I was really hoping that this could be a cool special, after all, David Tennant is comming back, it has to be great then, right? Oh how very wrong I was.
There are so many problems with this episode, I don't even know where to start. First off, let's tackle the reason why David's face even came back, I'm sure every fan was wondering that when we saw the regeneration. Well guess what, it's not addressed, and it won't be addressed in the future specials either. All we get is that Donna had some "unresolved" stuff, and she didn't feel like her life was complete. So what, the doctor just "feels" that and that makes him regenerate into the form that Donna knew? It makes no sense.
Another thing that frustrates me is how Donna was completely fine and unaffected when seeing an alien, and the doctor. Nothing happened to her at all. Yet the doctor told them to shield Donna from anything space/alien, which made Wilfred give up on his biggest passion, which was astronomy, lookup up at the stars, and watching, exploring, whether someone is maybe looking back. He gave up all that for Donna, and even had to move out later on, so the secret would be preserved. Yet the doctor just comes walking in there, aliens fighting all around her, him using the sonic screwdriver and just being himself in front of her without anything happening at all.
But okay, let's move on. Near the end of the episode, doctor does end up finally unlocking Donna's memories, to safe a big chunk of London. He does this with some kind of pass phrase consisting of various words, ending with "Binary", this is the word that Donna was stuck on the last time, she just repeated it over and over. Okay, so now that the memories were unlocked, Donna again starts repeting th word "Binary", but this time, her daughter Rose instead says "non-binary", comming to a resolution, where since Donna had a daughter, she only has to carry half of the memories of the Doctor, and she apparently can just handle that, so she won't die. They also mentioned something with how Donna is a female, Doctor is a male and Rose is non-binary, balancing it all out or something.
C'mon. I get that you're trying to make an inclusive show, and that's perfectly fine, I really don't mind the fact that someone is non-binary, but if you want to introduce a non-binary character like that, at least do them the honor of doing it properly, in a regular conversation or wherever it makes sense to continue the plot. This was just a complete nonsense, there was no actual logic to this, I'd be perfectly satisfied with just that Donna can handle it because half of the memories are in Rose now, why is anything extra needed? It just makes it feel pushed onto us just for the sake of it being mentioned.
And don't even get me started on the last part, where Donna and Rose are able to just "let go" of the Doctor's memories in them, and their time lord parts, which apparently could've have ever even crossed Doctor's mind, because he's a man, and man can't let go, only woman can do that. WTF?? I do think we should spread the idea of equality between male and female characters, and saying that no man can even think about just letting go is probably the most sexist thing I've ever seen in Doctor Who. I can't even imagine any dumber argument than that.
Yes. Doctor Who is a sci-fi show, and random things like just "letting go" do happen there. But it's usually at least somewhat explained, in scientific/pseudo-scientific ways. That's why it's a sci-fi show. But this was just plain nonsense.
This episode was a joke. I have never seen an episode (or a special) of Doctor Who done this poorly.
There are so many problems with this episode, I don't even know where to start. First off, let's tackle the reason why David's face even came back, I'm sure every fan was wondering that when we saw the regeneration. Well guess what, it's not addressed, and it won't be addressed in the future specials either. All we get is that Donna had some "unresolved" stuff, and she didn't feel like her life was complete. So what, the doctor just "feels" that and that makes him regenerate into the form that Donna knew? It makes no sense.
Another thing that frustrates me is how Donna was completely fine and unaffected when seeing an alien, and the doctor. Nothing happened to her at all. Yet the doctor told them to shield Donna from anything space/alien, which made Wilfred give up on his biggest passion, which was astronomy, lookup up at the stars, and watching, exploring, whether someone is maybe looking back. He gave up all that for Donna, and even had to move out later on, so the secret would be preserved. Yet the doctor just comes walking in there, aliens fighting all around her, him using the sonic screwdriver and just being himself in front of her without anything happening at all.
But okay, let's move on. Near the end of the episode, doctor does end up finally unlocking Donna's memories, to safe a big chunk of London. He does this with some kind of pass phrase consisting of various words, ending with "Binary", this is the word that Donna was stuck on the last time, she just repeated it over and over. Okay, so now that the memories were unlocked, Donna again starts repeting th word "Binary", but this time, her daughter Rose instead says "non-binary", comming to a resolution, where since Donna had a daughter, she only has to carry half of the memories of the Doctor, and she apparently can just handle that, so she won't die. They also mentioned something with how Donna is a female, Doctor is a male and Rose is non-binary, balancing it all out or something.
C'mon. I get that you're trying to make an inclusive show, and that's perfectly fine, I really don't mind the fact that someone is non-binary, but if you want to introduce a non-binary character like that, at least do them the honor of doing it properly, in a regular conversation or wherever it makes sense to continue the plot. This was just a complete nonsense, there was no actual logic to this, I'd be perfectly satisfied with just that Donna can handle it because half of the memories are in Rose now, why is anything extra needed? It just makes it feel pushed onto us just for the sake of it being mentioned.
And don't even get me started on the last part, where Donna and Rose are able to just "let go" of the Doctor's memories in them, and their time lord parts, which apparently could've have ever even crossed Doctor's mind, because he's a man, and man can't let go, only woman can do that. WTF?? I do think we should spread the idea of equality between male and female characters, and saying that no man can even think about just letting go is probably the most sexist thing I've ever seen in Doctor Who. I can't even imagine any dumber argument than that.
Yes. Doctor Who is a sci-fi show, and random things like just "letting go" do happen there. But it's usually at least somewhat explained, in scientific/pseudo-scientific ways. That's why it's a sci-fi show. But this was just plain nonsense.
This episode was a joke. I have never seen an episode (or a special) of Doctor Who done this poorly.
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