RIVER SONG IS WHO????? | Doctor Who - Season 6 Episode 7 (REACTION) 6x07 "A Good Man Goes to War"

[@Psi105]

"Because the only water in the forest is the river" That line has so much emotional impact.

[@nowlimira5868]

That line was there since the beginning of the season. That was so well crafted. I love this era of Doctor who. Silence will fall

[@rajnaladee]

Does anybody else remember Idris(the Soul of the TARDIS) whispering to Rory: "The only Water in the Forest is the River", & w/ Her dying breath(as Idris) at that.... 🤭 This was lingering in the background for quite a bit before the knowledge & meaning of it arrived in this moment.... 🥹💗 Uhhhg..... .... SO MUCH LOVE....🤗

[@Dubble77D]

"Good men don't need rules. Today is not the day to find out why *I* have so many."

[@sky0kast0]

What a line

[@joguipo]

I still have that on my WhatsApp status 😂

[@IDCSarcasticSam]

Good people don't need quotes.

[@Miss.Cypher]

River in the beginning of the episode: "It's my birthday" ♥A sweet detail.

[@chrisdiokno5600]

Yeah, I never caught that at first

[@haventakloo]

i’ve seen this episode so many times over the years, and this video was the first time i caught that too!!!

[@atheos.1383]

Didn't ever catch that. Love how all of this is so in our face the whole time yet expertly concealed so only THE MOST perceptive people pick up on it before the reveal.

[@frenchprint]

OMG I'd never caught that

[@sanadamakie]

And then she proceeds to tell her dad the awesome, sweet things her husband and her did on her date. Her whole body language changes to something like a love struck girll. So heart-warming.

[@Kayjee17]

The Doctor ducked out quickly so he didn't have to face the most fearsome creature of all... a Scottish mum yelling, "You kissed my daughter?!?!!!"

[@Tehblood]

yeah i read that in karens voice.

[@whatwho1701]

best comment about that scene ever

[@PandezPanda]

Doctor (in the library) I point and laugh at archeologists ... Doctor (meeting Melody) Points and laughs

[@seanstirling2685]

But that's not melody. It's a flesh.

[@jthomann71]

​@@seanstirling2685He didn't know that.

[@troytab6089]

​@@seanstirling2685 We *JUST* had a two-part episode explaining that the flesh are people too.

[@seanstirling2685]

@troytab6089 but they aren't. Idgaf, what the doctor says. If flesh were people, he wouldn't have killed flesh Amy.

[@FahadAyaz]

​@@seanstirling2685Did you learn nothing from the last story? 😔 Flesh or not, it's still Melody

[@tenmark7055]

There was a clue way back in The Doctors Wife when Idris said it was important to remember that the only water in the forest is the river

[@atheos.1383]

I saw that again recently and caught that little bit of foreshadowing too. They crafted everything so well up to the reveal of her identity.

[@ruairih100]

"Way back" aka 3 episodes previous 😂

[@eva44940]

rewatching River episodes is really rewarding after this point, cause you notice how "unusually" sweet River is with Amy in the Angels episode, and how she doesnt introduce herself to Amy at the Pandorica (although it predates the Angels episode in her timeline)

[@JeshuaSquirrel]

Alex was the only person other than Steven who knew who River was. Steven made sure she knew so she could properly play the character at the appropriate moments in River's life. Watching River's scenes in her chronological order make total sense, a testament to Alex Kingston's acting ability.

[@katearcher8514]

​@@JeshuaSquirrel getting to know Alex a bit better, you start to feel like she's the most devoted fan of the whole thing. So much genuine love for the story and her character. She seems to enjoy it more than anyone

[@KanaTokisho]

A neat little fun fact, John Barrowman (Captain Jack) was meant to show up here, this is how he would lose his head and become the Face of Boe but the actor was busy with other projects at the time.

[@seanstirling2685]

🏹

[@ym10up]

Oh that is a fun fact!

[@JayPerView]

OH MY GOD!!! That’s a very fun fact 😯 Thanks for sharing!!!

