But his robot body turns out to have a mind of its own, and it pursues them to the ship where they’re meeting the diamond’s buyer. There are a lot of twists and turns in the story: Hydroflax’s head turns out to be detachable, so they take it while he is still alive.
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River’s not only admitting that she’s been using him, she’s telling him exactly why he’s most susceptible to believing her lies.īut then the script is flipped on us.
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Perhaps most tellingly, when asked how she got Hydroflax to fall in love with her so quickly, she says that men “will automatically believe any story they’re the hero of.” The look on the Doctor’s face when he hears this is utterly heartbreaking. Asked whether she loves him, she replies no, but he’s terribly useful at times. She admits that she has often stolen the TARDIS and used it for her own purposes, returning it to the same place and time so that the Doctor never knew. And indeed, not knowing she is talking to him, she reveals all sorts of terrible things. Worse than any of that, though, is the notion that she’s been lying to the Doctor all along, using him, the same way she’d been lying to and using Hydroflax. Which frankly makes it seem at first less like a love story and more like a romantic nightmare. And not without a big heaping helping of misdirection. The romance comes all wrapped up in a ripping caper storyline. Of course, we don’t know that’s what it is at first. After the intensity and complexity of the last few episodes (Clara’s dead! The Doctor is tortured for billions of years! Gallifrey’s back! So’s Clara! Sort of!), it feels like the perfect gift. No, this year, instead of giving us a Christmas-themed story, the writers instead decided to give us all a Christmas present: the missing final chapter in the love story of the Doctor and River. River Song makes her appearance in a red cloak trimmed in white, but then it’s never seen again. The Doctor shows up wearing holographic antlers, but just for a second.
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But I do enjoy when the Christmas aspect of the seasonal special is a bit lower-key, as in this year’s installment, “The Husbands of River Song.” The episode begins and ends with scenes set during Christmas, but it’s almost coincidental, and has no real effect on the plot.