Doctor Who: The Complete Story of 'River Song' 

Well that’s a bit bootstrappy because where did the idea of calling her specifically melody come from

So,who really wrote Beethoven's fifth?

Nice reference

Weird. They put her in a suit that allows no freedom, which means they didnt trust her or what?! Seriously this Astronaut Suit makes no sense on multiple levels. It also makes no sense she was so surprised in the Library. She should have known exactly this is 'the day'. Obviously. Plot Holes? Likely.

There are no plotholes

That's literally the whole fucking point of the character you mug

its kinda tragic that River, the child of Amy but somehow the doctor...ended up getting with the doctor. Granted she did time travel. But when they first got together, she wasn't even born yet. It seems too contrived, but story or not, she still made quite a mark in Doctor who.

the saddest part is that the one she has to spend a quarter of a century bangin every night is the gross old man lmao capaldi is great but uh not exactly the man I'd likely choose if I were a chick lol

​@@ravinraven6913she's not a child of the doctor, she's a child that was filled to the brim with time energy which is used in a similar to how the time lords gave time lords regeneration cycles, she may of had 13 or just 3 or perhaps 100, we don't know for sure as physically she was still human and we don't know how sustainable the human body is in keeping regenerations contained.

Tbh the doctor is the parent of regeneration itself

which order did you watch them in? As there are many episodes where she appears multiple times at different ages. A good man goes to war, The impossible Astronaut and probably others I can't remember.

OverWims I kinda skipped the parts with her as a baby as it would spoil stuff from later in the timeline. I started with Let’s Kill Hitler if that helps

@@MovieMicah what order exactly pls

@@chefychefy8749 - I've checked this countless times, and it's right. I've just started myself! River Chronology: 28 - The Pilot 27 - Extremis 26 - The Name of the Doctor 25 - Forest of the Dead 24 - Silence in the Library 23 - The Husbands of River Song 22 - The Angels Take Manhattan 21 - Last Night 20 - The Wedding of River Song (Last Scene) 19 - Flesh and Stone 18 - The Time of Angels 17 - The Big Bang 16 - The Pandorica Opens 15 - Day of the Moon 14 - The Impossible Astronaut 13 - A Good Man Goes to War 12 - Rain Gods 11 - Bad Night 10 - Good Night 9 - First Night 8 - The Wedding of River Song 7 - Prequel to The Wedding of River Song 6 - Closing Time 5 - Let's Kill Hitler 4 - Day of the Moon 3 - The Impossible Astronaut 2 - Prequel to The Impossible Astronaut 1 - A Good Man Goes to War I know the inclusion of The Pilot and Extremis is a little weird, but I feel she has a presence in those episodes all the same.

@@nightowl8477 Wouldn't the Pandorica Opens come right after The Wedding of River Song? Since that's where she gets the Vortex Manipulator? I might be misremembering.

Makes plenty of sense

...Yeah BUT WHY. WHY is her timeline exactly in the opposite direction?? Is that just something that happens? What's the reason?!

@@slevinchannel7589 they are both time travelers they never met in the right order

Weird. They put her in a suit that allows no freedom, which means they didnt trust her or what?! Seriously this Astronaut Suit makes no sense on multiple levels. It also makes no sense she was so surprised in the Library. She should have known exactly this is 'the day'. Obviously. Plot Holes? Likely.

How i hate these nausea-causing levels of Plot Holes and Nonsense. There is literally no 'normal' series of events how this Fix Point can/should happen. There is literaly no reason why the Doctor should let him self get shoot by the Astronaut. Also, putting much effort into creating survival-expert River Song and then putting her into an Astronaut Suit that negates all her abilitys is laughable and nonsensical. Stupid Silence. I like this Fix-Point Buisness, but it's virtually impossible to execute it worse than here. Wow, impressively bad writing. The Doctor has no reason to die but he for no reason wants to die. It's nonsensical. And the Silence is just incompetent as heck anyways. Well, everyone is.

@@slevinchannel7589 No the worst plot hole in that episode is talking about the next episode where we see River because we know that he looks different by then but it was supposed to be a David episode!

@@sarahglover3286 How she reacts to Companions of the Doctor is also sometimes weird, isnt it? I noticed that on multiple occasions.

