I love how River gets mad at the Doctor "wasting" a little bit of his regeneration energy to fix her broken wrist while she uses a whole bunch of regeneration energy to save him here
To be fair, that was the doctors last regeneration at the time. All timelords only have 12 regenerations and the 11th was his last. He didn’t really have any to spare.
@@Seerow0 Which is one of the reasons I hate The Timeless Child reveal. If they’d have just waited a few more moments, Smith would have regenerated into Capaldi in one of the infinite number of regenerations The Doctor now has. River gave him her nine remaining regenerations for nothing
@@billydeeuk oof i didnt see that episode yet, i took a break from the latest season. But yeah after moffat stopped writing episodes and we got stuck with Chibnall, its just been downhill.
@@billydeeuk but the doctor didn't know... from what i remember they can refuse to regenerate and just die, like the master did, if he didn't know he could he would have just died believing that was his last life... river did give him her life's, but she loved him so she would have done it regardless, she changed time to save him from killing him... so her life's were probably pretty insignificant compared to his life... also the timelords sent him 12 more lifes, again that he didn't need but again that he didn't know... and as important as the doctor is to the universe I'm sure they were life's well worth giving him, regardless if they were pointless
I love that they figured out a way to remove the rest of her regenerations so that way when she goes to the library she dies and not regenerate as we have only 2 regeneration cycles be used up at this point.
It's a reference, no? "The only water in the forest is the River" - Forest of the Dead? The only Forest that had a "River" running through it, get it? 👍
@@xaleypoo4779 WOW!!!! Are you really that uneducated that you don't know Who Beethoven was???? One of the GREATEST composers that has ever lived. What are they teaching you children in school these days????
Loved this storyline, but reflecting on it all now, I lowkey wish they had introduced Mels back in Matt's first episode. Can you imagine if, as he was walking around Leadworth the first time, Mels pops up and meets him and is just introduced as a friend of Rory and Amy's? Or when 11 showed up at Rory's bachelor party Mels was around, and 11 would see her and say hi and they never made it a big deal. Then a season later we get the reveal. That would've been so cool
The Doctor meets River. She saves his life. She then tries to kill him and then saves his life. He saves her life, often by parking the TARDIS to catch her. She kills him, but also does not kill him. They get married. She met him through her mother, who also fancied him (or cute nonsexual child crush at this age), talking about him, and then trying to kill him. He met her through her appearing out of nowhere and knowing his biggest secret and then saving his life. Your love lives are all boring.
I just noticed that after Melody “transformed” and developed also her name changed from Melody Pond to River Song. So her name develops too because a pond can turn into a river and a melody turns into a song
@@MalakianM2S I think Pika's point is that a river is a pond that has become something bigger, and a song is a melody that has become something bigger.
I couldn’t even remember how many times I watched this episode. The Matt Smith era was the best writing I’ve ever witnessed in the Doctor Who series. The River Song stories were phenomenal.
@@ladyselin35 I mean, if you get more poison in your body, it'll kill you faster. But while Doctor was getting the Regeneration energy, he was technically the most vulnerable. Still, it's just theoretically.
In what way its for children? Some episodes even I in my twenties can understand. I mean maybe it's cause of graphics, but some people call marvel childish with cinema graphics, so...
@@blue-9017I'm an adult who loves the show (certain eras anyway) but it's objectively made to appeal to children. Not exclusively to children, but definitely with children in mind. It's what's called a family show. A show made just for adults would be something like Torchwood.
Given it was originally meant for children one thing I like to believe is that it still is for children but in the way that it doesn't talk down to them or dumb down its content. It trusts that they are smart and mature enough to handle its writing and themes. Yeah there are some things far beyond what's usually aimed at kids but it doesn't outright dismiss them. Sadly when new writers join in and forget that and try to write for adult fans only they lose sight of how a series (not exclusive to Dr. Who worked out in the first place.)
Mel is not Melody Pond. This is when Melody Pond truely becomes the personality of River Song. She takes the name as hers and begins introducing herself as River Song, instead of Melody Pond from this part further. It's not her "regenerating" into River Song, it's her choosing to be River Song.
You are missing a point they are likely making. The Doctor isn't his real name. As the Doctor points out it; is a name he chose, a promise. Melody is doing the exact same thing, River Song is Mel's 'Doctor' name. They are echoing that choice in the name.
Not really, because most shows have themes. I don't assume Professor Oak is related to Professor Willow just because they both have tree names. etc etc
@@helloitsme7553 @Ace Jaden Angel Yes, it's explained in "A Good Man Goes to War." The forest people didn't have a name for "pond," and "melody" got translated to "song." There are many cultures where the surname goes first (i.e. it's actually something like "River, Song"), and it's very easy for translation to shift a word into a synonym which doesn't exactly mean the same thing, especially when you're translating from a language to another, and then back again to the original language.
...And if you don't know what a Regenerative Transfer is, you just saw one. LOL. Well, not regenerations transfered actually, just the energy that makes regeneration possible. Can be used as energy for more regenerations, or here, where it is used to heal or bring the Doctor back to life. Time Lords are so awesome!
