The Twelfth Doctor Meets River | The Husbands Of River Song | Doctor Who

[@FarkasAbel91]

River was excited to see the Doctor in "Silence in the Library", who didn't recognise her. Here the Doctor is excited to see her, and she doesn't recognise him. Amazing

[@oscarsalomonsson1093]

Ábel Farkas Thats the point, Their timelines are actually reversed

[@FarkasAbel91]

I know, duh. I was just admiring the structure this story arc is built upon

[@HickoryDickory86]

Yes, but she doesn't know _this_ him (i.e., the Twelfth Doctor).

[@robertlange2526]

I call this Doctor The Thirteen Doctor just to keep it straight in my head.

[@Jweston541]

yeah let's not get so technical, because really when the first started this show in 2005 they should of started fresh

[@michelvanderlinden8363]

"you dont look much like your pictures" "Well thats a bit of an ongoing problem for me". Its such a stupid joke but I cant help but laugh at it.

[@abbby6951]

River: My husband is dying The Doctor: I am? Oh shit..

[@camix3229]

Lmaoooo

[@Idontknow-rz2rz]

The Doctor: I'm gonna need a bigger flow chart!

[@tornadowatchimminent]

I’m reminded of that futurama episode where the professor checks his pulse after zoiberg says he’s dead

[@JMcCarthyworld]

Love this so much. I post it all over the place i know. But Ruber and the Doctor are my favorite

[@OhNoBohNo]

"Will there be singing?" "No." *Singing Towers of Darillium*

[@ChristopherUSSmith]

Beau Maysey That comes on a different planet at the end of the episode.

[@crusmonster1397]

I NEVER CAUGHT THAT.

[@lanihawj]

River: "You turned up on my doorstep with a new haircut and a suit" -Silence in the Library 2:32

[@cylasbreakdown6140]

Tenth Doctor only met her once. It bugs me a bit that River didn’t realize that he’d never met her.

[@Kunfuxu]

@@cylasbreakdown6140 They met later in the Tenth Doctor's timeline most likely.

[@AWAREDIAGRAM680]

@@Kunfuxu The only time they met was with 11 and 12, that's about it. Her whole journal has it, if they ever met any other time during 10's series we would have seen it

[@iamokayiswear]

@@AWAREDIAGRAM680 Big Finish changed that.

[@davidm1926]

@@cylasbreakdown6140 Quite likely that she and Eleven discussed it, but she might not have known that Ten only met her the one time. Unless there actually were lines to that effect in the show.

[@SlyAceZeta]

"I've had a haircut, this is my best suit." "The last time I saw you, the real you, the future you, I mean, you turned up on my doorstep, with a new haircut and a suit." My heart.

[@ctrlaltrepeat245]

River: i will remove your organs in alphabetical order The doctor: which alphabet? (River cuts him open and sees 2 hearts) River:....

[@melavery3760]

Yaaasss!!!

[@codyarcher3263]

Still time to regenerate probably :D

[@DisKorruptd]

So do we start with the Left heart since L comes before R? I figure that'd come up with the Lungs anyway

[@ClueFinder654]

Such a Doctor answer honestly.

[@Saberblast58]

Don't you dare ask that question?

[@katieward5236]

River: how do you know me? Doctor: well it's a tiny bit complicated. People usually need a flow chart. Lol

[@juliakim5825]

Katie Ward “I think I’m gonna need a bigger flow chart”

[@mikeyates7931]

"... I think I'm going to need a bigger flow chart "

[@notjustspookyathalloween]

Honestly how didn’t she realise who he was after he said that

[@dwinovariwasantara5315]

​@@notjustspookyathalloweenone word Busy

[@notjustspookyathalloween]

@@dwinovariwasantara5315 it doesn’t matter how busy she was, she should recognise the ramblings of her husband

[@mattneese8571]

"The last time I saw you, the real you - the future you, I mean - you turned up on my doorstep, with a new haircut and a suit." "I've had a haircut, and this is my best suit" Don't know how many times I've seen this episode, but this is the first time I realized that.

