Doctor Who - Discussions on Season 5 onwards

I only watched the first 20 minutes but it could be that....

Possibly... however she mentions knowing him when he's much older, and taking her on picnics... then of course there's the sonic screwdriver she has that's identical to his, that he gave her.

Hmm...

Could it be that she is the daughter of his daughter....therefore jenny's daughter and his grand-daughter? Chances are that he'll meet Jenny again in future episodes when he's been regenerated and that's why she remembers him older but is so au fait with him being different and younger now? It can't be Rose's daughter as it is set in the 51st Century. I am really intrigued and thought the Library was superb. Can't wait til next week!

My first thought was that she is a future incarnation of the Doctor, I must've missed the bit about being taken on picnics, because obviously that rules it out.

She must be a future companion then, or a relative. It certainly sounds like a good episode next week!

All could be true, but saying about it's setting in time, traveling with the Doctor means time is nothing. The 51st might as well be next week as long as you have the TARDIS

But River Song specifically stated that she was from the Doctor's 'personal future', which must mean she is also a Time Traveller, because surely he can't meet somebody living a normal linear lifetime who can 'remember' his future, as it technically hasn't happened yet. (I'm getting confused...my head hurts now!)

But we're yet to know Rose's future... let's say it's destined that Rose stays with the Doctor [maybe not with the comeback we know of, but one yet to be announced], and Rose has a Child that's given a Screwdriver and a devise similar to Jack's watch...

It's very likely that Rose's daughter would then already know him, but he wouldn't know her,

It's farfetched, but this is the land of sci-fi afterall!

It's not that bad.

Suppose that River song has a 'relationship' which has lasted 10 meetings.

For the sake of argument, let's called them M1-M10.

For River, the meetings have happened in universal chronological order M1, M2 etc all the way up to M10 (let's say M10 is the library meeting).

But because the Doctor travels through time, he meets her in a different order, for example:

M10, M7, M4, M1, M3, M9, M5, M2, M6, M8

He's never met her before M10, even though it's (currently) her 'last' meeting with him. Hence she needs to check in her diary each time to see which meetings they've had.

e.g. when she checked her diary at the start of M9, she would be able to work out that M7, M4, M1, M3 had already happened (obviously M10 as well, but as that's in her future, the Doctor wouldn't tell her about that one).

That's either supremely clear now or your head is spinning even faster



And, by the way, I don't believe River is Rose, Jenny, Jenny's daughter or anyone else we've met before...

She's probably just a future companion. When something like this gets everyone wondering fan theories are always more interesting then the actual conclusion. Remember "Bad Wolf"?

Yep, after watching it last night I realised how wrong I was

Could it be:

But surely when she said the Doctor looked young, she has to know him from some point in his future. If she had known one of his previous regenerations then that would be the Doctor's past and he would remember her.

Hmm... yes. TBH I'm still trying to work out what she is to The Doctor.

I thought it was a great episode, hopefully the second part will be just as good, the moffmeister delivers again (so far) 9/10