+DarkComet360 i know right but the doctor in my opinion is the greatest ally and greatest threat (both to the universe) all his enemy's don't call him: The beast ,The upcoming storm and many other things for nothing he doomed his race (well day of the doctor he saved them)
Cunning Smile maybe however in the one episode we’re she lasts meats the doctor were he shows up and she does not recognize him she says the doctor dose not love me and when scanned it’s said that’s she’s telling the truth so if that was the line use one would think that one line would not have been said or at least true
I once worked with a black lady cop (who was gorgeous, BTW), Sgt. Monica Hunter. The name of the black lady cop who took PeeWee Herman's report of his stolen bike was Sgt. M. Hunter. Funny thing is, Monica's favorite movie was PeeWee's Big Adventure, and she had never noticed that she was in the movie!
Time Lords can not regenerate more than 12 times, unless given more regenerations. 12 is the limit (though through various circumstances, most of them have likely had more due to the Time War before they were all time locked and/or destroyed). And in regular circumstances, most Time Lords could live many thousands of years with only 12 because most of them weren't adventurers like the Doctor... he's relatively young and still nearly out of regens because he gets killed fairly frequently.
Looking back, I don't know if any of them realized that, at that moment, The Doctor had no regeneration energy. Hence, why he died. If River really had no regeneration energy herself after resurrecting The Doctor, then it literally took the equivalent power of ten regenerations to revive him from death. And he told _nobody_ that he had no more regeneration energy until centuries later, when he told Clara during one of her visits to Trenzalore to follow his defense of the town of Christmas. The fact that the Eleventh Doctor had no more regeneration energy is why Gallifrey granted him a whole new set of regenerations. They realized that, if he died at that moment, there would be no Twelfth Doctor to assist in Gallifrey's rescue from the Time War, and their rescue would not happen.
@Hyperactiv Gamer first of all- do you have a stroke? And second- we don't talk about timeless child. It never happened. It was all a bad dream. Dont mention it another time
@@davemarin7340 really folks, eventually I'll figure out how to format a story around my "Mondassian Alternative" timeline, and we'll all see how the 13th Doctor was a massive made up delusion the 12th Doctor made up to confuse The Cybermen, all to destroy their database and then escape.
Is it possible he told her his name and that he loved her? You never really find out when he told her his name. In "The Wedding of River Song" he claims he told her his name, but he really said "Look into my eye.". Then, in "The Name of the Doctor", River apparently says his name to get the door to open. She learned his name at some point, and it just occurred to me it might be this one.
I'm like 99% sure he didn't say he loved her. When she first meets twelve and is in the middle of being questioned she says; "The Doctor does not and has never loved me. I'm not lying." Then, it's confirmed that she wasn't lying. So in this scene he probably told her his name, which was why she sort of smiled a little like it was a joke, since she probably thought that if he cared so much about River, he should have already told her his name. It lasted so long because he might have said she couldn't tell anyone else. Ever. Which is why she didn't answer when Amy asked what his message was.
I see where you're coming from, but I don't agree. I think of River in that scene similar to 11 in isolation after losing the Ponds, or 10 as the Time Lord Victorious - she's gone through loss and pain, and has been on her own long enough that she'd convinced herself of something that isn't true. Yes,* in that moment* she isn't lying, she believes it, but I don't think she's believed it all along. Add to that, if he did say 'I love you' here, it would be so very easy to convince herself he didn't mean it, just by thinking: "Rule Number One: The Doctor lies."
I always thought River looked like an angel at 2:29 coming to the Doctor to give him life and I think this scene is beautiful also when she gently says "Hello Sweetie" then kisses him. Its just something About Alex Kingston that is just, wow. Thats why she is my role model
When I saw all of that regenerative energy flowing around The Doctor and River, I was grinning from ear to ear and saying 'MIGHTY!' because THAT is Time Lord POWER!! That's what makes them Time Lords! THAT light! THAT energy! It brings them back from the dead it does! LOVVVE IT!
I like to think it could be related to her being part-Time Lord. I think I've read somewhere, or just theorized myself, that Time Lords can recognize one another regardless of Regeneration. So when River saw the Tenth Doctor, she didn't see Tennant over Smith, she saw the Doctor and his physical appearance was secondary. River herself may not even have noticed she was doing it.
River's name is quite the time loop. They named their daughter after their daughter and she got the name River from the projection of the woman she would become.
You're correct that they did know Tennant was leaving when they made that episode. I think she asked that because she wasn't sure whether Tennant was before or after Smith because she hadn't met that one before.
The moment River sees herself for the first time is actually kinda sad. Because from that point on she knows that's her future. That's her path. That's who she is. And she'll never be able to be anything or anyone else.
I actually see it as the opposite - she was raised to be one thing: the woman who kills The Doctor. Hearing about River Song and then seeing herself... it opens the doors, throws back the curtains on all of time & space, and shows her she can be so much bigger (on the inside 😉), so much more than that single purpose.
