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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. |
| |story name = River Song: Her Story
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| |story number = [[Series 6 (Doctor Who)|Series 6]]
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| |companions = [[River Song]]
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| |broadcast date = [[1 October]] [[2011]]
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| |format = 1 x 4 minute episode
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| |confidential = [[When Time Froze]]
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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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| == River Song ==
| | 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. |
| I was born in [[Battle of Demon's Run|battle]] on an asteroid called [[Demon's Run]].
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| I was the daughter of [[Amy Pond]] and [[Rory Williams]]. They named me [[Melody Pond]].
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| I was kidnapped, taken by [[Kovarian]] servant of the Silent to an orphanage on Earth.
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| I was raised with only one purpose, to kill [[the Doctor]].
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| I escaped the [[Astronaut|space suit]] and lived on the streets homeless, alone and dying until I regenerated.
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| I became the best friend of young [[Amy Pond|Amy]] and [[Rory Williams|Rory]]. Growing up with my parents, awaiting the arrival of [[the Doctor]].
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| And then I [[Regeneration|regenerated]] into a new form.
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| I was the woman that would become [[River Song]], although I didn’t know that at the time.
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| I was trained and conditioned for one purpose, I was born to kill [[Eleventh Doctor|the Doctor]], and I did so with a kiss. A kiss poisoned by the [[Judas tree]].
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| 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.
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| And in return he left me [[River Song's diary|the most wonderful gift]].
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| I knew that someday I would find [[the Doctor]], but the [[Astronaut|space suit]] was waiting for me.
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| But I just couldn’t bring myself to [[Murder|kill him]] and so [[River Song's World|all of time collapsed]] and only [[Eleventh Doctor|the Doctor]] could save the universe.
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| [[The Doctor's Rules|Rule 1, the Doctor lies]]. [[Tesselecta|He escaped his own death]]. A secret I knew I had to keep. [[Stormcage Containment Facility|Even though it meant imprisonment]], but I’ve always been good at escaping.
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| 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 [[Eleventh Doctor|the Doctor]] would invite me to watch me kill him.
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| Once again I found myself at [[Lake Silencio]], folding back on my own timeline. This time a witness to the Doctor's shooting, knowing everything but unable to tell those that cared the most, that the Doctor would survive.
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| Back to the [[Graystark Hall Orphanage|orphanage]] where I grew up, only this time as witness to my own escape.
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| Did I mention I was kick-ass with a gun? No one kidnaps me and gets away with it.
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| [[Day of the Moon|And then came his first kiss, and my last]].
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| But I always knew the Doctor would be there for me. So long as I left him a message.
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| He would always be there to catch me. Even at the crash of the [[Byzantium (ship)|Byzantium]] he came, my love couldn’t resist it. Bringing with him, [[Amy Pond|Amy]], who did not know.
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| I’d finally let her know the wonderful secret, that the best man I’d ever known was alive. However delighted they were, I knew a far worse day was waiting for me, [[Silence in the Library|my last encounter with the Doctor]].
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| I always knew that one day my love wouldn’t know me. Now I looked into his eyes and saw that day had come.
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| But that man, that impossible man never gives up, the Doctor saved me [[Charlotte Abigail Lux|persevering me in a computer]] and all my glorious memories of [[the Doctor]] live on, because just sometimes everybody lives.
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