​@slevinchannel7589 The Silence originally envisioned Melody as becoming the perfect killing machine for the doctor but they didn't plan on her falling in love with him. So they had to make a workaround. Hence the suit. Why is she still needed if the suit is automatic? Because then River always knows that she killed the doctor, adding a whole new layer of complexity to the situation that further makes it a fixed point in time. Basically the Silence wanted his death to be the most temporally convoluted event ever, because they wanted it to be impossible for the Doctor to find a way around it. And they got very, very close. Oh and for the library thing, River knows that a day is coming where the doctor will not know her, and at the singing towers she knows that this is the last time they will meet, but that doesnt mean she'll never see him again. She'll just never see the doctor any farther along on his timestream than at that current point. It doesn’t mean she cant run into a younger version. From her perspective the next time she sees the Doctor it'll be 11 or maybe even a post-'Silence in the Library' 10. She doesnt know that the literal next time she sees him will be the end. Hence why she's taken by surprise in that episode. She's coming off of the 24 years excited to get into a scrape with a younger Doctor who, while not the one she spent all that time with, still knows her. But 10 doesn't.

@SigmaTauri2 Yeah but this was her first regeneration and she might not known that she could regenerate

Reminds me of The Master regenerating. During the start of the Time War, The Master was a young boy, and he agreed to start anew with The Doctor.

Lukas Berner Mättö nah she did know, when she regenerated in front of the homeless man she said “i’m dying, but it’s ok, i can fix that”

I’m still struggling to understand even after this video 😂

How i hate these nausea-causing levels of Plot Holes and Nonsense. There is literally no 'normal' series of events how this Fix Point can/should happen. There is literaly no reason why the Doctor should let him self get shoot by the Astronaut. Also, putting much effort into creating survival-expert River Song and then putting her into an Astronaut Suit that negates all her abilitys is laughable and nonsensical. Stupid Silence. I like this Fix-Point Buisness, but it's virtually impossible to execute it worse than here. Wow, impressively bad writing. The Doctor has no reason to die but he for no reason wants to die. It's nonsensical. And the Silence is just incompetent as heck anyways. Well, everyone is.

One of? THE!

She became the woman she was destined to become - River Song.

And then hello again Mel who after a few decades/centuries goes by River Song and then RIP again as she becomes a force ghost because the force is strong with this one

...Yeah BUT WHY. WHY is her timeline exactly in the opposite direction?? Is that just something that happens? What's the reason?!

Slevin Channel, it’s because River and the Doctor are both time travellers. Time travel allows people to meet out of sequence because they are both going in opposite directions. Hence they would never meet in the right order. Their lives are intertwined in a complex web. It’s also based on the wonderful novel called The Time Traveller’s Wife and Moffat uses it to create a modern Greek tragedy.

@@slevinchannel7589 it isn't exactly in the opposite direction. Just jumbled up. Think about it, when you're a time traveler, and the other person is too, how likely is it that you'll meet in the perfect linear order?

@@atharvadeshpande6907 Whatever. I have heavier stuff on my mind. Did you knew that YT maybe blocking your comments from being seen now, when they contain ANY Links?! Isnt that crazy? I dont know the specifics myself, but even if it only affects some (random?) people, it's still crazy. For example, tell me, can you see a link right here?: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-cQVHdTzFti0.html

Im just commenting as a reminder

Yeah very confusing but great! Really stretches the mind.

Yea I think that was one of the most confusing ones 😂

Weird. They put her in a suit that allows no freedom, which means they didnt trust her or what?! Seriously this Astronaut Suit makes no sense on multiple levels. It also makes no sense she was so surprised in the Library. She should have known exactly this is 'the day'. Obviously. Plot Holes? Likely.

How i hate these nausea-causing levels of Plot Holes and Nonsense. There is literally no 'normal' series of events how this Fix Point can/should happen. There is literaly no reason why the Doctor should let him self get shoot by the Astronaut. Also, putting much effort into creating survival-expert River Song and then putting her into an Astronaut Suit that negates all her abilitys is laughable and nonsensical. Stupid Silence. I like this Fix-Point Buisness, but it's virtually impossible to execute it worse than here. Wow, impressively bad writing. The Doctor has no reason to die but he for no reason wants to die. It's nonsensical. And the Silence is just incompetent as heck anyways. Well, everyone is.

What do you mean by "beautiful and physical companion"?

Idk about better than all the rest. I especially wouldn't out the other companions or the 13th doctor down. But, River is definitely one of my favorites!

