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::: * If there was any foreknowledge on River's part about what was going to occur why would she (and the Doctor) tell Clara not to enter the timeline and then later try to discourage the Doctor from entering it himself. If she knew that Clara would actually help the Doctor's timeline, why would she discourage her from going? Because she didn't know this. Compare this to Amy...she had no way to know if Amy was even going to end up in the same location and time as Rory but she didn't discourage Amy from trying. [[User:Badwolff|Badwolff]] [[User talk:Badwolff|<span title="Talk to me">☎</span>]] 20:57, June 7, 2013 (UTC) | ::: * If there was any foreknowledge on River's part about what was going to occur why would she (and the Doctor) tell Clara not to enter the timeline and then later try to discourage the Doctor from entering it himself. If she knew that Clara would actually help the Doctor's timeline, why would she discourage her from going? Because she didn't know this. Compare this to Amy...she had no way to know if Amy was even going to end up in the same location and time as Rory but she didn't discourage Amy from trying. [[User:Badwolff|Badwolff]] [[User talk:Badwolff|<span title="Talk to me">☎</span>]] 20:57, June 7, 2013 (UTC) | ||
:: River might well "tell Clara not to enter the timeline", if she already knew that she had done so & that Clara had gone ahead anyway. The same applies to "discouraging" the Doctor. Think back to Series 6, especially ''[[The Impossible Astronaut (TV story)|The Impossible Astronaut]]/[[Day of the Moon (TV story)|Day of the Moon]]''. River will go to extreme lengths to conceal her foreknowledge & to make sure events occur as they should. That characteristic can only have been reinforced (strongly) by her memory of what happened when she tried to change an event -- admittedly a fixed point -- in ''[[The Wedding of River Song (TV story)|The Wedding of River Song]]''. | |||
:: On the point about Amy: In ''[[Blink (TV story)|Blink]]'', the Doctor told Billy Shipton that he thought the same Angel had got him as had got the Doctor & Martha, '''because they all ended up in the same year'''. They also ended up close enough together for the Doctor & Martha to find Billy almost as soon as he arrived. There was only one Angel in the graveyard at the end of ''[[The Angels Take Manhattan (TV story)|The Angels Take Manhattan]]''. If River knew -- from the Doctor or from the book she had when they visited the crashed ''Byzantium'' -- that an individual Angel would always send its victims to about the same time & place, she could be fairly confident that Amy '''would''' find Rory again. We don't know River did know that fact about Angels but she behaved as if she knew it. (I was 2 earlier.) --[[Special:Contributions/92.17.167.53|92.17.167.53]]<sup>[[User talk:92.17.167.53#top|talk to me]]</sup> 22:33, June 7, 2013 (UTC) | |||
