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I just saw this comment on another blog -

It has nothing to do with the fact Donna was perhaps 45 years old and acted like some whiny little teenager, a bitchy little shrew, and constantly complained and sulked and stamped her feet and threw tantrums about every. little. thing.



She was not only one of the least likable characters I've ever seen on Doctor Who, but one of the least likable characters I've seen in any medium, ever. I HATE Donna Noble.
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A bit extreme in that second paragraph, but not by much, for me.
 
There are times I hated Donna Noble and there were times I loved her. I always loved her grandfather however.

And there were some great Ood + Donna episodes.

I think one big thing with her was she was very crass, something that very few, if any companions are.
 
Liked her gramps a lot.

I think we got skunked on a few teasers leading up to tonight. Don't want to get into spoilers for those needing a few days to catch up (weekend, dvr, you know).
 
I really enjoyed tonight's episode. Did anyone else play the Dalek Bingo?

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/29605000/dalek-bingo-rev2.pdf

Was really surprised at the turn out we had for tonight's episode, usually a core group of 7 of us with a rotating 3 or 4, but never more than 12 at a time. We had 23 people show up for tonight's episode.

Only 6 days 19 hours 29 minutes until Doctor Who.
 
The difference between the classic Dr Who and the modern reboot is that the new Dr Who episodes are usually stand-alone stories, whereas the classic series were serial stories told over several episodes.

The classic series therefore were much scarier, utilizing the cliff-hanger at the end of every episode, and were quite terrifying and memorable for children as a consequence. The final image of a Dalek trapping the Doctor against a wall and screaming “EXTERMINATE!” would leave a child shuddering in terror as the closing titles began. It truly was the stuff of nightmares, and the stereotypical concept of a child watching Dr Who from behind a sofa was certainly based on a real shared experience.

The modern Doctor, on the other hand, is far more sentimental. The stories often centre around characters and the poignancy of time travel and grief and loss and missed and found opportunities for love and affection and saving people we care about, often through sacrifice.

I like both formats.

I never would have found myself crying at the old Dr Who, but stories like Father’s Day (2005) are very moving. In the newer series, the acting and appeal of the Doctor’s companions and their relationship with the Doctor are far more important. My favourite companion, for this reason, has to be Rose.

But I do miss the terror of the classic series and their pervasive atmosphere of dread. Doctor Who FTW!
 
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I'm curious how Jenna Louise Coleman is going to work in as the next companion. I know they have the easy out of being able to snatch her earlier in time but she doesn't recognize the Doctor and loosing her memory is just too convenient of an explanation.
 
[Hide]we already know a single dalek is capable of space time travel. Why can't souffle do that to avoid the explosion. It is also possible she is still human inside the Dalek armour. We see no actual evidence of any transformation aside from the Dalek skin.[/spoiler]
 
SamuraiBigEd said:
I'm curious how Jenna Louise Coleman is going to work in as the next companion. I know they have the easy out of being able to snatch her earlier in time but she doesn't recognize the Doctor and loosing her memory is just too convenient of an explanation.
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Well, I wouldn't be surprised if they include her with the other daleks that can't remember The Doctor anymore. Much like the way they worked around his death in the last season. I am hoping that there is more to it than that. Also, it might be interesting if he picks her up before she gets to the asylum planet and doesn't realize it is her since he has never seen her?
 
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agentc13 said:
Well, I wouldn't be surprised if they include her with the other daleks that can't remember The Doctor anymore. Much like the way they worked around his death in the last season. I am hoping that there is more to it than that. Also, it might be interesting if he picks her up before she gets to the asylum planet and doesn't realize it is her since he has never seen her?
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He has never seen her, but has heard her name and voice, so I suspect he'd suspect. Also requires a huge coincidence, him meeting her again, given all of time and space (and he can't deliberately rescue her, because that's crossing his own timeline). And while the "he meets her in her past" theory was the first that came to mind, they've done that already, and it would leave a much darker future fate this time.