I agree with most but cmon dude River is beautiful but Clara is hands down the most beautiful one. A birch surely, but a beautiful one.

Derek Walter she’s very physical as in she gets her hands dirty

Bret Lanier ugh Clara is ugh

Awww!! To he honest thats why I like to use the music, it puts you back into that moment!

I was SO hoping for a bit of physical affection at the end of that episode but it was well done without it. Prob. would have ruined it actually.

@@thewhoaddicts Weird. They put her in a suit that allows no freedom, which means they didnt trust her or what?! Seriously this Astronaut Suit makes no sense on multiple levels. It also makes no sense she was so surprised in the Library. She should have known exactly this is 'the day'. Obviously. Plot Holes? Likely.

@@slevinchannel7589 I think she was feigning surprise in The Library. She's done it all her life, pretending not to know stuff. Pretending she didn't know she was the astronaut in The Impossible Astronaut, that she was Amy and Rory's kid, it's not impossible to say she was pretending not to know her story would end on this adventure. Also, she had no idea HOW it would end. She knew after The Library the Diary would be full, but she didn't know if she'd be eaten by the Vashta Nerada, or if she died by other means, or how it ended in the episode where she uploaded herself into the Data Core to help save everyone in it. So she could still feel genuine surprise

Oh damn I thought that was just some crazy cute fan theory but it's on the Dr Moon wiki page, a direct quote from Davies talking about Moffat!

wow! simply fantastic.

@@deadeyedfae yeah but they wrote it out of the script so now it is just a fan theory

@@stevemorganexperience7833 in my opinion, even though it was removed from the script, it's still Canon. It's a really nice sentiment and the idea that the two of them finally get the (somewhat) happy ending they deserve is nice.

(2022 here) after the BS the flux caused i doubt they would officially make Dr. Moon as the doctor's incarnation anytime soon

Murray Gold did all of them good. Peter's era also has brilliant music. The Shepherd's Boy, A good man?, Clara?, etc

Grammar though??

How i hate these nausea-causing levels of Plot Holes and Nonsense. There is literally no 'normal' series of events how this Fix Point can/should happen. There is literaly no reason why the Doctor should let him self get shoot by the Astronaut. Also, putting much effort into creating survival-expert River Song and then putting her into an Astronaut Suit that negates all her abilitys is laughable and nonsensical. Stupid Silence. I like this Fix-Point Buisness, but it's virtually impossible to execute it worse than here. Wow, impressively bad writing. The Doctor has no reason to die but he for no reason wants to die. It's nonsensical. And the Silence is just incompetent as heck anyways. Well, everyone is.

I'm excited, since we've always known from dialoge in "The Time of The Angels" that 10 has met River multiple times after the Library. The picnic at Asgard mentioned in the Library was also with 10, probably.

Mr stark?

'Lies in ruins' was referenced at that point, not because that's when it takes place in her timeline (she was 'Professor Song' rather than 'Doctor' so it happened fairly late in her timeline anyway), but because in it Benny says that River was her most annoying pupil. Basically it was referenced because it referenced the point in her timeline that was being talked about, not happening at that point. If that makes any sense. Also I realise I might have misunderstood what you were saying, so I'm sorry if that's the case (/gen).

There's an audio story by Big Finish where River meets Missy & all the rest of the Master's regenerations.

That would be too powerful

Steven Moffat: "Hated, Adored but never Ignored"

And he set it up before he was even running the show

How i hate these nausea-causing levels of Plot Holes and Nonsense. There is literally no 'normal' series of events how this Fix Point can/should happen. There is literaly no reason why the Doctor should let him self get shoot by the Astronaut. Also, putting much effort into creating survival-expert River Song and then putting her into an Astronaut Suit that negates all her abilitys is laughable and nonsensical. Stupid Silence. I like this Fix-Point Buisness, but it's virtually impossible to execute it worse than here. Wow, impressively bad writing. The Doctor has no reason to die but he for no reason wants to die. It's nonsensical. And the Silence is just incompetent as heck anyways. Well, everyone is.

@@slevinchannel7589 it's okay. You don't understand the plot. Doesn't mean it's lazy or bad. Either way, what ever happened, it had to happen, which is why Moffat is a genius and it's all explained. One day you'll understand.

@@cja5612 precisely, and I belong to the "adored" group.

