And seriously, guys...
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tencrushSHE'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.
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.
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Re: He doesn't handle loss well.
Date: 2008-06-03 05:24 pm (UTC)By "not handling loss well" I mean
-burning up a star to say goodbye to Rose
-the continuing emo complete with shoutyness
-hyper-sensitivity to people leaving him (i.e., the scene with Donna in The Poison Sky)
I will say this seems to be largely a New!Who thing, and thus probably relates to the loss of Gallifrey/the Time War, because he wasn't usually like this in old!school...hell, he locked his own granddaughter out of the TARDIS and LEFT HER. :)
Re: He doesn't handle loss well.
Date: 2008-06-03 07:08 pm (UTC)I was responding to the 'doesn't handle loss' remark. He's left dozens of companions behind. He's seen millions die. If nothing else, he's learned to handle loss. He might not like it, but he certainly handles it, has handled it , will doubtless continue to do so.
And I'm really not of the opinion that he gets involved with companions the way the shippers seem to think for the very reason that he knows he's certain to outlive any true (non immortal *g*) human by centuries.