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In anticipation...
From the Confidential for DW 6.06:
Best vid they ever did. And the quote in the middle is what makes it:
That's my show. That's my Doctor.
Plus, some thoughts about River. Spoilers for everything aired so far (but not the finale! No spoilers for that please).
The beginning is the end is the beginning:
I know a lot of people had/have a problem with River's ending because she is clearly such an active character that locking her up in a Library seemed a curse, not a blessing. But look at her. She is a scholar, a Doctor, a woman who fits into that library as if born to it.
Which brings me to identity. River, essentially, has three mothers. There is first of all Amy, but we shall get to her in a second. Because so far, River has been shaped by her other mothers. (Oh fairy tales, how much do I love you?)
Her fairy godmother, the TARDIS, reached out and gifted her with extraordinary talents, making her more than human. Scholarly River can very much be seen as her child, bright, questioning, becoming a Doctor to match the TARDIS's own.
But the wicked stepmother, Kovarian, stole her, and moulded her into a weapon. Mels was the result - brilliant, deadly, focussed, but with no purpose other than her role as killer.
Now River managed to free herself from Kovarian's teachings, and became the TARDIS's child instead. Instead of being The Woman Who Kills the Doctor, she turned into The Woman Who Loves the Doctor, although the focus was as singleminded.
However, the TARDIS, whilst clever, is unable to affect things around her, and River (whilst drawing on only this), will (in many ways) be as incomplete as she was when she was Mels. (Although a far nicer person!)
So, my guess is that the key to River 'becoming River' is for her to accept and harness (or 'marry') all the different parts of her - to become Amy's daughter (and Rory's of course), and a full, rounded person - the character, in fact, that we have already seen. Clever, competent, deadly if necessary, but also capable of great love and gentleness.
She'll be River Song.
And - hopefully - River Song will be The Woman Who Marries the Doctor, thus turning everyone into family. ♥
Best vid they ever did. And the quote in the middle is what makes it:
“However scary it gets, however frightening, however tense, you know the Doctor will save the day, will triumph, and will do it in a good and kind and brave way.”
Steven Moffat
That's my show. That's my Doctor.
Plus, some thoughts about River. Spoilers for everything aired so far (but not the finale! No spoilers for that please).
The beginning is the end is the beginning:
I know a lot of people had/have a problem with River's ending because she is clearly such an active character that locking her up in a Library seemed a curse, not a blessing. But look at her. She is a scholar, a Doctor, a woman who fits into that library as if born to it.
Which brings me to identity. River, essentially, has three mothers. There is first of all Amy, but we shall get to her in a second. Because so far, River has been shaped by her other mothers. (Oh fairy tales, how much do I love you?)
Her fairy godmother, the TARDIS, reached out and gifted her with extraordinary talents, making her more than human. Scholarly River can very much be seen as her child, bright, questioning, becoming a Doctor to match the TARDIS's own.
But the wicked stepmother, Kovarian, stole her, and moulded her into a weapon. Mels was the result - brilliant, deadly, focussed, but with no purpose other than her role as killer.
Now River managed to free herself from Kovarian's teachings, and became the TARDIS's child instead. Instead of being The Woman Who Kills the Doctor, she turned into The Woman Who Loves the Doctor, although the focus was as singleminded.
However, the TARDIS, whilst clever, is unable to affect things around her, and River (whilst drawing on only this), will (in many ways) be as incomplete as she was when she was Mels. (Although a far nicer person!)
So, my guess is that the key to River 'becoming River' is for her to accept and harness (or 'marry') all the different parts of her - to become Amy's daughter (and Rory's of course), and a full, rounded person - the character, in fact, that we have already seen. Clever, competent, deadly if necessary, but also capable of great love and gentleness.
She'll be River Song.
And - hopefully - River Song will be The Woman Who Marries the Doctor, thus turning everyone into family. ♥