I never noticed until now, but the River the Teselecta shows, her outfit is the same our River wore when the doctor found out who she really was on Demons Run
Actually I think they did know, the writers tend to know the series prior to the characters final series, now if I remember correctly, Donna Noble as the companion was the final series before the Christmas Specials that lead to the Doctors regeneration. So the only thing I can conclude is the writers played with the idea that The crash of the Byzantium was going to be where 10 regenerated then changed it for whatever reason, to what we know as his final few episodes.
I always figured this was where he truly told her his name. We know it can't have been at their wedding because he just told her to look into his eyes then. She knew enough about the doctor by then to recognize the significance of him doing that.
So, just some woman he met that was just as smart as he was and nothing more? You do realize Sherlock Holmes -- the actual one from the books -- didn't care much for her at all? He wasn't ever attracted to anyone, really. He just underestimated her intelligence (because of her gender) and was put in his place when she outsmarted him. They were never romantically involved.
Moffat is such a big picture guy when you think about it...the Doctor explained in the finale when he named himself the Doctor it was a promise to himself and this is the same thing. Melody names herself River as a promise to herself and the Doctor
That and the fact that she flat out said it would happen too fast for even a full blooded timelord to regenerate, thus the reason why river did it and not him.
Love how for all that the Doctor struggles to control his own regenerations other Time Lords or pseudo-Time Lords can easily summon or control it - suggesting something's fundamentally different about him, he lacks that control for some reason or he chooses to not control it.
Forest of the Dead explained why she didn't regenerate in Forest of the Dead, even had we known about her regeneration ability... she told the Doctor that the energy would kill him beyond his ability to regenerate, and therefore would have done the same to her even if she hadn't already given the Doctor the rest of her regen energy.
Eh while I agree the timeless child bit ruins 11th's new cycle it can't affect this as the poison melody used was designed to stop a time Lords regeneration
Also, the whole River is like a time lord cause she was conceived in the Tardis is bollocks, cause regenerations are a graft from the Timeless Child, so unless the Doctor participated in Melody's conception, how did River get the ability to regenerate? DAMN YOU CHIBBY
@@KHaLeD-jv7fu Let's Kill Hitler took place before Silence in the Library/Forest of the Dead. The Doctor is meeting River Song out of chronological order. Let's Kill Hitler happened years before River sacrificed her life to save the library and this was when the brainwashed Melody learns of her destiny and that The Doctor was an important person in her future. From Melody's point of view, she hadn't yet met The 10th Doctor and the 12th Doctor and been to the library. Since she was born Half Time Lord, by giving up all her regenerations to save The Doctor, she would never regenerate again and she would die like a normal death and the library, which was a fixed point in River's history, sealed her fate forever.
@Rita L the Doctor is not sure if chemical poison will totally kill him or force him to regenerate; the Fifth Doctor was poisoned by cave spiders and the third by radiation poisoning- but since the Silence made the poison specifically to kill him, it must have also been designed to prevent regeneration.
Wrong. She knows when he says "Hello, Sweetie!" after her big declaration. They escape and have their wedding night at the Pillars ( of something). A 24 year night.
probably more like the Doctor said to her while they were at the singing towers of darillium, the doctor goes "Listen, next time we meet, don't react if I look different." and River agrees.....
Unless they bring back the Time Lords, this is likely the explanation they'll use. They could claim that it took all of River's regen energy to heal him if they go with another way to extend his limit, or say that he gained an extra half dozen or so regenerations after being healed if they want to go that route.
Yes, it's the only part that makes sense. He thinks he is dying, but has no idea she will save him... Until the library. He hadn't told her his name up until that point, so he HAD to tell her it then. Or the tenth doctor wouldn't have trusted her and he would have died in the library and Melody Pond would have never been able to regenerate, because Amy would have never travelled in the Tardis... And that means that River wouldn't have gone to the Library at all! Huge paradox, had to tell her.
I think that this scene will excuse the Doctor from that grand old Gallifreyian rule in regards to regenerative limitations. There are in universe references to Time Lords' taking potential regenerations from others. Perhaps River counts?
Mel is Melody Pond. You even see her regenerate into River Song as we know her in this episode. Maybe I'm misunderstanding what you meant because I don't know how you could miss that.
*i've watched every episode of the rebooted run from the beginning with eccleson, yet every time i see these youtube clips **_'I REMEMBER NONE OF IT!!'_** maybe i regenerated after every season. **_#dewdewdewdew_*
Ok, it was never disclosed what he told river here. It probably wasn't his name cause River's reaction was to save him, i'm guessing its somewhere more along the lines of " tell her i love you" or smth. I doubt saying his name to a River that just met him would be enough of a reason for her to sacrifice her regenerations for him. And if he had told her his name now it wouldn't make sense for him to say it again in "the wedding of river song". But hey, this is Moffat so anything can happen! :P
When you realise that because of the change in timelord canon, he would have regenerated from this by himself and she gave up her regenerations for nothing.
People it was already explained that matt smith was the 13th doctor and so his last regeneration but he was also the 11th face since he used up 2 regenerations without changing appearance.It was all explained in the special and now Capaldi is the 14th doctor and 12th face and 1st doctor of his new regeneration cycle.There are 12 more doctors after Capaldi.Its all there in the christmas episode.