[@crystalfire5564]

I love watching when people learn who River is!

[@df6957]

Especially when we were already told it in "The Doctor's Wife", but didn't realize what was being said... 😢😢😅😅

[@VonPatzy]

This episode is WHY I watch WHO reactions. Been waiting for you to get here since Rose. River’s scene with Rory is so much better the second time you watch her come home from celebrating HER BIRTHDAY. This is a great time to go back and revisit silence in the library - where the Doctor meets River the day she dies wearing Tenent’s face and traveling with Donna. Love the Melody Song River Pond story.

[@rubenarias6538]

Melody = Song Pond = River It's one of my favorite episodes.

[@angelarts]

What really blew my mind is if you look back at previous episodes with River after watching this episode, you realize she knew Amy and Rory were her parents the entire time, yet she never once gave any indication/special attention to them/nor reacted to them even in the first time she ever met them. It impressed me how well she was able to keep that a secret the whole time, and kind of tragic that she couldn't "enjoy" their relationship in that way explicitly or it would totally disrupt the timeline.

[@annaschwirian7548]

I clicked so fast this episode is one of the best in the history of Doctor who.

[@kyleaustin4182]

I don't know what's better: that you've finally learned the truth of River Song, or that you've finally met Vastra, Jenny, and Strax!

[@FahadAyaz]

Was this really the first time that we met them? 🤯

[@Jim_The_Fish]

@@FahadAyazyup. This episode really is insane.

[@DeathsjesterKMNP]

Definitely the River thing, 100%.

[@kc7280]

Vastra saying “time to repay a debt” and we have no idea who she is, love it!

[@calronkeltaran493]

@@kc7280 honestly, I always thought that she is a charakter from old who. so I never thought to hard about this

[@charlesedwards2856]

I just realized a small but fun detail. In the Silence in the Library episodes, Tenant’s Doctor says “…I point and laugh at archaeologists.” In this episode when he meets “Melody” as a baby, he points down at her and laughs…although it’s a happy laugh for it being a new baby of a friend.

[@mattdragon80]

There are so many call backs to that episode! I live how he worked them all in

[@AzguardMike]

Rory's acting when River says "Im Melody." is amazing. From confusion and anger, to pure shock. His forehead just morphs from those 3 emotions in 2 seconds.

[@Look_Over_There]

I love the scene with the crib how he never directly answers Amy’s question. The doctor is a father and a grandfather, he told Donna in the doctors daughter, all gone now.

[@СарраКарагозян]

We do know the name of his granddaughter, by the way! Susan Foreman (Campbell). Gallifreyan, was a companion of First Doctor.

[@Lordoftheapes79]

That face at "Would you like me to repeat the question" 😂

[@tank2045]

If you recall in The Doctor's Wife, they actually foreshadowed this ending...

[@ym10up]

Doctor's Wife was such a deliberate diversion for the maximal effect of this reveal. It's so freaking smart.

[@jstarrett0193]

"Oh, look, your cot haven't seen that in a very long while" - River When you have the right wording, it also makes more sense to some people.

[@SamMatthewJ]

God I remember watching this as a kid when it came out and I still think it's one of the best twists. The score behind it and the way the reveal is done is so perfect. I cried just watching it here out of context. Gives me chills every time

[@BillinHungary]

Jay, do you remember in the beginning where River said that she couldn't come until the very end, and she also was talking about a birthday? She couldn't come until her actual birthday - when she would actually be born and taken by the silence, otherwise she would have crossed her own time-line.

[@Artaimus]

That opening hits so hard, that Rory would just walk through all the Cybermen security systems like that to ask a question.

[@onlycrazy7258]

Alex Kingston ( River) on her very first episode with David Tennant (which was written by Steven Moffat) was given her journal which is in fact filled with all the details of River's life that Steven planned from the very very beginning. Steven made a point that he was going to be the only one to write episodes with River in it. Alex knew everything from the beginning (I believe she even knew she was Amy's daughter from the beginning) and all of the episodes that are still to come with River are written in the journal as well so really Steven is the best screen writer there ever was and it's so precious to know that Alex got to see it all play out exactly like she read in the journal

[@danielwilliamson6180]

I bet when River met Donna, Donna reminded River of Amy.

