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Well ep4 aired last night featuring River Song, lots of pointers suggesting that there is a deeper mystery to this character so I've done a little research into the name and guess what? The Hebrew translation of My Song is Rani, has that nailed it for you? Not so fast, thats only half the name at this point I have no idea what to do about the name River, I've been kicking it around for a while ''River'' could relate to time ''stream ''but that doesn't seem clever enough so I'm going to keep watching to see if there any more pointers. Anyone have a further theory? | Well ep4 aired last night featuring River Song, lots of pointers suggesting that there is a deeper mystery to this character so I've done a little research into the name and guess what? The Hebrew translation of My Song is Rani, has that nailed it for you? Not so fast, thats only half the name at this point I have no idea what to do about the name River, I've been kicking it around for a while ''River'' could relate to time ''stream ''but that doesn't seem clever enough so I'm going to keep watching to see if there any more pointers. Anyone have a further theory? | ||
:I think the Rani/Song thing is a hell of a stretch. She's The Rani, not Rani--her name is actually Ushas--and clearly that's a title (like Doctor, Master, War Chief, Monk, ...) that she took as a familiar authority-figure type that fits her personalty. While it's not so familiar anymore, since nobody makes Exotic Indian Adventure stories anymore, a Rani (the wife of a Rajah, or sometimes the daughter, or sometimes even a woman ruling in his place) used to be a common character to throw into such stories--often a stereotypical dominant aristocratic woman who was smarter than her doddering husband. | |||
:Also, until recent decades, the Hebrew name Rani (which is not the Hebrew translation of "my song", but it is a traditional name meaning "Song", so close enough was a boys' name. It's only under the influence of some famous Indian actresses named Rani that it's also become a girls' name in Israel. And of course the very common Indian girls' name (as in Rani Chandra, Sarah Jane's first-season sidekick) doesn't mean "Song", it means "Princess". | |||
:It's not impossible that Moffat is thinking along the same lines as you. Maybe he knows a Jewish couple who recently had a daughter and named her Rani, and asked what it meant, and was told, "Song", and thought, "Aha! I can finally give the fans someone who's the Rani in disguise!" But, as I said, it seems like a hell of a stretch. | |||
:There's clearly a lot of mystery about River, but I don't think the mystery is that she's actually any familiar old character in disguise. The mystery about Rose was that she was the Bad Wolf Entity because she was going to absorb the TARDIS core. The mystery about Donna was that she was predestined to become a human/Time Lord hybrid and save the entire multiverse. The mystery about Jack was that he would later become the Face of Boe. The mystery about Adam was that they let him stay on the show for even 2 episodes. I know the Moff isn't RTD, but I suspect he'll go for something even more subtle than those mysteries, not less so. | |||
:But I could be wrong. | |||
:PS, You should sign your posts with four tildes or the Signature button. --[[User:Falcotron|Falcotron]] 03:11, April 26, 2010 (UTC) | |||
