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| | '''''River Song: Her Story''''' was a lengthy segment of [[When Time Froze|the final episode]] of ''[[Doctor Who Confidential]]''. It featured [[Alex Kingston]], in character as [[River Song]], narrating a chronological biography of her life. It also featured previously unreleased shots from previous stories, including River as a child escaping the Silent. |
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| |story number = [[Series 6 (Doctor Who)|Series 6]]
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| |broadcast date = [[1 October]] [[2011]]
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| '''''River Song: Her Story''''' was a mini-episode of ''[[Doctor Who]]'' broadcast as part of ''[[Doctor Who Confidential]].'' It features [[Alex Kingston]], in character as [[River Song]], narrating a biography of her life featuring clips from all River's episodes presented in chronological order (from River's perspective). | |
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| | Because the segment was not specifically credited, it's hard to know who, exactly, made it. It was likely written by [[Steven Moffat]]. It featured no new footage, so it had no [[Director (crew)|director]], [[director of photography]] or really not much of ''any'' crew. Its key creatives were likely [[Offline Editor]] [[John Parker (editor)|John Parker]] and [[Edit Assistant]] [[George Sabapathy]], the people credited with editing ''[[When Time Froze]]'' as a whole. It's entirely possible that [[colourist]] [[Matt Mullins]] may have been required to achieve a colour balance on the piece, since it was the combination of many different episodes. |
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| <p style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB">I was born in [[Battle of Demon's Run|battle]] on an asteroid called [[Demons Run]]. </span></p>
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| <p style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB">I escaped the [[Astronaut|space suit]] and lived on the streets homeless, alone and dying until I regenerated. </span></p>
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| <p style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB">I was trained and conditioned for one purpose, I was born to kill the Doctor, and I did so with a kiss. A kiss poisoned by the Judas Tree. </span></p>
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| <p style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB">But I was shown who River Song would be and I saw just how much I would love him. And so I gave all my remaining lives to restore his. Because I knew the Doctor was worth it. </span></p>
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| <p style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB">And in return he left me the most wonderful gift. </span></p>
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| <p style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB">I knew that someday I would find the Doctor, but the space suit was waiting for me. </span></p>
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| <p style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB">But I just couldn’t bring myself to kill him and so all of time collapsed and only the Doctor could save the universe </span></p>
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| <p style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB">Rule 1, the Doctor lies. He escaped his own death. A secret I knew I had to keep. Even though it meant imprisonment, but I’ve always been good at escaping. </span></p>
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| <p style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB">From this point on I realised I knew more than him. From that moment on we were living our lives in the wrong order, the Doctor and me. And In all our future meetings I would know him more but he would know me less. Until one day the Doctor would invite me to watch me kill him. </span></p>
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| <p style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB">Once again I found myself at Lake Silencio, folding back on my own timeline. This time a witness to the Doctors shooting, knowing everything but unable to tell those that cared the most, that the Doctor would survive. </span></p>
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| <p style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB">Back to the orphanage where I grew up, only this time as witness to my own escape. </span></p>
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| <p style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB">And then came his first kiss, and my last. </span></p>
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| <p style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB">But I always knew the Doctor would be there for me. So long as I left him a message. </span></p>
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| <p style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB">I always knew that one day my love wouldn’t know me. Now I looked into his eyes and saw that day had come. </span></p>
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