The Telekinetic Toad
Nope, I haven't seen any of those. Interesting stuff. Thanks.
So it looks like we know when the Doctor gives River the sonic screwdriver. At the Singing Towers of Darillium, when he knew that she was soon to die in the Library. Right?
Also, found this while watching those:
River Song - Her Story
You're welcome. The River piece was cool. I had actually wondered what order things would fall in from her perspective. I found a timeline once, but the video worked much better.
So, seeing her bits with David Tennant again, I really hope that episode was made before they knew that he was leaving. When she tries to compare diaries with him, she asks if they'd done Byzantium yet. At this point, though she doesn't know it, she's spent all the time with the Doctor that she's going to spend. And she'd never spent time with a younger regeneration. She says he's younger than she's ever seen him, so I assume she knew it was a previous Doctor and not a future one. Shouldn't she have known that he couldn't have done anything with her yet, that he wouldn't really know her at all? I have to think that she was really written in for Tennant before he decided to retire his role. Because as bad as the continuity may be at times, they just aren't usually that sloppy. Or maybe everyone knows this already and I'm slow, lol.
I'm not saying she was bad with Matt Smith or anything. I never had problems with the story lines from their era, just with how fast everything went. I wish some of the stand alone episodes had been left out (but not The Doctor's Wife, it's my favorite episode from that season!), and that story line episodes had been made into two parters, so that we could see more of what must have been going on in between what they did show us. I don't mind rewatching episodes, obviously, but back in Davies' era I never felt like I
had to in order to understand everything.
And even with multiple viewings, there are still holes here and there. I'm hoping that some of those questions may still be answered eventually. They played the long con with "The Moment" so maybe they're doing it again.
On a lighter note, I just realized the facepalm smiley is a weeping angel.
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