Time flies when you're being awesome, eh? Alex Kingston made her incredible Doctor Who debut a decade ago in 's 'Silence in the Library' as archaeologist and 'friend' of the Doctor, River Song.
Steven Moffat's two-parter introduced us to this mysterious time-traveller who would go on to meet the Time Lord many more times and indeed already had, from her point of view. But their relationship is anything but straightforward. The two star-crossed lovers would meet out of time — as it were — so much so they would sync up their meetings with their diaries.
Confusing doesn't even begin to cover it, so here's your handy guide to River Song's timeline. The mid-season cliffhanger shockingly reveals that Amy Pond gave birth to a child at the hands of Madame Kovarian, who is destined to be a weapon against the Doctor. In typical Who fashion, this ep features Song as a baby and as a full-grown lady adult.
This happened three real-life years after audiences first met River in 'Silence in the Library' keep up at the back. Having been kidnapped by the Silence and taken to Florida, USA in and raised in the less-than-welcoming Graystark Hall orphanage , Melody has been phoning President Nixon telling him that she's "scared of the spaceman". Matt Smith's Doctor, flanked with Amy, Rory and an adult River Song, tracks down the child who is now wearing a spacesuit her identity unknown to them , and Amy shoots her.
Six months later, Melody makes it to New York City, where, in front of an old tramp in an alleyway, she begins to regenerate. Not into the River Song we're more familiar with, though…. After this regeneration, the young Melody makes it over to the UK and becomes the "best mate" of Amy and Rory as youngsters. Sadly for Mels, she's shot and then regenerates once more. This time, into Alex Kingston.
Kovarian and the Silence get their nasty mitts back on their weapon after River receives her first doctorate and becomes Dr Song. She was later an archaeologist and a convicted murderer. She was a doctor of archaeology, and later a professor in the 51st century. Like Melanie Bush and Charley Pollard before her, she was an example of the rare companion whose timeline was not synchronous with that of the Doctor.
Shortly after birth, Melody was replaced with a Ganger, and taken from Amy by Madame Kovarian to be used as a weapon against The Doctor. This was similar to how exposure to the Untempered Schism on Gallifrey had caused the Time Lords to evolve from normal humanoids over generations.
The extent of her Time Lord-like abilities and characteristics let her regenerate, but her full abilities are not yet known. As a child, Melody at some point left the care of Madame Kovarian and became indoctrinated by the Silence. She was made into a weapon to kill The Doctor. They put her into an Apollo astronaut suit that had been upgraded with alien life support systems. She used the suit to make calls directly to President Nixon in the Oval office, begging for help.
This led to her first physical meeting with The Doctor in their meeting as a baby she had been a Ganger , though a brief one, due to her escaping from the spacesuit. Melody was still inside the spacesuit during August , Andrew and the Doctor were trapped with her and she was scared.
She moved to England under unknown circumstances, where she searched for and befriended the younger versions of her parents, Amelia Pond and Rory Williams. During this period in her time stream it is unknown where, or who she lived with, however it is highly possible that Madame Kovarian, or The Silence arranged for her to be raised by adoptive parents. Six months after the moon landings, in New York City, Melody was suffering from an illness, causing her to Regenerate for the first time.
Day of the Moon She later remarked that her new incarnation started as a toddler. Mels was shot by Hitler but, to the surprise of everyone, regenerated into her third incarnation — a more mature-looking woman.
Adventures across time and space with the time-travelling hero. Adventures in time and space with the Eleventh Doctor and his companion Amy Pond. We may never know precisely when, but Madame Kovarian was behind the kidnapping of Amy. Possessing a natural and unique defence mechanism, the Angels can only move when no other living creature is looking at them. Transform one of your books into a diary like River Song's! The ideal place to keep spoilers The version of the Doctor who turned up, again in his tenth incarnation, had not yet met her.