[@jdshultis]

Indeed. We've come full circle to her quote to Ten when *he* meets her for the first time.. :-)

[@yeshello3775]

Art Of Breaking SAME

[@Howyaduing]

“What have you brought to me door step?”

[@otakushutin]

but the sonic 12 gives river is different to the one river has in silence in the library when she meets 10

[@Howyaduing]

Aydan Cooper nooo it was the same screw driver only less used

[@spaceboomer564]

This is honestly one of my favorite Christmas specials because of all the heart it has

[@piercelindenberg6842]

All the hearts, you mean.

[@cryptozoomauler5505]

A Christmas Carol is my fav. This one has a good ending though.

[@JamiJR]

My favorite part of this episode where after her big speech about not expecting the sun to love you back she looks at him and he's all soft and misty eyed and says, "Hello, sweetie." I need at least one or two more years with Peter as The Doctor. Four will always be my #1 favorite because he was my first Doctor, but 12 is only a hair's breadth away from being my #1.

[@TheUnsinkableGirl]

Jami JoAnne Russell That scene is my favorite it's real true love there it always makes me teary-eyed that scene

[@mrbubbles6468]

It’s a terrible scene due to the fact that we see 11 clearly loved her. In this Episode she just seems to completely forget every past meeting for solely dramatic effective which, as a result, is not very dramatic.

[@Tomani3905]

@@mrbubbles6468: Honestly, do you really need it explained to you? They are TIME TRAVELERS! How do you know that this particular encounter happened to River Song AFTER she had that particular encounter with #11? Quit thinking linear-ly. For all we know, this encounter with #12 occurred shortly after her first encounter with #11 in "The Time of Angels/Flesh & Stone" episode...and every encounter with all the previous Doctors occurred in the 22 years she supposedly spent with #12 on their "Last night together".

[@cjboyo]

"How do you know me" "well its a bit complicated people usually need a flowchart" .... "My husband is dying" "I think I'm gonna need a bigger flowchart"

[@davidchism6081]

Du du du du du!!!!!!!

[@davidchism6081]

Jaws: going to need a bigger boat.

[@DashingSteel]

I can't imagine the feeling of seeing this episode for the first Time and it hits you with "I had a haircut, this is my best suit" and you realize This Is It.

[@xanderfulton3186]

Now imagine you didn’t piece it together until you watch it the second time

[@CasualPrince8]

Oh wow holy shit I never pieced that together.

[@kurisu4213]

"you are time space machine you're vehicle i've never ask you to cheer me up with holographic antlers" I love that line so much

[@HorkBajir99]

"One minute you're sure, the next everyone turns into lizards and a piano falls on you." Welp I guess I've found my new favorite Dr Who quote. 🤣

[@thehiddenninja3428]

"It's been a long day"

[@christopherg2347]

Or a pit of Vampire Monkeys: kzbin.info/www/bejne/bnS1f353l52bqas

[@sagesheahan6732]

👌

[@TheBorhork]

There was a thing going on. Well, four things. Well, four things and a lizard.

[@MasterArchfiend]

I seriously want to know about that adventure.

[@txrap01x]

" Carol singers will be *critised* " I'M DEAD I CANT BELIEVE I FORGOT THAT BIT 😂😂

[@startrashing]

PHANDOM >•

[@Shadowkey392]

ItsMeGeekTamara I'm dead, I forgot that too!

[@tweepy123]

*carol singing in the background stops abruptly*

[@pianojammer]

"Which alphabet?" I'm dying.

[@cainster]

Well, that's an important question. After all, in some of them, the pancreas comes before the kidneys.

[@PhilipAlexanderHassialis]

Which could pose a potential issue since we know the current Doctor's disposition towards his pancreas. All we know is he doesn't like his kidneys.

[@pianojammer]

Actually, he doesn't like the color

[@CalvinLimuel]

Old Gallifreyan or Latin? haha

[@AC9123]

True, also depends on the language.

[@benw4409]

"Carol singers will be criticised!" Love it.

[@Furrina89]

Such a British thing to do

[@amberdolphin1210]

I'd do that.

