Questions tagged [river-song]
For questions about River Song, a fictional character in the British science fiction series Doctor Who. Always use in conjunction with the [doctor-who] tag.
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Who was girl that regenerated at "Day of the moon" from doctor who
So at the end of "Day of the moon" small girl regenerated, but I thought it was river song, but how small river song
could be there?
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Is Lorna Bucket actually Melody Pond AKA River Song?
Having seen the name Melody Pond become River Song, I wondered about Lorna Bucket.
She seemed such a strange & interesting character to put in but then have die.
Lorna means abandoned. Bucket, a ...
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Don't the events of "Forest of the Dead" contradict the fixed point in "The Wedding of River Song"?
In "Forest of the Dead" the Doctor saved River's consciousness by uploading it to CAL. She also says how the Doctor brought her to Darillium and how she now knew the Doctor always knew how she dies. ...
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How did River Song know about the meta-crisis Doctor?
In an answer to another question, I wrote the following:
[During "The Husbands of River Song," River] indirectly displays knowledge of the Meta-crisis Tenth Doctor by acknowledging that Eleven ran ...
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When has River met with the 8th Doctor, in her timeline?
In Silence of the Library, River says to the 10th Doctor that he's younger than she has ever seen him, but we know that she met him in the Audio Adventures.
RIVER: Thanks.
DOCTOR: For what?
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Why is River Song surprised when the Doctor doesn't recognize her?
In 'The Husbands of River Song', River learns that this night on Darillium is the Doctor and her's last night together. In that case, why was she surprised when the Doctor didn't recognize her in '...
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Are Time Lords vulnerable or invulnerable during regeneration?
I know that in the episode "The Impossible Astronaut" it's explicitly said that Time Lords are vulnerable during their regeneration, even Melody/River Song saying "Whatever that was, it killed him in ...
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In "Angels Take Manhattan", why couldn't The Doctor just shatter/laser-cut the angel's stone arm and release River?
I mean, come on. With technologies beyond all of humanity's, he couldn't find a way to wriggle out of this one and "rewrite" time?
*scoffs* definitely a plot hole; the writers wanted it to seem ...
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Why didn't the Judas tree poison kill River too?
In Let's Kill Hitler,
If she had the same poison on her lips, and after the blow kiss on her hands too, why didn't it affect her as well?
Was it because she was still regenerating, or is there ...
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How did River Song’s neural relay stay online that long?
After the 9th season Christmas special, we now know how River got the screwdriver.
But how did River’s neural relay end up in there, and how did it stay online for all that time, waiting to be ...
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How does the Silence train / raise this person?
The silence kidnaps
But they dont exactly train them for anything do they?
Nor do they make them hate the Doctor by any brainwashing sci fi technique to convince them to kill the Doctor.
The one ...
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Why does this person not try to kill the Doctor at the field?
In the Doctor Who episode "Lets kill Hitler", If
why don't they kill the Doctor the first time they met him in the field ?
Even after crashing into Hitler's office, they only try to kill him after ...
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What events was River referring to?
In Forest of the Dead right before she died, she explains what happened the last time she met him:
RIVER: Funny thing is, this means you've always known how I was going to die. All the time we've ...
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Why is River Song surprised the ship is heading for Darillium?
In the 2015 Christmas special The Husbands of River Song, River Song says she dug up the ship to find out when it crashed:
SCRATCH: What meteor strike?
COMPUTER: Alert. Meteor storm imminent.
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Why was River Song so slow?
In this year's Christmas special The Husbands of River Song, why did River
For most of the episode, I assumed
But this doesn't appear to be the case, as
So how come this didn't happen earlier? The ...
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