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| |image = [[File:River-america.jpg|250px]] | | |image = <gallery> |
| |individual name = Melody Pond | | Young melody escaping.jpg|Melody |
| |alias = <ul><li>River Song</li><li>Doctor Song</li><li>Professor Song</li><li>[[Cleopatra]]</li><li>Mrs. Robinson</li><li>Melody Williams</li> | | Mels in Hitler's office.jpg|Mels |
| |race = [[Human]]-[[Time Lady]] | | River Looks Left LKH.jpg|River |
| |home planet = Demons Run | | </gallery> |
| |appearances = [[River Song - List of Appearances|Full list of appearances]] | | |alias = [[Mels Zucker]], [[River Song]] <!-- for aliases pertaining to specific incarnations, please see those pages --> |
| |actor = [[Alex Kingston]]}} | | |species = Human |
| {{semi-protect}} '''Melody Pond''', (also known as '''River Song'''), earlier a doctor and eventually a professor, was a mysterious [[archaeologist]]. She was also a convicted [[murder]]er who shared a close relationship with [[the Doctor]]. Significantly, she knew the Doctor's true name, which he would tell her at some point in his future. She would often greet him by saying "Hello, sweetie", whether in message or in person. Eventually it was revealed that she was the daughter of [[Amy Pond]] and [[Rory Williams]]. | | |species2 = Proto-Time Lord |
| | |species3 = Data ghost |
| | |job = Archaeologist |
| | |job2 = Detective |
| | |job3 = Writer |
| | |job4 = Assassin |
| | |affiliation = The Silence |
| | |affiliation2 = Luna University |
| | |affiliation3 = Felman Lux Corporation |
| | |birth date = [[52nd century]], [[Demons Run]] |
| | |death date = [[51st century]], [[the Library]] |
| | |spouse = The Doctor |
| | |spouse2 = Ramone |
| | |spouse3 = Hydroflax |
| | |spouse4 = Stephen Fry (in-universe){{!}}Stephen Fry |
| | |spouse5 = River Song's second wife{{!}}second wife |
| | |spouse6 = Jack Harkness |
| | |grandparent = Tabetha Pond |
| | |grandparent2 = Augustus Pond |
| | |grandparent3 = Brian Williams (Dinosaurs on a Spaceship) |
| | |grandparent4 = Rory Williams's mother{{!}}Rory's mother |
| | |mother = Amy Pond |
| | |father = Rory Williams |
| | |adoptive brother = Anthony Williams |
| | |sibling = Lake (The Lady in the Lake) |
| | |sibling2 = Rindle |
| | |sibling3 = Tarn (The Lady in the Lake) |
| | |sibling4 = Stream (The Lady in the Lake) |
| | |sibling5 = Creek (The Lady in the Lake) |
| | |sibling6 = Wadi |
| | |sibling7 = Beck (The Lady in the Lake) |
| | |sibling8 = Brooke (The Lady in the Lake) |
| | |sibling9 = H-One |
| | |sibling10 = H-Two |
| | |sibling11 = O (The Furies) |
| | |adopted child = Kamen Vers |
| | |adopted child2 = Charlotte Lux |
| | |origin = [[Demons Run]] |
| | |first = Silence in the Library (TV story) |
| | |appearances = {{appears}} |
| | |actor = Alex Kingston |
| | |other actor = Harrison and Madison Mortimer |
| | |other actor2 = Sydney Wade |
| | |other actor3 = Maya Glace-Green |
| | |other actor4 = Nina Toussaint-White |
| | |clip = The REAL Melody Pond - Doctor Who - A Good Man Goes to War - Series 6 - BBC |
| | |bts = Introducing the Pond Family - Doctor Who Confidential - Series 6 - Episode 13 - BBC Three |
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| | '''Melody Pond''' was the child of [[Amy Pond]] and [[Rory Williams]]. She was a "[[Child of a TARDIS|child]] of the [[The Doctor's TARDIS|TARDIS]]", born mostly [[Human]] with some [[Time Lord]] [[DNA]]. She was transformed by [[the Silence]] into the first of several [[Proto-Time Lord]]s, and had the ability to [[Regeneration|regenerate]]. |
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| Although the [[Tenth Doctor]]'s [[Silence in the Library|first meeting]] with her ended in her physical death, they had many adventures, from the Doctor's perspective, afterwards. Like [[Melanie Bush]] and [[Charley Pollard]] before her, she was an example of the rare companion whose timeline was not synchronous with that of the Doctor.