[@mkg2124]

2:43 he's like 'yayy it's my wife!!' it's so cute 😭

[@AndrewChapman]

THE DOCTOR: Do I know you? RIVER SONG: You most certainly do not. *Removes hood* THE DOCTOR (thinking): Oh blimey, here we go again.

[@hArDsTyLe2259]

Andrew Chapman banterrrr

[@Blazieth]

The best part is, that's NOT Banter. She genuinely doesn't recognise him for most of the episode.

[@bradwolf9410]

I was really shocked by how dense she was during this whole episode

[@xxxdumbwordstupidnumberxxx4844]

@@bradwolf9410 To be fair, there was literally no reason for her to assume that the doctor would gain new regenerations, and it wouldn't have made sense for him to get new regenerations. He did drop a metric shit ton of hints though.

[@dankerbell]

ah shit, here we go again

[@blackphoenix77]

I love how happy The Doctor was to see River!

[@RobotAnimals]

I was about to like but theres 69 likes

[@onemoregodrejected9369]

@@RobotAnimals Now there are 99. Do it. Round it up!

[@RobotAnimals]

@@onemoregodrejected9369 100 likes the world's problems have been solved

[@onemoregodrejected9369]

@@RobotAnimals Congrats!!!!!

[@jaycievictory8461]

He's just so delighted 💛💛💛

[@ReznickovaJ]

I wish all Capaldi's episodes could be written like this. This episode was flawless.

[@aidanadkins5922]

Anyone else notice that annoyed sound the TARDIS made when The Doctor yelled at her?

[@Johndoe-jd]

I wonder what she said.

[@Sopranohooper]

@@Johndoe-jd I imagine it was something along the lines of "aargh"

[@literallyanangrymoose7717]

Wonder what she said. I'm sure she doesn't like being hollered at.

[@Howyaduing]

0:35 Didn't Amy in one episode threaten a bunch of Carolers with a water pistol? Moffitt really hates Christmas Carolers… 😆

[@haydenmarshall1881]

Howyaduing lol yeh

[@WereDictionary]

*Coralers

[@thinhnonyt]

Howyaduing poop

[@river-phoenixlunapavier2641]

Howyaduing yes in The Doctor, The Widow and the Wardrobe. She ends up squirting the Doctor instead for lying about faking his death.

[@mr.scarlo2234]

Yes. It was The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe. The first Christmas special for Series 7.

[@maiasitter677]

"I think I'm gonna need a bigger flow chart." Aww. He thinks it's himself. 😥

[@virginiamcdaniel7248]

Favorite quote from this scene: "Any questions?" "Which alphabet?"

[@aquaticasmr184]

I think I'm gonna need a bigger flow chart

[@LarryPanozzo]

I think I'm going to need a bigger flowchart 😂😂😂

[@valmid5069]

the old-Jaws "Easter Egg" XD

[@ugolado]

I LOL'd where the doctor smiled and said "which alphabet"

[@zaridaxe7467]

Same.

[@gferrol118]

Only reason I bothered to read your comment is because you have nerdcubeds logo as your picture

[@etrefzger]

This was my favorite Christmas Special ever, and that's saying a lot because I've always adored the other ones. But this one was so personal, and emotional (not to mention, River and the Doctor will always be my favorite and most heartbreaking couple)... that it sticks with me. I can't wait for this year's special, but I'll probably re-watch this one, too.

[@j-mshistorycorner6932]

@@princeeverlove *Facepalm*

[@baileyeasson7481]

"What have you brought to my doorstep?" "I've had a haircut and this is my best suit" Ohh I don't know if I caught that the first time but such an great throwback to River's death speech "You turned up on my doorstep with a new haircut and a suit" So nice that the way they brought that full...well, not circle...some wibbly wobbly timey wimey shape. Where's my flowchart?

[@ruthgar9753]

You need a bigger flowchart :)

[@piercelindenberg6842]

It probably fell through a crack in reality, or was touched by an angel.

[@jamesbevan9939]

Been thinking it over, and yep, Capaldi has surpassed Eccleston as my favorite New Who Doctor.

