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

[garpu.livejournal.com]

This isn't directed at you, but I'm also getting a little sick of the insistence by fandom that Rose was the most awesome Companion ever and the only one the Doctor will ever love.

Wordy McWord. It's like they're ignoring everything before 2005.

[lightfromlight.livejournal.com]

There was a show before 2005? Stop saying silly things.

[garpu.livejournal.com]

My mistake. ;)

[lightfromlight.livejournal.com]

DOCTOR/ROSE 4EVA!!!!

[garpu.livejournal.com]

TURLOUGH/KAMELEON OTP!

Foolish children!

[gillyp.livejournal.com]

Everyone knows that Jamie is his OTL.

[descrime.livejournal.com]

Honestly, in some ways, I think old Who's treatment of companions is better if only because didn't all have bloody UST with the Doctor. Of course then you also have Sarah Jane tripping down a flat piece of ground and twisting her ankle and then later in the same episode having Susan trip over a bloody big rock and twist her ankle too (I'm thinking Five Doctors).

[garpu.livejournal.com]

Eh, you know, I don't mind some attraction/flirtation, but I have a hard time with *everyone* seeming to fall for the Doctor. For me, Donna's a breath of fresh air. (Loved her "Hands!" comment in the last episode.)