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[personal profile] ericadawn16
I know a lot of people still hate River Song and that's fine. I understand even if I don't agree with it.

However...

Ever since last Christmas, I can't shake the feeling that 24 years is a LOT of time...like time enough to have a child or two together and have them independent by the end...

Of course, there are my shipping tendencies but he did seem awfully comfortable with the baby even though Stormageddon would have been AGES ago.

Plus, the ending of "Forest of the Dead" has River taking over Donna's role as mother to the children. It always seemed a bit odd to me. I know that was Donna's role so it was nice little mirror but Donna was the one getting married when we first met her...it wasn't an illogical leap to think she wants kids.Why give River children from a story standpoint unless River had been a mom?

Really, they pretty mum on those 24 years...I know he's heartbroken but...still feels like a plot element.

Date: 2016-12-30 07:32 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] thespian15.livejournal.com
Is that from the Christmas special?
ARGH, I totally forgot all about it. :(
Hugs, Jon

Date: 2016-12-30 01:46 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] merryghoul
The Doctor in general likes babies. He talked to Melody Pond's baby Ganger before he realized the baby was, well, a Ganger, and said baby would grow up to be River Song.

There was also that one scene from "Face the Raven" (a couple of seasons or so in real time, and several hundreds of years after Alfie/Stormageddon) where the Doctor wanted to take Rigsy's baby along with him to find out where Rigsy's tattoo came from. He chose not to take the baby because he thought the baby would distract him.

But you may be right about River maybe wanting children. There's a short story (officially released by BBC Books, not fanfiction or anything) where River muses about having children, but she feels she's too busy to have them.

That said, unless Nardole and/or Bill is revealed as the surprise secret child of the Doctor and River, I don't think the Doctor will have an onscreen child for New Who.

Date: 2016-12-30 02:06 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ragnarok-08.livejournal.com
24 years is definitely a lot of time, and they are pretty mum about it.

Date: 2016-12-30 02:27 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] author-by-night.livejournal.com
I haven't followed DW in many seasons. (In part because I missed DW having time travel, which I didn't think was too much to ask of a show about a time traveler. Mostly, I just couldn't get into Clara.) Did they give River and the Doctor kids? Or is this just a theory?

In general, I never hated River. I felt she was a good character who, unfortunately, often fell victim to poor writing.
Edited Date: 2016-12-30 02:30 pm (UTC)

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