I think the only issue I have with the Doctor/River relationship is that she'll always be in control - which is part of the point, since the Doctor is always in control and she's one of the rare people who know something he doesn't: his own future. But relationships - good healthy ones - should achieve some kind of balance of power and unless Moffat tells a story about the end of their relationship, where the Doctor knows as much about her as she does about him, then it's always going to be unbalanced. Which is a bit frustrating. But, it's sort of impossible to tell that story. Well, not impossible, but really difficult - since in a sense we're following the Doctor's existence in a linear way, from one life to the next and rarely skipping back.
It probably does confuse the kids, but it's also the sort of thing that kids love once they understand it. I love it now, but as a big fan of the Back to the Future movies when I was between 10 and 15 years old, I would have been in heaven with this kind of timey-wimey story.
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Date: 2010-04-25 10:18 am (UTC)It probably does confuse the kids, but it's also the sort of thing that kids love once they understand it. I love it now, but as a big fan of the Back to the Future movies when I was between 10 and 15 years old, I would have been in heaven with this kind of timey-wimey story.