Ooh, never tell a child "it's just your imagination." Bad dad, no biscuit!
Ah a trapped in another life scenario.
What is Dr. Moon up to?
I do love these jump cuts.
"fully integrated."
River and the Doctor have been to the end of the universe.
Like... in Utopia or whatever that episode was called?
So what does River whisper to the Doctor?
The Doctor jumps into Doctor Mode.
A doctor moon. Aha!
Doll of Donna, but without a face.
Because the face is on the infobot.
Is this a shadow, or one of the other people who got killed?
Yep, it's the pretty girl.
The shadows hunt in forests.
Hence the title, I'd guess.
But the books are wood, so it's kind of like a forest.
The shadows come from The Library.
Yeah, the Doctor figures it out.
trees-books-shadows.
The same boy and the same girl over and over.
Cool.
And the pretty girl has a distorted face.
It's like the Doctor's not finished, not done yet.
It's not *her* Doctor.
Hmm, this sounds like it's going somewhere interesting.
lots about faces in this episode.
Everyone was caught in the pattern buffer </star trek>
I've been dieting!
Hee!
two qualities required for seeing absolute truth: brilliant and unloved.
It's a dream. The girl's dream then? Huh?
"Cow"
Huh?
She remote controlled her dad.
What is going on?
Oh, "cal."
Nope, still doesn't make any more sense.
How does Dave know all this?
The girl is the computer.
And her other world is an amalgation of every book ever written? Are there literary references in the other world? Cause if so I missed them.
She's family.
Charlotte Abigail Lux.
She was why The Library was built.
Only half a life, but it was forever.
4000 people chattering away inside her head, must be like being the Doctor.
Interesting.
The Doctor: back in Doctor mode.
So the Doctor is mostly concerned about the shadows crossing him, as opposed to violating some universal law.
Shadows spreading out, really cool.
So this is where the relationship ends for River, but begins for the Doctor.
This is sort of like a John/Dalenn thing.
Ah, she whispered his real name in the Doctor's ear.
And there's only one time when he would have told anyone his real name. Which is?
I will find you.
How very Last of the Mohicans.
And all the people return.
Donna's NotHusband. Was a figment of her imagination or something else?
Oh yeah Doctor Moon, Professor Song.
Like the Master was the Professor.
Spoilers.
When you run with the Doctor, feels like it will never end. But how ever how hard you try, you can't run forever. Everybody knows that everybody dies and nobody knows it like the Doctor.
She got saved in the sonic screwdriver.
Everybody dies, but not every day. Not today.
River gets downloaded into the data core to live forever.
And joins her teammates.
The Doctor snaps his fingers and the TARDIS opens.
Everybody lives.
Sweet dreams, everyone.