Yes, she has tons of potential. Here's hoping it isn't ruined.

 

Interesting theory from a reddit user:

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SUPER THEORYMANCING HERE
Was it blindingly obvious to anyone else that the child in the suit (The one that can regenerate, end of episode two) Is not River Song?
When River revealed herself to the Doctor, she didn't motion to the prayer napkin, nor did the doctor read it. He read the Galilfreyan written on the side. He then got excited - not because of anything to do with Amy or Rory, but because of him and River.
I think River song is a Human with time lord bits. She can't regenerate, she can't do much...beyond reproduce with a Time Lord.
I believe the little girl is the Doctor's actual daughter, whose mother is river song.
Theorymancing...subsiding.

 

That is certainly interesting. I doubt it though.

 

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I half subscribe to that. I don't think River was the one in the suit who shot the Doctor, but I also doubt the Doctor is ever going to reproduce in the series proper. Or rather I hope he won't; it's rather refreshing to have a relatively asexual main character in fiction.

There's more revelations to come, I can feel it.

 

Problem with that is, correct me if I am wrong, hasn't The Doctor had children, or at least grandchildren? I am not too well versed in ClassicWho (should really watch more of it).

But it maybe possible for the baby in the suit to be River's and The Doctor's by way of wierdy gene splicing.

 

Yeah, but that was pre-series. It's backstory. I just don't want Doctor Daddy to be a plot point.

 

Ah, I see.

We've already got him putting a baby in a cot and continued reference to the fact that the Doctor sort of is a dad throughout this Series - the end of "The Doctor's Wife". Steven Moffat says his does mostly stories about family. We have a little girl who is half timelord running around London. No matter what its form ends up being, I feel we are going to get Daddy Doctor as a plot point.

 

We might get parental doctor, but the distinction of the child not actually being his is important.

Though if Joe is wrong and the child is river thats all kinds of weird. Then the doctor = woody allen.

 

It's sci-fi as penned by Moffat. Of course it's "all kinds of wierd", but I take and agree with your point.

 

So, teaser for the second half is just a tad ominous.

Link.

 

...thats a teaser? :/

 

Yes, apparently.

 

So it's a 20 second mini teaser, leave it alone. You have to admit, though, it is kind of creepy.

 

Well, we've seen the Doctor at his highest, as put by the Silurian swordswoman - "My friend, you have never risen higher." - and by River - "This is the battle of Demon's Run; he'll rise higher than ever before, and then fall so much further."

The last episode didn't have much falling on the part of the Doctor- and I still have high expectations for the rest of the Series.

Also, that teaser is awesome.

 

I was thinking about it and I was saying to myself that the Doctor's "fall" might be more about the fall of his legend and good reputation more than himself personally - River goes on about the word Doctor starting to mean warrior in some places, and how an entire army was pitted against him for no other known reason than the fact he's just existing. He rises above all that, however, by winning Demon's Run without a drop of blood spilled, but his fall begins when the trap is sprung, Melody is kidnapped, and the bad guys get to live another day and will continue to spread his "dark legend". And maybe, in the process of doing whatever he's planning to do after finding out River's identity, he'll fall even further because even though he knows River's fine and all now, he might still have to go to some dark lengths in order to cause that to happen and get his best friends' baby back.

Maybe. I dunno. Either way, more episodage is definitely needed. Gonna be a looong three months or so.

 

Aren't Time Lord/Human hybrids meant to be even more wtfamazing than Time Lords? Because of their imagination and way of thinking is human by their knowledge and abilities are Gallifreyan. So technically, River has the potential to be better than the Doctor?

 

Looked for a teaser on youtube last night. Found A Good Man Goes to War in 3 parts posted by a saint in the UK. Watched all 3 and went back to look at something in part 1 and found it had been taken down.

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HOLY SHIT

Rory is officially a motherfucking bad ass.

River's identity was obvious.

Matt Smith has officially become one of the greatest Doctors ever.

On the topic of the Doctor becoming known as being a warrior. This has been building since they brought the series back with the 9th doctor. The races who knew of the time war and what the doctor did during the time war have seen him as warrior for a long time. The Doctor destroyed not only the Daleks but his own race. The Daleks, the Shadow Proclaimation, and everyone who had a hand in the Pandorica view him as a warrior. The stories about the Pandorica say it contained the feared warrior in all the universie: The Doctor.

I personally dont care about speculating about whoever shot the doctor. Im more interested in how it all plays out. Im sure we will find out at some point in time.

The idea of the doctor meeting younger versions of River in previous regenerations is great. The idea of Multiple River Songs and Multiple Doctors in a special would be epic.

 

What I want to see is there being multiple Rivers, but one or more are evil. Make for a good plot line, or maybe it's just me...

 

You're thinking about the metacrisis with Donna. This version of the human timelord doesn't necessarily have to be the same as they involve completely different processes.

The Meta crisis donna, supposedly also got the doctors memories, but also retained her own personality so thats what made her amazing. Donna noble and The doctor in one package.

This is someone who was born with a yet unknown set of abilities due to conception through time travel. For all we know she could surpass the doctor or fall short of the doctor in any number of ways, but also develop completely random abilities that we are not aware of.