How did River Song recognize the 10th Doctor?

River meets the Doctor for her first time in "Silence in the Library"/"Forest of the Dead". She either recognizes him because she knows him so well and his personality is pretty much unrecognizable, regardless of his face. She may also have met him later in his timeline, yet earlier in hers.

What did river Tell the 10th Doctor?

As he returns his attention to the present, Anita asks him what River whispered in his ear earlier. She reminds him that she's about to die, and so his secret is "safe" with her.

How does River Song know the doctors name?

"She learned the Doctor's name when the doctor last saw her". No, false. She never says when she learned his name. Rather, it is the (10th) Doctor himself who says that "there's only one situation where I would tell someone my name".

Did river meet 10 again?

After the events of this story, we don't see River again until after the Doctor's regeneration into Matt Smith's incarnation in The Time of Angels/Flesh and Stone. And the Doctor seemed very reluctant to meet her again.

Why did river not recognize the Doctor?

River doesn't recognise the Twelfth Doctor as the Doctor because "he has limits", referring to the Time Lords' twelve-regenerations limit first mentioned in The Deadly Assassin (1976).

River Song Tells the Doctor Her Secret

Is Clara River Song's daughter?

Clara is a future regeneration of River Song who's had her memory erased. River is, after all, a Time Lord. We've seen her regenerate before.

How many regenerations does River Song have?

Assuming they did not, it would appear that Melody Pond/River Song gave up TEN incarnations (9 regenerations) to save The Doctor. First Regeneration - while homeless, young Melody Pond apparently succumbed to hunger & illness, undergoing her first regeneration in the episode "Day of the Moon".

Why did the Doctor tell river his name?

Obviously this couldn't just be a coincidence of "Oh, look, there's some person with me while I'm dying, I'll tell my name to them," because River uses her knowledge to convince the Doctor that one day, he will trust her absolutely.

Is River a Time Lord?

No. River Song is not a Time Lord. The title and distinction belongs solely to those beings from the world of Gallifrey who have been indoctrinated, trained and introduced to the Time Vortex via a particular set of rituals, instruction and guidance.

Is the Doctor in love with River Song?

River makes a point of it that she knows the Doctor doesn't love her, but the Doctor never confirms that. It also seems that anytime River claims the Doctor doesn't love her, the Doctor looks rather uncomfortable (or at least 12 did).

What is River Song's secret?

The mid-season cliffhanger shockingly reveals that Amy Pond gave birth to a child at the hands of Madame Kovarian, who is destined to be a weapon against the Doctor. That child of the TARDIS, conceived with sometimes alive/sometimes dead person Rory, is Melody Pond, aka River Song.

What did the Doctor whisper to Rose?

In the Doctor Who Confidential episode End of an Era, executive producer Julie Gardner confirmed that the intention was that the new Doctor did indeed say "I love you" when he whispered in Rose's ear.

Why is River Song backwards?

River Song's Timeline isn't backwards (and neither is the Doctors). Their individual timelines move forward from birth to death (in the loosest sense of the word) but as time travellers they are free to visit any time and space in any order.

Why did the Doctor marry River Song?

But rather than let that happen—she went to school to learn to love the guy, come on! —she decides that she'd rather destroy the universe than fulfill that function. But the universe has to be righted, so to appease her, the Doctor agrees to marry her.

What does Rose Whisper Donna?

When asked if she remembered Rose's name, Donna said she was never told it, but she does remember the two words Rose whispered into her ear: "Bad Wolf".

Did River Song meet the 13th Doctor?

While that didn't close the TARDIS door on future appearances from her, she hasn't appeared alongside Jodie Whittaker's Thirteenth Doctor.

How did River Song get regenerations?

River Song is Amy and Rory's daughter, also known as Melody. Also known as Mels. It's complicated. River was born with the power to regenerate but used up all her remaining regenerations when she saved the Doctor after she poisoned him because she was programmed to kill him...

Did River Song know she was the astronaut?

In 6x13 The Wedding of River Song, River says: "Pretending I didn't recognize the space suit in Florida." This indicates that she did remember being in the space suit as a little girl. (Since her being in the space suit the second time, when she 'kills' the Doctor, is in Utah, not Florida.)

Why is river a Time Lord?

In "A Good Man Goes to War", it is revealed that River is Amy and Rory's daughter Melody (Harrison and Maddison Mortimer), who was conceived in the TARDIS while it was in the Time Vortex and consequently carries Time Lord DNA.

What is the Doctor's real name in Gallifreyan?

Is Theta Sigma the Doctor's real name? Theta Sigma was the Doctor's unique nickname when he was studying at the Time Lord Academy on Gallifrey. Although this identified the Doctor from all the other Time Lords at the academy, the Seventh Doctor (Sylvester McCoy) dismisses it as just a nickname in The Happiness Patrol.

Why is the Doctor's name a secret?

Long story short: the Doctor lies. Recently, fans have hypothesized that the reason why the Doctor never speaks their own name is for their own safety. And the hypothesis also suggests that the only occasion for which a Time Lord would reveal their name is at the moment of their final death.

Does the Master know the Doctor's name?

Edit: This answer assumes the answer in the Title is 'Yes'. This is because the Doctor's original or 'real' name seemed to be widely known by the Gallifreyans he regularly interacted with. Because of their long history, it is therefore easy to decide that the Master does, indeed, know the original name of the Doctor.

Is River Song the Tardis?

Melody Pond's third incarnation, best known as Professor River Song, was a "child of the TARDIS" and the wife of the Doctor, specifically of their eleventh and twelfth incarnations, although she also had encounters with their tenth and thirteenth incarnations, as well as earlier incarnations whose memories were later ...

Is the little girl in the space suit River Song?

Sydney Wade, who played the child in the spacesuit we would later discover to be the young River Song, had just finished shooting Marchlands when she arrived at Doctor Who. In a neat moment of synchronicity, she played the daughter of Kingston's character.

Does River Song have 2 Hearts?

Although it's a 'blink-and-you'll-miss-it' moment, she does indeed appear to have two hearts... You might want to mention that the novel seems to be contradicted by screen evidence in The Doctor's Daughter.