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The Eleventh Doctor
Inlander:
--- Quote from: axerton on 07 Jan 2009, 05:40 ---I'm now very curious about . . . how they will play it if they do bring back River Song
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Maybe there's internet gossip that says otherwise, but I sort of got the impression that the Silence in the Library/Forest at Night storyline was the only time we were ever going to see River Song. I mean, it's not like we see absolutely everything that the Doctor gets up to: characters in the show refer reasonably often to having taken trips in the TARDIS that haven't been shown on screen; furthermore, the impression we get of the Doctor's and River Song's story doesn't really fit the template of the show: it was clearly some grand and long-term love affair, rather than a series of adventures, I think. So unless they're going to start filming "Doctor Who: the retirement years" I wouldn't be surprised if we never see River Song ever again.
Which would be fine by me. The story in which she appeared was just about perfect just as it was. Sometimes it's better to be left to imagine the rest.
jimbunny:
Yes.
Inlander:
Okay, by coincidence I've just finished watching the River Song episodes again and in fact there's nothing in either of them that makes it essential for the Doctor to be played by David Tennant if she ever appears in the series again. Yes, she refers to how he looks a couple of times, but what she says is ambiguous at best. In "Silence in the Library" she says:
"Going by your face, I'd say it's early days for you, yeah?"
and a few moments later, in the same scene:
"Look at you. You're young."
Both of these lines could easily be taken as meaning that when she knew the Doctor, he'd regenerated and no longer looked like David Tennant. After all, if she knows the Doctor so well she wouldn't need to know what he looks like to recognise him: here's this guy in the library which is supposed to be deserted, bounding around trying to save the day and who obviously knows more about whats going on than anyone else, and she's called the Doctor to come help - so who else would it be? So basically, if Stephen Moffat has anything further planned for the Doctor/River Song relationship, David Tennant leaving the series shouldn't affect it. And actually this seems more likely after repeat viewing than I'd previously thought: she refers to "the crash of the Byzantium", and also to the Doctor turning back armies, so maybe their relationship was more action-packed than I previously surmised.
And yes, I know I got the name of the second episode wrong in my previous post. But I like my title better. And henceforth I shall also be referring to the episode "Blink" as "Blunk".
axerton:
Thread res because the new companion has been announced. Karren Gillan
BeoPuppy:
Helllllloooooooooo .... nurse.
I do hope that this one completely fails to fall in love with the Doctor.
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