And seriously, guys...

[tencrush]

SHE'S HIS FUCKING WIFE!!

She's not Rose, she's not Jenny, she's not the Rani, she's not Romana. River Song is the Doctor's wife from the future. She's going to die in the next episode. He will spend all that time with her, doing all that funstuff in her diary, knowing precisely how and when she will inevitably die.

Paradoxes, inevitability, fate, curse of a Time Lord... Jesus Christ to hear fandom talking you'd think they'd never seen a Moffat episode before.

EDITED TO ADD SOMETHING I POSTED IN THE COMMENTS: I don't understand what everyone's so worked up about, she's not the next companion, she's his lover/wife from some point in the future. We'll more than likely never see her again. It's about time travel and the weirdness involved. It's about the Doctor losing the woman he loves, BEFORE HE LOVES HER. It's about her dying in the arms of a man WHO DOESN'T LOVE HER YET. It's a timey-wimey Moffat story, nothing more.

Moffat's apparent fascination with the mechanics of time travel make me tremendously excited about his tenure as boss. I think if Moffat does go for any sort of overriding story arc, it will be far more clever than Rusty's namechecking "Torchwood" every bloody episode, and will probably deal with the same themes he seems so fond of, fixed history, inevitability of events, consequences of past and future actions. I'm excited about Moffat, really I am.

Comments

[ellji.livejournal.com]

Frankly, I think everyone's on the wrong track. I'm going to call it, for the record. She's his biographer.

Come on. Book of his history? Calling it "spoilers", which is his rule? Told Donna basically the same thing about the biographies? Who else would know so much about his life? Who else, but an archeologist, could possibly write it?

Sure, she could be married to him at some point, or whatever, but that doesn't really matter. The fact is, she's his biographer, and that's what's going to be important for the next episode.

Also, consider this; constantly throughout this season, it's been empisised about time being stable or in flux. Events can, and probably will, change.

[tencrush]

That's actually quite an interesting idea.

[jbs-teeth.livejournal.com]

I think this is a friggin brilliant theory. I haven't been able to see past the blatant corollaries to the book, but if you take that herring away, your idea makes perfect sense.

Now I will be mad if that does not turn out to be the case, as it is so much better (and copyright violation-y) than her as his wife.

[spoofmaster]

I love this idea, and I think it makes an extra helping of sense when you consider the fact that they originally landed in the biography section.

Ohhh, man. That would be so incredibly cool after all the wife hype that I, too, am going to be disappointed if you're wrong.

[gloriatraveler.livejournal.com]

I don't know if it will play out that way, but I truly hope it does. I like this better than everything else I've heard.

[midnightzstorm.livejournal.com]

I really like your theory. I hope its right.