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| Date | Episode | Title |
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I really like Donna's energy. Her no-nonsense attitude instantly complements 10's hyperactivity. I think of 10s various companions, Donna is my favourite. Throughout the episode Donna keeps the Doctor grounded, and human, and helps to use this episode as an important epilogue for what happened with Rose at the end of the last season. Donna is often very acerbic, but when push comes to shove, she has her priorities right, and she has some stand out lines: "you're a doctor, can't you help"; "You need someone to stop you".
Her decision to not follow the Doctor is a refreshing change from Rose who just discarded everything to join him, and I can emphasize a lot more with it. She needs to grow a bit before she's ready to join the doctor anyway, the running gag of Donna not even recognising the past invasions is a great joke that almost breaks the 4th wall.
Production wise, I was not surprised to see them reuse the santa mobsters, gotta keep that budget low. I was surprised though with the tardis chase scene, the visual effects were pretty good there. This is the introduction of Donna's theme in the background music, and I like the energy that it has. The giant spider monster actually looks pretty good and scary, but its let down by the over the top acting from the humanoid half sticking out the front. The final scenes with the water was miniatures! It looks pretty cool, we don't see enough of that. It looks so much better than CGI water, which is notoriously hard to get right.
Random extra thoughts:
IIRC, the actor who played her dad passed away before series 3, and that's when they retconned Wilf to be her grandfather.