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 : Or, did the TARDIS driving instructor also teach River OHG ? I think Moffat is dropping enough hints that the 'best man' isn't the Doctor. but it doesn't seem right killing your driving / foreign language teacher does it? Cos we know from AKs interviews that's how River ended up in prison [[Special:Contributions/86.26.137.154|86.26.137.154]] 09:42, April 25, 2010 (UTC)
+::Well, there are still other people available in the future who could fit. "The best" that she learned from and "the best man" she ever knew aren't necessarily the same thing, so her driving instruction/language teacher doesn't have to be a man, or the person she killed. This opens up the possibilities of a future regeneration of Doctor-Donna (which is a ludicrous idea, but RTD brought it up as a possible explanation for the identity of the Woman in EotW), or Rose or the Meta-Crisis Doctor.
+::*All of them seem more likely to, say, read an instruction manual than the Doctor, Donna just because of who she is, and the other two because they're growing/raising a TARDIS from scratch rather than just running off with one.
+::* Either Donna or Rose would definitely joke about the Doctor behind his back with River, and I could imagine River refusing to tell him exactly what they'd said about him but continuing to tease him about it.
+::*The biggest problem with all of these possibilities is that it seems very unlikely that they'd bring one of those characters back off-screen only, and we know they're not coming back on-screen.
+::There's also one possibility that fits both. Jack Harkness.
+::*Jack has 3000 years, probably including many adventures with the Doctor, before he gets back around to the 51st century.
+::*If Jack ever got the opportunity to fly the TARDIS, he'd be like a 16-year-old boy with a new sports car. If he didn't kill himself, he'd learn to fly it like a pro.
+::*It's hard to imagine any situation in which Jack wouldn't try to get between the Doctor and River (read that in every way possible), or in which River wouldn't use him as something to tease the Doctor about.
+::*Killing Jack might get you sent to jail, but it would be pretty easy to get yourself completely exonerated--during your appeal, Jack would just dramatically walk through the courtroom doors and announce that the rumors of his death have been greatly exaggerated.
+::*Would anyone call Jack the best man they've ever known? Well, look at how self-sacrificing he eventually becomes (assuming he is the Face of Boe, that is), and how much growth he's shown from his first meeting with the Doctor already; give him another 3000 years, and it seems plausible. --[[User:Falcotron|Falcotron]] 11:04, April 25, 2010 (UTC)