You don't remember the Doctor lying? Really?  Rule #1 - The Doctor Lies.

Yup.

You are so right!  "She was just being selfish about him." I agree — and I think she had very good reason to feel that way. People post about Amy and Rory and the loss of their baby, but nobody seems to think of it much from River's point of view.  She's lost so much — no normal childhood, no relationship to her…

Well, I completely agree about your comment on the oldest question — if it's truly "Doctor Who?" as some are theorizing then I, too, hope it never gets answered!

Hmmm.   Well, to your first point I would say that my impression had always been that River never seemed to actually feel guilty about the supposed murder.  She admitted to being in imprisoned for murder, but notice that she never actually said she'd committed the murder.  (Later edit: Yes, actually, she did. When…

Hmmm.  I think, maybe, perhaps, it's like this…  Well, no.  Probably not.  Umm….  The Doctor is a time traveler so he was able to revisit the same spot in time again.  And River has her Time Vortex, also, so she, too, could have conspired to revisit that fixed point in time to change it.  Which they both ultimately…

Well, you did start off by saying you were probably in a tiny minority in stating your current opinion.  I think you're right about that!  I actually loved Rose, liked Martha okay, and enjoyed Donna a great deal! But I much, much, much prefer Moffat's DW to Davies's — and that preference includes the new companions!…

Ummm… upon furthur reflection:  Any chance Moffat might be thinking to have this Doctor and River be the Adam and Eve of a new generation of Time Lords????  :S

Hardy, har, har.  That'd be a whole different kettle of fish, wouldn't it?  :o

So true.  But do you mean because he's saved it so many times, or because he's inextricably linked somehow?  Or, he's the creator?

Yea, you're right.  Besides, I just watched the episode again and it shot my theory to hell.

A couple of thoughts in reaction to yours:

Yep, the Doctor fakes his own death and keeps the Tardis.  Of course.  Tesselecta burning, Doctor escapes in Tardis and others beam out to mother ship.

Yeah, that was my take on it, too.  Although, as it turns out, it was both.  We're introduced to River at the library when the Doctor doesn't yet know her.  And, she dies.  Physically, anyways.  So there it is.

Actually, I thought his whispering to River in Hitler was, "Tell River I love her."  But I really like your theory!

My thoughts pretty much followed along the same lines.  But then, the Doctor COULD have convinced River to proceed to shooting him, without marrying her, by simply revealing to her that he was in the Tessalecta body.  And he had time alone with her to do that while Amy and Rory were with the Silence and Madame K.  So,…

In my ever-so-humble opinion, Moffat does a beautiful job of marrying plot and characterization.  My only complaint is that I want more episodes.  Now.  Written by Moffat.  Or Gaiman….

It could be, as stated somewhere earlier, that the fixed point in time is not that the Doctor dies, but that River shoots him.  The fact that she shoots him but it doesn't actually result in his death is therefore irrelevant, except for the implication that the Silence therefore believe him to be dead.

I think the Doctor Who as the question may have been a red herring, but time will tell…

I think that even with having predicted some of the outcomes, it was still intriguing that things didn't necessarily ensue exactly as expected.