[public] My Crazy, Whacked Out Theory About Donna Noble
I've now watched Series Four twice - once over the span of a few days as I forced Bill to catch up in time for the finale. And now I have a theory about Donna.
There have been several anvils dropped about Donna. She's something special. She will become something special. She's brilliant. Whole universes have formed around her. The Doctor, out of all the humans in all time in all the universe, met her twice and her grandfather once.
We get it - there's something about Donna.
Here's what I think it is:
It's believed that the Doctor is half Human, half Gallifreyan. (I know it was mentioned in the Eight movie but I believe I read that the BBC recently updated their DW website to agree with that fact - if that's true, why now?) What if Donna is part Gallifreyan, too? In "Turn Left" there were two very pointed mentions of Donna's father. We don't know what happened to him though it seems as though he has died. What if he was a Time Lord? What if his father was a Time Lord? Donna could be half Gallifreyan or a quarter Gallifreyan!
And, here's a BIG what if, what if Donna's father or paternal grandfather is the Doctor's father? They'd be related! She'd be his half-sister or his aunt! Such a big deal has been made all season about the two of them being married - everyone assumes that they're a couple - and someone even points of that there's a family resemblance when they hastily scramble to say that they're sister/brother (I think in "Fires of Pompeii" - really, the series is a blur right now). And they ACT like sister and brother!
It fits! I tell you, it fits! And it's nothing as overused or contrived as Donna being a fobbed Romana or Rani, too (although that would be really cool, I think it would also be groan-worthy so close to the last series with the Master).
Then there's the obviousness of her name: Donna = Lady, Noble = well, noble. And she's always going on about how she's "just a temp." Tempus = Time . . . Noble Time Lady.
I think that traveling with the Doctor has awakened that dormant part of her DNA and she's starting to change - just like the Vespiform in "The Unicorn and the Wasp."
At least, that's what I'm sticking to until Saturday when my theory is shot all to hell.
And it's kept me from trying to figure out the whole regeneration thing, which is good.
There have been several anvils dropped about Donna. She's something special. She will become something special. She's brilliant. Whole universes have formed around her. The Doctor, out of all the humans in all time in all the universe, met her twice and her grandfather once.
We get it - there's something about Donna.
Here's what I think it is:
It's believed that the Doctor is half Human, half Gallifreyan. (I know it was mentioned in the Eight movie but I believe I read that the BBC recently updated their DW website to agree with that fact - if that's true, why now?) What if Donna is part Gallifreyan, too? In "Turn Left" there were two very pointed mentions of Donna's father. We don't know what happened to him though it seems as though he has died. What if he was a Time Lord? What if his father was a Time Lord? Donna could be half Gallifreyan or a quarter Gallifreyan!
And, here's a BIG what if, what if Donna's father or paternal grandfather is the Doctor's father? They'd be related! She'd be his half-sister or his aunt! Such a big deal has been made all season about the two of them being married - everyone assumes that they're a couple - and someone even points of that there's a family resemblance when they hastily scramble to say that they're sister/brother (I think in "Fires of Pompeii" - really, the series is a blur right now). And they ACT like sister and brother!
It fits! I tell you, it fits! And it's nothing as overused or contrived as Donna being a fobbed Romana or Rani, too (although that would be really cool, I think it would also be groan-worthy so close to the last series with the Master).
Then there's the obviousness of her name: Donna = Lady, Noble = well, noble. And she's always going on about how she's "just a temp." Tempus = Time . . . Noble Time Lady.
I think that traveling with the Doctor has awakened that dormant part of her DNA and she's starting to change - just like the Vespiform in "The Unicorn and the Wasp."
At least, that's what I'm sticking to until Saturday when my theory is shot all to hell.
And it's kept me from trying to figure out the whole regeneration thing, which is good.