| | Melody was named after her parents' childhood friend, '''[[Mels Zucker]]''', who was in fact secretly her second incarnation gone back in time to ensure her parents got together. Regenerating once more into her third incarnation after being shot by [[Adolf Hitler]], she became best known as [[Professor]] '''[[River Song]]''', and married the [[Time Lord]] known as [[the Doctor]] in his [[Eleventh Doctor|eleventh incarnation]]. |
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| ===Early Life=== | | === Incarnations of Melody Pond === |
| The girl contacted [[Richard Nixon]] for assistance, but he did not know who was calling him. She told him about the "[[the Silence|Monsters]]", and how she feared them. | | During her first incarnation, Melody was a [[Melody Pond (Prequel to The Impossible Astronaut)|little girl]], who had been kidnapped by [[Madame Kovarian]]. She harvested Melody's embryonic [[DNA]] in order to [[clone]] more children like her. This resulted in the creation of River's clones, the [[Proto-Time Lord|Proto-Time Lords]]. The clones referred to one another as siblings. The first batch consisted of seven clones named [[Lake (The Lady in the Lake)|Lake]], [[Rindle]], [[Tarn (The Lady in the Lake)|Tarn]], [[Wadi]], [[Creek (The Lady in the Lake)|Creek]], [[Stream (The Lady in the Lake)|Stream]], and [[Beck (The Lady in the Lake)|Beck]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Lady in the Lake (audio story)|The Lady in the Lake]]'') The second batch of clones included [[Brooke (The Lady in the Lake)|Brooke]], [[H-One]], [[H-Two]], and [[O (The Furies)|O]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[My Dinner with Andrew (audio story)|My Dinner with Andrew]]'', ''[[The Furies (audio story)|The Furies]]'') Like River, the clones had [[Binary vascular system|two hearts]] and the ability to regenerate; however, the exact amount of regenerations each of them had was random. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Lady in the Lake (audio story)|The Lady in the Lake]]'') |
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| When Nixon asked where or who she was, the girl told him "Jefferson Adams Hamilton", leading him to believe her to be a boy. However, the [[Eleventh Doctor|Doctor]] realised these were the names of streets, the only three by those names intersecting in [[Florida]], and probably all of [[United States of America|America]].
| | After escaping from the Silence, Melody had made her way to [[New York City]] and developed a terminal illness, but knew she could "fix it" by [[Regeneration|regenerating]]. She was living homeless in an alley when she finally succumbed to her ailment in January [[1970]], and regenerated. ([[TV]]: ''[[Day of the Moon (TV story)|Day of the Moon]]'') |
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| She watched from a distance when the Doctor arrived to find her. Whilst wearing what appeared to be an [[Astronaut|astronaut's]] suit, the girl eventually approached the Doctor and [[Amy Pond]], the latter firing a [[firearm|gun]] at her, as she initially believed that she was the assassin of the Doctor, 200 years in his future, who wore a similar, if not identical, astronaut suit to her. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Impossible Astronaut]]'')
| | Now under the name of [[Mels Zucker]] ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Mels at School (short story)|Mels at School]]'') and residing in [[Leadworth]], Melody grew up once more, now alongside her parents. She became Amelia and Rory's close childhood friend, ([[TV]]: ''[[Let's Kill Hitler (TV story)|Let's Kill Hitler]]'') Upon meeting the [[Eleventh Doctor]], Mels held him at gunpoint and made him take her to "kill [[Adolf Hitler|Hitler]]". There, she was caught in a crossfire between him and the ''[[Teselecta]]''. She got the Doctor to promise to marry her, and revealed her true identity to the three of them. Beginning to regenerate, Melody reflected on her last regeneration, and told her parents she was glad she had found them, before she exploded with [[regeneration energy]]. |
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| [[File:Regen girl.png|thumb|left|162px|The little girl regenerates in New York. ([[DW]]: ''[[Day of the Moon]]'')]] | | Shortly after regenerating, Melody began examining her new body. Unbeknownst to her, both the Doctor and her parents were already acquainted with this new incarnation, who more commonly used the name [[River Song]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Let's Kill Hitler (TV story)|Let's Kill Hitler]]'') |
| Three months later she again encountered Amy, who had only punctured the suit's visor, in what appeared to be her bedroom at the [[Graystark Hall Orphanage|Graystark Hall]] children's home. The room contained a number photos of the girl, including one of Amy holding an infant. [[The Silence]] then appeared in the room behind the girl and took Amy hostage.