Here's a question for all the whovians - If Amy knew that River (her only biological child) was giving up her remaining regeneration's for the Doctor here do you still think she would have said he was worth it?
@QueenAlexstraza, the Time Lords can regenerate more than 12 times. They can live to be 9,000 years old, I'd think they would die a few more times than 12. What lead you to believe that?
They can only regenerate more than 12 times if they are given another regeneration cycle or if they steal regenerations from another Timelord. As determined by 'The Deadly Assassin' and 'The Five Doctors' , 'Mardwyn Undead', 'Trial of a Timelord', et al.
I love how River gets mad at the Doctor "wasting" a little bit of his regeneration energy to fix her broken wrist while she uses a whole bunch of regeneration energy to save him here
To be fair, that was the doctors last regeneration at the time. All timelords only have 12 regenerations and the 11th was his last. He didn’t really have any to spare.
@@Seerow0 Which is one of the reasons I hate The Timeless Child reveal. If they’d have just waited a few more moments, Smith would have regenerated into Capaldi in one of the infinite number of regenerations The Doctor now has.
River gave him her nine remaining regenerations for nothing
@@billydeeuk oof i didnt see that episode yet, i took a break from the latest season. But yeah after moffat stopped writing episodes and we got stuck with Chibnall, its just been downhill.
Well, really it was her regeneration energy he was eating. 😉
@@billydeeuk but the doctor didn't know... from what i remember they can refuse to regenerate and just die, like the master did, if he didn't know he could he would have just died believing that was his last life... river did give him her life's, but she loved him so she would have done it regardless, she changed time to save him from killing him... so her life's were probably pretty insignificant compared to his life... also the timelords sent him 12 more lifes, again that he didn't need but again that he didn't know... and as important as the doctor is to the universe I'm sure they were life's well worth giving him, regardless if they were pointless
"Tell River Song that she is always and completely forgiven. And I love her."
The River Song story is, in my opinion, the greatest Doctor Who story line in the entire series. Absolutely brilliant.
It was brilliantly simple while been fantastically complex....one of the best bits of writting in any TV show ever
@@joshkennish3186 Ahhh. The good old days, when Dr. Who was still a fun watch!
I love that they figured out a way to remove the rest of her regenerations so that way when she goes to the library she dies and not regenerate as we have only 2 regeneration cycles be used up at this point.
Didn't they say in that episode that if the Doctor had carried out the plan, he'd have been toast with no regenerating anyway?
"The only water in the forest is the river." :)
@aubug5 - I'm not sure but I think it was a specific forest with only a river and no lakes.
They’re talking about the episode ‘when a good man goes to war’ where that line is said
It's a reference, no? "The only water in the forest is the River" - Forest of the Dead? The only Forest that had a "River" running through it, get it? 👍
I loved this episode. It finally explained why she didn't regenerate back when she first died in the forest of the dead
They named their daughter after their daughter.......
The real question is, who wrote Beethoven's Fifth?
@@xaleypoo4779 WOW!!!! Are you really that uneducated that you don't know Who Beethoven was???? One of the GREATEST composers that has ever lived. What are they teaching you children in school these days????
@@elliebond6807 are you joking? A troll? Or did the sarcasm seriously go that far over your head?
@@elliebond6807 It's a reference to a later episode...
@@elliebond6807 he made a reference to an episode dude :/
Loved this storyline, but reflecting on it all now, I lowkey wish they had introduced Mels back in Matt's first episode. Can you imagine if, as he was walking around Leadworth the first time, Mels pops up and meets him and is just introduced as a friend of Rory and Amy's? Or when 11 showed up at Rory's bachelor party Mels was around, and 11 would see her and say hi and they never made it a big deal. Then a season later we get the reveal. That would've been so cool
The Doctor meets River. She saves his life. She then tries to kill him and then saves his life. He saves her life, often by parking the TARDIS to catch her. She kills him, but also does not kill him. They get married. She met him through her mother, who also fancied him (or cute nonsexual child crush at this age), talking about him, and then trying to kill him. He met her through her appearing out of nowhere and knowing his biggest secret and then saving his life.
Your love lives are all boring.
Donna Noble has left the library, Donna Noble has been saved
Don't forget he held her as a baby too xxx
This is by far one of the best comments I've ever seen....
@Dick Thick'em I think she was referring to the crush Mrs Pond had on him as a child.
I love her frizz hair, a general babe
I just noticed that after Melody “transformed” and developed also her name changed from Melody Pond to River Song. So her name develops too because a pond can turn into a river and a melody turns into a song
It's explained in an episode, the race who raised Melody Pond didn't have a word for Pond, because they lived in a forest and they only had a river.
@@MalakianM2S I think Pika's point is that a river is a pond that has become something bigger, and a song is a melody that has become something bigger.
Whoa thats cewl
@@dont_blink3578 ikr
@@MalakianM2S but they flubbed that here cause that episodes was BEFORE this she should ALREADY know shes river
I couldn’t even remember how many times I watched this episode. The Matt Smith era was the best writing I’ve ever witnessed in the Doctor Who series. The River Song stories were phenomenal.
