{"id":129303,"date":"2015-12-29T11:22:52","date_gmt":"2015-12-29T18:22:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/12\/29\/on-possibly-the-final-time-loop-of-river-song.html"},"modified":"2015-12-29T11:22:52","modified_gmt":"2015-12-29T18:22:52","slug":"on-possibly-the-final-time-loop-of-river-song","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/12\/29\/on-possibly-the-final-time-loop-of-river-song.html","title":{"rendered":"On possibly the Final Time Loop of River Song"},"content":{"rendered":"

I've always enjoyed Alex Kingston's River Song character on Doctor Who<\/i> — even if I haven't always enjoyed the things Steven Moffat has done with her. The Christmas Special this year (which we watched last night in our post-returning-home daze) gives her a pretty good send-off, even if her (in retrospect) obtuseness early on was irksome. I'm glad she got a chance to play with Peter Capaldi, too.<\/p>\n

(https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=t-wgLFj6bbI<\/a> has the original River "death" scene, which ties up neatly with the events of this ep.)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\nHow the Doctor Who Christmas Special Finally Gave River Song the Husband She Deserves<\/a><\/span>
\nAlex Kingston on being Doctor Who’s secret weapon and getting the closure she richly deserves.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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I've always enjoyed Alex Kingston's River Song character on Doctor Who — even if I haven't always enjoyed the things Steven Moffat has done with her. The Christmas Special this year (which we watched last night in our post-returning-home daze) gives her a pretty good send-off, even if her (in retrospect) obtuseness early on was … Continue reading “On possibly the Final Time Loop of River Song”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":32235,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/01\/18\/the-river-song-timeline.html","url_meta":{"origin":129303,"position":0},"title":"The River Song timeline","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 18-Jan-13 5:56am","format":false,"excerpt":"Spoilers! 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