DW 12 and River
Aug. 12th, 2025 09:35 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
beccaelizabethToday I watched The Husbands of River Song
which is funny but at least a bit mean and then sad and then back to complicated happy
and very much full of feels.
It is great seeing River when she doesn't know the Doctor is there and seeing her react to Doctor shenanigans when she doesn't know it is him. And the Doctor getting a turn at reacting to tbe TARDIS. And the TARDIS safety feature. And... many and lots of things.
Also this one was a payoff thematically and emotionally.
Lots of threads pulled together and repetition becoming more meaningful.
Just... the idea River could get this far and actually believe he doesn't love her back is... If they'd been going strictly backwards you could see it, vanishing from each other, but it's messier than that.
The kissing thing.
I know they fix it by the end but it's A Lot.
But then they get time.
"there is song"
So I finished watching and decided the next Bug Finish listen had to be the River Song set I haven't listened to yet.
But so far it is River and Ace and Tegan and not actually remembering everything and working at cross purposes and being bad at lying (Ace and Tegan) and doing terrible accents (the actors realised the characters can't act as well as they can) and it is an interesting setup but not particularly feelings yet so I managed to displease me with a perfectly reasonable story.
Also the temperature continues Blergh.
So I am going to check the internet for a bit before I listen the second episode.
which is funny but at least a bit mean and then sad and then back to complicated happy
and very much full of feels.
It is great seeing River when she doesn't know the Doctor is there and seeing her react to Doctor shenanigans when she doesn't know it is him. And the Doctor getting a turn at reacting to tbe TARDIS. And the TARDIS safety feature. And... many and lots of things.
Also this one was a payoff thematically and emotionally.
Lots of threads pulled together and repetition becoming more meaningful.
Just... the idea River could get this far and actually believe he doesn't love her back is... If they'd been going strictly backwards you could see it, vanishing from each other, but it's messier than that.
The kissing thing.
I know they fix it by the end but it's A Lot.
But then they get time.
"there is song"
So I finished watching and decided the next Bug Finish listen had to be the River Song set I haven't listened to yet.
But so far it is River and Ace and Tegan and not actually remembering everything and working at cross purposes and being bad at lying (Ace and Tegan) and doing terrible accents (the actors realised the characters can't act as well as they can) and it is an interesting setup but not particularly feelings yet so I managed to displease me with a perfectly reasonable story.
Also the temperature continues Blergh.
So I am going to check the internet for a bit before I listen the second episode.