[@sonny08herman-haynes65]

James Bevan is

[@erez87xp]

Ever growing flowchart of Doctor Who.

[@valmid5069]

JAWS reference

[@numberoneintrovert]

3:16 Love his reaction. " Your husband?"

[@Itlg123]

Am i the only one who feels bad for the actual surgeon he had to stand there for a long time looking for his client whilst standing in cold ice.

[@Dracattack]

Dude lucked out given the circumstances

[@piercelindenberg6842]

Touché

[@mariafox9226]

Doctor: ”Wait I thought I was your only husband! Now you’ve married two other men?!”

[@roaaoverthinks]

ha! you new here?

[@noeljustinediaz8901]

River: I've maried the Diamond!

[@norbertkowalik6854]

2:43 RIVAH!

[@KittyKat94]

The doctors reaction is me every time I see River in a episode of Dr Who.

[@stephenmurphy2212]

"Carol Singers Will Be Water Gunned!" is what I'd put on my door! 😂

[@_giovanni]

murica

[@murkywurders2064]

Carol Singers Will Be Shanked

[@harrypotterphan5431]

Stephen Murphy Amy pound who

[@enorth7301]

Best episode ever; I will always love Moffat for giving River an almost happy ending! Thank you so much! My favorite ever episode!

[@thenerdyouknowabout]

"Ive had a haircut, and this is my best suit" --- "He turned up on my doorstep with a new haircut and a suit" Oh the feels...

[@brammerz3193]

"Well it's a tiny bit complicated, most people need a flowchart" breaking the 4th wall there with all those River Song timeline videos 😂

[@codekillerz5392]

"Which alphabet!?"

[@DoctorOverbuild]

"I've had a haircut, this is my best suit" Wow it really does all tie together with River saying in Forest of the dead, " You turned up at my doorstep with a new haircut and a suit" What an ending for this couple.

[@Caroline1ie]

Aww I loved last year's christmas special!

[@19biglou]

It may not be popular opinion, but if you ask me, Capaldi is by far the funniest Doctor in the new series... Maybe not the goofiest, but certainly the funniest...

[@bartholemeowthefirst]

The mans got a sarcastic sense of humor that could dance in circles around the rest of the doctors... except maybe the fourth.

[@Tardisius]

"U don't look much like your pictures" =)

[@darthportus]

"That's ongoing problem for me" =)

[@SelenaMulan]

When she said that. I thought she knew

[@channelname1816]

*you

[@titanmonarch]

How can she say this and not realise sooner that it's him! X.x

[@matthousley8138]

The second I finished this episode I re watched silence in the library. 2 amazing episodes that tie together beautifully

[@Tweed.Echidna]

"I've had a haircut, this is my best suit" - I think we know where this episode is going.... :-(

[@cutelittledeadlyassassin]

"I got a haircut, this is my best suit." The Pain!!!

[@SuperAbbie18]

the best part is when he's shocked inside the TARDIS and when he talks to Nardole with Antlers on he's a legend :)

[@dayschange2]

Easily my favorite Christmas special of all time. Just lookit the Doctor all excited! Listen to those lines, you can just hear 11's voice saying them, like the Doctor's momentarily been pulled back to better times! And then he realizes that she's not in on the joke--then that there's no joke TO be in on at all.

[@thytoe]

It's unusual seeing Peter Capaldi playing the doctor after watching 'The thick of it' , you sort of expect him to burst out into a bursty swearing rage, although he share's many of the same traits of his character from 'The thick of it', Malcom Tucker.

[@kittenmoop5595]

I just assume The Doctor was holidaying as a poltician theough that

[@maskedmallard537]

It's still there on the onside. In the episode Dark Water, he shows the psychic paper to Dr. Chang who asks, "What's all this swearing?" The Doctor grabs it back, looks at it and says, "I've got a lot of internalized anger." 😂

[@BJWanlund]

The River episode was so, so much fun. I fell for that character practically immediately.

[@Wikia3033]

Look how he smiles - Twelfth doctor isn't the most smiley doctor like his predecessors. But when he smiles as genuine, as happy as here - it's sure means a lot to him) And River wasn't sure that the Doctor loved her. Twelfth doctor with that smile proves it to be completely opposite!

