The Doctor's Daughter

[alixtii]

This was very different than I had expected based on the preview, but awesome nonetheless. Of course, it was sort of overdetermined I'd find it awesome, in that "Joss Whedon shares my kinks" sort of way.

Donna was great in this. I loved the perspective she gave, and her squee at Jenny not being caught up in the Doctor's moral superiority. Martha, Donna, and Jenny really all worked off each other really well--it was a fabulous group dynamic.

"Look up genocide in the dictionary and you'll see my picture." Ha. So true.

A human society which reproduced that way, one person as both mother and father, should become predominately female within a few generations, no? Since men could produce both males and females, but women could only produce women. Not to mention the issues of latent recessives, but maybe a genetic screening was a prerequisite for colonization?

Still no definitive canon on whether or not there are looms, but at least the issue of the Doctor's previous family was mentioned.

"She was too much like me." OMG, is that saying what I think it was saying?

I expected a delayed regeneration, like in the movie. I vaguely recognized the breath thing which happened, but can't place it--she obviously didn't regenerate, since she has the same body (not a complaint, as I liked the actor), but does anyone know what did happen?

The theme this year--for a dumbed-down RTD value of "theme" (i.e. basically "mention this sort of thing a whole lot for a while")--definitely seems to be the Doctor being remembered (which admittedly is more themelike than "Bad Wolf" or "Torchwood"). Which is interesting; I wonder where they'll go with that (if anywhere). (Did they mention the bees this ep?)

OMG, the fanfiction which is going to get written.

Comments

[doyle_sb4.livejournal.com]

she obviously didn't regenerate, since she has the same body (not a complaint, as I liked the actor), but does anyone know what did happen?

The two plausible suggestions I've seen:
(1) Like the Doctor regrowing his hand, she's existed for less than 15 hours and is able to regrow her damaged internal organs without regenerating (with her body shutting down in the mean time so it looks as if she's dead)
(2) The gas that comes from her mouth is the terraforming gas, which somehow acts in the same way as the nanogenes in The Empty Child (or the terraforming device in Star Trek III), bringing her back to life.

[booster17.livejournal.com]

Ooooo... hadn't seen number 1, but that makes a lot more sense given the stuff in The Christmas Invasion.

[beccaelizabeth]

Hadn't seen those ones. had seen someone suggest it's like Romana, more control over shape.

But the hand did get mentioned in the same episode in a lookit sort of way, so, interesting.

[the-gadgetman.livejournal.com]

An interesting bit of trivia, Jenny is in fact the Doctor's daugher, the actress, Georgia Moffett, is Peter Davidson's daughter.

[alixtii.livejournal.com]

Yes, I came across that when I was wikipedia-ing her, thinking I might write David/Georgia RPF.