12. Forest Of The Dead River's "Some Days Are Special" Monologue
"Everybody knows that everybody dies, and nobody knows it like the Doctor. But I do think all the skies of all the worlds just might turn dark if he ever, for one moment, accepts it."
River is a very, very divisive character. There are those who love her, and there are those who declare her a cancer and a blight on the show. Wherever you fall and most of us fall somewhere in between if this speech didn't make you cry at least once, you missed something special. We (both the audience and the Doctor) didn't really know who River was at this point. We suspected she was his wife, but we weren't sure. All we knew was that she'd die for him. That he'd meet her, one day. The future was paradoxically both over and wide open. This is a monologue about hope. It's about what the Doctor does: help people. Save people. Sure, we all have to come to terms with death in our lives, but the Doctor is defined by his refusal to just take these things lying down, by his determination to fight to the bitter end.
Rebecca Kulik lives in Iowa, reads an obsence amount, watches way too much television, and occasionally studies for her BA in History. Come by her personal pop culture blog at tyrannyofthepetticoat.wordpress.com and her reading blog at journalofimaginarypeople.wordpress.com.