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| Six months later, her deteriorating health caused her to [[Regeneration|regenerate]] in a [[New York]] alleyway. ([[DW]]: ''[[Day of the Moon]]'')
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| River Song was an [[archaeology|archaeologist]] already very familiar with [[the Doctor]] when they first met, from his perspective, in the [[51st century]]. She was, in fact, a future companion of his who would (or, from her perspective, had) travelled with him on and off. According to her, he would come to trust her implicitly, though at the start of their relationship, from his perspective, he was generally suspicious of her and occasionally almost hostile to her. Some time prior to her encounter with the [[Weeping Angel]]s, she was imprisoned in the [[Stormcage Containment Facility]] for the murder of someone she described as, "A very good man. Best man I've ever known". ([[DW]]: ''[[The Time of Angels]]'' / ''[[Flesh and Stone]]'')
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| ====[[The Impossible Astronaut|America]]====
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| After receiving an invitation containing geographical co-ordinate from the Doctor, River escaped from the Stormcage Containment Facility, in order to meet him in [[United States of America]] in [[2011]]. River met the Doctor, [[Amy Pond|Amy]], and [[Rory Williams|Rory]] in a cafe in the middle of the Utah desert. After reminiscing with him about Jim the Fish, The Doctor took all of them to a picnic, where they saw the Doctor murdered by someone wearing an astronaut's space suit. River, Amy, and Rory cremated the Doctors body in a 'Viking Funeral'. They returned to the cafe and discovered another Doctor, approximately two hundred years younger than the Doctor they had seen die. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Impossible Astronaut]]'')
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| River helped the Doctor defeat [[the Silence]] by using the Silence's brainwashing of humanity against them. The Doctor then returned River to Storm Cage, where she kissed the Doctor goodbye. From his shocked reaction, she realised that from his perspective it was their first kiss, and she would never kiss him again. ([[DW]]: ''[[Day of the Moon]]'')
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| ====Opening of the [[Pandorica]]====
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| In the 52nd century, after receiving a phone call from [[Winston Churchill]], River escaped from her prison to try and save the Doctor from a deadly prophecy of the TARDIS exploding. After dealing at a black market for a [[Time Agent]] [[vortex manipulator]], River travelled back in time to the Roman era of Earth where she met the Doctor.
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| They proceeded to Stonehenge where they searched for the [[Pandorica]]. After locating it, they discovered that Stonehenge was transmitting a signal, bringing an [[the Alliance|alliance]] of the Doctor's enemies to Earth. The Doctor managed to convince the assembled aliens to back away for a time, and sent River to bring the TARDIS to him. However, the TARDIS brought River to Amy's house on the 26th of June, 2010. When River told him the date, the Doctor realised the TARDIS was about to explode and urged River to escape. Instead, she found herself trapped as the TARDIS came under control of an unknown external force and started to explode. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Pandorica Opens (TV story)|The Pandorica Opens]]'')
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| [[file:Yes.png|thumb|left|River gives the Doctor an ambiguous "yes" about her marital status. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Big Bang]]'')|185px]] | | [[Category:Human war criminals]] |
| Inside the TARDIS, River was stuck in a [[time loop]] of the first moments of the TARDIS explosion. The Doctor, using the vortex manipulator River had acquired, was able to retrieve her and bring her back to [[1996]]. Upon joining the Doctor, River killed the [[Stone Dalek]] that was hunting them.