[@chaosmiles07]

Doctor: "Do I know you?" River: "You most certainly do not." _River reveals herself_ Me: "I most certainly do yes!"

[@Rayozaku]

The last episode of River Song T_T

[@saphari22]

for now, anyway. who knows with Who...

[@lechedenuggets302]

Saphari Haney they are making the pearl mackie tv season

[@ThomasMurch]

I think we're still due at least one appearance left - in The Name of the Doctor, she speaks the Doctor's name (off-screen, of course) to open the TARDIS, but they've never shown how she learned it. Unless his name is "Look into my eyes," he didn't tell her in The Wedding of River Song, and I doubt they'd leave such an important event to be resolved between episodes. Or has Moffat / Kingston confirmed that this Song is over? Not that I'd believe them, of course - they've been wonderfully susceptible to barefaced lying in the name of preventing spoilers...

[@SofthammerStudios]

Thomas Murch matt smiths doctor told her

[@laurakotkova]

yes but when?

[@FilmandTVFan]

I LOVE THIS EPISODE! This is the FUNNIEST Christmas Special!! I love it so much!

[@etazeta674]

"you don't look much like your pictures" "Well that's abit of an ongoing problem for me" 😂

[@sandraleepitts]

I adore this episode. Their timing and banter together is perfect!!

[@Thornus_______]

I like how Capaldi grins when he recognized her.

[@msinvincible2000]

When I first watched this episode, after River said the bit with the alphabet I thought "but which alphabet? What language does she use?" and then the Doctor said the same thing! I was astonished and proud :D

[@kimberleymorris8052]

I hate Christmas but always love the Christmas episode of Doctor Who

[@Chesra]

Me too :D

[@YipYap420]

Kim Morris how can u hate Christmas

[@johnwhittington2998]

Kim Morris Opposite Way round for me

[@kimberleymorris8052]

I'm autistic so it's all the noise etc

[@tavabeingtava7351]

Ricky .....seriously

[@phrophetsamgames]

Literally one of the best Christmas Specials ever.

[@MrYutbe57]

He's so excited to see his wife!!! "My husband is dying!!" . . . . . "No I'm not."

[@whovianforever63]

How can anyone dislike this? Freakin' pudding brains.

[@AshtrayGirlFarewell]

idk I just think he could've been more sad/shoked. he thinks he's seen the last of her after all and a lot of time has passed

[@victorpeterson3502]

0:53 just noticed that Nardole knocked four times!

[@Pentarax]

River: How do you know me? Doctor: Well it's a tiny bit complicated, people usually need a *flow* chart. Well played, Doctor.

[@soundgal_sine_qua_non]

"I will remove your organs in alphabetical order. Any questions?" "Which alphabet?" *huge smile on his face He's so happy to see her, it melts my heart. It's also so sweet that he's trying to fall back to how he flirted with her before, playing with the psychopath side of her. "[Cleopatra] mentioned you." "What did she say?" "Put down that gun." "Did you?" *says while smirking "Eventually." *He's still smirking

[@cargo71]

"... -I can easily kill 7 of them (the Silent)... -Can you? -8 for you - Stop it! -Make me! -Yeah, maybe I will..." River and the Doctor in Day Of The Moon...

[@mythomagic1771]

He should've just said Melody Pond, whispered his name and be done with it. Maybe made his hands glow with regeneration energy for extra effect.

[@DawnElicia]

Peter is the best. He's such a good actor. I hope he stays around for a while. I want to see how he does under a different writer.

[@xyluaphone]

I love Doctor Who unconditionally. I really do.

[@whereami2477]

I love Capaldi, but Christ Above that face at 2:41 is NIGHTMARISH

[@seangrand3885]

Yeah, that smile is quite creepy.

[@Theseamus2000]

His repressed malcolm tucker slipping through

[@HighKingOfSkyrim37]

Can't believe River didn't get it sooner. No one talks like the Doctor does, regardless of form.