Reckon David tenant was the best ark - that final was brutal
I can Imagine David Tennant having a Better writing.I miss Tennant and Smith ad Doctor Who...
@@bradleypease2492Wilfred Mott, it is my honor
@@impoverishedcalamari9270 weirdly I was watching The end of time last night - not surprising with the new episodes but still, unique timing
He was my first doctor who I've seen on tv and will (as well as 13) always be my fave 💕
Awesomeness of Doctor Who aside I thought it was pretty moving when Melody sees who River Song actually is. Damn, Alex Kingston is good.
Her acting is so beautiful, the emotion in her eyes just makes this scene so touching tbh.
I agree.
She's such a talented actor. So full of emotion and life, in her preformances
She is a goddess!
Imagine how this scene would went if she forgot she still had the poison lipstick applied
You cant poison someone whos dead.
@@ladyselin35 I mean, if you get more poison in your body, it'll kill you faster. But while Doctor was getting the Regeneration energy, he was technically the most vulnerable. Still, it's just theoretically.
Absolutely insane how beautiful this show is.... it’s crazy how many people write it off as a silly children’s show.
In what way its for children? Some episodes even I in my twenties can understand. I mean maybe it's cause of graphics, but some people call marvel childish with cinema graphics, so...
@@blue-9017I'm an adult who loves the show (certain eras anyway) but it's objectively made to appeal to children. Not exclusively to children, but definitely with children in mind. It's what's called a family show. A show made just for adults would be something like Torchwood.
Given it was originally meant for children one thing I like to believe is that it still is for children but in the way that it doesn't talk down to them or dumb down its content. It trusts that they are smart and mature enough to handle its writing and themes. Yeah there are some things far beyond what's usually aimed at kids but it doesn't outright dismiss them.
Sadly when new writers join in and forget that and try to write for adult fans only they lose sight of how a series (not exclusive to Dr. Who worked out in the first place.)
I always love the sense of mystery when Dr.Who or River Song whisper things we cant hear to one another.
Mel is not Melody Pond. This is when Melody Pond truely becomes the personality of River Song. She takes the name as hers and begins introducing herself as River Song, instead of Melody Pond from this part further. It's not her "regenerating" into River Song, it's her choosing to be River Song.
Exactly.
Mel is Melody Pond, what do you mean. I know she changes personality, but they’re the same person
Mel is Melody Pond. Amy and Rory’s daughter.
Looks like she gave all her regenerations to save The Doctor.
You are missing a point they are likely making. The Doctor isn't his real name. As the Doctor points out it; is a name he chose, a promise. Melody is doing the exact same thing, River Song is Mel's 'Doctor' name. They are echoing that choice in the name.
Pond=river
Melody=song
I wasn't paying attention, was this painfully obvious?
Not really, because most shows have themes. I don't assume Professor Oak is related to Professor Willow just because they both have tree names. etc etc
Apart from 'Pond' surname, wasn't made clear till Amy gave birth and Rory decided to name their daughter Melody in a later episode.
They said this in the episode tho this is the reason I think it was in 'A good man goes to war'
@@helloitsme7553 @Ace Jaden Angel
Yes, it's explained in "A Good Man Goes to War." The forest people didn't have a name for "pond," and "melody" got translated to "song."
There are many cultures where the surname goes first (i.e. it's actually something like "River, Song"), and it's very easy for translation to shift a word into a synonym which doesn't exactly mean the same thing, especially when you're translating from a language to another, and then back again to the original language.
SilverStrumer It was an earlier episode but at a later time? Or Something like that, It's Soctor Who 😅
...And if you don't know what a Regenerative Transfer is, you just saw one. LOL. Well, not regenerations transfered actually, just the energy that makes regeneration possible. Can be used as energy for more regenerations, or here, where it is used to heal or bring the Doctor back to life. Time Lords are so awesome!
+DarkComet360
i know right
but the doctor in my opinion is the greatest ally and greatest threat (both to the universe)
all his enemy's don't call him: The beast ,The upcoming storm and many other things for nothing
he doomed his race (well day of the doctor he saved them)
And the time lords then evolve into the Q from star trek
Dang it! These clips have this persistent knack for ending at the _worst possible moment!_
The single best fictional character of all freaking time.
I bet the message was actually "Hello Sweetie" XD
I think it was the Doctor's name.
The message was "Tell her I love her"
@@leemckay2231 it was. Why else would River have shaky breath like she was holding back tears.
That makes so much sense!
Cunning Smile maybe however in the one episode we’re she lasts meats the doctor were he shows up and she does not recognize him she says the doctor dose not love me and when scanned it’s said that’s she’s telling the truth so if that was the line use one would think that one line would not have been said or at least true
Has anyone else noticed that Alex Kingston plays a recurring character on Law &Order:SVU named M. Pond?
+Dana Grooms Oh yeah.
Miranda pond rather than Melody pond on that episode. But still hilarious.
Distant decedent or alternate timeline version
no i hadn't noticed that. and here i am, a self proclaimed whovian. [shakes head]
neat catch!
