First introduced in Doctor Who season 4, River Song's backstory and timeline were already complex: a time traveller who was moving in the opposite direction to the Doctor who she would also marry , it was later revealed that she was Melody Pond, the daughter of Amy and Rory Karen Gillan and Arthur Darvill , conceived aboard the TARDIS.
It had previously been established in Doctor Who canon that exposure to the Time Vortex, which is the intersection of time and space, via the Untempered Schism a gap from which the vortex can be accessed , is what led to the development of the Time Lords as a race, contributing to their great advancements and, more specifically, their abilities to regenerate. With that, it was then believed that River Song herself had this ability because of her exposure to the Time Vortex. However, if the Time Lords themselves never gained regeneration from the Time Vortex, but it instead came from the Timeless Child, then River Song doing so doesn't make any sense either.
Of course, the Time Vortex wasn't the sole reason for River's enhanced DNA, which also in-part came from her genetic code being manipulated by the Silence, in order to turn her into a weapon to use against the Doctor. But the Timeless Child reveal is one of the biggest changes in Doctor Who lore since the introduction of the Time Lords in , and as a result viewers are poring over old stories, trying to figure out how it can all work.
Surprisingly, the key may well lie in what would otherwise appear to be a major plot hole introduced by the Timeless Child retcon. Played by Alex Kingston, River Song is a popular character who played a major role during Steven Moffat's run as showrunner. Because River had been conceived in the time vortex, the fetus was flooded with temporal energy, granting her the ability to regenerate.
It was a power River Song ultimately gave up for the sake of the Doctor's life. But this doesn't appear to fit particularly well with the Timeless Child retcon. According to Chibnall's retcon, the ability to regenerate is part of the Doctor's own genetic code, and Time Lords can regenerate because they have copied that power into their own DNA. It doesn't seem to involve exposure to the time-space vortex at all, meaning River Song's origin doesn't make any sense.
Making matters worse, even if the time-space vortex were to somehow grant River Song regenerations, they should have been unlimited in number, because the regeneration limit was imposed by the Time Lords themselves, for reasons as yet unknown.
The Timeless Child retcon seems to break River Song's origin story. It is true that there is an apparent contradiction here, but it's actually not too difficult to resolve it. After River explains what actually happened in season seven something to do with pretending and spacesuits , Amy discovers that not only is the Doctor not dead, but that she's also his mother-in-law.
Sadly for River she sees her parents trapped in the past due to those nasty statues. She won't see them again. A Christmas outing as Peter Capaldi's take on the time-traveller meets River — but this time, rather hilariously, River doesn't recognise him. For the first time in their relationship, he has the upper hand. After a fairly forgettable 55 minutes or so featuring Greg Davies as grouchy robot King Hydroflax, we're treated to an emotional denouement.
The two spend a final night together at the Singing Towers of Darillium, as she mentioned when the pair first met see below. Thankfully, for both concerned, a night on this planet lasts 24 years. That's a lot of Time Lord lovin'. River meets the Doctor, then played by David Tennant, who has never met her before. Shockingly for us and the Time Lord, we discover that she knows his name.
Lucky gal. Professor Song sacrifices herself, but the Tenth Doctor "saves" her as a data ghost and she ends up in what we can only describe as an eternal digital spa. Escaping the idyllic digital spa for a few hours, River "meets" the Paternoster Gang and Clara via conference call. After kidnapping all but River as she's dead , the Great Intelligence and the Whispermen bring them to the Doctor's tomb on Trenzalore.
River finally says goodbye to the Doctor, and they share a smooch. Of sorts. 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 Main content.
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