Turn left is another of those episodes where you barely see
the Doctor; in fact for a large part of this episode the Doctor is dead! This
is the episode where Donna is educated on her own importance and comes to
understand how finely intertwined her destiny is to the destiny of the
universe. In this episode conspiring presences from the universe and beyond
force Donna to turn right at a crossroads in her life that had originally lead
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If Donna never meets the Doctor then she doesn’t convince
him to leave after he kills the Racnoss children and the Doctor dies, leaving
the Earth to fend for itself. Without the Doctor Martha and Sarah Jane die at
the hands of the Judoon, thousands of people die when the Titanic crashes into
Buckingham Palace, 60 million people die in America as the Adipose rise and the
Sontarans kill the entire Torchwood team bar Captain Jack who is left alone. England
is thrown into a state of martial law, thousands of people need to be rehomed
following the destruction of London and refugees are sent all over the country
meanwhile immigrants are rounded up and placed into ‘Labour Camps’ in a horrible flashback to the holocaust.
The universe is in peril and without the Doctor the buck
falls to Rose Tyler who has trudged her way across from her parallel universe
in order to help Donna get back to the life she is supposed to lead. Rose’s
return was something that fans all over the world had been eagerly anticipating
and there had been little teasing glimpses of her through the series reminding
us that she was still out there.
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In some small ways it
almost seemed like Billie Piper had sort of forgotten how to play Rose, her
accent sounded strange and her movements and mannerisms were just a bit off
key, but then again she has grown up, she has pulled her way through time and
space and parallel universes to get to the Doctor, something like that would
change a person. Donna is the real star of this episode however and that is
obvious from the off.
Catherine Tate as Donna Noble is easily one of my favourite
companions. She is so independent and strong willed and her sense of what is
right and true shines through above all else. She is full of self-sacrifice and
valour which makes her a perfect travel pal for the Doctor who is all of these
things and so much more. In this episode Donna travels back in time in an
untested travel device knowing that there is no way that this version of
herself will be able to survive what she is about to do, but she does so
because she quickly learns that without this funny man named the Doctor that
everyone loves so much, the world will suffer and die.
This episode has a lot of heart and we have both loved it
every time we’ve seen it.
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