So my guess is that she'll manage her own escape, which would also seem consistent with her character, and possible now that she realises what her situation is. And I think that all of the elements needed were present in the story itself, including a solution to her current state.
 
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He has never seen her, but has heard her name and voice, so I suspect he'd suspect. Also requires a huge coincidence, him meeting her again, given all of time and space (and he can't deliberately rescue her, because that's crossing his own timeline). And while the "he meets her in her past" theory was the first that came to mind, they've done that already, and it would leave a much darker future fate this time.

So my guess is that she'll manage her own escape, which would also seem consistent with her character, and possible now that she realises what her situation is. And I think that all of the elements needed were present in the story itself, including a solution to her current state.
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My Guess is she a super genius and the planet was filled with nano bots. Isn't it possible she reprogrammed the nano bots to reconstruct her body once the force field was down? One way to look at the body is its just a shell that contains a mind and soul. Then she warped off the planet.

The other thing I wonder if maybe she is DR's and River's child. She is way way to smart and perhaps she is a Timelord Hybrid so she regenerated.

The other thing is maybe the DR save's her he is full of surprises I really dont think anything is out of his grasp.

I personally loved this episode was very good.

One more thing I don't wanna spoil the series for anyone so into hide it goes. I wonder if we will ever see the Timelords as a villain. Perhaps they escape the temporal shift and decide to go after the DR. I think they would make a amazing villain in the series.
 
I don't like apologies for nothing done wrong.

I'm going to tell you something, Han Solo shot first.

And the daleks didn't get worse and it was all the Doctor's fault for making them more hateful.

The origin of the daleks was covered quite specifically in the Tom Baker days when he was sent to Scaros and we met Davros. They have always been killers, and the Doctor has never been the Predator.

Erasing him from their collective consciousness won't make him less guilty of something that he was never guilty of in the first place.

And it removes from future folklore all occurrences of, "Yeah, you're scared. Because you know who I am." (Doctor meets the warped Emperor)

Add this to the nonsense "Doctor Who" dance he did when he didn't die last season (the big question) and I'll stand by this -

Matt Smith, and especially the writers and producer, are long overdue for a regeneration.

The new writers can start by calling last night a nightmare, and give us our new companion.

One that doesn't think a guy should be called Nina because she went through a freaking phase once.

And TT insists that HIDE be in caps. grrrrrrr
 
We not only have the Master, but the new folklore makes Rasilon himself a villain.

He was bringing all of Galifrey back, even though it would destroy us (episode where Tennant dies)

Also, David Tennant had a daughter, she winged away and we haven't heard from her since.
 
EarlyMon said:
I don't like apologies for nothing done wrong.

I'm going to tell you something, Han Solo shot first.

And the daleks didn't get worse and it was all the Doctor's fault for making them more hateful.

The origin of the daleks was covered quite specifically in the Tom Baker days when he was sent to Scaros and we met Davros. They have always been killers, and the Doctor has never been the Predator.

Erasing him from their collective consciousness won't make him less guilty of something that he was never guilty of in the first place.

And it removes from future folklore all occurrences of, "Yeah, you're scared. Because you know who I am." (Doctor meets the warped Emperor)

Add this to the nonsense "Doctor Who" dance he did when he didn't die last season (the big question) and I'll stand by this -

Matt Smith, and especially the writers and producer, are long overdue for a regeneration.

The new writers can start by calling last night a nightmare, and give us our new companion.

One that doesn't think a guy should be called Nina because she went through a freaking phase once.

And TT insists that HIDE be in caps. grrrrrrr
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And TT won't show my whole post.

This thread isn't Tapatalk friendly at all.
 
EarlyMon said:
We not only have the Master, but the new folklore makes Rasilon himself a villain.

He was bringing all of Galifrey back, even though it would destroy us (episode where Tennant dies)

Also, David Tennant had a daughter, she winged away and we haven't heard from her since.
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Do you know who she is in real life? Her name is Georgia Moffet. Name sound familiar? Georgia Moffett - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia She and David married in January of this year (much to the dismay of my daughter, who is madly in love with Tennant lol).
 
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