Doctor Who: River Song's Identity
Sep. 24th, 2010 02:31 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rabid1stIt's been a long while since I've nattered on about Doctor Who, hasn't it? And I'm not going to natter now. I am also spoiler free, so you need not worry that I know River Song's Identity despite the title of this post.
I've really moved past the point where I care what happens in Doctor Who, I think. I haven't gone to any of my old Doctor Who haunts in a few months. But today I happened to pop in on Life, Doctor Who and Combom and there was a bit of Moff's interview hyping River Song and how she's the person the Doctor trusts most in the universe (now that Rose is in a different universe, I suppose) and how we are going to all be shocked, awed and overcome with dismay when we learn the truth about her.
Yeah, blah, blah, blah, blah, SQUIRREL!
We've heard it all before, Moff. What we haven't seen is much delivery on all this hot air.
So what interested me wasn't what Moff said, but that someone took a guess at River's identity in the comments...
...and I think their guess works very well, indeed, for the tone River has set with both Ten and Eleven. All of that Sweetie business.
River Song is the Doctor's nanny.
Even though this isn't my theory, I quite like it. But, I must ask...would that be the nanny I established for him in Disheveled? Because, to my knowledge, there was no human nanny for the Doctor in canon. It is weird when something I made up ends up in the show...or people think it is in the show. Perhaps, it is in the book canon somewhere or I've forgotten the canon that fits with it and got my idea from that. Does anybody know if the Doctor has mentioned a human nanny at some time?
It does make sense for him to have had a human nanny given Gallifreyan standards and practices (they did bring humans in and raise their kids in creches). And it would also explain his love of the species, which is why I gave him a human nanny in Disheveled. My premise being that she ruined him as a Time Lord. She could have a diary which he gave her many years before...maybe at HER retirement from service. And it would explain her knowing about TARDIS flying...and, yet, not being trapped by the time lock. And it explains why she is so pedantic and sure that he must recognize her. Gives him a bit of an implied Oedipal complex though...but still...acceptable, I think.
And if we could touch for just a moment on the Sarah Jane Adventures...what the hell is up with the crappy stuffed vulture puppets in the latest preview clip? I am not afraid of awkward hand puppets. I wasn't as a child, either.
Rae
I've really moved past the point where I care what happens in Doctor Who, I think. I haven't gone to any of my old Doctor Who haunts in a few months. But today I happened to pop in on Life, Doctor Who and Combom and there was a bit of Moff's interview hyping River Song and how she's the person the Doctor trusts most in the universe (now that Rose is in a different universe, I suppose) and how we are going to all be shocked, awed and overcome with dismay when we learn the truth about her.
Yeah, blah, blah, blah, blah, SQUIRREL!
We've heard it all before, Moff. What we haven't seen is much delivery on all this hot air.
So what interested me wasn't what Moff said, but that someone took a guess at River's identity in the comments...
...and I think their guess works very well, indeed, for the tone River has set with both Ten and Eleven. All of that Sweetie business.
River Song is the Doctor's nanny.
Even though this isn't my theory, I quite like it. But, I must ask...would that be the nanny I established for him in Disheveled? Because, to my knowledge, there was no human nanny for the Doctor in canon. It is weird when something I made up ends up in the show...or people think it is in the show. Perhaps, it is in the book canon somewhere or I've forgotten the canon that fits with it and got my idea from that. Does anybody know if the Doctor has mentioned a human nanny at some time?
It does make sense for him to have had a human nanny given Gallifreyan standards and practices (they did bring humans in and raise their kids in creches). And it would also explain his love of the species, which is why I gave him a human nanny in Disheveled. My premise being that she ruined him as a Time Lord. She could have a diary which he gave her many years before...maybe at HER retirement from service. And it would explain her knowing about TARDIS flying...and, yet, not being trapped by the time lock. And it explains why she is so pedantic and sure that he must recognize her. Gives him a bit of an implied Oedipal complex though...but still...acceptable, I think.
And if we could touch for just a moment on the Sarah Jane Adventures...what the hell is up with the crappy stuffed vulture puppets in the latest preview clip? I am not afraid of awkward hand puppets. I wasn't as a child, either.
Rae