The vid does pretty much posit River as the center of a horror story, doesn't it? (I'm drawn back to the Jekyll parallels.) Which, admittedly, is not what I thought I was signing on for and frames her in a much more victimized way than I'd ever think to on my own (so much so that it took me several watches to really shift around to that mindset), but at the same time . . . I think I do want to watch that, if handled well. Those are real threats, that's a meaningful struggle, and as much as I love watching River Song, force of nature, I'd like to see her seriously challenged too. It's the difference between getting a character to admire and getting one to really tear into and explore, and I've been gaining a love of horror stories of late . . . As you say, though, we pretty much just have to wait and see what Moff actually does with it all.
My first thought was actually that whoever's behind the TARDIS explosion was simply trying to wipe River out, and I think I'd believe it if it went either way. What got me thinking about them perhaps trying to preserve River was just how much emphasis TPO put on the necessity of River being in the TARDIS for it to blow up: the Alliance thought they could prevent it by keeping the pilot away from the TARDIS, they didn't know there was another pilot, the urgency that she simply get out and that that would be enough to prevent it all . . . To me that suggests that whoever set it up figured River would be in there, which for a long time has had me thinking of her as the "catalyst" they needed for the explosion, so maybe they knew enough to know she would be safe . . . Who knows--I may just be too far out on a theorizing limb here, but I don't think it's wildly out of the question. And then if it turns out they just wanted her not to exist, well, that works too.
Again...I guess we await the second half of the season? *nods numbly* I'm getting tired both of hearing and of saying that, but it keeps on being true . . .
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Date: 8 Aug 2011 09:37 pm (UTC)My first thought was actually that whoever's behind the TARDIS explosion was simply trying to wipe River out, and I think I'd believe it if it went either way. What got me thinking about them perhaps trying to preserve River was just how much emphasis TPO put on the necessity of River being in the TARDIS for it to blow up: the Alliance thought they could prevent it by keeping the pilot away from the TARDIS, they didn't know there was another pilot, the urgency that she simply get out and that that would be enough to prevent it all . . . To me that suggests that whoever set it up figured River would be in there, which for a long time has had me thinking of her as the "catalyst" they needed for the explosion, so maybe they knew enough to know she would be safe . . . Who knows--I may just be too far out on a theorizing limb here, but I don't think it's wildly out of the question. And then if it turns out they just wanted her not to exist, well, that works too.
Again...I guess we await the second half of the season?
*nods numbly* I'm getting tired both of hearing and of saying that, but it keeps on being true . . .