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David tennant doctor who12/17/2023 ![]() Scenes from the next two episodes, “Wild Blue Yonder,” and “The Giggle,” make it clear that the two will be traveling together with seemingly no harm coming to Donna. Saturday’s special episode, “The Star Beast,” will nonetheless reunite The Doctor and Donna. If she ever recalls their time together, her brain will literally burn away. Regenerated into a previous form, The Doctor searches for the reason why and soon stumbles upon an old friend, Donna Noble, who can never remember she traveled with him. Davies’ comments across the last 13 months, a clearer perception of the specials has emerged. ![]() Thanks to subsequent trailers and returning showrunner Russell T. (Even by the episode's deeply cynical depiction of humans in "Midnight," it still didn't make much sense that even the dumber passengers didn't pick up on any of Sky's red flags.) Even still, those final few moments where the Doctor is haunted by the episode's events, even after the worst is over, features some of his best line deliveries in the whole show.But since that night in October 2022, official communication to the press from the production identified Tennant as the Fourteenth Doctor and that the stories told in the anniversary specials are real and canon - or, at least, as canon as any Doctor Who episode can be since its 60 year history features three different explanations for the sinking of Atlantis and two origins for the Loch Ness Monster. For instance, the creature possessing Sky (Lesley Sharp) is clearly still evil and in control at the end, yet most of the other passengers are still quick to trust her. There are some parts of this episode that don't really work. At the end the Doctor asks the rest of the passengers if anyone ever even caught the hostess's name, and no one did. The monster of the week is defeated not in some heroic, clever manner from the Doctor, but from the hostess sacrificing herself to stop the rest of the crew from throwing a possessed Doctor out into space. It's one of the show's most stressful, atmospheric episodes, and it's one that leaves the Doctor's faith in humanity momentarily shaken. If someone as important to him as Sarah Jane was left behind and never mentioned, so could Rose. That's the curse of the Time Lords." Here, Rose is forced to reckon with the fact that she will likely never be the most important part of the Doctor's life in the grand scheme of things. "You can spend the rest of your life with me," he says to Rose at one point, "but I can't spend the rest of mine with you. ![]() Like with "The Girl in the Fireplace," this episode touches a lot on the loneliness that comes with the Doctor's immortality. Luckily, the episode moves past the more immature aspects of this dynamic early on. His past relationship with Sarah Jane is written more like a romantic relationship (Sarah Jane accuses him of "dumping" her) than the platonic relationships of the classic show, and the dynamic between Sarah Jane and Rose almost feels like watching the sitcom trope of the current girlfriend meeting the former girlfriend and the two exchanging petty, jealousy-filled digs at each other. Perhaps the biggest change in their relationship compared to the Tom Baker era is that Tennant's Doctor is given more explicitly romantic material. ![]()
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