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| After the Doctor restored the universe to life, erasing himself in the process, River left her now blank TARDIS-shaped [[River Song's diary|diary]] with Amy Pond on her [[26th June|wedding day]] in [[2010]] so that she could remember the Doctor back into existence. After a brief encounter with the Doctor, River teleported away with the vortex manipulator. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Big Bang]]'')
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| ====Crash of the [[Byzantium (ship)|Byzantium]]====
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| Some time after the opening of the Pandorica, River was imprisoned once again, but in an earlier century until she was put in [[Father Octavian]]'s custody. If she were to carry out the mission assigned to her, she would earn her pardon.
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| While working for Father Octavian, River was sent to be a guest on the Byzantium ship. She infiltrated the lower levels to find the [[Home Box]], into which she carved the message "Hello Sweetie" in the [[Old High Gallifreyan]] language to attract the Doctor's attention. Leading [[Eleventh Doctor|the Doctor]] to [[Alfava Metraxis]], she helped him defeat an army of [[Weeping Angel]]s, who had been awakened in the planet's [[Aplan Mortarium|Maze of the Dead]]. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Time of Angels]]'', ''[[Flesh and Stone]]'')
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| ====Durilium====
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| At some point, River earned her pardon and was given a surprise visit by the Doctor. He took her on a trip to [[Durilium]] to see the [[Singing Towers]]. Unknown to River, the Doctor knew her death was impending, and gave her his sonic screwdriver. This would be the last time that River saw "her" Doctor. ([[DW]]: ''[[Forest of the Dead]]'')
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| ====[[The Library]]====
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| [[File:DOCTORWHOx408x1410.jpg|thumb|left|River in [[the Library]]. ([[DW]]: ''[[Silence in the Library]]'')]] | | [[Category:Humans who met the Doctor as children]] |
| River, now a professor, was chartered by [[Felman Lux]] to lead an expedition to [[The Library|the Library]], in order to discover exactly what had happened there a hundred years earlier, when a cryptic final message had been sent: ">>> 4022 saved. No survivors <<<". Anticipating trouble during the expedition, River summoned the Doctor by sending him a message via [[psychic paper]]. The [[Tenth Doctor|earlier version]] of the Doctor who turned up had not yet met her. Though bewildered, he agreed to help River and her team.
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| River and the Doctor appeared to be very close, even considering the strong bonds the Doctor forms with his companions. She still had her TARDIS-shaped [[River Song's diary|diary]] describing her travels with the Doctor. She carried an [[River Song's sonic screwdriver|upgraded version]] of the tenth incarnation's [[sonic screwdriver]] which a later Doctor had given her.
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| As the situation in the Library deteriorated, River realised she must prove to the Doctor that she was, or would become from his viewpoint, someone he trusted completely and, with profuse apologies, she whispered his true name into his ear. The Doctor was stunned by this information, and River had won his trust.
