humantales | Thoughts About A Good Man Goes to War

Needless to say, nothing else was discussed in our house until we went to be (at stupid o'clock at that). And, nothing much has been said since we woke up. I suspect this will be true for a while.

Our big guess:
The little girl broke out of the suit? (Remember in the first pair of episodes) Well, yes, she regenerated! Amy really did kill her. (Kudos for Goofy for this one.) It explains how she got out and it explains how calm she was when she was dying in that alley later on.

How long has River been in Stormcage for killing a good man? Could it have been her whole life? Our current guess is that she killed a Ganger, but had to play her reactions very straight because she was being watched by the Silence and possibly her handlers. It also explains how she just wafts in and out: the Doctor has given her the means to break out after she neutralizes any observers. This also works well in using the same trick that they used on the Doctor (TWICE!)

(Just in case anyone has forgotten (Goofy's making me put this in), Bishop Octavian said that River is in Stormcage for killing a good man.) It's an interesting about-face; she's raised as a weapon against the Doctor (and River is most definitely a weapon if not against the Doctor), but then has served some length of sentence for carrying out her mission.)

It may also explain why she has the title of "Doctor". It doesn't indicate academic education, it indicates warrior training.

Thank Moffatt Amy wasn't the Companion in the Library. (Has the Doctor told her what happened, or at least how old River (appeared) to be?)

I think most of the Doctor's giddiness at the end of the episode is relief: he does eventually find little Melody and she grows up to be someone he likes/admires/respects. But I'll bet he's a little leary of meeting Rory the Roman as Girlfriend's Daddy. (I have a sword.) It also puts a different spin on the Doctor's asking permission to hug Amy. If he's that careful about a platonic/friendly/comfort hug with his wife, how's he going to react to a non-platonic/sexy embrace with his DAUGHTER? (I know, Goofy, a lot of that is insecurity, but the daughter thing will just add to the "Daddy protecting their little girl from the Big Bad Men out there")

"A Time Lord's body is a miracle. People will fight for even a molecule of it." Paraphrased from River in episode one of this season. Who'd know better than the little girl kidnapped in infancy and raised away from her parents because of her own Time Lord genetics. (Of course, it's also to protect the fact that the dead man is Flesh from being found out, but that doesn't make what she said any less true.)

(Goofy wants my tag in River's tone of voice.)

We'll probably be coming up with more as we sit, discuss, squee, and wait anxiously for Autumn and Let's Kill Hitler.