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Why did the Little Girl (who is probably Melody Pond) have the need to regenerate at the end of 'Day of the Moon'? When the Doctor said that he thought that she would find them, while I don't think he knew the girl's identity he guessed she could look after herself. What if the Little Girl is out having adventures? Perhaps she has been mortally wounded heading off the Nestene Consciousness's attempt to establish a bridgehead on Earth in New York, after which they decide that Epping Forest is a more viable alternative, Spearhead from Space following [say]? I like the idea of River learning some of her skills on the move, as a (very) junior Doctor... (but do I trust CBBC to think that?)
The Doctor's ability to talk to babies isn't that surprising - and reminds me of someone else who fell out of the sky, Mary Poppins, whom I seem to remember from reading one of the books could talk to the youngest infants as well as to animals.
Looking up the 'How goes the day?' greeting, it appears in Shakespeare's King John and elsewhere, but is closer in context to an exchange supposedly before the death of John Graham of Claverhouse, first Viscount Dundee, at the battle of Killiecrankie in 1689. 'Bonnie Dundee', the dying but victorious Jacobite commander, asked a soldier 'How goes the day?' to be told 'Well for King James, but I am sorry for your lordship.' The dying Lord Dundee replied (or so says Wikipedia), 'If it goes well for him, it matters the less for me.' The exchange might be appropriate if one substitutes River Song for King James and Melody for Dundee, given that River and Melody are the same person.
The Doctor's ability to talk to babies isn't that surprising - and reminds me of someone else who fell out of the sky, Mary Poppins, whom I seem to remember from reading one of the books could talk to the youngest infants as well as to animals.
Looking up the 'How goes the day?' greeting, it appears in Shakespeare's King John and elsewhere, but is closer in context to an exchange supposedly before the death of John Graham of Claverhouse, first Viscount Dundee, at the battle of Killiecrankie in 1689. 'Bonnie Dundee', the dying but victorious Jacobite commander, asked a soldier 'How goes the day?' to be told 'Well for King James, but I am sorry for your lordship.' The dying Lord Dundee replied (or so says Wikipedia), 'If it goes well for him, it matters the less for me.' The exchange might be appropriate if one substitutes River Song for King James and Melody for Dundee, given that River and Melody are the same person.
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