More Doctor Who wibble with spoilers

[daibhidc]

This afternoon I commented to my sister that with typical Moffat sneakiness, answering the question "Who is River really?" hadn't actually told us any of the things we wanted to know when we asked "Who is River really?" We didn't know what her relationship with the Doctor was, or who she killed, or...

And at that point my sister looked at me like I was mad, and said "She killed the Doctor. We saw it happen. Melody Pond is the girl in the spacesuit, remember?"

And I was astounded because that honestly hadn't occured to me. Even though we saw a major flashback of the Doctor connecting Melody's Timelordness to the girl in the spacesuit. And somehow, it still didn't feel right.

And I've finally worked out why. The moment Amy's question about her hypothetical child having "a time head" was juxtaposed with Spacesuit Girl regenerating, I thought "That would suggest..." It was literally the first thing I thought of. Just as when Octavian said River killed "a good man. A hero to many", the first thing I thought was "That sounds like the Doctor."

And I've had enough experience with Moffat plots by now to automatically discount the first thing I thought of. Moffatt could start the next Confidential by saying "Yes, I hope it's quite clear now. Melody is Spacesuit Girl is River, she's in Stormcage for killing the Doctor and by the way yes, she's his wife!" and my reaction would be "Okay, so where's he really going with this?"

Comments

[daibhid-c.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure why River sacrificing herself for the Doctor means she can't have killed him. And if she killed the Ganger Doctor, then wouldn't that make him the good man she killed?

Personally, not only am I not convinced Spacesuit Girl is Melody/River, I'm also not at all sure that the spacesuited person who killed the Doctor (forty years after Spacesuit Girl escaped her spacesuit) is actually Spacesuit Girl. We never see their face in that scene.