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

[problematique.livejournal.com]

The problem is people, and I will include myself, really don't want that to be the case. It's the obvious and correct answer but just....no.

Not with Rose coming back and having to deal with that again too it's all just too much for my taste.

[tencrush]

But the story of River isn't playing out now that's the whole point. He doesn't love her now. It's the fucked-uppedness of time travel, and it's a subject Moffat keeps coming back to.

And I don't really see what Rose has to do with anything. I mean, there's shipping Ten/Rose and then there's being weirdly delusional and thinking River Song is The Master in disguise.

[a-flame-within.livejournal.com]

I think the Master in disguise thing is only because of the "I trust this man to the end of the universe. In fact, I have." comment or whatever River said in the trailer. That's the only reason I could see for any connection to the Master.

[problematique.livejournal.com]

I'm very tired of romance in general on Doctor Who. It's going to go from The Doctor's future wife to who tons of people want to be The Doctor's wife in a week. Plus I just find the character/actress to be incredibly annoying. I found the whole episode to be incredibly weak and dry and really boring.

And the only person that I want to see as The Master is John Simm everyone else can just go away. :(((((((((

[utopia83.livejournal.com]

At which point, you are a Tenth Doctor/Master delusional shipper.

;)