I greatly appreciate all the logic you applied to the bits we all hated. I choose to believe you are 100% right always.

Thinking on it, we do get a bit of River shaping the Doctor in, for example, his opening the TARDIS door with a snap of his fingers. It's a veeeery tiny thing, but it does show that the possibility for some change is there. Maybe. Hopefully. :/

I am so impatient for next week omg. MORE RIVER. MORE FLIRTING. POSSIBLY KISSING. :DDD