the best of river song

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show: Doctor Who

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#doctorwho #riversong #alexkingston

[kyenewman]

“It’s a shame you were busy that day”

*was busy literally dying*

[prollymarkus]

for the first episodes with river in them literally being the first alex acted in, she did amazing at acting like she had already experienced everything to come

[nebulonicc]

"are literally an old married couple... kinda" this is the most accurate description of their relationship I've ever seen

[Rainbow_Neos]

"I will crush every last remnant of you from this universe"
River: "HOW dare you! I'm your wife!"
Him: "You plan to murder me"
Her: "Don't change the subject"

[PageNo]

When you realize that River kept flirting with the Doctor in front of her parents.

[meatballg]

“OH I HATE YOU SOMETIMES”
“I KNOW”
The last time the river says she hates the doctor he responds with I know, and every other time he said “no you don’t”, it’s one of those character arcs that you notice more and more about it the more you watch it

[AdamSailas]

Star Wars fans: "I love you"
"I know"
Doctor Who fans: "I hate you"
"No you don't"

[joeduffy]

"You, me, handcuffs. Must it always end this way?"
Yes, it will end this way...

[doctordeathdefying]

The scene where she smacks Eleven in the diner had to be redone so many times that his makeup had to be redone to cover the red spot!

[MysteryMedia]

Making the Dalek beg for mercy will always be iconic

[brinmoody]

Gotta love the fact that she literally makes the Dalek say a word apparently not even in their programmed vocabulary -- Mercy isn't a word they're supposed to be able to say. She scared the crap out of the Dalek so hard she literally broke it to the point of making it say a word it shouldn't have been able to say, and I love it!

[mr.scarlo]

Isn't every scene with her in it is the best?

[arnoldsherrill]

" hush Mommy and Daddy are busy" nothing like interrupting a time lord and his wife during an argument.. that line alone was perfection., the writers absolutely nailed it when they were asked to create this role, and the casting was perfect.

[arm]

I’m wondering if there’s anything Amy regrets more than that seductive “oh doctor, you soniced her.” Comment ABOUT HER OWN DAUGHTER

[maxhamlin]

Alex Kingston is utterly ethereal and the fact that people have been paid to kiss her is unfair to like everyone else and i will not be accepting anything contradictory

[coffeejellyash]

"By the way, what do you think?"
"Of what?"
"My new body!"
"Oh I don't know yet, I've only seen the face" ;)

[yuna]

"What are you doing?"
"Helping!"
"You've got a screwdriver! Go build a cabinet!"
"THAT'S REALLY RUDE!"

[piniatafullofblood]

“Dear god, your hard work young.”
This line fucking kills me, if I’m being honest.

[clockworkkirlia]

I absolutely adore the way that Alex Kingston acts River at different points in her personal timeline. From post-regen Melody to in-over-her-head Wedding Apocalypse River to the variously hypercompetent femme-fatale-to-married-woman iterations on Doctor Song to classy confident-yet-jaded Professor Song... They're all such visibly different points in her arc and to have to play that completely out of order must have taken a heck of a lot of skill and poise.

Not only that, but the dynamic between her and the Doctor is *so* complex over time as the information each has over the other varies massively from meeting to meeting, never quite matching card to card on an even playing field, but making it work anyway. The closest they ever came was Darillium, both of them happily married at the most mutually mature and equal their relationship ever was... Even then, the informational imbalance between them was a major theme of the episode, with River acting like she had all the cards as per usual for her later life, not realising that The Doctor was A: there, B: older than she'd ever met him and C: had said his final goodbyes twice already, knowing every single detail of their future together. Heartbreaking, and, as per usual, love helped it work.

River is delightfully convoluted, fascinatingly clever and, honestly, possibly the best example of Timey-Wimey character development ever. I can't think of a single example that comes close.

I can understand why River's story was too much for some people.

I think she was brilliant.

[patlee]

i just realize river song questioning the doctors fez is like a wife seeing her husband trying to walk outside in a dumb outfit