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everybodylives99.2 Mun: What are your favourite parts of your character's canon?
Would that there were more - oh, wait - but to date River's canon consists of two episodes that made me remember why I'm still afraid of the dark.
Actually, the Vashta Nerada were as riveting to me while watching Silence in the Library and Forest of the Dead as River - because I have always been a bit afraid of the dark, and I've always loved Alex Kingston. That the setting was a library was just icing.
It was, audio-visual-guest cast-storytelling wise, a perfect storm.
Canonically speaking, in a more River-centric mode, the following things drew me to her as a character:
1. Her audacity. From the first few lines out of her mouth she was polarizing. Brash, loud and one of those women that you think is likely to make history - AKA not at all well behaved.
2. As a journal keeper from way back, and a fan of histories River's journal is one of those contrivances that I happen to love.
3. There is a look on her face, when she realizes that the Doctor doesn't know her that is heartbreaking - whatever their ultimate relationship, however they are connected, in that moment she looks so lost.
4. Her apology, not because it was revealing and ZOMG she whispered something in his ear, but because you just know that those aren't words she says terribly often. And once again, her expression - and tone just sell it.
5. Chicken, chicken who's got some chicken.
6. He's always grabbing people and dragging them off at a dead run away from certain death - there's a moment where she grabs him and it made me cheer.
7. She's got a mean left hook.
8. I like the continued know-it-all-ness of her, very River knows best, and am constantly amused at how she can get on my nerves doing things that if the Doctor did them would make me smile.
Muse: River Song
Word Count: 321
Rating: G
Would that there were more - oh, wait - but to date River's canon consists of two episodes that made me remember why I'm still afraid of the dark.
Actually, the Vashta Nerada were as riveting to me while watching Silence in the Library and Forest of the Dead as River - because I have always been a bit afraid of the dark, and I've always loved Alex Kingston. That the setting was a library was just icing.
It was, audio-visual-guest cast-storytelling wise, a perfect storm.
Canonically speaking, in a more River-centric mode, the following things drew me to her as a character:
1. Her audacity. From the first few lines out of her mouth she was polarizing. Brash, loud and one of those women that you think is likely to make history - AKA not at all well behaved.
2. As a journal keeper from way back, and a fan of histories River's journal is one of those contrivances that I happen to love.
3. There is a look on her face, when she realizes that the Doctor doesn't know her that is heartbreaking - whatever their ultimate relationship, however they are connected, in that moment she looks so lost.
4. Her apology, not because it was revealing and ZOMG she whispered something in his ear, but because you just know that those aren't words she says terribly often. And once again, her expression - and tone just sell it.
5. Chicken, chicken who's got some chicken.
6. He's always grabbing people and dragging them off at a dead run away from certain death - there's a moment where she grabs him and it made me cheer.
7. She's got a mean left hook.
8. I like the continued know-it-all-ness of her, very River knows best, and am constantly amused at how she can get on my nerves doing things that if the Doctor did them would make me smile.
Muse: River Song
Word Count: 321
Rating: G