[@CyberBeep_kenshi]

and rhrn chipmunk ruined the franchise

[@altinaykor364]

👎👎👎

[@mrdr0161]

Where did you hear any of this? None of this is true. Moffat wouldn't write Rivers entire story in a journal which he then passed around to Alex. That easily could've gotten lost and leaked. And Moffat has literally said he didn't plan on writing Amy as a character until after he wrote rivers first story.

[@allenpayne927]

I was waiting forever for this reaction and you did not disappoint

[@RedCaio]

River is possibly my favorite character in all of fiction!

[@JayPerView]

After watching “Let’s Kill Hitler” I think I agree with you 100% 😆

[@jennifermorris6848]

Now go back and rewatch the Time of Angels when Amy first meets River.

[@СарраКарагозян]

This episode is _mind-blowing!_ My heart breaks for Ponds every time I watch it, but River's reveal is so amazing. And the meaning of the Doctor changing depending on how he behaves is so raw. "Great warrior". Also Rory is the best!!! And if you're wondering Doctor did have a granddaughter (or someone who believed he was her grandfather) - Susan Foreman (Campbell), companion to First Doctor and a Gallifreyan

[@jeckjeck3119]

Soldiers: ''We are not fools.'' The Doctor: *Makes them put down their guns while his army surrounds them*

[@Jamestopboy]

“Where do you get a cot?” Simple - *the attic of your house.* Where did the Doctor get *his* cot? *The attic of his TARDIS, his home.*

[@RobinWells89]

I have been waiting for your reaction to this 😁 Also I don't know if you caught it, but if you remember three episodes ago, "the only water in the forest is the river" is what Idris (as the TARDIS consciousness) said to Rory.

[@joly6598]

I think he *DID* catch it, on account of the way that he reacted, JOLTING UP OUT OF HIS CHAIR, when River repeated that line, before they had even revealed the translation on the blanket... :)

[@RobinWells89]

@@joly6598 Ah fair enough! I thought that was just in reaction to the word "river" itself :)

[@MavenCree]

You standing in the corner at the reveal: MOOD. That was ALL of us.

[@MavenCree]

Notice that when Rory went to get River at the prison... She said it was her birthday. Took me a few watches to catch that one. 😊

[@soundgal_sine_qua_non]

Been waiting for this one!! I adore River as a character and I love the Ponds as companions, so the ending is perfect for me.

[@seanstirling2685]

They are the Williams

[@dylancole1910]

The BEST character reveal in all of New Who to this day.

[@gwen9341]

Oh I’m so glad you’re watching this omg!! River’s reveal is one of the best. It’s so heart wrenching to see their timelines in reverse knowing the Doctor has seen her death.

[@daveiangy692]

the tardis last words in human form "the only water in the forest is the river" or something like that anyway yet again an amazing vid thanks :)

[@peterbrogan670]

Awesome and epic and the end reveal is one of the most extraordinary twists in the whole of Who

[@Marian70V3]

CRYING EVERY TIME!!!!

[@louvie1066]

The way I realised River was excited to share what happened for her birthday with her dad at the beginning T^T

[@JayPerView]

STAHP!!!

[@ChelleighBeanz]

I’ve been waiting for this one since you watched silence in the library.

[@channyh.221B]

Amy and Rory's daughter giving her life for the Doctor is such an obvious choice for her right now. My goodness what a story line... and the ride isn't over yet for Jay.

[@reginaphalange8636]

it feels so fresh to watch someone watch these iconic scenes in 2024! been a follower of doctor who since 2013 and i still love watching these contents haha loved your reaction

[@scottredding7357]

I like watching older Doctor Who episodes - the actress playing Lorna has gone on to be Star Trek’s La’an Noonien Singh.

