Howling:River Song's Diary

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Hello, I have a querie about river's diary...

I was wondering, if River is indeed meeting the doctor strictly in reverse order, then every adventure she has with him, he will get younger and younger,, and her past is his future etc. Therefore, they will never meet and have had the same experiences, and so the whole point of having the diary is useless... apart from as a general diary,, and to keep track of his faces.

But surely asking "have we done so and so yet" the answer is always going to be "no."

Now I know in Impossible Astronaut it broke the pattern slightly, as she met a future doctor and so they had indeed had somee shared adventures (jim the fish) but in all other instances, the diary seems to be pointless...

I don't know if that made sense, or I'm barking up completely the wrong tree, but could someone help me make sense of this, because the whole thing has been confusing me for days, thanks.UnicornandtheWasp 16:23, April 29, 2011 (UTC)

Yeah, with the backwards order thing it is completely pointless, but that it just what River thinks about how they meet, they are time travellers, somewhere down the line after the Doctor meets her as a child he could see her again in a later incarnation. --Revan\Talk 16:25, April 29, 2011 (UTC)

well her meetings with the doctor could possibly not be in revese order for instance in toa/fas the box could of been come across by any doctor and also i sitl/fotd she needed to check to see if the doctor knew her or she would of never found out if you think about it it has some use to check on what the doctor knows ----Whooligist 17:34, April 29, 2011 (UTC)----

Actually, it was River's diary that helped her realize she was meeting him in reverse order. She did not know that from the beginning...it took three or four meetings to establish the pattern for her. Her diary helped her establish that pattern. -- Rest In Peace Sarah Jane \ Talk to me! 19:52, April 29, 2011 (UTC)

From River's point of view, she has met the Doctor more than 3 or 4 times, and she hasn't met him any of the times we have seen her meet him yet. The "beginning" that you're talking about is actually the end from her point of view. So far, the Doctor has only met River in reverse order, but this will presumably change. The fact that River always compares diaries with the Doctor proves this, as does the fact that she seemed unsurprised that she and the 1103 year old Doctor shared some experiences, and that River met a much older Doctor shortly before Silence in the Library. Even if we didn't have all of this evidence, it would be incredibly unlikely that River and the Doctor always met in perfect reverse order, as that would be the most amazing coincidence in the universe. River never said that she is meeting the Doctor in perfect reverse order. She said that, in general, she meets younger versions of the Doctor over time. By the time of the episodes that we have seen River in, she would have encountered the Doctor enough times to know that the diaries were useless if they were actually meeting in reverse order. Icecreamdif 20:19, April 29, 2011 (UTC)

Thanks, I did think it was a bit "What are the chances" if they met strictly always in reverse order, but just trying to get my head around the logic of it all got me so confused, I thought I'd better ask some people who are a lot cleverer than me, so thanks. UnicornandtheWasp 10:09, April 30, 2011 (UTC)