River Song. An archaeologist from the future, a Doctor by credentials and later a Professor. But what do we really know about River? Everything we see is SPOILERS because, as we go on, the things we have seen haven't happened in the right order. I'm going to quote the DW website here, because they say it so well. the quote is from http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/dw/characters/River_Song
Here it is:
River Song is an archaeologist from the future who the Doctor keeps meeting in the wrong order.
He first met her on the planet of The Library, but we haven't yet seen where she first met him. So her journal is packed with information the Doctor feels he shouldn't know about yet. They're going to be very close: River knows the Doctor's real name and she even has a sonic screwdriver of her own that she claims he gave to her. She even knows how to fly the TARDIS. The tragedy is, the Doctor knows how River dies, so when the two of them meet at the crash of the Byzantium, share that picnic at Asgard and whatever they did together at the Singing Towers, he'll have a terrible secret that he won't be able to tell her.River has a knack for getting into trouble and knows the Doctor can help her get out of it. But as for just how much they meant to each other: spoilers!
That sums the whole wibbly wobbly timeline relativity distortion up, and hopefully makes it clearer for you. So, so far, we have seen River:
Talking to Winston Churchill; escaping prison; using halluciongenic lipstick to fool lots of people; steal a Van Gogh painting; confront a queen; blackmail a black market dealer; graffiti a cliff; call the Doctor 'sweetie' every time she sees him; impersonate Cleopatra; say 'spoilers' a lot every time she is with the Doctor, usually about her diary; fight bucketloads of alien evil; get trapped in the TARDIS while it explodes; shoot Daleks; try to keep the Doctor alive, which becomes a pretty full time job; attend a wedding; help the Doctor be remembered into existence; write in her diary, which she does after most adventures with the Doctor; give the Doctor some ambiguous answers; and run away. That's just in The Pandorica Opens and The Big Bang . Here's some more.
Get put back in prison; get let out to track an Angel but kept under Church guard; say she is a Doctor; give the Doctor some important advice and a book; give Amy some ambiguous answers; chase the Doctor around, this happens a lot, in her life; realise that everyone is in terrible danger; run away from a Angel army; walk through a forest of tree-borgs; save Amy's life; nearly get sucked into a Time Crack; deliver a prophetic line; and return to prison under Church guard. That was The Time of Angels and Flesh and Stone . Now for the finale.
Turn up in a mysterious library wearing a weird spacesuit; be menaced by Vashta Nerada;
I cant't remember the rest now, but I will add to the list of River's adventures a) when I remember the rest of what she did in the library, and b) when she has more adventures to talk about.
One last thing to say: River is awesome!!!!! I hope we get to see heaps more of her in series 6, and I hope we see lots more of her after that. I can't decide between her and Donna which is the best companion, so maybe I could have some other opinions to help me choose...
Enjoy your TARDIS travels everyone. And remember them well. Because not everyone can travel with the Doctor. Even you and I cannot travel with him forever.
"When you run with the Doctor, it feels like it will never end. But, however hard you try, you can’t run forever. Everybody knows that everybody dies, and nobody knows it like the Doctor. But I do think that all the skies of all the worlds might just turn dark if he ever, for one moment, accepts it." River Song
Source: Doctor Who TV http://doctorwhotv.co.uk/episodes/series-4-2008/408-silence-in-the-library-409-forest-of-the-dead#ixzz1HkQpZxaC
See you next time,
Violet
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