The Eleventh Doctor

So.

They've finally revealed who he'll be. I know nothing at all about the actor, so all I can say is:

1) He looks really, really young.
2) He has a promising last name.

3) Once he stops being the Doctor he used to be, will it be safe for Donna to see him again? Can we have her back, please? (Really have her back, I mean. Not the way we had "Rose" for a while).

Doctor Who: Turn Left

Tense, unexpected, and full of Donna.

Marvelous!

Also great: those glimpses of tentacles or something reaching over her back (It's a pity they then had to show us the giant beetle later) and the truly creepy "fortune teller."

Alternate 'what-if's' are always interesting, and after the Eccleston era's "It's all my fault" bits, it's good to see a "Yeah, but look what would happen if the Doctor didn't intervene" show.

But what's this about paradoxes abounding around Donna? Have we seen that? Have we seen any indication of it, even? Any hints that, looking back, will make us all go "Ah! So that was what all that was about." I'll reserve final judgment on this bit until season is over, but right now it seems completely faked; we're supposed to buy that it has happened because the writer says it has. That is downright annoying.

And what does the Doctor mean when he says she's making a hobby of parallel universes? I don't remember any parallel universes in the Library, just a crazy computer's simulation, one thousands of people ended up in. Why is he making a fuss over meeting her twice? He always goes to trouble spots and she was looking for him. It doesn't seem that unlikely. Ok, so he also met her grandfather twice--does that mean there is something special about him too?

And will the rest of the season live up to this episode? Will it actually answer the questions? Will it make sense? Will it manage to do so without a deus ex machina? Will they actually be able to pull off the "coincident-prone" Donna idea? Will Donna survive?

Doctor Who: Silence in the Library

This was a lovely, creepy, unexpected episode with lots of odd, interesting, unexplained bits

I hope the second part can live up to it.

I'm worried about Donna. I don't think she's dead yet, but I'm afraid we'll be losing her(2), and I don't like that. She's a vastly better companion than Martha, and even better than Rose-and-Jackie, whom I loved(1)

I do think they slipped a bit at the end, though. Dark, formless shadows are seriously creepy; as the Doctor says, the monsters are not in "every shadow, but any shadow." Then, right at the end and for no particular reason, the shadow-things possess a skeleton-in-a-spacesuit, so suddenly, instead of running from "any shadow" the heroes are running from--a shambling skeleton with a glowing jaw. A lot of creepy-show makers do this: They go one step too far, tipping over from creepy to ridiculous, or at least into "meh."

Still and all, I enjoyed the show & I'm looking forward to the next part.

1.Rose is coming back. Is Jackie coming too?

2. And it almost has to be death. I mean, if Rose can be locked away in another universe and somehow make it back, then they can't have Donna disappear with any sort of similar drama unless they kill her--They've put her in a position where they have to up the ante. Of course, it's always possible that she'll simply choose to stay somewhere in the past or future caring for some batch or another of helpless aliens with the Doctor dropping by at odd moments, but that isn't the general trend of the show so far.

Doctor Who

Hey! Another quick TV post.

From Doctor Who: "Donna, by the way, Donna Noble since you didn't ask. I'll have a salute."

Move over Rose Tyler. You've just been replaced as the Best Companion Ever.

Yes--I liked Rose, I'll enjoy seeing her again.

But Donna... Donna is amazing.