River Song's timeline, in the order she lived it.

[andrewducker]

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[andrewducker]

In response to someone asking why some of River's choiced were questionable:

She's a _crazy_ time travelling archaeologist with a PhD.

She's been kidnapped, raised by terrifying aliens, brainwashed into being a psychotic assassin, escaped, died, grown up pretending to be best friends with her parents, died again, attempted murder, fallen in love for crazy reasons, tried to turn good, kidnapped again, forced into a suit that will kill the man she loves, and bumped into a parallel world, and then asked to effectively kill him again.

Nothing we've seen of River makes it look like she's sane. Brilliant, maybe. Sane? no.

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[skington.livejournal.com]

Which, of course, is why she's perfect for the Doctor.

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[steer.livejournal.com]

Nothing we've seen of River makes it look like she's sane.

Hmm... nothing about her when she's younger. When she's older though (the earlier appearances) her behaviour was more stable and responsible.

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[andrewducker]

Do you mean when we see her in Silence in The Library?

She seemed pretty unstable there to me, presumably because she knew this was the last time she'd see him.

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[steer.livejournal.com]

She seemed fairly rational there given that she was dealing with the possibility of the love of her life dying and the actuality of herself dying.

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[andrewducker]

See, when people say "They were pretty sane considering the insane conditions they were under." it makes me nervous.

I'd like to see them under non-insane conditions before I make a judgement as to whether they are ever actually rational.

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[steer.livejournal.com]

I think there's a pretty clear move from "barkingly insane and immoral" (Let's Kill Hitler) to "quirky and capricious but basically reasonable" (Pandorica Opens) to "dealing rationally with difficult situation" (Silence in the library).

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[andrewducker]

Oh, she's definitely less crazy between Let's Kill Hitler and Pandorica Opens. I'm not convinced between that and Silence. I'll have to rewatch to be sure.

[momentsmusicaux.livejournal.com]

I bet at some point they handwave something so that River can be extracted from the library into a new body... around the time Alex Kingston decides she doesn't want to play the role any more!

[ipslore.livejournal.com]

Don't they even already have that handwave in place, with her being stored in the library computer?

[momentsmusicaux.livejournal.com]

They'd still need to get her into a new body though.

[ipslore.livejournal.com]

Sure, but that's only half as much of a handwave as if they hadn't done that.