he gets her killed the first time he meets her, then that's interesting enough. If she and he both regenerate, also interesting.
Her being anyone we've seen before from The Rani to Romona to Amy to Susan to the personification of the TARDIS...meh.
One thing that I haven't liked in her now constant appearances is that she doesn't seem to be previous versions of herself. The River in Pandorica acted just like the River in Angels, minus one throw away line to indicate that Angels had not happened to her yet.
If they are going to continue this meeting each other in reverse thing, they need to show River in the dark for once, or the Doctor giving her the diary, or explain the purpose of the diary ("Have we done Crash of the Byzanti...oh, wait, you looked different and wore a bow tie, so no).
I also feel that her now constant appearances are turning this into The River Song Show, where we are given this giant focus of WHO IS RIVER SONG, but I don't really care. She's either the Doctor's wife, his killer, both, something else, but given we are getting half a dozen episodes a season, I need to see this go in a forward direction. We saw her in four episodes last season, and I can't think of what purpose she served whatsoever. And I am a big fan of her original two appearances, by the way.
Good points. All I have read is that Moffat has said that we will absolutely know who she is by the end of this series. It's possible that he has changed his mind about her and is forcing misdirection but he's been pretty adamant that he's known exactly who she is since her creation. I guess we'll find out!
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