Yea he says that in the video. She got pardoned because all proof of existence of the man she killed was wiped out

The point of completing her sentence is that, her obvious absences aside, she abided by the sentence until she received her pardon.

...Yeah BUT WHY. WHY is her timeline exactly in the opposite direction?? Is that just something that happens? What's the reason?!

Grammar though?

How i hate these nausea-causing levels of Plot Holes and Nonsense. There is literally no 'normal' series of events how this Fix Point can/should happen. There is literaly no reason why the Doctor should let him self get shoot by the Astronaut. Also, putting much effort into creating survival-expert River Song and then putting her into an Astronaut Suit that negates all her abilitys is laughable and nonsensical. Stupid Silence. I like this Fix-Point Buisness, but it's virtually impossible to execute it worse than here. Wow, impressively bad writing. The Doctor has no reason to die but he for no reason wants to die. It's nonsensical. And the Silence is just incompetent as heck anyways. Well, everyone is.

No sean tan dramáticos ,solo usen un poco la imaginación, simple , river murió "" a los 10 años en 1970 , y después volvió a morir "" en 1990 , por eso tenía la misma edad de sus padres , ya los había buscado por lo que sabía en el orfanato , solo debió acercarse ( lo único que me preguntó es : dónde estában sus padres adoptivos ?) Cada que se metía en problemas...o otra vez no tenía...

Okay so I could be wrong about this, and this is just how I personally explain it to myself to make this part of River's timeline make sense, so don't take this too seriously. So what I think is that she lived the 20-ish years between 1969 and when she found her parents in 1990 (idk the specific year but eh, for arguments sake I'm gonna say 1990). She regenerated in 1969/70, and after regenerating she consciously chose not to age (as suggested she can do in 'Let's kill Hitler'), or at least not age as fast as a human normally would. This meant even after spending 20-ish years looking for her parents, she still appeared the same age as her parents, even though she was actually around 20 years older than them, even then. This idea is kind of backed up in the Diary of River Song (big finish) story 'The Web of Time' (6x2). In the story she finds a 16 year old girl on the streets. She says, as someone who lived on the streets, she knows that when you do live on the streets you grow up much faster. This would seem odd given that (if you discard my theory/headcannon) River was only on the streets for 6 months. Yes I know that she was a kid at the time so she would've had to grow up even faster and maybe you could say that it's comparable, at a stretch. But in the story, River literally points a gun at the 16 year old and *knows* that she would be able to handle it. I personally think this shows that River was on the streets for longer than 6 months. Perhaps not the 20-ish years that I've suggested, but certainly for longer than Doctor Who directly shows. A really sad thing about this theory that always gets me when I think about it too hard, is that in this version of events, there are literally only two times where River is younger than her parents; when she's born, and when they see her in 1969 (the child version of her I mean). Again this is just my personal theory/headcannon, but I personally think it fits pretty well (but feel free to make any criticisms).

You noticed that thanks

River says exactly that to Amy and Rory in the scene when she reveals she is their daughter. It's written on a leaf or something.

How i hate these nausea-causing levels of Plot Holes and Nonsense. There is literally no 'normal' series of events how this Fix Point can/should happen. There is literaly no reason why the Doctor should let him self get shoot by the Astronaut. Also, putting much effort into creating survival-expert River Song and then putting her into an Astronaut Suit that negates all her abilitys is laughable and nonsensical. Stupid Silence. I like this Fix-Point Buisness, but it's virtually impossible to execute it worse than here. Wow, impressively bad writing. The Doctor has no reason to die but he for no reason wants to die. It's nonsensical. And the Silence is just incompetent as heck anyways. Well, everyone is.

@@slevinchannel7589 But it's fun to watch the nonsense sometimes.

@@slevinchannel7589 Did you not hear about the fixed point in time thing ? The doctor wanted to be shot because if it didn't happen the universe would be destroyed (which happened) River was the best weapon against the doctor because she would become his lover, rendering the doctor unable to stop her and his death

@@maxenswlfr1877 Heard about it and makes me comment 'This makes no sense whatsoever and fans dont notice it (Maxens Wlfr also...)'

@@slevinchannel7589 I understand these words separately but not together And it does make sense in the cannon of the show, the doctor not being able to change painful events because of time rules (like the Waters of Mars where he understands that what must happen will happen any way)

Yeah that would make perfect sense!! 👍👍👍

then river drove through it

@@Tsukiakari-qb3tk Well, rivers usually run through something.

