General Television Thread

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you have to remember that

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river didn't technically die in forest of the dead. she's on a computer, yeah, but people in doctor who have come back from worse

on top of that, its pretty damn clear that they have a complicated relationship, considering she still hasn't killed best man she ever knew.
my personal theory is that

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kovarian is river from an earlier regeneration, raised by her future self to kill the doctor (a cycle probably set into motion by a third party), which she succeeds at in some fashion, if she really is the one in the space suit. the scene we see in the trailer of her with the eyepatch would be early in her regeneration as the river we know. later on she falls in love with the doctor and all the stuff we've seen her do happens.