It's because we're used to writers lying to us. (See Post-Traumatic Joss Syndrome.) Also it's because in this instance he's doing everything backwards. He killed River off right at the beginning and we all went 'Um, OK... And who was she?' And now? Now it hurts. It's fiendishly clever. And we can't ask him to change it, because everything else builds on it.
ETA: Watched 'Tenth Doctor, the Musical' yesterday with Impish Girl, and the River part is just her saying 'Hello Sweetie'... and oh, my heart!
Or used to writers not planning anything, as the case may be.
And we can't ask him to change it, because everything else builds on it. My greatest lingering fear vis a vis River is that Moffat really will change time and unwrite her. It grows increasingly unlikely as we go along and the rational part of my brain doesn't believe it, but a part of me can't quite shake the anxiety that he'll let us learn just enough to give us a heartbreakingly complete picture of everything that *was* and then it will all never have existed. It would be like Joss and Rusty had angst babies and created the angst demon from hell that killed television forever, and it would have Steven Moffat's face!
Well in one of the Confidentials (probably AGMGTW) he talked about how he could easily write River forever and how there were SO MANY MORE SECRETS and almost rubbing his hands together, so no, I don't think he'll undo her. (Yes time can be rewritten, but not all of it.)
He's also done too much work to make her fit as a long-term fixture of the show for it to make any sense not to keep her as such . . . but this is why they are gnawing, irrational fears *fidgets*
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ETA: Watched 'Tenth Doctor, the Musical' yesterday with Impish Girl, and the River part is just her saying 'Hello Sweetie'... and oh, my heart!
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klgfkjdfdfk fdjfd dk MOFFAT, WHY ARE YOU WRITING KID'S SHOWS YOU GENIUS.
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And we can't ask him to change it, because everything else builds on it.
My greatest lingering fear vis a vis River is that Moffat really will change time and unwrite her. It grows increasingly unlikely as we go along and the rational part of my brain doesn't believe it, but a part of me can't quite shake the anxiety that he'll let us learn just enough to give us a heartbreakingly complete picture of everything that *was* and then it will all never have existed. It would be like Joss and Rusty had angst babies and created the angst demon from hell that killed television forever, and it would have Steven Moffat's face!
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