[@Kayjee17]

A relation of Khan's? In which Star Trek show?

[@RedCaio]

@@Kayjee17 Strange New Worlds and yes

[@monkeyzorr3090]

@@RedCaio Kurtzman Trek is not _genuine_ Star Trek

[@RedCaio]

@@monkeyzorr3090 no need to be rude. I’m just answering a question. Besides Strange New Worlds is nothing like other recent Trek shows, even you might like it.

[@noahrobin1941]

@monkeyzorr3090 I found Discovery mostly unwatchable (although possibly not for the same reasons as many others). Strange New Worlds isn’t perfect, but it does some good stuff. As a for-instance, episode 1x06 is actually based on an old Roddenberry script (he may actually have a writing credit on it?), and IMO it definitely shows. I echo @RedCaio; I think it’s worth checking out. Note that it’s /helpful/ if you’ve seen Discovery season 2 (and 2x12 in particular) but not required.

[@thearchive1132]

So glad you enjoyed this episode and it's twist. I've seen it so many times and it never gets old....or less emotional. Aren't the Paternoster Gang awesome? And poor wee blue Dorium.....so sassy.

[@JurinvanPeddersjepen]

Thanks for the reaction... Sweetie ^^

[@wolfwarrior9451]

Love your reactions to Who! Need them more often! (Unless you can't, of course, no pressure)❤❤❤

[@paulbrecken2136]

We've all been waiting for this reaction. You never disappoint with your reactions.

[@socalso]

Gotta say the first time I saw this episode I was like OMG 🤯 - and honestly still gets me every time I see it again. River Song rocks!!

[@jedwards1994]

Love your reaction to finding out who river is ❤❤❤love all your reactions

[@CAMPFIRESKY]

EPIC EPISODE !!!! Glad you finally saw it.

[@willparks3429]

The way River says Rory very much like she's saying dad

[@michaelentwistle5933]

Out of all the DW reactions I've watched, Jay seems to see it the way it's meant to be seen. You get it man, it's awesome 😎

[@JulieFreyHomeWebBiz]

Season 6 + upcoming Christmas Special are out of time line order. That's what makes Season 6 different from other seasons. Plus it was split up into two parts. (Spring & Fall) Plus we introduce new characters.

[@hallyhop]

Great reaction! One of my favorite episodes

[@chrisplett876]

remember when River said it was her birthday?

[@JayPerView]

AHHHHHHHHHHH

[@sherylwallbank1090]

Yes! Finally!!!!! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[@heatherrose5594]

One of my favorite episodes!

[@auntvesuvi3872]

Jay, the Amy-Rory-River stuff is my *favorite* subplot from all of DOCTOR WHO! 💎 And I'm so pleased to say... the best is yet to come.

[@davek7256]

Best reveal ever. Fantastic episode. 👏🏻

[@GoddessOfWhatnot]

Biggest twist ever! 😄

[@dogti2959]

To this day, this is still one of the most haype episode of Doctor Who I ever see. Finally learning about River's identity always gives me chills. You have the music, you have the meaning... This is just too clever, I love it. Especially when you're able to figure it out just a couple of seconds before. And I love feeling it again watching new people react to it. That's why I love reaction videos in general.

[@michaelspence2902]

Please watch all the minisodes. Help with context later on

[@onlycrazy7258]

yesss we need the minisoooodes

[@danielwilliamson6180]

18:27 A Good Man Goes to War = best episode of Doctor Who ever! The ending which River Song reveals herself as Amy and Rory's daughter Man! I really did not see that coming.

[@lancourt]

I love your reactions and the way you do them. You arent pausing the episode and talking for five minutes then going back to it, you are reacting as it happens. And centurion Rory is the BEST.

[@silverstitch28]

This episode always makes me cry❤

[@novaboon2866]

Quick question. What is the name of the song in your intro, and what was the song in your old intro?