[@hiroasuakika7144]

I love how the TARDIS grumbles back at The Doctor when he scolds her about the antlers haha

[@ianrichardson62]

I bloody love Peter Capaldi as the Doctor! He is intense and funny, son sad he's decided to go. You will be missed 😀👍🏼

[@Wooktent]

He's like a puppy, he's so joyous seeing her again, biggest smile 12 has ever had I think. I love it so much.

[@TheUnknownhumangirl]

@ 2:55 River Song: How do you know me? 12th Doctor: Well it's a tiny bit complicated. People usually need a flowchart! HAHAHAHAHA because it's true! 😂😂😂

[@SelenaMulan]

Now knowing Nardole, I appreciate his parts. He's hilarious

[@Cuban20]

I wonder if the Doctor will find a way to restore River's body from the Silence of the Library, thus reuniting himself with her. We really need that. His love with River is Epic. Even more so than Rose or Even Sarah Jane.

[@ChristopherUSSmith]

Juan Catalan He'll find a way. But first he has to get into a library infested with vashta nerada to get to CAL...

[@julieeverett7442]

the doctor never loved Sarah Jane, they were just friends that was a new who rewrite so this bunch of teenyboppers could get their romance fix. If there was ANY hint of romance in classic it was 3rd and Jo. But yes, I believe the doctor truely loved River!

[@brandonphillips578]

I feel like the show referenced zathura when the doctor said "one minute your sure then the next minute everybody turns into lizards and a piano falls on top of you."

[@roseflood1612]

I love how giddy he is to see her.

[@vorpalweapon4814]

The flow chart thing is pretty meta.

[@hyhena-gaming9986]

Oh you gotta admire how his mood is instantly better when he meets her, disproving tye idea he doesn’t love her before that’s revealed

[@Pranzetto93]

So cute when the Doctor recognized her

[@krathoon2338]

This episode brings everything full circle.

[@gicking3898]

I stopped watching Dr Who because of Capaldi and how they used him, but with River back, one of my all time Fav's, I'm really excited about Dr W again!

[@skenksnfmela2749]

GICking This episode has already aired.

[@danielkristen-thomas4637]

This episode came out almost a year ago to the day.

[@rami_ungar_writer]

I just watched thi special a couple days ago! It's one of my favorites.

[@Jmcinally94]

"Sometimes Professor but mainly Doctor" I swear this is Moffat's way of comparing her life to that of the Doctors in the end, with a reference to Ace thrown in.

[@robertjackson3552]

I love how different around her he is

[@Nexsusthepro]

"I think I'm going to need a bigger flow chart"

[@fawziekefli2273]

I love the way River never twigs that's he's the doctor until the (Spoilers!) "Hi, Sweetie" moment, because she's _sooo_ confident he only has the twelve faces.

[@TheJECNova]

"I think I'm going need a bigger flow chart." LOL. With an individual as old as him, that would probably take more than a human life-time, I'm sure. Even with abbreviations!

[@horatiohuskisson5471]

Nice to see the world looks exactly the same in the year 5000

[@thejadondaviscommentaries1613]

Horatio Huskisson Well it’s a different world

[@jareththegoblinking3191]

River: "You don't look much like your pictures" 12: "Well that's an ongoing problem for me." He's not wrong

[@Hemenucha]

Matt Smith -- why wouldn't you let them kiss??

[@zmythos]

That big ol' smile blooming on his face once he realizes it's his wife.

[@TheWAQProductions]

Loved this Christmas Special! Looking forward to The Return of Doctor Mysterio

[@LELeonard]

Bring Doctor Who back to Netflix!

[@ChristopherUSSmith]

L. E. Leonard and Hulu!

[@TheMaladja]

They did! But than in 2019 they erased it again!!

[@thenomadichistorian9922]

It is on Amazon Prime

[@amberdolphin1210]

Doctor: Do I know you? River: You most certainly do not! Doctor: *thinking* Oh, hello sweetie!

[@DawnElicia]

This is the first time I saw real chemistry between River and The Doctor.

[@stevensutton4677]

I know it would have given the game away, but when River made the threat about removing the Doctor's organs, he should have replied; "You should start with both of my hearts."