I once worked with a black lady cop (who was gorgeous, BTW), Sgt. Monica Hunter. The name of the black lady cop who took PeeWee Herman's report of his stolen bike was Sgt. M. Hunter. Funny thing is, Monica's favorite movie was PeeWee's Big Adventure, and she had never noticed that she was in the movie!
All these years and I never caught the line - save me, mi amore. Heal me.
I paniced when I saw this...I thought he would wake up with a new face...but it was just a revival...not a reset/regeneration
He's on his last regeneration here anyway.
2:04 - "What are you doing? dont you dare regenerate young lady" mom mode activated
This video made me cry . Because very emotional . Even my last breath for my favorite one I would try to save him.
Time Lords can not regenerate more than 12 times, unless given more regenerations. 12 is the limit (though through various circumstances, most of them have likely had more due to the Time War before they were all time locked and/or destroyed). And in regular circumstances, most Time Lords could live many thousands of years with only 12 because most of them weren't adventurers like the Doctor... he's relatively young and still nearly out of regens because he gets killed fairly frequently.
Looking back, I don't know if any of them realized that, at that moment, The Doctor had no regeneration energy. Hence, why he died.
If River really had no regeneration energy herself after resurrecting The Doctor, then it literally took the equivalent power of ten regenerations to revive him from death. And he told _nobody_ that he had no more regeneration energy until centuries later, when he told Clara during one of her visits to Trenzalore to follow his defense of the town of Christmas.
The fact that the Eleventh Doctor had no more regeneration energy is why Gallifrey granted him a whole new set of regenerations. They realized that, if he died at that moment, there would be no Twelfth Doctor to assist in Gallifrey's rescue from the Time War, and their rescue would not happen.
@Hyperactiv Gamer first of all- do you have a stroke? And second- we don't talk about timeless child. It never happened. It was all a bad dream. Dont mention it another time
@DarkShogun2006 but chibnall had to come and ruin the rest of the story
DarkShogun2006
We don’t talk about Time Lords being a fake species, get out of here with that timeless child bs
@@davemarin7340 really folks, eventually I'll figure out how to format a story around my "Mondassian Alternative" timeline, and we'll all see how the 13th Doctor was a massive made up delusion the 12th Doctor made up to confuse The Cybermen, all to destroy their database and then escape.
@@davemarin7340 this nightmare never ending -_-
Is it possible he told her his name and that he loved her? You never really find out when he told her his name. In "The Wedding of River Song" he claims he told her his name, but he really said "Look into my eye.". Then, in "The Name of the Doctor", River apparently says his name to get the door to open. She learned his name at some point, and it just occurred to me it might be this one.
exactly, oml. I thought I was alone in thinking this.
+Alisɑ Yɑnzɑ Maybe in the 24 years that she spent in Darillium.
+Mr. chair that's another possibility, & the only other thing he could've said in this clip was "I love River." He never says "I love you" out loud.
+Alisɑ Yɑnzɑ she could also found his name in library in the Tardis, Clara also found his name there.
In the Husbands of River Song she pretty much says she thinks the doctor doesn't love her. I doubt she'd think that if he said it outright.
I'm like 99% sure he didn't say he loved her. When she first meets twelve and is in the middle of being questioned she says; "The Doctor does not and has never loved me. I'm not lying." Then, it's confirmed that she wasn't lying. So in this scene he probably told her his name, which was why she sort of smiled a little like it was a joke, since she probably thought that if he cared so much about River, he should have already told her his name. It lasted so long because he might have said she couldn't tell anyone else. Ever. Which is why she didn't answer when Amy asked what his message was.
I see where you're coming from, but I don't agree. I think of River in that scene similar to 11 in isolation after losing the Ponds, or 10 as the Time Lord Victorious - she's gone through loss and pain, and has been on her own long enough that she'd convinced herself of something that isn't true. Yes,* in that moment* she isn't lying, she believes it, but I don't think she's believed it all along. Add to that, if he did say 'I love you' here, it would be so very easy to convince herself he didn't mean it, just by thinking: "Rule Number One: The Doctor lies."
I think he probably told her his name while on Derilium.
I always thought River looked like an angel at 2:29 coming to the Doctor to give him life and I think this scene is beautiful also when she gently says "Hello Sweetie" then kisses him. Its just something About Alex Kingston that is just, wow. Thats why she is my role model
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When I saw all of that regenerative energy flowing around The Doctor and River, I was grinning from ear to ear and saying 'MIGHTY!' because THAT is Time Lord POWER!! That's what makes them Time Lords! THAT light! THAT energy! It brings them back from the dead it does! LOVVVE IT!
"river you'll use up all your regenerations"
rule #1
1:29 for me is the exact moment melody turns into river song. You can see it in her eyes and the rest of the episode it feels like river to me.
I like to think it could be related to her being part-Time Lord. I think I've read somewhere, or just theorized myself, that Time Lords can recognize one another regardless of Regeneration. So when River saw the Tenth Doctor, she didn't see Tennant over Smith, she saw the Doctor and his physical appearance was secondary. River herself may not even have noticed she was doing it.
