Regarding Donna's Back
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meddowTrying to put together the clues together with themes to guess the season finale is incredible amounts of fun for me so it’s that time of the week again: Random Doctor Who Theory Time!
This week we learnt that Donna has something on her back. We also know from last week that Rose is capable of crossing from one universe to another, suggesting that the void has not closed properly. We also know that planets are being lost and the Doctor knows this, but what is causing this loss of planets has gone unmentioned to and unnoticed by the Doctor.
It’s safe to assume that whatever’s going wrong with the universe has something to do with the breach. Interestingly, the way the Doctor characterises the breach in Army of Ghost gives the impression that there is one hole at the centre, from which fault lines bleed. The hole itself is not required for travel through the breach, the fault lines will do. So the hole, a fixed point in space could be open, but things coming out of or sinking into the void will occur at the fault lines.
Now, I can’t help but think of the very ending of Doomsday. Using the TARDIS, the Doctor was projecting an image through the breach as it was closing. But what we learnt later, in The Runaway Bride, was that in those dying moments of the breach, the huon particles within Donna’s body had reacted with the heart of the TARDIS and caused her to dematerialise and then re-materialise within the TARDIS.
What if at the heart of the plot is a simple teleportation gone wrong – like The Fly. The hole in the breach didn’t close. Instead it became organic and stuck inside Donna Noble. Through some freak accident and completely unbeknownst to her, Donna is holding two universes both together and apart – like Atlas who held the world on his back to separate it from the sky.
And meanwhile, unnoticed and quietly, the fault lines – still growing – are causing two universes to sink into the void, planet by planet. Which means, somehow, to save the universe, the hole has got to be closed – something which isn’t as simple as pulling leaver anymore. The physical survival of Donna may be at stake.
It would work with the emphasis on the Doctor and Donna being equals which we’ve seen through the first two episodes (it’s all in the pinstripes). If we run with the idea that the Doctor is a god in the Greek sense – so is Donna, and her presence with the Doctor as a household god was not, alas, the Companion finally getting some credit, but foreshadowing.
This week we learnt that Donna has something on her back. We also know from last week that Rose is capable of crossing from one universe to another, suggesting that the void has not closed properly. We also know that planets are being lost and the Doctor knows this, but what is causing this loss of planets has gone unmentioned to and unnoticed by the Doctor.
It’s safe to assume that whatever’s going wrong with the universe has something to do with the breach. Interestingly, the way the Doctor characterises the breach in Army of Ghost gives the impression that there is one hole at the centre, from which fault lines bleed. The hole itself is not required for travel through the breach, the fault lines will do. So the hole, a fixed point in space could be open, but things coming out of or sinking into the void will occur at the fault lines.
Now, I can’t help but think of the very ending of Doomsday. Using the TARDIS, the Doctor was projecting an image through the breach as it was closing. But what we learnt later, in The Runaway Bride, was that in those dying moments of the breach, the huon particles within Donna’s body had reacted with the heart of the TARDIS and caused her to dematerialise and then re-materialise within the TARDIS.
What if at the heart of the plot is a simple teleportation gone wrong – like The Fly. The hole in the breach didn’t close. Instead it became organic and stuck inside Donna Noble. Through some freak accident and completely unbeknownst to her, Donna is holding two universes both together and apart – like Atlas who held the world on his back to separate it from the sky.
And meanwhile, unnoticed and quietly, the fault lines – still growing – are causing two universes to sink into the void, planet by planet. Which means, somehow, to save the universe, the hole has got to be closed – something which isn’t as simple as pulling leaver anymore. The physical survival of Donna may be at stake.
It would work with the emphasis on the Doctor and Donna being equals which we’ve seen through the first two episodes (it’s all in the pinstripes). If we run with the idea that the Doctor is a god in the Greek sense – so is Donna, and her presence with the Doctor as a household god was not, alas, the Companion finally getting some credit, but foreshadowing.
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Date: 2008-04-13 09:51 am (UTC)I adore Donna, so the idea of losing her at the end of the season makes me sad.
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Date: 2008-04-13 10:52 am (UTC)Actually, after the "never mind us" scene, I really badly want Donna to be there for the regeneration.
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Date: 2008-04-13 10:57 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-04-13 11:01 am (UTC)Something On Her Back...
Date: 2008-04-13 06:59 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-04-13 08:08 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-04-13 08:10 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-04-13 09:01 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-04-13 09:47 pm (UTC)(Although I hate that it this is true, Donna wil die =()
Oh, here via who_daily, by the way.
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Date: 2008-04-14 12:11 am (UTC)And I get the feeling that no matter what, Donna's leaving the TARDIS is going to be tragic. She might not actually die, but it's not going to be happy ending.
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Date: 2008-04-13 10:35 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-04-14 12:07 am (UTC)And I'm sort of torn. I don't want Donna to die, but if we're never going to see her again, I want her exit to be memorable.
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Date: 2008-04-13 11:13 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-04-14 12:21 am (UTC)Brilliant theory.
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Date: 2008-04-14 12:23 am (UTC)