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Having taken the king’s head, she then tries to sell it to a criminal group on an opulent space cruise ship, only to find they’re working for Hydroflax.īut, as usual, she’s one step ahead, having taken the precaution of conducting her negotiations on the day the ship is due to be crippled by a meteor strike and fall onto the planet below. Kingston has a lot of fun with the character’s cheerfully amoral nature (“An archaeologist is just a thief with patience”), with River double-crossing Hydroflax without batting an eyelid in order to retrieve a priceless diamond lodged in his skull. Here, the audience gets to see alongside the Doctor what she’s like in her normal adventuring life, away from his influence.
DOCTOR WHO SPECIALS THE HUSBANDS OF RIVER SONG SERIES
Most of River’s previous appearances in the series have been at crucial turning points of her complicated timeline. He’s disconcerted to find that, not only does she not recognize him, but her plan involves killing her husband, King Hydroflax (Greg Davies), with the help of yet another husband, Ramone (Phillip Rhys).
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The opening sequence is set on Christmas Day in a far-future human colony (which, from its appearance, might as well be present-day Earth) where a simple case of mistaken identity causes the Doctor (Peter Capaldi) to be drawn into a scheme being run by his occasional wife, River Song (Alex Kingston). In contrast to “Last Christmas,” the actual festive content of “The Husbands of River Song” is minimal. For this year’s Doctor Who Christmas special, showrunner Steven Moffat serves up a frothy combination of romantic comedy and broad farce, which gradually transforms into a poignant tying up of a long-running plot thread introduced as far back as 2008.