(considering she wasn't last time we saw her, nor was there any mention of a child, and that was probably her future, as I understand it?)
Except there's no way to know how much time is passing for River. I'm not entirely sure she's the age she looks, considering the technology that her people obviously have - actually, we don't even have any way to know for sure that she's human. Especially since they hint that she's been a lot of places, and been on the TARDIS quite a lot as well ... it would not surprise me to find out that, say, ten years pass for her between one time we see her and the next time (and then, the next time could be five years earlier for her -- I'm pretty sure it's not a strictly linear progression by any means).
My main guesses for the pregnancy thing are either "alien mind games" (basically a psychological redirect, like you said), or that the aliens are incubating something in the human women. I really hope it's not the latter, though! My entire flist seems to be assuming that Amy's pregnancy is real, which was what I assumed at first, but the more I think about it, the less I believe it. River getting sick under the same circumstances is far too coincidental to actually be a coincidence.
(And not so weirdly, if they *did* actually make it clear that they don't ever hook up like that, then I'd like River/Doctor about 100% more...I just really doubt that's going to happen.)
I don't know. My assumption all along is that they're never going to explain it in much detail -- I could turn out to be wrong (actually, with Moffat at the helm, I may well turn out to be wrong >_>) but thus far everything about River has been very thoroughly shrouded in mystery, and I keep expecting that her relationship with the Doctor will remain likewise. Though this episode made it harder to cling to my illusions ... *clings stubbornly* XD In my case, it's not so much that I'm dead-set on the Doctor remaining ace as just that I like the mystique and ambiguity of it all. I like that we don't quite know who River is or what she is to him, or if the Doctor even experiences emotion on a human level at all**, and I don't really want to have the veil ripped away ...
** Er, not that I'm trying to imply sexual attraction = human emotion, obviously. ^^;; It's just that one thing about Doctor Who, all along, is that there's a huge element of ambiguity in terms of just what, exactly, his relationships with other people actually are -- he's mysterious and alien, and he appears and disappears and never forms attachments for very long, and that's a big part of what I like about him. I was originally rather antithetical to River's character because I didn't want to see her turned into the Doctor's One True Love (TM), and I still don't want to see that. At the very least, even if they imply romance/marriage, I hope they leave us with enough of a veil around them that it's possible to read different interpretations into it.
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Except there's no way to know how much time is passing for River. I'm not entirely sure she's the age she looks, considering the technology that her people obviously have - actually, we don't even have any way to know for sure that she's human. Especially since they hint that she's been a lot of places, and been on the TARDIS quite a lot as well ... it would not surprise me to find out that, say, ten years pass for her between one time we see her and the next time (and then, the next time could be five years earlier for her -- I'm pretty sure it's not a strictly linear progression by any means).
My main guesses for the pregnancy thing are either "alien mind games" (basically a psychological redirect, like you said), or that the aliens are incubating something in the human women. I really hope it's not the latter, though! My entire flist seems to be assuming that Amy's pregnancy is real, which was what I assumed at first, but the more I think about it, the less I believe it. River getting sick under the same circumstances is far too coincidental to actually be a coincidence.
(And not so weirdly, if they *did* actually make it clear that they don't ever hook up like that, then I'd like River/Doctor about 100% more...I just really doubt that's going to happen.)
I don't know. My assumption all along is that they're never going to explain it in much detail -- I could turn out to be wrong (actually, with Moffat at the helm, I may well turn out to be wrong >_>) but thus far everything about River has been very thoroughly shrouded in mystery, and I keep expecting that her relationship with the Doctor will remain likewise. Though this episode made it harder to cling to my illusions ... *clings stubbornly* XD In my case, it's not so much that I'm dead-set on the Doctor remaining ace as just that I like the mystique and ambiguity of it all. I like that we don't quite know who River is or what she is to him, or if the Doctor even experiences emotion on a human level at all**, and I don't really want to have the veil ripped away ...
** Er, not that I'm trying to imply sexual attraction = human emotion, obviously. ^^;; It's just that one thing about Doctor Who, all along, is that there's a huge element of ambiguity in terms of just what, exactly, his relationships with other people actually are -- he's mysterious and alien, and he appears and disappears and never forms attachments for very long, and that's a big part of what I like about him. I was originally rather antithetical to River's character because I didn't want to see her turned into the Doctor's One True Love (TM), and I still don't want to see that. At the very least, even if they imply romance/marriage, I hope they leave us with enough of a veil around them that it's possible to read different interpretations into it.