I think she took pictures of people who were called The Doctor
River's name is quite the time loop. They named their daughter after their daughter and she got the name River from the projection of the woman she would become.
Tell her from me, tell her....my name is............." "im sure she knows"
Most beautiful moment in the new revival series
Robin Lodeon really?
You're correct that they did know Tennant was leaving when they made that episode. I think she asked that because she wasn't sure whether Tennant was before or after Smith because she hadn't met that one before.
The moment River sees herself for the first time is actually kinda sad. Because from that point on she knows that's her future. That's her path. That's who she is. And she'll never be able to be anything or anyone else.
I actually see it as the opposite - she was raised to be one thing: the woman who kills The Doctor. Hearing about River Song and then seeing herself... it opens the doors, throws back the curtains on all of time & space, and shows her she can be so much bigger (on the inside 😉), so much more than that single purpose.
doctor who needs to stop making me cry with these touching moment, as non sensical it can be its a brilliant show
The mystery of River Song came full circle.
I never noticed until now, but the River the Teselecta shows, her outfit is the same our River wore when the doctor found out who she really was on Demons Run
That was a truly magic moment.
Actually I think they did know, the writers tend to know the series prior to the characters final series, now if I remember correctly, Donna Noble as the companion was the final series before the Christmas Specials that lead to the Doctors regeneration. So the only thing I can conclude is the writers played with the idea that The crash of the Byzantium was going to be where 10 regenerated then changed it for whatever reason, to what we know as his final few episodes.
Alex Kingston made every episode better.
Hello sweety..
She such a good actress, and much missed in the doctor who of now.
Damn!!! True love dat, giving up all her regenerations like that. She's definitely the Doctor's wife.
When a time lord (or part time lord) regenerates, not only does their body, but their personality, at least mostly
Doctor kissing glowing ladies again, that playboy
The song playing when she decides to save him is called "Forgiven", I believe. Hope that helps.
Now that's a "hello sweetie"!
''Hello Swetty'' I love this words
index 1:30. priceless. when someone shows you all you can be ...it changes everything
she gave up her regenerations, so yeah she's human(mostly)
Bruh anytime River was brought back as a character i always had a grin and got my popcorn ready because you knew it was going to be good
I must say.. she's one hell of a woman.
I always figured this was where he truly told her his name. We know it can't have been at their wedding because he just told her to look into his eyes then. She knew enough about the doctor by then to recognize the significance of him doing that.
Riversong is One Gorgeous woman
River is to The Doctor, as Irene is to Sherlock Homes.
+toxic tabby Rose is perfect for 9th and 10th Doctor....But I like River with 11th
Rocio Martinez Sevilla I agree. 9/Rose, 10/Rose, 11/River, 12/River
Omg yess
So, just some woman he met that was just as smart as he was and nothing more?
You do realize Sherlock Holmes -- the actual one from the books -- didn't care much for her at all? He wasn't ever attracted to anyone, really. He just underestimated her intelligence (because of her gender) and was put in his place when she outsmarted him.
They were never romantically involved.
I feel like although rose was best with 9th and 10th, river was the best for all the doctor as a whole
A beautiful moment!
For the record Capaldi’s doctor and River Song were the best when together and I would watch the hell of just those two traipsing about the universe.
The best "hello sweetie" ever!
Close. The Capaldi one is.
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"Well I'm sure she'd know" He definitely told her to tell River his name is
Moffat is such a big picture guy when you think about it...the Doctor explained in the finale when he named himself the Doctor it was a promise to himself and this is the same thing. Melody names herself River as a promise to herself and the Doctor
I think this would have been a better way to get around the regeneration limit. If when she transfered them, that was a new set
That and the fact that she flat out said it would happen too fast for even a full blooded timelord to regenerate, thus the reason why river did it and not him.
To believe rivers sacrifice is now pointless according to the new season 💀 not to mention quite a few other now pointless sacrifices...
No respect for the source material that built the franchise. It takes years to build a reputation and only seconds to destroy it.
Love how for all that the Doctor struggles to control his own regenerations other Time Lords or pseudo-Time Lords can easily summon or control it - suggesting something's fundamentally different about him, he lacks that control for some reason or he chooses to not control it.
Forest of the Dead explained why she didn't regenerate in Forest of the Dead, even had we known about her regeneration ability... she told the Doctor that the energy would kill him beyond his ability to regenerate, and therefore would have done the same to her even if she hadn't already given the Doctor the rest of her regen energy.
To all those who say it isn’t on Netflix, it IS on Netflix in the UK.
Considering the current timeless child storyline River sacrificed her regenerations for nothing.
Eh while I agree the timeless child bit ruins 11th's new cycle it can't affect this as the poison melody used was designed to stop a time Lords regeneration
Also, the whole River is like a time lord cause she was conceived in the Tardis is bollocks, cause regenerations are a graft from the Timeless Child, so unless the Doctor participated in Melody's conception, how did River get the ability to regenerate? DAMN YOU CHIBBY
Boy River sure loves sweet tea!