Bewildered, he agreed to help and discovered the Library was infested with a swarm of Vashta Nerada. River still had her battered diary of her life with the Doctor. She tried to use it to find the Doctor's place in his timeline, but realised he was a far younger version who neither knew nor trusted her. As the threat of the Vashta Nerada worsened, River knew she must prove she was someone the Doctor would come to trust completely.
With profuse apologies, she whispered his true name into his ear. The Doctor was stunned and River had won his trust. The Doctor planned to rescue Donna , Strackman and more than four thousand others trapped in the Library Data Core by adding his memory space to the Library computer's.
Removing the four thousand minds trapped inside the Data Core CAL would reset the computer and stop the countdown to the Library's autodestruct after it had been activated, but also sacrifice the Doctor's own life. River knocked the Doctor out, handcuffed him and took his place. She pleaded with him to not change their history, not a moment of what had or would come for them. She realised he had always known this was coming.
The Doctor began to babble questions but River merely smiled, said, "Spoilers", and died as the autodestruct countdown was stopped.
The Doctor reasoned his future self had given River his sonic screwdriver for a purpose. Inside it was a neural relay holding her data ghost. CAL had also saved the data ghosts of her archaeological team, giving her company in the virtual world. River would take care of Donna's two virtual children and Charlotte Abigail Lux the girl wired into the mainframe in the virtual world, reading out her diary of her many adventures with the Doctor and how sometimes "everybody lives" when the Doctor came to call.
TV : Forest of the Dead. After River's death, she, Vastra , Jenny , Strax and Clara were brought into a dream -induced " conference call ". There, she learnt that the murderer Clarence DeMarco revealed to Vastra the co-ordinates of the Doctor's tomb.
The Great Intelligence , having kidnapped Vastra, Jenny and Strax, then told Clara to take the Doctor to Trenzalore , the place of the Doctor's death, if the others wished to be saved. River kept in contact with Clara through keeping the link open, though, seemingly, only Clara was able to see her. When Clara and the Doctor arrived at a gravestone bearing River's name in Trenzalore, Clara again saw the echo of River, which guided her.
She also explained to Clara about her death and what the Doctor did for her, and later saved the Doctor's friends by giving in to the Great Intelligence's demands and opening the Doctor's tomb by saying his name. Goodbye Sweetie. TV : The Name of the Doctor. After Clara entered the Doctor's time stream, River tried to stop him from following her, even though she believed that he could not see her.
When she went to slap him however, the Doctor caught her hand and explained that he had been able to see her all along, and they shared a kiss. The Doctor told River that her time had passed and she should stop clinging to him as an echo; without disputing this, River requested that the Doctor say goodbye to her but he didn't know how, so she said the only goodbye she would accept was one where he would see her later.
Right after the Doctor granted her request, she revealed that she was mentally linked to Clara, and would not still exist if Clara had died. When he asked how Clara could be alive, she said, "Spoilers! To the Paternoster Gang, the Doctor had appeared to passionately kiss thin air. At the age of , River mentioned that she had an augmented lifespan, saying that it was a "long story".
The Tenth Doctor remembered River's death in the Library when Davros asked him how many people had died in his name. TV : Journey's End. A request was made in the 51st century for Professor Song to be loaned out from Stormcage, but the Papal Mainframe denied it. Later, the Twelfth Doctor saw River's face alongside many others after he was hit with chronon energy.
During the Siege of Trenzalore , Tasha Lem noted how one of the Silence 's attempts to keep the Doctor from reaching Trenzalore was to engineer a psychopath to kill him. The Doctor told Tasha he never would have made it to Trenzalore without River's help over the years, and realised that the Silence's efforts to stop him from reaching Trenzalore, led him there.
TV : The Time of the Doctor. After their night on Darillium , the Twelfth Doctor was greatly affected by River's death and "glued" Nardole 's head back on so he wouldn't be alone without her.
Nardole later told Grant and Lucy Fletcher about River and how her death had impacted on the Doctor, but Nardole promised them that he would make sure the Doctor was alright. The Twelfth Doctor 's photograph of River.
