Quote: Badge @ April 28 2011, 6:51 PM BST
I don't know why you're all assuming Moff has been playing some clever long game. From everything that's happened to date it looks to me like he's doing the same as RTD. Just because the Who team are loyal in saying he's had this big plan for River Song all along doesn't mean it's true.
I haven't got it on DVD but anyone care to go back to Silence in the Library and see if River's reaction to the Doc is consistent with what we are now being told?
And don't start on "Silence" being in the Library. If that ends up as significant then he's definitely made it up later.
I don't think he's been playing some long game since the first River episode. He obviously had ideas about who that character was supposed to be, but will clearly have then added a lot of stuff as he took over and decided to bring her back.
BUT, he has clearly had a few things in mind as he was writing his first series in charge that he knew he was going to be setting up for his second run. I don't doubt that he will have put up certain things without knowing exactly what they were going to turn out to be, but he was definitely seeding things for his second run last year.