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Steven Moffat is open to River Song and Jack Harkness return!
Kane_Smith
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Imagine 12 consorting with River and Capt. Jack Harkness... Moffat is open to the idea and it's not closed off. 
http://www.radiotimes.com/news/2014-12-16/doctor-who-returns-of-river-song-and-jack-harkness-are-never-closed-off-says-steven-moffat
http://www.cultbox.co.uk/news/headlines/doctor-who-writer-moffat-open-to-river-song-and-captain-jack-returning
http://www.radiotimes.com/news/2014-12-16/doctor-who-returns-of-river-song-and-jack-harkness-are-never-closed-off-says-steven-moffat
http://www.cultbox.co.uk/news/headlines/doctor-who-writer-moffat-open-to-river-song-and-captain-jack-returning
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Though if we are to have a return then having another adventure with Robin Hood, Perkins or a second heist with Saibra and Psi would be more of a fun return team up than River and Jack.
Hell of a way to go!
If Series 9 is his last, it'd be a hell of a way to go. I'd have a two-part finale involving an assemblage of the universe's greatest time travellers, trying to stop a threat from the Weeping Angels...
Captain Jack: Series 9 would be a great time for him to make a comeback at any rate - marking the tenth year since the comeback of the show, he was the second companion-proper for Eccleston's Doctor. With Billie Piper already having returned several times, and Eccleston unlikely to be involved, I'd have Barrowman put on his long coat again and arrive via Vortex Manipulator again. It'd also be nice to know that his characters last scene in Doctor Who wasn't lamenting the death of his grandson in Children of Earth. It'd also give us a chance to ignore Miracle Day which I'm more than keen to do. It'd also be a chance to explore the 'two years' that Jack never remembered in his life potentially, if there was enough room in the story.
River Song: I really missed River in Series 8 though it's understandable the show is trying to move on to new things...as it should. But I'd have her back in a heartbeat, in a story involving a time-travelling assemblage at the very least!
Weeping Angels: They've not appeared since early in Series 7, and by the end of Series 9 it will have been a good few years since they were last seen. For the sake of a Moffat swansong I'd happily see them again in a decent story. Maybe tie their plot loosely into the ongoing Gallifrey plot. Just the odd mention, or maybe an affiliation with another Timelord they have going on? Keep them interesting, keep them scary but don't pull away from their basic tactics of time displacement.
They were in Last years Christmas Special (at least briefly).
Captain Jack is different - I'd love to see him return, and get on with The Doctor's latest companion (male or female?).
Jack is llke a breath of fresh air to the show! River's story is done and dusted!
But River's last appearance did feel like a goodbye.
That's not a dig on Moffat. Lots of aspects of Who have been given new life when handled by different writers.
Never say never. Something new and intriguing could come of it.
We don't need to see it - we were told how she came about it. We were told quite a few times that episode that the Doctor gave it to her.
Well, except the Rani.
Obviously.
And some characters he would need more persuading than others.
The supposed goodbye in name was to a computer echo. the real river unwittingly said goodbye to 'her doctor' at derillium.
I'd be interested to see what RTD's plan was for having 2 Capaldi's in the Whoniverse pre-12.
(Something which Moffat is aware of and said could still fit for the 12th Doctor too....)
Perhaps this can bring Jack back to the TARDIS, informing the Doctor his face is scattered throughout history, Bad Wolf style