TV : The Pilot. Missy referenced the Twelfth Doctor's "domestic bliss" on Darillium, claiming to have heard about it from the Daleks. When she asked what happened and the Doctor didn't answer, she gave him her condolences. Later, Nardole encouraged the Doctor to save Missy by bringing him River's diary and quoting from it. TV : Extremis. The Twelfth Doctor kept a framed photograph of River on his desk in his study during the years he spent as a lecturer at St Luke's University , along with a picture of his granddaughter Susan Foreman.
During his impending regeneration, the Twelfth Doctor remembered River calling his name, alongside other recent companions. TV : Twice Upon a Time. The Curator , a retired incarnation of the Doctor , remembered Professor River Song fondly as a "wonderful woman".
A Time Lord author learnt of River and her unique conception while doing research for his book and briefly considered that she might have been the Hybrid of Gallifreyan legend but ultimately dismissed the idea as her story didn't fit the prophecy.
River's meeting with the Tenth Doctor in England in was recounted by the Doctor in the Doctor Papers , which were published as a work of "fiction".
The same papers also cited Doctor Who and the Silence in The Library as containing an account of the events in the Library.
River and the Doctor married in an alternate reality. A Dalek continuity bomb revealed to the Tenth, Eleventh and Twelfth Doctors an alternate timeline where River refused to kill the Doctor at Lake Silencio and instead of choosing to save reality, the Eleventh Doctor and River lived as husband and wife , thus condemning the universe. River received five master's degrees from the Sorbonne , each in an alternate timeline.
In an alternate timeline created by the Discordia , the Doctor and River knew each other since his first incarnation and were married by his fourth incarnation. The Fourth Doctor admitted he loved River dearly and feared losing her when the timeline was abolished, but River assured him they would meet again.
River Song was very strong-willed; though brainwashed and raised to kill him, she decided the Doctor was "worth it" and saved his life, giving up all her regenerations to do so. TV : Let's Kill Hitler She resisted the upgraded astronaut suit and refused to kill him, heedless of the consequences.
River was flirtatious and cheeky like her mother, Amy. Like her father, Rory , she was stubborn, responsible and fiercely compassionate. She enjoyed showing off for the Doctor. She teased him and liked using the word "spoilers" whenever the subject turned to the Doctor's future. She adopted the word from the Doctor. He, however, used the word with Donna before he met River, establishing that not only he did not learn it from her, he foreshadowed her saying it to him when he met her.
River visited Amy and Rory after they found out that she was their daughter. TV : The Wedding of River Song As she neared Darillium and their adventures were coming to an end, River questioned the Doctor openly on her future, stating that she knew he was the kind of man who would give her a diary with the right amount of pages for her use, thus knowing when it was nearly full, their adventures were at an end.
As soon as Amy and Rory knew they were her parents, she happily stopped calling them by their first names and called them Mother and Dad. She only used their given names when referring to them with a third person such as the Doctor.
For example, when she was younger, she would back off from the Doctor's verbal onslaughts until Amy's support and push taught her to not back down. River seemed at ease with being kept in prison much of her life for a crime she didn't commit and often flirted with the guards or made jokes about the facility, even once stating that she was "breaking in not out" which seemed to be a subtle taunt to the security of what was supposed to be an extremely secure prison.
River loved flirting with people and was constantly hitting on the Doctor, although she also had a tendency to flirt with other people such as prison guards and Hitler's soldiers. She often greeted the Doctor with the words "Hello Sweetie". River was very confident in her abilities and she was very hard to intimidate, showing no fear when faced with the Weeping Angels , the Silence or the Vashta Nerada. She was also very good at hiding her emotions, and didn't like to show weakness.
She was devastated when her parents were stolen by a Weeping Angel but unlike the Doctor she encouraged Amy to go to be with Rory and didn't break down after the Angel transported Amy away, showing a far greater level of self-control than her husband, and watching the Weeping Angel so it could not attack them while the Doctor looked away.
