Theory talk:Timeline - River Song

The Angels Take Manhattan
The problem with The Angels Take Manhattan is that while it seems easy to place, (she is now pardoned and a professor), it directly contradicts the bit about seeing a younger and younger doctor from the events of the end of Demon's Run on. It's a little hard to excuse this with "River lies" because of River Song: Her Story in which she isn't speaking to anyone and therefore isn't trying to preserve a timeline and prevent spoilers. Both of these things cannot be correct. The Angels Take Manhattan (and therefore the night in Darillium) cannot take place after the events of the Byzantium if from Demon's Run on she sees a younger and younger Doctor. And Angels Take Manhattan is what we use to date the night in Darillium. In Forest of the Dead River says that the last time she saw the real doctor, the proper doctor, the older doctor was in Darillium. And if you take that to mean a Doctor who knows her, loves her and is married to her than the events of Darillium could easily take place before Demon's Run. All of those events (Demon's Run, Lake Silencio, Pandorica, Byzantium) involve a Doctor who isn't married to her and doesn't even know her real identity. The Angels Take Manhattan taking place after Flesh and Stone does however really screw this up. Either River is lying or there are errors in Angels. Anoted ☎  16:16, May 10, 2013 (UTC)