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| River physically died when she chose to sacrifice herself in the place of the Doctor in order to save Donna and the other 4022 people trapped in the Library's computer. She pleaded with him to not try and change history, not to change one moment of what was to come for them. After saving all the trapped people, the Doctor realized his future self must have given her his sonic screwdriver for a reason. Inside he found a [[data chip]] called a "Neural Relay", which contained River's [[Data Ghost]]. The Doctor saved her by uploading her into the virtual world contained in [[The Library]]'s data core. [[CAL]], the library's data core, controlled by a human girl (Charlotte Abigail Lux, or CAL) wired into its mainframe, also managed to save the data ghosts of all of River's dead archaeological team, in the process giving her company in the virtual world. River would go on to take care of the two virtual children and Charlotte in the virtual world, reading out her [[River Song's diary|diary]] of her life with the Doctor and how "everybody lives" when the Doctor comes to call. Her story ended with her telling the sleeping children sweet dreams. ([[DW]]: ''[[Silence in the Library]]'' / ''[[Forest of the Dead]]'')
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| The Doctor would later remember her death when [[Davros]] reminded him of the people who had died in his name. ([[DW]]: ''[[Journey's End]]'')
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| ==Personality==
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| River had a feisty and cheeky personality. She often enjoyed showing off her knowledge in front of the Doctor, particularly knowledge of him and his personality. She would often use the word "spoilers" in reference to her knowledge of the Doctor's future, or his knowledge of her future. River was also persistent at keeping secrets from the Doctor, especially anything which could change the future. This included keeping her personal [[River Song's diary|diary]] from him.
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| River was devoted to the [[Doctor]] and cared very much for those around her such as Amy and her team in [[The Library]] but she could also be merciless, killing the [[Stone Dalek]] after it had shot the Doctor even though it pleaded for mercy when it realised who she was. She also taunted the Dalek before killing it by ordering it to beg for mercy. River Song was shown to be very confident in her abilities, intelligence and sexuality. She was often flirtatious but was serious when the situation called for it.
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| River was also willing to sacrifice herself and took the Doctor's place when he attempted to release the people who were saved within the giant computer that controlled the Library. She pointed out that if the Doctor hooked himself up to the computer it would incinerate both his hearts and ensure that he would be unable to regenerate. In order to prevent the Doctor from killing himself, River actually knocked him out and then handcuffed him before hooking herself up to the computer. Just before her death she comforted the Doctor by saying that although it was her last meeting with him it was his first meeting with her and therefore he would see her again. She was also willing to sacrifice herself to close the [[Time Field]] on the ''Byzantium'' to stop the Doctor from doing it, until the Doctor told her it wouldn't be enough.
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| ==Relationship with the Doctor==
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| When the Tenth Doctor first met River, she appeared to be someone he knew intimately (something she demonstrated when she stroked his hair and knew, just by his eyes, that he was much younger than "her Doctor") and seemed hurt when he confessed to not knowing her, which she told Rory she dreaded more than her own death or that of the Doctor. Throughout the stories she made continual references to how well she knew him, even going so far as to tell the Doctor his real name to make sure she had his full trust - she described herself as someone who one day he would "trust completely" and that she herself would "trust that man to the end of the universe". When she sacrificed herself to save the people in the Library (sparing the Doctor from doing it himself) the Doctor said there was only one time he could ever tell her his name (indicating that the Doctor himself, though unsure of details, did have an idea of who she was to him) to which she simply answered "shhh... spoilers" before commencing the uplink that would end her life. ([[DW]]: ''[[Silence in the Library]]'' / ''[[Forest of the Dead]]'')
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| Upon the Eleventh Doctor's first meeting with her, he at first expressed resentment at the idea of his own future being set in stone, but later warmed to River after her part in saving Amy and after musing on the idea that "time can be rewritten." During the same episode, Amy asked River if she was the Doctor's wife and when asked by River if "it could be anything that simple with the Doctor" answered "yes". River refused to confirm it, simply saying Amy was "good." Later, aboard the primary flight deck of the Byzantium, when the Doctor said he "could bloody kiss [her]" River responded with "maybe when you're older". ([[DW]]: ''[[The Time of Angels]]'' / ''[[Flesh and Stone]]'')