River was deeply in love with the Doctor, even though she had been raised to kill him. She knew the Doctor more than most. River had pictures of the first twelve Doctors, including knowledge of the War Doctor. She learned of the Doctor's wasted regeneration and was surprised when the Doctor was given a new regeneration cycle. She teased Madame Kovarian about the mistake she made by kidnapping her since Kovarian was partially responsible for her falling in love with the Doctor in the first place.
She stated at one point she didn't fear death but rather meeting a version of the Doctor who didn't know her at all. In this conversation, she told Rory that she lived for her adventures with the Doctor, even ones who don't know they are romantically involved, but felt that meeting a Doctor who doesn't know her yet would kill her. TV : The Impossible Astronaut As she matured, she grew into a much more selfless person and showed a willingness to sacrifice herself, eventually giving her life to save the Tenth Doctor.
She indicated that she just found him very useful sometimes. However, when confronted by Flemming , she revealed that she really did love the Doctor and never denied it. However, she believed he didn't love her in return which was confirmed by a scan conducted by King Hydroflax 's body. River described loving the Doctor as like loving the stars: "you don't expect a sunset to admire you back. She also believed that if she were in danger, the Doctor wasn't stupid, sentimental or in love enough with her to be in danger with her.
When River realised she just said that in front of the Doctor, she got emotional and claimed she was just buying time. River learned a hard lesson when she first met Clara Oswald. Surprised to meet the newest companion since her and her parents' deaths, she asked if the Doctor had talked about her. She was very hurt when Clara told her the Doctor had never talked about River, nor said he had a wife at all. He had only mentioned that he had known a Professor Song. The Doctor never came to say goodbye to her or rescued her beloved diary from the Library on the day it was safe from the Vashta Nerada.
She became a guide and helped Clara when the Doctor went to the Field of Trenzalore, even going as far as revealing some secrets of how she came to be. She saved Clara, the Doctor, and everyone else from the Whispermen by saying the Doctor's real name, first muting her connection with Clara so this secret couldn't be heard by anyone except the TARDIS.
River shared the Doctor's habit of avoiding answering a question by answering a previous question. Like her mother , she was able to follow the Eleventh Doctor 's train of thought so well that she could explain it to others. TV : The Time of Angels. She enjoyed drinking cocktails and ginger ale.
River had varying opinions of the Doctor's earlier selves. She didn't like the First , Second , and Sixth Doctors; she got along with the Third exceptionally well, and she remained somewhat neutral about the Fourth , Seventh and Eighth Doctors, just voicing her shock at some of the traits they had, and her admiration of the latter's TARDIS.
She wrote on the Fifth Doctor 's short temper, as well as a note to herself to avoid setting the Ninth Doctor off about the Time War, suggesting arguments had ensued between her and these incarnations; she otherwise only elaborated on their traits.
River once made fun of the Doctor for using his sonic screwdriver in battle, TV : Day of the Moon but apparently revised her opinion on this as she later used her own sonic trowel against King Hydroflax 's guards and robotic body.
River had the habit of pretending to be Romana , much to Leela and the Fourth Doctor 's disbelief. This was in case she needed to pose as a well known Time Lord.
Towards the end of her life during her adventure with the Twelfth Doctor, River displayed a more ruthless, manipulative and selfish side than the Doctor was used to seeing from her. This caused the Doctor to wonder if this was what she was actually like when he wasn't around or at least when she didn't know that it was him. River showed that she had enough control over regeneration to be able to use it to attack Hitler's soldiers.
She was also able to use her remaining regeneration energy to bring the Doctor back to life after she poisoned him, although she had to use up all of her remaining regenerations in order to do so.
She was also able to sense time shifts. River was known as " the child of the TARDIS " and the time machine had taken a particular liking to her and taught her how to fly her.
River was a very fast learner, becoming skilled at flying the TARDIS in a remarkably short time and she was able to control the time machine even more proficiently than the Doctor, despite the fact that the Doctor had been flying the TARDIS for centuries.
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