Remember when… River’s identity was revealed?
Last week we were in 1966, for this week’s Remember when… we’re going back to the summer of 2011, which saw another historic moment for Doctor Who take place.
On Saturday 4th June last year, in the mid-Series 6 finale, A Good Man Goes to War, fandom was hit by the biggest bombshell of recent years, when the identity of River Song was revealed. After years of speculation, dating back to her first appearance in Series 4, we finally discovered that she was, in fact, the daughter of Amy and Rory. What a twist!
Did you see it coming? Karen Gillan described it as “a huge revelation”, as Matt Smith told fans they’d be “very shocked” by the cliffhanger. So, were you blown away by the moment the truth was revealed, or was the twist as transparent as Cassandra…?
Above – River Song’s identity is finally revealed in A Good Man Goes to War.
You know what to do – relive River Song’s BIG reveal in the comments section below…
Yes, I was bored by the whole soap opera thing!
Since I had to wait for someone to upload the episode online before I could watch it, so I watched it a few weeks later than everyone. And since I’m a magnet for spoilers (it’s very annoying), I had managed to find this out already… I didn’t want to know the big secret before watching the episode, though. To be honest I didn’t see it coming. I thought it was a great plot twist!
It wasn’t a surprise to me, it had been a fan theory for a very long time, so when the so-called reveal happened, it was more like one of those situations where the audience know more than the characters.
Matt and Karen said it was gonna be a massive shock and a hugh revelation, but when it came to it, we’d already figured it out.
Having said that, Moffat has said that we still don’t know everything about River Song, so I think there’s more room to actually be surprised by her.
huge surprise* sorry
*huge revelation………..right, I give up, two corrections post are more than enough
The acting side of things were brilliant to watch. Matt definitely and also Alex Kingston played their parts superbly. What didn’t help was the name of Amy’s child being leaked online then people posting it on Facebook etc so it became obvious. If the name wasn’t leaked online, then I would have been surprised by River’s revelation.
By the time River was revealed to be Amy’s daughter most of us had guessed that was going to be the big “huge revelation”. But the way the way they played it didn’t leave me feel I was missing anything by knowing befor hand.
By the time River was revealed to be Amy’s daughter most of us had guessed that was going to be the big “huge revelation”. But the way the way they played it didn’t leave me feel I was missing anything by knowing befor hand.
The problem these days, with the rise of the internet, is that when a show raises a mystery, everyone throws so many guesses online that you’re almost bound to read something that turns out to be true, then people might be let down, or complain that it was too obvious. It’s a shame but there’s no way round it. Apart from staying off the internet, and that’s crazy talk!
I thought River being Amy’s daughter was “okay” but I did love the name thing! That was awesome! Sadly, most of everything else was so hit, miss, miss, that River was pretty much ruined for me as a character.
I was shocked, it was an absolute twist ! It was like reading a secret out loud! It was phenomenal
I loved it! Poor river must have been glad , something in her life was sort of starting to make sense! In a none sense making way! Dr who Rhucks