It always surprises me when I hear that there are people in fandom who don't think that River is awesome. Because clearly she's awesome.

Ugh, fandom is stupid. I saw a thing which said that Canton being revealed as a gay was homophobic because it's a joke at the end, and another thing about how Moffat's clear sexism is totally clear and sexist because, I don't know, River and Amy were hot while River was using a gun and Amy was doing things or something. It was stupid. There was also something about how the Doctor's a murder-y jerk who gets all those poor helpless aliens killed.

Whatevs, fandom. Whatevs.

I handwave all that and instead watch the scene where River twirly-shoots bad guys again.