I’m taking that as a yes… But I’m not sure I want her to. Don’t get me wrong – I love River. I just feel that we’ve told her story, or the essential bits of it, anyway. Rose Tyler was, for me, ruined because she was dragged back in series 4. If they’d left her crying on a beach at the end of series 2, I would have loved her forever. I just don’t want them to do the same thing to River.

i thought pretty much that river would come back as i think stephen moffat has more plans up his sleeves for her charactor

Steven Moffat said we don’t know anything about River yet and I’m not sure that’s a good thing. How long are we “not gonna know anything about River”?

At the end of the day, she’s got a date with death. How long do you string it out?

Having said that, I’m not quite fed up with River yet but the worry is, as TSG rightly said, that I’m concerned I will get bored with her quite soon, whatever more plot twists Moffat throws out there.

@JC2006

We saw her technically die in Forest of the Dead. Seems like that dealt with it pretty well.

My only concern with River is part of her appeal is her mystery. She pops in, turns the Doctor’s life upside down and leaves him shaking her head but also thinking about her too. If the TARDIS is the doctor’s wife than River is the mistress! And the mark of a good mistress is to pop up at the most unexpected times and wow when she does!

Seriously though, the more you see of a character the less there is to imagine. Think about Silence Rivers and Song discusions its at 702 comments at the moment! There’s proof right there that the most popular thing to do is speculate about what she’s really up to.

And once the curiousity is gone so will people’s interest in her…especially if her story is done wrong.

Ah, crap. Just when Id thought Id seen the last of her.

I’d like to see River one more time, in a scene where she tells the Doctor she’s on an ‘expedition’ to a library. We would then have to see the Doctor give her a screwdriver (one similar to the 10th Doctor’s), knowing that it would be his last time he sees her. It would be a good ending to the River Song era!

He gave her the screwdriver after their last date….

Be great if she pops up again; a superb character played brilliantly.

Did anyone see her appearances in the Series 6 DVD boxset mini-episodes? Fantastic.

Really? Again? Is this SM reign for Doctor Who? Unable to create new characters. Over-reliance on old characters. Unable to create great stories as it is interfering with Sherlock Holmes. The series needs a wake up call and if that means getting rid of SM, then the sooner the better.

I want to at least see what was described to the 10th Doctor when River last saw the future version of him. Moffat has done that with the Crash of the Byzantium and so on, so it’d be great for River’s story, in Series 7 or whenever, to directly connect with the Series 4 episode. An example of her backwards timeline where Viewers actually have to go back to Series 4 to see her story resolved.

@Wdz @JC2006

I agree with both of you in that if we see her again, I’d like to see that last meeting before the Library (from her perspective), although maybe not all of it. It feels so intensely personal – “and you cried”. At its most basic level, it’s a man sending his wife off to her death. That… doesn’t feel like Doctor Who. And I know that perhaps stealing a young couple’s newborn child didn’t ‘feel’ like Doctor Who until it happened, but at least it was slightly removed from the Doctor.

Also, let’s not forget that we’ve seen a little bit of it in the Night and the Doctor series. Actually, I’m happy with leaving it there. Yep, I’m going back to my original statement: I’m happy if River doesn’t come back. They might be able to make her some brilliant new stories, but they’re not necessary, for me.

We still don’t know how she knows the Doctor’s name. He didn’t told her in The Wedding of River Song, and he obviously didn’t told her in Let’s Kill Hitler. Her story can’t be complete as long as this defining moment hasn’t been explaines. Then Moffat can send her to the Library (a glimpse of the Singing Towers of Daryllium and her final meeting with ‘her’ Doctor would appreciated, thanks).

@Steve

I don’t agree about Moffat’s ‘over-reliance on old characters’. River keeps coming back because the character’s so complex that it takes quite a long time to tell her story. With River Song, Moffat left a mark on the show that will long outlast him : the woman who killed and married the Doctor (even if, technically, these events never really happened), and maybe the only one to know the Doctor’s name.

@Grace

I agree with you about River’s appeal being linked to her mystery. But at the same time, Alex Kingston is so brilliant in that role that I could watch her reading the phone book a whole episode. I just can’t get enough of her.

I’d be alright with seeing River again for one final time, just to finally close the book on the story of the Ponds.