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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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|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).


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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[[Category:Doctor Who Confidential]]
<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>
 
<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 the daughter of [[Amy Pond]] and [[Rory Williams]]. They named me [[Melody Pond]]. </span></p>
 
<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 kidnapped, taken by [[Kovarian]] servant of the Silent to an orphanage on Earth. </span></p>
 
<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 raised with only one purpose, to kill [[The Doctor|the Doctor]]. </span></p>
 
<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>
 
<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 became the best friend of young [[Amy Pond|Amy]] and [[Rory Williams|Rory]]. Growing up with my parents, awaiting the arrival of [[The Doctor|the Doctor]]. </span></p>
 
<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 I regenerated into a new form </span></p>
 
<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 the woman that would become River Song, although I didn’t know that at the time. </span></p>
 
<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>
 
<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>
 
<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>
 
<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>
 
<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>
 
<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>
 
<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>
 
<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>
 
<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>
 
<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>
 
<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>
 
<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">He would always be there to catch me. Even at the crash of the Byzantium he came, my love couldn’t resist it. Bringing with him, Amy, who did not know. </span></p>
 
<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’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, my last encounter with the Doctor. </span></p>
 
<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>
 
<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 that man, that impossible man never gives up, the Doctor saved me persevering me in a computer and all my glorious memories of the Doctor live on, because just sometimes everybody lives. </span></p>
[[Category:Doctor Who mini-episodes]]

Latest revision as of 20:36, 26 October 2023

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River Song: Her Story was a lengthy segment of 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.

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, director of photography or really not much of any crew. Its key creatives were likely Offline 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.