By giving up all her regenerations to save The Doctor, River will no longer be able to regenerate again and will die like a normal human.
She already died in the library episode, dont you remember
@@KHaLeD-jv7fu Let's Kill Hitler took place before Silence in the Library/Forest of the Dead. The Doctor is meeting River Song out of chronological order. Let's Kill Hitler happened years before River sacrificed her life to save the library and this was when the brainwashed Melody learns of her destiny and that The Doctor was an important person in her future. From Melody's point of view, she hadn't yet met The 10th Doctor and the 12th Doctor and been to the library. Since she was born Half Time Lord, by giving up all her regenerations to save The Doctor, she would never regenerate again and she would die like a normal death and the library, which was a fixed point in River's history, sealed her fate forever.
uh no, he told his name to river in the series finale '' The Wedding Of River Song '' . and also, he probably whispered that he loved her
He doesn’t tell river his name in the wedding of riversong, he whispers ‘look into my eye’
Odd. It's always dusty in the rooms I watch these clips in.
Sounds like a personal housekeeping problem. I have the same problem. I only notice dust when I'm about to have guests.
@Rita L the Doctor is not sure if chemical poison will totally kill him or force him to regenerate; the Fifth Doctor was poisoned by cave spiders and the third by radiation poisoning- but since the Silence made the poison specifically to kill him, it must have also been designed to prevent regeneration.
He can't have told her he loves her cause when she meets capaldi she doesn't know he loves her
Wrong. She knows when he says "Hello, Sweetie!" after her big declaration. They escape and have their wedding night at the Pillars ( of something). A 24 year night.
probably more like the Doctor said to her while they were at the singing towers of darillium, the doctor goes "Listen, next time we meet, don't react if I look different." and River agrees.....
The only water in the forest is the river
Unless they bring back the Time Lords, this is likely the explanation they'll use. They could claim that it took all of River's regen energy to heal him if they go with another way to extend his limit, or say that he gained an extra half dozen or so regenerations after being healed if they want to go that route.
Yes, it's the only part that makes sense. He thinks he is dying, but has no idea she will save him... Until the library. He hadn't told her his name up until that point, so he HAD to tell her it then. Or the tenth doctor wouldn't have trusted her and he would have died in the library and Melody Pond would have never been able to regenerate, because Amy would have never travelled in the Tardis... And that means that River wouldn't have gone to the Library at all! Huge paradox, had to tell her.
I think that this scene will excuse the Doctor from that grand old Gallifreyian rule in regards to regenerative limitations. There are in universe references to Time Lords' taking potential regenerations from others. Perhaps River counts?
So how does this fit into the canon, now?
Love to know what it was he said to her. I suspect I know but I'd love confirmation.
Mel is Melody Pond. You even see her regenerate into River Song as we know her in this episode. Maybe I'm misunderstanding what you meant because I don't know how you could miss that.
2:34
"River what are you doing?"
"Giving you second dose of that poison that's what"
This is seriously an example of the Bootstrap Paradox 12 mentioned.
*i've watched every episode of the rebooted run from the beginning with eccleson, yet every time i see these youtube clips **_'I REMEMBER NONE OF IT!!'_** maybe i regenerated after every season. **_#dewdewdewdew_*
Ok, it was never disclosed what he told river here. It probably wasn't his name cause River's reaction was to save him, i'm guessing its somewhere more along the lines of " tell her i love you" or smth. I doubt saying his name to a River that just met him would be enough of a reason for her to sacrifice her regenerations for him. And if he had told her his name now it wouldn't make sense for him to say it again in "the wedding of river song". But hey, this is Moffat so anything can happen! :P
The magic of the Time Lords.
I´m not crying it´s just dust i my eyes TT-TT
When you realise that because of the change in timelord canon, he would have regenerated from this by himself and she gave up her regenerations for nothing.
People it was already explained that matt smith was the 13th doctor and so his last regeneration but he was also the 11th face since he used up 2 regenerations without changing appearance.It was all explained in the special and now Capaldi is the 14th doctor and 12th face and 1st doctor of his new regeneration cycle.There are 12 more doctors after Capaldi.Its all there in the christmas episode.
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Here's a question for all the whovians - If Amy knew that River (her only biological child) was giving up her remaining regeneration's for the Doctor here do you still think she would have said he was worth it?
oooooo nice one
yazmac at this point. She does know that river is her daughter though, so....yes,
Despite all the Moffet hate (some deserved in the late capaldi era) much of the Smith/Ponds era was great.
So this is start of her timeline going opposite direction to the timeline of the Doctor.
message was "tell her that I love her,and she's very important to me" only this message can convince her to being River
@QueenAlexstraza, the Time Lords can regenerate more than 12 times. They can live to be 9,000 years old, I'd think they would die a few more times than 12. What lead you to believe that?
They can only regenerate more than 12 times if they are given another regeneration cycle or if they steal regenerations from another Timelord.
As determined by 'The Deadly Assassin' and 'The Five Doctors' , 'Mardwyn Undead', 'Trial of a Timelord', et al.
I am following this river song saga again n again.. But still cant understand this timey wimey thing 🤔