Dr Who 4x9 Forest of the Dead FULL

Always such a nice time to watch your reaction to Doctor Who. Seeing The Doctor snap to open the Tardis is such an awesome moment. But yah, this episode is one of my favourites.

Rivers timeline is Convoluted. To say the least.

Great episode, great reaction and once again this episode had me in tears, I love the River/Doctor story and look forward to you seeing more of her. The next episode is incredible, though some find it unnerving.

A brilliant two-parter and good to watch it back again through fresh eyes - you tend to remember the emotional weight of River Song's sacrifice and the time-wimey intrigue around their relationship, and forget just how scary the story itself is! Moffat is very good at finding our worst fears in everyday things like statues or the dark! Donna's storyline here is really unnerving too as her children turn out not to be real. You're right that this is the very first time the Doctor has ever met River, but for her, she's obviously known a future version of the Doctor for much longer. Because she sacrifices her in this episode, if we were to see her again in the future, it would have to be a younger River. All very Timey-Wimey! But essentially, as she says, they're meeting out of order. Moffat always said he felt that Doctor Who, as a show about a time traveller, never made enough of playing with time as a concept. So, it was something he explored in this story with River and earlier with his episodes Blink and Girl In The Fireplace. Inspired in part by Audrey Niffenegger's book The Time Traveler's Wife.

Audrey Niffenegger wrote a delightful book, THE TIME TRAVELERS WIFE, that echoes many of the themes of River Song and the Doctor. Check it out.

'He's the Doctor. But he's not MY Doctor.' That rings a bell, eh?

In terms of the Doctors name, according to Alex Kingston (who plays River), when they were filming that scene she seductively whispered "Shaniqua" in David Tennants ear, causing him to break. A huge shame that that outtake doesn't exist on film anywhere I've seen. But if you want some fun expanded universe stuff: a classic Who writer wrote that Gallifreyan names are mathematical equations, based on the fact that their language is written in shapes, rather than characters. He also included the Doctors (supposed) real name, which, I like. I'm glad that it's something weird like a math equation and not just a bunch of gibberish

I've already mentioned that this is my favorite episode. As mentioned by others, there are so many parts to it, and you can rewatch these two episodes and keep finding details that you missed before. Another thing I love about this episode is the music. Murray Gold outdid himself on this one. The music is so wonderful, and it goes so well with what is happening. It really amplifies the emotions when watching.

if river were to come back to doctor who, it would have to be her past self as her and the doctor met in the opposite order and her physical body did die in this ep

You're confused already??? Oh boy this will be fun.

The Doctor: You just killed someone I liked. That's a dangerous place to stand. We're in the largest library in the universe, look me up. One of my favorite bits of Doctor Who.

Steven Moffat is one hell of a writer. He also wrote The Empty Child/The Doctor Dances, the Girl in the Fireplace and Blink. Love and Monsters and Blink are both the episodes with hardly any Doctor or companion in it for their respective series (so that the actors can film other scenes for other episodes) and yet Love and Monsters is voted one of the worst episodes and Blink is voted one of the best. It shows how good Steven Moffat truly is.

What a wonderful reaction to a wonderful episode. This is one of my favourite stories in Doctor Who. It has horror, it has drama, it has romance, it has happy scene's, sad scene's, and everything in between.

This is Dr Who at it's best....a great story, brilliantly written and acted, and also thought provoking. Loved your reaction.

This episode always makes me cry lol. River is amazing. I saw something or heard someone say: "Never try and apply logic to Who". Whenever something confusing happens, like wibbly wobbly time-y wimey stuff, I remember this 😂

Hearing you trying to work out the time lines between River Song, the Doctor of the future and the Doctor of now, just remember, people assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect, but actually from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint - it's more like a big ball of wibbly wobbly... time-y wimey... stuff.

Well......... That was depressing lol. Such a great episode