The Doctor's Daughter

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Time for a new spinoff series!



The Jenny Who Adventures!

I wasn't expecting to like Jenny so much, but it was lovely to see the Doctor gradually accepting her, and her learning from him and Donna (you could just see her watching them). And she was another soldier character that the Doctor bonded with, like Ross, and she was so pleased when she didn't kill the other soldiers. And she called him out on killing people, yay.

I knew that she was a guest character, so I was on tenterhooks waiting for her to be killed off, and then when she was shot I was shouting 'Regenerate! Regenerate!' I squeed loudly at the TV when I saw the golden light of Time-Lordiness. And now she's flown off out into the universe, all new and shiny and full of bright possibilities.

Minor point, why didn't she regenerate properly? I mean, was she dead?

Loved Martha healing her captor, that being a doctor is the first thing she thinks about, and "I'm Doctor Martha Jones, who the hell are you?" She really is a Doctor in her own right now.

"I love this bit." Yay Martha!

"There's always something worth living for. Doctor Jones." Ah, a better goodbye scene. SHE BE BACK, though.

The week's war and the Chinese Whispers mythology was interesting. I'd sort of come to the Chinese whispers conclusion myself, but not the timeframe! The terraforming thing was a bit Genesis, taken together with the seven days.

I loved Donna rocking the Dewey Decimal System and being really good with numbers and generally being her smart-mouthed self. Don't say "forever", Donna! See what that did to Rose!

Donna's feminine wiles! And the Doctor wanting to save them in case of an emergency! And also, clockwork mouse for the win.

Loved all the Doctor's PTSD and his EMO WOE for his dead children, and the way he wouldn't acknowledge Jenny at first and kept brushing her off, and his change until the moment when you thought he was about to go all Oncoming Storm on the Colonel, and then "I never would." And, oh, he does angst so beautifully.

Love the irony about looking up 'genocide' in the dictionary and seeing the Doctor's face there to stop it, considering that he's committed double genocide himself.

I take it they are wanting to bring Jenny back at some point. It was totally TARDIS Nuclear Family with the Doctor and Donna, heh.

So...the TARDIS brought the Doctor there just so that Jenny could be created, hmm?

Comments

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I thought it was utter rubbish. Didn't make a great deal of sense in places (what, you'll inflict eternal punishments on someone for snatching away a bit of potential happiness but not even lay a hand on the guy who murdered your daughter, Doctor? You make even less sense than the average anime) and felt hideously rushed. The Doctor getting a daughter, coming to accept her, and then losing her. That's a lot more than a single episode worth of material.

And he took his daughter's death too easily. Emo woe of doom for the genocidal monster who happens to share a species with him but not even a tear for his daughter, even if she was a bit, umm, abnormal in her origins? Sense, it makes none.

2/5 from me, and that's because, no matter how bad I thought it was, it doesn't deserve to be ranked with Torchwood of that abysmal Dalek two-parter last series.

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I agree that it was too short, but apart from that it worked great for me.