Matthew's Journal

I was about to say that. Has he forgotten his own setting-up-ness? It was explicitly stated by River at the time that what he was about to do would have killed him, despite all his remaining regenerations. So, knowing later that she was a timelord too and also had regenerations to go (we presumed) made it more poignant not less or in need of explanation.

Ah, but, so, now she's saying that losing one, her last, regeneration is worth less than burning the doctor's several? That works too, but I may prefer the former intermediate.

And anyway at that time was she aware she was a timelord? She's bound to suffer some major memory loss sometime soon, otherwise she will have always known things she didn't know? Like she grew up in a spacesuit but when she first sees it she doesn't say, 'I grew up in suit much like this... wait, this is it.' or 'mummy, why did you at shoot me?'