River Song

All TV appearances

In River’s timeline reversed.

Title Series
Silence in the Library / Forest of the Dead series 4 with David Tennant and Donna
The Husbands of River Song series 9
The Time of Angels / Flesh and Stone series 5 with Matt Smith and Amy
The Pandorica Opens / The Big Bang

with David Tennant and Donna

The story of the first encounter, the death of River, in a silenced library, where River, Professor Song, is an archaeologist in space uniform.

It’s the first and only time Donna met River.

S4E8. Silience in the Library

When the Doctor first encountered River. River has her diary for the whole life of events with the doctor but he knows nothing about her. It’s not explained here, but as we know bc their timeline are reversed, it means this is the death and last appearance of River. Is super sad when she found out the Doctor didn’t know her. Her slight excitement and silent also hinted something big’s going to happend with Donna. They are all trapped in a silent libary, with donna. Ppl becomes data ghost and their consciousness gets trapped in the commute device for a while. You can see literally, the process of a dying thought. Doctor, even though he’s seen lots, is obvious hesitant and surprised when he sees the diary, the sonic driver, and the fact she knows a lot about him.

S4E9. Forest of the Dead

Doctor gets upset when Donna gets taken, announced saved, but actually vanished and digitalised into the library world. The library is a thought of a little girl. And if you get sucked into that world, a doctor there would convinced you that life is real the the real world is just bad dream of the little girl. The doctor was suprised when River whispered his name, I believe, in his ear to gain his trust. As Donna is still new, or she’s so strong, she has doubts in the library world when she realised there are time gaps, and she remembers vaguely the Doctor, when Doctor tries to reach her from the other world.

“I have the 2 qualities you require to see absolute truth. I am brilliant and unloved.” – Evangelista

Doctor decided to download all 4022 ppl saved by the library and only way to have enough memory for data transfer is to hook himself with the system, which means he’s mind will be explode. River sacrifies instead of the Doctor. But in the end, River is saved by Doctor’s screwdriver and lives as a digital form inside library. I doubt if this would happen if Donna is not accidentally teleported into that world.

When watch it for the second time, after 2 doctors, you’d be surprised how River has told so much about her future in this episode, when she talked about the singing tower.

Sometimes when I sleep, I wonder, if I exist in 2 worlds. And the dream world me is having so much more thrilled life than this one.


with Matt Smith and Amy

The story of clearance mission of weeping angels in a space ship who in the end got sucked into the time crack, where River is a guarded prisoner by the army helping with an investigation.

River’s poisonous lipstick first appeared to deal with a guard in spaceship, she left a message to the Doctor in the museum on a home box saying “hello sweetie” and requested a lift to the crash site of the spaceship. It’s the first time Amy met River and she guessed River and the Doctor might be married in the future. We see that River can and knows better how to drive Tardis. The conversations from the soldier implies she killed an important man, who we’ll find out later is the doctor, to end up in prison.

S5E4. The Time of Angels

S5E5. Flesh and Stone


The story of Pandorica in Rome, where River breaks out the prison and appears as Cleopatra.

S5E12. The Pandorica Opens

Hohoho, Churchil, Queen Elizabeth X, and the blue guy all appeared!

S5E13. The Big Bang


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