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I have read the sybnopsis for Flesh and Stone, it says that the new eleventh doctor may sacrifice River Song to the Weeping Angels, sending her back in time. Which makes the mind think that she might end up getting sent through time. But the Doctor may save her, but he did not save any of the other people went back through time by the Weeping Angels. --Catkind121 13:35, March 12, 2010 (UTC)

Well, keep in mind that The Doctor is a time traveler. If he meets her in the 52nd century and the Weeping Angels send her back to the 51st century, it's just as easy for him to come visit her there (or pick her up there and take her forward and backward as far as he wants) as it is for him to do so in the 52nd. So, it isn't impossible.

Even if there's some "rule" that requires her to die in the 51st century or something, that's not a problem, since we already know that she does. (Well, she gets uploaded into CAL's virtual-reality world, and presumably lives out her life there, but that's still the 51st Century.) --99.20.129.165 06:35, March 13, 2010 (UTC)

If so, why do the soldiers have modern equipment? Could River Song be from our time, and these new, powerful Angels send her FORWARD in time? :S Cannon881 18:59, March 13, 2010 (UTC)

The symnosis says the Doctor and Amy go home (well, that's basically Earth 2010 for Amy, and would include the Doctor indirectly) when they meet River Song, and her episde appears to be set d21st century Earth, too... even mentions UNIT! Delton Menace 20:43, March 13, 2010 (UTC)

OK, 4 new theories, in order frm most likely to least.

1. River Song is from the 51st Century. We know that humans developed (will develop) time travel in the 51st century (Magnus Greel, Captain Jack, etc.), although it's somewhat rudimentary and heavily restricted. Other than Time Agents and experimental temporal physicists, who would they (will we) trust to travel back in time? Field archaeologists would probably be near the top of the list; their whole job is (a) knowing about the past and (b) examining even the most delicate things without disturbing them. So, River Song just happened to be visiting the 21st century at the same time as The Doctor. When the Angels attack her, that sends her back to the 20th century (or maybe to the 50th century?), but The Doctor can just pick her up there and take her home, because she's a time traveller and has artron energy in her hair or something.
2. River Song is from the 21st Century. The Angels send her back to the 20th. For some laws-of-time-ish reason, The Doctor can't take her home, but he offers her any other century in history. And she picks the 26th, but then he says, "No, I've already got a hot archaeologist babe in that port, pick another," so she picks the 51st.
3. In plenty of Doctor Who stories, far-future soldiers have very modern-looking equipment. 200,000 years in the future, people still use gunpowder projectile weapons. For that matter, if I remember right, 100 billion years in the future, the Utopia Project guards have equipment that looks straight out of the early 21st century. (Although many other future time periods seem to have had Vietnam War surplus, or even older gear, instead.)
4. The presence of UNIT invariably causes bizarre distortions in the fabric of time, notably turning the mid 70s into a strange version of the mid 80s where everyone dresses like it's the 70s, although nosey civilian reporters tend to think it's 1980. So really, all bets are off. --99.20.129.165 08:47, March 15, 2010 (UTC)

I love your fourth theroy, what a huge explanation it would be for the UNIT dating problems. But being honest, I like the first theroy. I always had a theroy that River Song might have been a Time Agent. Delton Menace 09:12, March 15, 2010 (UTC)