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| Upon their second meeting, the Eleventh Doctor appeared accustomed to River's style of calling him and even smiled when he saw her "graffiti" on Planet 1. He trusted River enough to send her back to the TARDIS to bring it to the Pandorica. By the end of the two-parter, they parted on good terms, with the Doctor considering the question of her identity more of a game to him, something he could wait to find out. In the same story, when the TARDIS exploded, River Song was heard repeated saying the phrase "I'm sorry my love." ([[DW]]: ''[[The Pandorica Opens (TV story)|The Pandorica Opens]]'' / ''[[The Big Bang]]'')
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| River and the Doctor's third meeting implied that they weren't simply meeting in random order, but rather completely in reverse order. The Doctor was now much more comfortable with River, flirting quite openly with her. However, because of her earlier warning that everything was about to change, he was also very hesitant to trust her. He completely rejected her plea to find [[Canton Delaware]] based purely on her word alone, and only agreed to go because of his trust in Amy. River's later conversation with Rory revealed that she was beginning to realize that the Doctor wouldn't always remember her, and that she was desperately clinging to every shared experience she had had with him, knowing that any of them could well be her last (as with the kiss in her Stormcage cell). ([[DW]]: ''[[The Impossible Astronaut]]'' / ''[[Day of the Moon]]'')
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| ==Other information==
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| *River Song seemed to take shorter trips with the Doctor, living a more or less normal life between trips, rather than having one extended trip with the Doctor and never seeing him again after parting ways.
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| *River Song was a skilled TARDIS pilot (with very different techniques from the Doctor). She mentioned that she "learned from the best," but joked that the Doctor wasn't available that day. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Time of Angels]]'') Later she stated that the Doctor had indeed taught her. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Pandorica Opens (TV story)|The Pandorica Opens]]'')
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| *Song appeared to have knowledge of Time Lord anatomy, including knowledge of regeneration. She indicated that destruction of both of the Doctor's hearts could be a circumstance after which regeneration was not possible. ([[DW]]: ''[[Forest of the Dead]]''). She also understood that if the Doctor died before his regeneration cycle was complete, he was dead for good. ([[DW]]: [[The Impossible Astronaut|''The Impossible Astronaut'']])
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| *River Song had the ability to write in [[High Gallifreyan]], but it is unknown where she learned this. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Time of Angels]]'', ''[[The Pandorica Opens (TV story)|The Pandorica Opens]]'')
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| *River possessed pictures of all the Doctor's incarnations ([[DW]]: ''[[The Time of Angels]]''), though she did not know the order of the Doctor's incarnations.
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| *River was sentenced to prison for murdering a man described as "a hero to many" and whom she called "A very good man. Best man I've ever known". Octavian felt that the murder victim's identity was something that the Doctor "really [didn't] want to know." ([[DW]]: ''[[Flesh and Stone]]'')
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| *Before his death, Octavian told the Doctor that "You think you know [River], but you don't. You don't understand who or what she is." ([[DW]]: ''[[Flesh and Stone]]'')
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| *It is unknown where in time and space River Song originally came from.
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| *In a recent interview by Digital Spy, Steven Moffat made a passing comment to the effect that River Song might turn out to be very different from people's presumptions as to who she really is.<ref>[http://www.digitalspy.com/tv/s7/doctor-who/tubetalk/a210033/video-steven-moffat-bonus-cut.html Steven Moffat video]</ref>
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| *In [[Doctor Who Confidential]], [[Steven Moffat]] stated that we find out who River Song is in [[Series 6 (Doctor Who)|Series 6]].
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| *Except for flashbacks, River Song has only been used in two-part stories, all of which were written by [[Steven Moffat]].
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| *Steven Moffat dismissed the fan theory that River is a future version of [[Amy Pond]], or that she is [[the Doctor]]'s mother. ([[DCOM]]: ''[[The Time of Angels]]'')
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| *In a recent interview for a short video about the Eleventh Doctor's companions, [[Alex Kingston]] stated that River Song has encountered many incarnations of the Doctor and that the Doctor "sends her into his past, where he knows he needs her expertise". Arthur Darvil stated that Kingston had been told more than anyone else about who River really is.
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