I love the scene in the bath!

And now 3 audio adventures in Nov 2020!!!!

This needs to happen!

@@cool-ishcat3247 except her physical body died. Theirs may have went into the computer with them, but she left hers behind, when she donated her memory for CAL. It would've decayed a long time ago, depending where in time we are, during the Master's invasion

Plus, it seems implied that she can't simply have her mind returned to her physical body, anyway. Because, if she could, that'd likely be the first thing the doctor did, as soon as the others were able to return to the real world.

You know what's silly it's pretty simple to bring river back to life since the TARDIS can do anything ask it to make a ganger or flesh body and put rivers conscious into the body

Weird. They put her in a suit that allows no freedom, which means they didnt trust her or what?! Seriously this Astronaut Suit makes no sense on multiple levels. It also makes no sense she was so surprised in the Library. She should have known exactly this is 'the day'. Obviously. Plot Holes? Likely.

...Yeah BUT WHY. WHY is her timeline exactly in the opposite direction?? Is that just something that happens? What's the reason?!

@@slevinchannel7589 Ultimately the reason why is because the writers wrote it that way. Within the story it just one of those weird things that happen, one could call it fate I guess. . If you think of it, no matter who's perspective you start from, when they 1st met the other, that person knew all about them and had all these experiences with them. So after that you could think of them being 'locked by causality' to always be moving in opposite directions through time relative to each other. . There really is a romantic aspect to it in that whole star crossed Romeo and Juliet sorta way. Just like River says, when she notices the doctor say it is their 1st kiss she then knows that it is their last. All the romance and affection she remembers has ended. Every time she sees him, he knows her less and she knows him more. . But it also the same from The Doctor's POV. The very time he mets her she ends up dying and being saved to the library. So that is always looming over his head possibly why he tries to avoid her while really liking her (possibly loving her in some alien way). . Blah blah blah..sorry I tend to go into way too much detail when i type. To answer your question why I'd say because they were 'causality-bound' for lack of a better term.

@@Antifag1977 So it really is some weird fate with no reason? And we just dont know if that happens or would happen to other people? Well, that's kinda bad writing if you ask me, but ok. Fine. Dont worry, big comments are kinda hard to read but I am a fast typer and fast reader. Both on high, high levels. So i am personally more worried about writing too much than that someone else makes this mistake. So dont worry.

How i hate these nausea-causing levels of Plot Holes and Nonsense. There is literally no 'normal' series of events how this Fix Point can/should happen. There is literaly no reason why the Doctor should let him self get shoot by the Astronaut. Also, putting much effort into creating survival-expert River Song and then putting her into an Astronaut Suit that negates all her abilitys is laughable and nonsensical. Stupid Silence. I like this Fix-Point Buisness, but it's virtually impossible to execute it worse than here. Wow, impressively bad writing. The Doctor has no reason to die but he for no reason wants to die. It's nonsensical. And the Silence is just incompetent as heck anyways. Well, everyone is.

@@slevinchannel7589 It is foolish to apply real world logic and physics to a sci fi show about a shape shifting immortal alien traveling through time and space in a machine disquised as a 1960's English police call box. . Fiction, especially sci fi, is like a tapestry. No matter how well it is made there are always going to be at least a few loose threads. The trick for the audience is to enjoy the tapestry without pulling on those threads and unraveling the whole thing. . Or to paraphrase 12 - He's the doctor - just accept it.

I didnt even think of that 😂

On the ladder of the bunk beds, they didn't waste any time! Lol

When she says that he is the youngest she has ever seen him it's generally assumed that this is the youngest she has ever seen a doctor who should also know her. River knows that no doctors before ten know who she is so she doesn't count them. What she means is that this is the youngest she has seen the tenth doctor which means that this is the youngest she has ever seen a doctor who should know who she is.

In the Day of the Doctor novelization, Moffat inserts a time when she has indeed met the 10th Doctor. At that time, the 10th Doctor knows who she is because it's later in his timeline. I won't give you any spoilers in case you want to read it.

Also she claims she had pics of all his faces so she should've known off the rip that 10 wouldn't have known her yet she acted to surprised when he didn't.

@@bretlanier2304 She had adventures with 10 (later in his POV) when she was younger so she genuinely thought 10 would know her in the Library. Sadly for her, this wasn't the case

Yeah the audios were Impossible! I tried to source any info for it but there wasnt anythingA

Such an underrated comment! 😄

I think the spoilers is just Clara survived going into the timeline!

