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With all the hand-wringing about whether "Let's Kill Hitler" was going to make too light of Hitler or not, I doubt anyone expected that he would be locked into a cupboard for the entire episode note to Moffat--please continue with Roronicus Pond, action star. I definitely did not expect an entire episode about our River Song, least of all that we'd get to see her first meeting with the Doctor so soon.

So, while I literally shouted in surprise at least 5 times throughout the episode, it's now time to think more logically through the episode's implications insofar as one can think logically through any product of Steven Moffat's brain. We know it happened once with the girl in the astronaut's uniform, but that was back in the s.

So she had to have regenerated at least one more time in between, to have been a child in the s. Or does she? We do learn, after all, that River can program herself to age in reverse if she wants. It's during this time that Madame Kovarian or whoever train Melody into becoming a weapon to kill the Doctor.

We don't yet know why she changes her name to River but this could just be one of those ontological paradoxes, where the she learns that she will become River Song, therefore she becomes River Song. That's better. Really wacky but totally true observation: I believe that after she's let out of prison, River is under house arrest on Earth for a time, much like the Third Doctor, and forced to work for the government.

Taking the Short View

During this time, she becomes a public defense attorney. The name of her character? Moving on now If we take "Let's Kill Hitler" on its face, then we are left to believe that River has used the remainder of her regenerations on saving the Doctor. However, I think the construction of the dialogue suggests a Moffatrick:.

Amy: "Apparently you used all your remaining regenerations in one go. You shouldn't have done that For the Doctor to have said that at that particular moment means one of two things: either River did not actually use all her remaining regenerations in one go, or River did not actually save him.

It's also possible that both are true. And let's not forget one essential part of River's parentage: the Tardis. Perhaps if the Doctor returns to the Library, he can take River's essence out and combine her with Tardis energy and make her real again ok, now I really am just guessing.

But let's be honest. A Doctor Who world without River Song in it scarcely bears thinking about. The best one, of course, being "Hello, Benjamin. Robinson to Nixon The manner in which the Doctor kept faking out River and the gun was almost identical to how the Doctor keeps foiling the Master's dastardly plans and replacing them with a "sofa of reasonable comfort.

But as with most Moffat things that make no sense, that usually means they'll be coming back later.