Why is melody pond called river song

Alone and without the suit to protect her, Melody fell ill and died on the back streets of New York — triggering her first regeneration. Amy later revealed that she named her daughter after her friend Melody, creating a closed loop. Get the best of Den of Geek delivered right to your inbox! River became a student of archaeology at the Luna University, at least in part to help her learn more about the Doctor and his travels through space and time.

Her own past was never far behind, however, and upon receiving her doctorate she was immediately kidnapped by Kovarian and the Silence, forced into another spacesuit and ordered to kill the Doctor on the shores of Lake Silencio in — seemingly an established historical event, and the reason why Amy tried to shoot her in Faced with a new reality in which all of history was happening at once, River still refused to kill the Doctor, revealing that she had fallen in love with him.

In order to persuade River to set history on its correct course, the Doctor agreed to marry her, revealing his real name to her in the process Though River later denied this to Amy and Rory. Upon kissing her new husband, the timeline was restored and River killed the Doctor — or rather, she killed a robot duplicate of the Doctor, making it appear to all intents and purposes that he was gone. River managed to acquire a vortex manipulator of the kind worn by Captain Jack Harkness and used it to transport herself back to Stonehenge in the second century, where she posed among the Romans as Cleopatra.

River found herself caught up in the TARDIS explosion and subsequently rescued by the Doctor, but it was too late; the Doctor knew he would have to sacrifice himself to restart the universe. The universe was rebooted and the Doctor erased from history, but in spite of this River was somehow able to retain her knowledge of him as well as her diary though its pages were now blank , which she gave to Amy as a wedding present to prompt her to remember the Time Lord and restore his existence.

It was whilst imprisoned in the Stormcage that River was asked by an unknowing Rory to return to the place of her birth in order to help the Doctor rescue Amy and her infant self. She then travelled back to and helped the Doctor defeat the Silence, but was careful not to encounter her child self or alter her own timeline in any way. It was at the end of this adventure that River kissed the Doctor as he returned her to the Stormcage — before realising that from his perspective it was their first kiss.

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. In typical Who fashion, this ep features Song as a baby and as a full-grown lady adult. This happened three real-life years after audiences first met River in 'Silence in the Library' keep up at the back. Having been kidnapped by the Silence and taken to Florida, USA in and raised in the less-than-welcoming Graystark Hall orphanage , Melody has been phoning President Nixon telling him that she's "scared of the spaceman".

Matt Smith's Doctor, flanked with Amy, Rory and an adult River Song, tracks down the child who is now wearing a spacesuit her identity unknown to them , and Amy shoots her. Six months later, Melody makes it to New York City, where, in front of an old tramp in an alleyway, she begins to regenerate. Not into the River Song we're more familiar with, though….

After this regeneration, the young Melody makes it over to the UK and becomes the "best mate" of Amy and Rory as youngsters. Sadly for Mels, she's shot and then regenerates once more.

This time, into Alex Kingston. Kovarian and the Silence get their nasty mitts back on their weapon after River receives her first doctorate and becomes Dr Song. She is drugged, forced into a spacesuit and taken to Utah, where she "kills" the Eleventh Doctor — this is also where the events of points 2 and 8 take place.

The season six finale was suitably bonkers, with time itself broken. We won't go into just why or how this happened or, indeed, how this was all fixed , but the long and short of it is: it was River's fault. Wearing an eye patch, she defeats Kovarian and the Silence and sets time right again by marrying the Doctor. We then discover that she didn't actually kill the Doctor in Utah during the events of 'The Impossible Astronaut' just a Teselecta version of him. Just as she is born as "Melody Pond" see No.

A somewhat shocked Doctor goes off to find their daughter whilst we all took a summer break. River receives an invite, whilst imprisoned, with date and map references. She escapes and meets up with Eleventh Doctor and the Ponds in Utah. Where an astronaut "kills" the Doctor. Or rather kills "the Doctor". A few minutes later, the Doctor is back. Silence in the Library. The Husbands of River Song. The Return of River. The Time of Angels Clip The Time of Angels Clip. River Song — Doctor Who , Series 5.

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