(I feel like I’ll end up mentioning ‘moving in opposite directions’ sooner or later, and I don’t really want to, so I’ll just issue a blanket Time can be rewritten here. ;) If Moffat is going for the girl being their child, I’m sure he’ll have it all make sense eventually.)
Yes, there can be a thousand reasons (sci-fi-y experiments/AUs/something somethings) for a Time Lord child, but I’ll go with the family aspect.
Can it be his child? Can it be her child? Can it be their child? As far as we know, the answer to all of those is yes.
Would they have one? Well, I’m not sure 908!Eleven wants children – but we can’t say for sure that 1000+!Eleven or Twelve or Thirteen don’t. There’s Jenny – and that episode, depending on whether or not Donna was right (‘That part of me has died’/’I think you’re wrong’ /paraphrasing), can be seen as both ‘he doesn’t want another child’ and ‘he might want another child’.
And Eleven seems to get along with kids very well – that might be some very clever foreshadowing, or just something about Matt Smith.
We can’t say what River thinks, either. Really, all we know is that she has hidden depths, and that she read to the children in the Library.
There’s really nothing that says the child can’t be theirs.
And, yeah, there’s the ‘domestic’ argument and the whole ‘he shows up intermittently and/or she contacts him intermittently’ – but those can be solved. And there are lies this and names that and rules everywhere – and really, Moffat can just say that all the rules and all the lies are to protect the child. (It works for everything: clearly, the blue stabilisers were installed because the noise, brilliant though it may be, would wake the baby.)
All the signs point to the girl being Amy and Rory’s – except the fact that she just regenerated. There is the possibility that travelling in time could have affected the baby, like Amy was concerned – but why would travelling in time give the child Time Lord traits? It makes no sense.
Those are my thoughts, at the moment (and they seem really obvious in retrospect). I apologise for any odd sentence structuring and all the unnecessary words – I hope I make some sense. :)
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So, yeah, re: Doctor/River!child.
(I feel like I’ll end up mentioning ‘moving in opposite directions’ sooner or later, and I don’t really want to, so I’ll just issue a blanket Time can be rewritten here. ;) If Moffat is going for the girl being their child, I’m sure he’ll have it all make sense eventually.)
Yes, there can be a thousand reasons (sci-fi-y experiments/AUs/something somethings) for a Time Lord child, but I’ll go with the family aspect.
Can it be his child? Can it be her child? Can it be their child? As far as we know, the answer to all of those is yes.
Would they have one?
Well, I’m not sure 908!Eleven wants children – but we can’t say for sure that 1000+!Eleven or Twelve or Thirteen don’t. There’s Jenny – and that episode, depending on whether or not Donna was right (‘That part of me has died’/’I think you’re wrong’ /paraphrasing), can be seen as both ‘he doesn’t want another child’ and ‘he might want another child’.
And Eleven seems to get along with kids very well – that might be some very clever foreshadowing, or just something about Matt Smith.
We can’t say what River thinks, either. Really, all we know is that she has hidden depths, and that she read to the children in the Library.
There’s really nothing that says the child can’t be theirs.
And, yeah, there’s the ‘domestic’ argument and the whole ‘he shows up intermittently and/or she contacts him intermittently’ – but those can be solved. And there are lies this and names that and rules everywhere – and really, Moffat can just say that all the rules and all the lies are to protect the child. (It works for everything: clearly, the blue stabilisers were installed because the noise, brilliant though it may be, would wake the baby.)
All the signs point to the girl being Amy and Rory’s – except the fact that she just regenerated. There is the possibility that travelling in time could have affected the baby, like Amy was concerned – but why would travelling in time give the child Time Lord traits? It makes no sense.
Those are my thoughts, at the moment (and they seem really obvious in retrospect). I apologise for any odd sentence structuring and all the unnecessary words – I hope I make some sense. :)