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May. 11th, 2008
My Team, They Never Happened.
May. 11th, 2008 08:49 pmThe best thing about The Doctor’s Daughter had to be the Ten/Donna/Jenny dynamic. I very much want to see AU fics in which Jenny actually goes with the Doctor and Donna and the three of them form some kind of odd family unit – the father, the daughter and the mother/aunt figure – and go and save planets and civilizations throughout the universe and every now and again accidentally-on-purpose kidnap Martha and bring her along too. I am such a sucker for oddball family units, like Sarah's gang on SJA.
Then I realised why I was getting so excited, and it’s because Ten, Donna and Jenny are the closet thing the show has ever had to the original 1960s TARDIS line-up of One, Barbara, Ian and Susan (Ten’s sort of an amalgam of One and Ian). This is quite probably because Donna is the first mature woman we’ve had in the TARDIS since Barbara left and it’s rather rare having two women travelling with the Doctor at once anyway. Not since Barbara and Susan (or Vicky? I haven't seen any Vicky serials yet) have we had anything resembling a female mentor relationship on the show. Anyway, I loved the original TARDIS team, they did become a family unit that travelled around space, and it was absolutely wonderful. I miss that.
Although, even if we do get Jenny back next series, we won’t have Donna and I’m not sold on a Ten and Jenny team TARDIS, just because she’s just a bit too much like her Dad and you would need a level-headed third person in there to break up the hyperactivity.
But I hope I’m not the only one out there mourning the TARDIS team that never was and there are lots and lots of AUs fics to come.
Then I realised why I was getting so excited, and it’s because Ten, Donna and Jenny are the closet thing the show has ever had to the original 1960s TARDIS line-up of One, Barbara, Ian and Susan (Ten’s sort of an amalgam of One and Ian). This is quite probably because Donna is the first mature woman we’ve had in the TARDIS since Barbara left and it’s rather rare having two women travelling with the Doctor at once anyway. Not since Barbara and Susan (or Vicky? I haven't seen any Vicky serials yet) have we had anything resembling a female mentor relationship on the show. Anyway, I loved the original TARDIS team, they did become a family unit that travelled around space, and it was absolutely wonderful. I miss that.
Although, even if we do get Jenny back next series, we won’t have Donna and I’m not sold on a Ten and Jenny team TARDIS, just because she’s just a bit too much like her Dad and you would need a level-headed third person in there to break up the hyperactivity.
But I hope I’m not the only one out there mourning the TARDIS team that never was and there are lots and lots of AUs fics to come.