I don't like the Library scenario--however, as someone else pointed out if Cal allows the mainframe to expand the perimeters of her existance beyond that amber glow Moira Darling in a box ending, then yes. If the Moira Darling is all, I would say River will work until she finds a way out of her virtual cage.
Yup. I mean, I just can't imagine that ending as River being doomed to an afterlife of boredom and placid domesticity, when she's there in the not-quite-Matrix with her team and thus she and Anita can play naked 'Deadly Assassin' whenever they like.
The first time I watched this, I was very drawn to River Song and felt that her fate was very Time Lordy (ala Time Lord Matrix). It was difficult to judge the rightness or wrongness of being saved to the computer since we knew so little about her other than she seemed quite Doctory and it was suggested she had a very intimate relationship with the Doctor. Based on this, who was to say she didn't want this type of domestics
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It's not really clear that River is now a parent in the Library mainframe, though. Yes, she tucked in CAL and the virtual!twins, but then she could have easily just popped out and never came back after that, leaving them with any of the other members of her team. I doubt she's necessarily tied to CAL in any capacity.
There are so many reasons it's right. The Library mainframe is the next best thing to the Matrix, so it's River's afterlife. Every book ever written is there, along with several other interesting people, so there's no reason for it to be dull. River is a storyteller, giver of secret knowledge. In River's heaven, children are loved and cared for and protected. It works thematically, it works literally, and yet... and yet. And yet. There's still not quite everything.
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It works thematically, it works literally, and yet... and yet. And yet. There's still not quite everything.
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