"I'm Donna Noble. I'm a human being. Maybe not the stuff of legend, but every bit as important as Time Lords, thank you."
Donna Noble is a force of nature. From her first appearance in The Runaway Bride, Donna is loud, brash, and unafraid to speak her mind. She stands up to the Doctor from the second they meet and never lets herself be awed by him. I think Donna, more than the other three, recognizes the Doctor as an alien first and foremost -- yet never places him on a pedestal because of it.
What I think is remarkable about Donna is the insight she has into the Doctor straight from their first meeting. She sees through the Doctor's bravado and his talk and spots his grief and his sadness, and she latches onto it. At the end of her very first episode, she sums up the Tenth Doctor in a sentence, rightly pointing out that he needs someone to stop him. That intuitive connection never really goes away; throughout series 4 she always knows when to push, when to tease and when to be supportive. Donna provides the small-picture contrast to the Doctor's big-picture worldview, and despite how it's set up in The Runaway Bride, that's not always a bad thing. The Doctor often gets so caught up in being the Last of the Time Lords that having Donna Noble: Supertemp there to provide a reality check can be massively important. She's brave enough to put her hand over the Doctor's to destroy Pompeii, and she's human enough to insist they save that one family.
She has (for most of her time on screen) no special powers or traits, nothing superficially extraordinary, but she does amazing things. Donna's story is about gaining confidence in herself and learning to believe that she -- a temp from Chiswick -- might be special. But more than anything I think her story is about her potential, and that's why I think, as sad as Journey's End is, she'll be okay. Right from Runaway Bride Donna displays some key companion characteristics: she's brave enough to leap out of a moving car on the motorway, she sees through the Doctor, when given the option to stay or go home she chooses to stay, she puts herself in the line of fire to try and protect a man she's just met after being verbally torn apart by the man she's engaged to, and then, probably most important of all, she knows when to make the Doctor stop. In Partners in Crime she investigates just as well as the Doctor does all on her own. And Turn Left is all about Donna's potential; in a world where she never met the Doctor she's still willing to die to make things right. Donna Noble: badass in any universe.
"I'm Donna Noble. I'm a human being. Maybe not the stuff of legend,
but every bit as important as Time Lords, thank you."
Donna Noble is a force of nature. From her first appearance in The Runaway Bride, Donna is loud, brash, and unafraid to speak her mind. She stands up to the Doctor from the second they meet and never lets herself be awed by him. I think Donna, more than the other three, recognizes the Doctor as an alien first and foremost -- yet never places him on a pedestal because of it.
What I think is remarkable about Donna is the insight she has into the Doctor straight from their first meeting. She sees through the Doctor's bravado and his talk and spots his grief and his sadness, and she latches onto it. At the end of her very first episode, she sums up the Tenth Doctor in a sentence, rightly pointing out that he needs someone to stop him. That intuitive connection never really goes away; throughout series 4 she always knows when to push, when to tease and when to be supportive. Donna provides the small-picture contrast to the Doctor's big-picture worldview, and despite how it's set up in The Runaway Bride, that's not always a bad thing. The Doctor often gets so caught up in being the Last of the Time Lords that having Donna Noble: Supertemp there to provide a reality check can be massively important. She's brave enough to put her hand over the Doctor's to destroy Pompeii, and she's human enough to insist they save that one family.
She has (for most of her time on screen) no special powers or traits, nothing superficially extraordinary, but she does amazing things. Donna's story is about gaining confidence in herself and learning to believe that she -- a temp from Chiswick -- might be special. But more than anything I think her story is about her potential, and that's why I think, as sad as Journey's End is, she'll be okay. Right from Runaway Bride Donna displays some key companion characteristics: she's brave enough to leap out of a moving car on the motorway, she sees through the Doctor, when given the option to stay or go home she chooses to stay, she puts herself in the line of fire to try and protect a man she's just met after being verbally torn apart by the man she's engaged to, and then, probably most important of all, she knows when to make the Doctor stop. In Partners in Crime she investigates just as well as the Doctor does all on her own. And Turn Left is all about Donna's potential; in a world where she never met the Doctor she's still willing to die to make things right. Donna Noble: badass in any universe.
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