That's not saying that River was connected to Clara indefinitely; rather, that she was still connected to her at that particular nexus-moment in time (in the Tardis with the Doctor, while his life-thread was emanating in The Name of the Doctor) -- if Clara were dead at that moment, River wouldn't still be telepathically "present" with the Doctor. That was what River was saying. (The "spoilers" part was that Clara was still alive at the "bottom" of the nexus timeline, so could still be rescued by the Doctor.)

@@tideoftime yeah but that anti-climax and i like to think it meant something more

@@mrsamuelwatson12 ? (Do you want to re-phrase that more clearly? ;) )

What? There's some factors as to why she wouldn't know. 1. She was in denial for most of the Library 2 parter, she wasn't emotionally ready to accept the truth until the stakes were so high she would have to sacrifice herself to save 10, many others and preserve her existence for the Doctor. 2. You're looking into the night too much, a 24 year night is just unique and in THORS she said she was worried and the Doctor said she shouldn't.

@@cja5612 River practically knows the Towers are part of her lore, and when she confronts 12 claiming "time can be rewritten" he almost quotes her from Forest.

The 12th Doctor would not have told her definitely that she was correct about the the stories she'd read. I think it's reasonable to assume that she would have hope the stories are not true, and send for him not only to help her, but prove they weren't true. I can only imagine her joy at discovering the Doctor had come when she called, only to have him not know her. Of course, she would have kept her cool demeanor until she was forced to confront the facts of the situation, then she did let her guard down and express her feelings of confusion. This is mostly my head canon, so take that as you will, lol.

@@vanillamc1 We're talking about Moffat. Same man people grumbled about his inability to let a companion (Clara) die and stay dead.

Zvi mur People have a variety of views about Moffat and that’s okay. I have a couple friends who can’t watch his era at all. I’m good with it, to each is own. I just don’t happen to share most of their views, as I’m pretty forgiving when it comes to entertainment in general. I like his writing, flaws and all.

I wonder if there is a way to consider that still canon. Gallifrey doesn’t have good luck if after the War in Heaven the Time War happened immediately afterwards.

@@crimsondynamo615 - some say it's the same war.

Thank you!

I mean her body does age slower as she's a Time Lord

She may have regenareted in between??

@@stephjovi Yes that's what I hope! I've always said there could be a regeneration there so I would count this maths as proof!

It would make more sense if she lived an adult life in between 1969 Melody and 1990s Mels. She could have moved to England for school or work, and died/regenerated into Mels. Being adopted as a homeless/runaway/abandoned child would also help explain why she spent her childhood with Amy always in trouble.

@@tbeller80 Yeah so do you think it's a possible future storyline meeting this Melody?

Also there's the missing 20 years there if she didn't have a time machine also she was in New York where her parents lived thier final years why did they not look for her or did her inbetween regeneration find them!

There's a small novelization story of her changing into Mels & fighting two aliens that wanted her regen powers. She kills them I think. Look up on Google for Fandom, or TARDIS BLUE Network, or TARDISWiki.

@@LisaGates64 Can't find it but since writing this I've done more thinking and research and this is at the latest 1970 and Mel's says she became a toddler in New York but then says took her years to find Amy and Rory but if she took years to find them then wouldn't she be older than them especially seen as Amy was born in 1989 that leaves nearly 20 years missing!! She didn't have any time machine at that point!

There isn't there's an adventure with River and Jack and an adventure with Jackie and Jack

No, the last time River (or at least her consciousness) met the doctor was in Name of the Doctor as that was her as a data ghost from the library

To do not mention he sad this thing is

I asked for that to be one when they were doing Jack as she does appear to have his but what happens after the library and how late on in his timeline does he lose it!?

The story of sarah is in the works dont worry :) -L

But that *is* (at least partly) what happened. (A number of viewers mistakenly take as gospel River's noting in "The Impossible Astronaut" that she and the Doctor live "back to front"... but we, as the viewing audience, know factually that that *isn't* the case, but rather what River at that point in her timeline _mistakenly_ believed. We, however, know that their encounters *aren't* back-to-front, but generally more random with _some_ instances favoring one side more than the other.) River's knowledge of what, exactly, was going on is less so then more so then less so in a number of scenes relative to certain episodes.