In addition, River Song is shown to have the ability to regenerate due to altered DNA that has similarities to Time Lord DNA, a side effect of having been conceived on board the TARDIS as it travelled through the spacetime vortex.

Why does River Song have regeneration?

Because River had been conceived in the time vortex, the fetus was flooded with temporal energy, granting her the ability to regenerate. It was a power River Song ultimately gave up for the sake of the Doctor's life. But this doesn't appear to fit particularly well with the Timeless Child retcon.

Why doesn't River Song regenerate in the library?

River Song didn't regenerate at the end of "Forest of the Dead" because in the episode "Let's Kill Hitler" (where River/Melody tries to kill Eleven) she uses all of her remaining regeneration energy to cure the Doctor of the poison she gave him.

Can River Song ever come back?

Doctor Who's time travel premise allows characters to come back in many different forms over the years, so the door is never truly closed on River Song.

What is River Song's secret?

Following the reveal that River Song is a grown-up Melody Pond, daughter of Amy and Rory, comes the even more shocking news that baby Melody has been kidnapped by The Order of The Silence, to be raised and trained to eventually kill The Doctor.

Doctor Who - Let's Kill Hitler - Mels regeneration

What did River whisper in the doctors ear?

River, who is a professor of archaeology and carries a TARDIS-colour/pattern diary of her adventures, is able to convince the Doctor of his future trust in her by whispering his real name into his ear, which he explains he would only divulge under rare circumstances.

Is Clara River Song's daughter?

Clara is the future child of the Doctor and River who's had her memory erased. The two Time Lords must be up to something on their nights away from River's prison cell.

Is River Song good or bad?

She was called Professor River Song. While she was an immediate hit with fans who were desperate to know who she was, River's appeal did start to decline over time. Though she wasn't a bad character, even at the end, she did commit questionable acts.

What happened to River Song in the end?

She died in The Library, saving the people trapped in its computer.

Why doesn t River Song remember her childhood?

The fact that she grew up surrounded by the Silence of course also affected her memory, so it is possible that her memory of the time is simply very vague and chaotic.

Why doesn t River Song recognize the Doctor?

In this episode, River fails to recognize the Doctor because she has no idea that he managed to gain another regeneration cycle, and no matter what he says or how many blatant hints he keeps dropping to her about his true identity, she keeps missing the forest for the trees.

Why doesn t River Song remember 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).

How is River Amy's daughter?

Amy and Rory had sex in the TARDIS. Amy was kidnapped by the Church of Silence and gave birth to her daughter Melody Pond, who was kidnapped by the Church of Silence. A translation of Melody Pond is River Song, and that became her new alias.

Can the Doctor regenerate infinitely?

How many times can Doctor Who regenerate? An infinite number of times, apparently – or at least, an indeterminate number. So when the Doctor dies, he or she has the ability to change into a new body as a means of survival, as many times as they need.

How many regenerations did River Song give the Doctor?

Melody Pond's three regenerations were wildly different characters, all built around massive reveals. She gave her remaining regenerations away to the man she would come to love.

Does River know that Amy is her mother?

River reveals her parentage – A Good Man Goes to War (again) Just as she is born as "Melody Pond" (see No. 1), the older River, now a married woman, reveals who her mum and dad are: Amy and Rory.

Who does the Doctor love more rose or river?

He loved Rose as both a lover and friend. They had fun together and never fought and were clearly a dynamic duo if there ever was one. The love he felt for her was passionate love, but what he felt for River was closer to true companion love.

How is Melody Pond a Time Lord?

Melody was concieved on or just after her parents wedding night, upon the Doctor's TARDIS while they travelled through the time vortex, this gave her slightly Time Lord DNA, and the ability of regeneration and other Time Lord traits.

Did the Doctor spent 24 years with River?

The Husbands Of River Song

There's a beautiful twist, however, in that the Doctor ensures they spend a night together on Darillium – and a single night on this planet lasts 24 years. This serves as an explanation for why River considered this incarnation of the Doctor to be "hers" – they spent the most time together.

Is River Song LGBTQ?

Although she's best known for her complicated, out-of-synch marriage to the Doctor, River Song has also had a number of canon relationships with women. She mentions several times in the show having been married to women before. Like various other Steven Moffat characters, she's heavily implied to be bisexual.

Why did the Doctor have to marry River Song?

There she sees the miniaturized Doctor and realizes that he is inside the Teselecta ship and will not actually die if time's flow is restored. He then requests that River allow him to prevent the universe's destruction. They seal this agreement, and their marriage, with a kiss.

Is River Song a Mary Sue?

In many ways, she is one of the great modern “Mary Sue”-type characters, and I wouldn't have it any other way.

Why is Clara the impossible girl?

Although there were parallels between Oswin and Clara Oswin, it was their similar deaths that sparked the Eleventh Doctor to begin his investigation into her identities - coining the "Impossible Girl" term after realizing that it shouldn't have been possible for him to run into the same woman when she had died twice.

Who was the love of the Doctor's life?

Truly, madly, deeply. To some, companion Rose Tyler was the greatest love of the Doctor's life. He seemed to have a closer bond with her than almost anyone he'd travelled with before, and as time went on it was increasingly clear that she was deeply in love with him.

Why does the TARDIS not like Clara?

It is a question that was posed to Steven Moffat over a year ago. In answering that question in Doctor Who Magazine, Moffat suggested that the TARDIS' dislike of the current companion may be due to her sceptical nature and how she did not seem suitably awed by the Doctor's spaceship.