[spoiler="They won't see this coming" ~Mal Reynolds]
I am now convinced that the staff of
Doctor Who are complete morons. Every actor interviewed before the airing of
A Good Man Goes To War said that they were utterly surprised by the "twist" of River's identity, and Steven Moffat said that no-one would guess it (hence the
Serenity quote).
Some of you nailed it, and you're far from the only ones who guessed it -- in fact, a quick look at the TVTropes recap page for the ep says that at the "revelation" had people across the UK going "I knew it" (AKA the Adri Response). And although I put all theories as to River's identity to one side before watching, almost the whole episode seemed to be trying to tell us this fact from the beginning.
It might have been better if the reveal wasn't so clumsily handled. I also find it hard to believe that the Doctor was able to carve Melody Pond in Gallifreyan onto the crib with such short notice.
Oh well. What did I like about the episode?
Almost everything else. Amy's monologue about Rory to Melody was awesome, and was immediately upped by Rory staring down a group of Cybermen. "WHERE. IS. MY. WIFE? Oh, don't give me those blank looks..." Could that sequence get more awesome? Well, yes, the Doctor has a message: there goes the rest of the fleet. Do you want Rory to repeat the question?
OK, Jenny
wasn't the Doctor's daughter, but the maid of a Victorian Silurian adventuress. Who
ate apprehended Jack the Ripper. (In one of the Seventh Doctor novels, it's the Doctor himself who catches Jack the Ripper. Who was actually the Valeyard.)
The Sontaran combat medic was without a doubt, my favourite new character in the episode. Especially as he had a Welsh lilt. There was one bit that I didn't like regarding him, though - while he was dying, and Rory called him a warrior, before the Sontaran derisively described himself as a nurse. Rory
should have said "so am I" (or as TVTropes has it "you can be both. I am").
The Doctor is not a trickster? Wow, where have they been? I loved how his revenge was to have the Colonel sound the retreat with the words "run away". Again, this was one point that niggled me - the whole trap set-up. Half the reason they seemed to be doing it was because of stuff that the Doctor, at this point in his life,
hasn't done yet. They may have triggered the very acts that make them so terrified of him.
I loved the idea that the reason that so many worlds call someone who makes things better "doctor" is
because of the Doctor. And the fact that in the Gamma Forests it means "great warrior". Incidentally, I think the events in the Gamma Forests are in the Doctor's future as he didn't recognise her, rather than he'd forgotten her. It also makes me wonder what "nurse" means in the Gamma Forests. "Last Centurion", maybe?
Oh, and the saying/rhyme. While awesome, I think this "oldest saying" was created by Moffat, much as the old lycanthropic folk rhyme "even he who is pure of heart..." was created for
The Wolf Man.[/spoiler]
I've seen posts somewhere saying SHE LOOKS NOTHING LIKE THEM. Which irks me. 
