Doctor Who #4-6 - "The Doctor's Daughter"

[Randy G.]

(Original air-date May 10, 2008)

Episode Synopsis: On the planet Messaline, in the middle of an endless war, the Doctor meets the most important woman of his life
(Georgia Moffett guest star's).

If you don't mind spoilers, you can can catch the trailer HERE (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WeZKVMmBT40). ;)

[TMLS]

Better than expected. 4/5

(BTW, Georgia Moffett is Peter Davison's daughter for those that don't know)

[Lexgirl33]

Fun episode. 4/5 as well.

[TheANIMAL (marcus)]

I liked the second half, the beginning felt a bit childish.

[KSiteTV]

I'm kind of mixed on this episode.

Some parts of it were kind of boring, I'll admit... also, separating Martha from everyone else reminded me of old-school Who when they couldn't figure out to do with the extra companion, and I didn't like that.

I still don't get why Jenny didn't just regenerate. I half expected that to happen at the end. Her living... was very "kids' show." Which Russell T. Davies seems to insist on doing all the time and it drives me crazy. I'd love to see Jenny as a permanent Time Lady companion though... just tone down the cheesiness of the end.

Next week's episode looks really bad.

[Randy G.]

Okay, I'm giving it a 2. This seemed like a left-over storyline, that made it to the light of day. When an episode is great, it seems to fly by. This one was cheesy, & felt like it lasted forever.

I'm normally so optimistic & open-minded when it comes to my sci-fi shows, but I was not amused. The Hath - Fish-head people? Really? Come on, did someone come up with that in 5 minutes, or what?

No offense intended to Ms. Moffett, but the Jenny character should've been shot when she first popped out of the machine. Lol!
I really like Freema, but Martha's crying scene over the drowned Hath dude was poorly written, and badly acted.

Sorry to be so critical, but I've come to expect better from this show. :(

[timelord45719]

would have worked better for me as a 2 parter. But i think they all should be 2 parters. Anyway, that being said. I liked it, but I didn't love it. I did like it that Martha went off on her own, reminded me of the old days.

[TMLS]

I'd love to see Jenny as a permanent Time Lady companion though... just tone down the cheesiness of the end.

Not going to happen, with Georgia at least - she's been cast in "Code 9" which is a Spooks spin-off starting shortly. (I believe Spooks over there is known as "MI-5")

[charley farley]

Not a brilliant episode but still better than the season premier for me so 3/5.

Jenny was fit though.

[dunlopc]

It was a good episode but got very saddened when the Hath died. Can't see how the Doctor states he has no family left Susan was not on Gallifrey thought he left her with David.

[Goonerman]

I wasn't surprised at Jenny coming back without needing to regenerate, as if you see what happened to the Doctor when he was shot by a bullet, in both Spearhead From Space and Frontier In Space/Planet of the Daleks, Time Lords go into self-induced comas. Also, when the Seventh Doctor was shot in the TV Movie by the Chinese gang, he would have been all right especially when the bullet was removed surgically, but for Grace poking around in the right side of his chest, not knowing he had two hearts. I was more surprised by the Master dying from being shot, and the Doctor leaving Jenny for dead, though in fairness she might have been 'dead' for the kind of length of time Chloe was dead for having used her powers to bring someone back- the episode gives no indication of how much time lapsed between Jenny's 'death' and her re-awakening. Plus, since she is effectively a new-born she might be in the equivalent of the 14 hour regeneration cycle, not unlike with her Dad in his current body having just regenerated and been lucky enough to grow a new hand when the Sycorax leader chopped it off.

A staser bolt though can kill a Time Lord instantly- as in the case of the President in the Deadly Assassin or the Castellan in the Five Doctors. Or the guns used by the Alien Guards in the War Games on the War Chief. In the Master's case, the shot he got from his wife maybe hit him in exactly the right place for a bullet to kill a Time Lord. Well, enough on that topic!

[TMLS]

In the Master's case, the shot he got from his wife maybe hit him in exactly the right place for a bullet to kill a Time Lord.

No, Ten begged him to regenerate but he refused - it was a conscious decision.

[ginnyfan]

I expected to be REALLY annoyed by this episode but I'm happy to say that I wasn't. There was so much going on, it reminded me of the first few episodes of Dr. Who I ever saw. Just when you think you've got a handle on what's going on there's another element and another.

I cried when that fishy thing died in the mud. I'm glad she was alive but I agree that she should have just regenerated. If they didn't want to take her along it could have just been delayed or something. I guess they didn't want to recast her.

Donna was delightful as always. Martha with the fish folk was very funny.

[awehla]

I was disappointed the daughter didn't turn out to be Susan's mother. Other than that I just found it an average episode.

Lisa
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[Pesk]

I just noticed, at the end of the episode there are seats in the tardis. They're yellow, and falling apart.

Have they been seen before or since?

[MsNoelle]

Better than expected. 4/5

(BTW, Georgia Moffett is Peter Davison's daughter for those that don't know)


no, actually i didn't know it. that is, until i caught the episode on the telly the other day. and then proceeded to re-watch it on my dvd - with the audio commentary. somewhere between there, i heard that and then went, " wha--??? no way! really ? wow, that is so cool ! " that makes her , literally the doctor's daughter.

i love the bits when the doctor - as played by david tennant - was being told by donna to listen to jenny's hearts. and that made him believe that she is his. i think that was the moment when he began to accept her. the acting in that scene was brilliant, i thought. also the sad bit at the end when cobb shot - i think he was angry at the doctor and wanted to kill him. but jenny got in the way, in order to protect david. so jenny got shot instead. it was another sad, yet brilliantly performed scene. my two favourite scenes.

a fantastic episode, and i am looking forward to the next ep. with agatha christie.

[jon-el87]

I was disappointed the daughter didn't turn out to be Susan's mother. Other than that I just found it an average episode.

Lisa
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Wouldn't have worked, as then the Doctor would've had to have known about Jenny, long before this.