[@JayPerView]

Song now: Time of Dying by Three Days Grace Old one: I’ve had a bunch but the one before this one was I Don’t Care by Apocalyptica 😄

[@Nisichan]

One of my favorite episodes. I'm glad you loved it too ^_^

[@eliotnemec8842]

This episode has so many iconic lines 😭❤️

[@gkcn9688]

The biggest and the best timey wimey plot twist ever. River Song identity was my fav story arc and river amy rory tardis and doctor all are related and became a familyy . the most special era of showww

[@denisenewton5107]

Just discovered your channel. From your reaction on this one video I will definitely be watching more.

[@catlover0160]

Omg, it was amazing watching your reaction, this episode is one of my all time favourites ( along with quite a few others!!) 🇬🇧

[@rileycassel6931]

I remember when this first aired. I knew she was Melody the instant she said "Oh look your cot I haven't seen that in a very long while" and it was like Captain America or Jane Foster picking up Mjolnir!

[@granadosvm]

As an audience we never learn what was written in the Doctor's cot, I have a theory that explains the reaction of The Doctor, a plot they didn't pursue: "The cot of , the daughter of The Doctor and River Song". That's why he excited starts saying "that means that you and I", [kissy gestures]

[@steve8510]

Epic Rory, my fave companion since Sarah jane

[@ricohutchinson9684]

Best ep of the season 🎉

[@TopcatsLair]

Back when the show had revelations that blew people's minds. True quality storytelling

[@ArtisticMysticSoul]

I've been waiting for this one! Such a great payoff for River's storyline. I could not wait for you to find out!!!

[@chrisdiokno5600]

God, this was and still is one of my favorite episodes

[@sinimsdp]

Moffat loved a good twist. This one is far from the last.

[@ajandrianjafymusic]

Man you’ve reached possibly the best episode (imo) of new who

[@demonic_myst4503]

The fact cybermen went from dumb robots eanting turn anyth8ng into cybermen to having a standing army smart enough to be weary of the docter is cool

[@carlazaz1690]

Fun with word play.

[@zetzle]

"the only water in the forest is the river" is what the human tardis was saying to rory before she 'died'

[@cazzykel]

I have been waiting for you to watch this!!!!

[@DigiRangerScott]

I’ve seen this episode a few times, but it was AFTER the Headless Monk had his meeting with the Doctor acknowledging DOCTOR WHO? couldn’t be answered. I thought his entire species was in a living decapitation. And I missed the slice the first few times I watched the episode

[@archer2733]

Knowing what was coming, I was so looking forward to your reaction, didn't disappoint!

[@HankD13]

Back when they knew how to write a story. Always love watching people discover this one. Brilliant.

[@DigiRangerScott]

Next episode starts a 92 episode arc where the Doctor goes to a high school for the memorably daft

[@RedCaio]

what are you referring to?

[@DigiRangerScott]

@@RedCaio The memorably daft

[@TheSarahLouise24]

The next episode though, it's a mixed bag for a lot of people but it's an absolute favourite of mine

[@LeeKeels]

One of the single best moments in DW history.

[@wisewillowgames]

Omg ya were here

[@colby_247]

One of the best episode of Doctor Who!! Forever love this episode.

[@mattm7378]

The first time I saw this season, I thought the eye patch lady was River. There is literally no need for those two actresses to look like twins. it was so confusing to me

[@JayPerView]

😆😆

[@TheGelatinousSnake]

Great Stuff. GG Rory putting the weapon away.

[@BillinHungary]

I watched you jump back when River said that the only water in the forest is the river did you remember that the Tardis told Rory that, right before she died?

[@msorrell19]

This is one of the best episodes of Doctor Who ever written

[@emobirb2302]

i reaallly love this episode, almost one of the best (of this doctor)

[@juliedatson6318]

Some of the best storylines ever

[@Jantzku]

The tears!

[@RedPandaGirl002]

Years ago, when I was 17, I thought Amy's baby was a boy. But I was wrong. I later found out the baby's name was *Melody.* It was a girl. 😔😞