Well, I wondered about that. But it would be nice to have it explained - particularly as River can't regenerate any more. Maybe he was just returning her favour in LKH?
That's what I assumed; River's cells are presumably still 'open' to whatever this energy is, as the Doctor's were. I suspect this may have implications later.
The removal of the Doctor's details from most or all databases is presumably something we will come back to later on, given Oswin seems to have started it. The effect must be causal chaos.
Without a clear signal within the text, one could just as easily say it can only be done between spouses. Or those who can fly a TARDIS independently. Or any other unique connection between the Doctor and River I could think of. This is one of my problems with Moffat's writing, again and again: he leaves too many things unexplained, where a five-second throwaway line would tidy them up nicely.
That seemed the obvious explanation to me - also, we've seen the Tenth Doctor do something similar twice, once to revive the TARDIS in Rise of the Cybermen and once when he diverted unwanted energy into his severed hand in Journey's End. And more recently, of course, River Song did it to save the Eleventh Doctor. Given that River's Time Lord DNA derives from her conception on the TARDIS rather than her ancestry, and the Doctor described the hand as a "biomatching receptacle", I take it that they're all biomatches
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Is it so hard to deduce that the regeneration energy trick can only be pulled off between those who regenerate?
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The removal of the Doctor's details from most or all databases is presumably something we will come back to later on, given Oswin seems to have started it. The effect must be causal chaos.
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