Doctor Who:
The Doctor’s Daughter
By Stephen Greenhorn
“I never would. Have you
got that? I never would. When you start this new world, this world of Human and
Hath, remember that. Make the foundation of this society a man who never would.”
After stopping the
Sontarans from turning the Earth in a clone hatchery The Doctor, Martha, and
Donna find themselves in an out of control TARDIS which lands them on Messaline
and right in the middle of war between the humans and The Hath. But that isn’t the only thing that happens to
The Doctor. It looks like he also
directly creates his own daughter when his hand is put in a Progenation machine.
The Doctor’s Daughter is
one of those Doctor Who stories where there are two types of species fighting a
war that they have no idea why they are fighting it as it has lasted for a very
long time. What we do know is that both
groups are trying to get to the source which appears to be a great weapon when
in reality it is not. What it turns out
to be is a terraforming machine which was supposed to help them colonize the
planet.
The Doctor’s Daughter was
another of those stories that also dealt with violence and how to stop someone
by not killing them. There are a few
good scenes where The Doctor tries to explain this to Jenny about not using
violence and to not kill because that is not what he would do. It is another of the tried and true formulas
that is used over again on Doctor Who. It just wasn’t that strong of a story and was
just mildly entertaining. It just fell
flat as we have seen this type of story before and done a lot better.
There is a really great
scene at the end when Jenny is killed by General Cobb and then The Doctor
confronts Cobb with the gun as he points it at Cobb and then lowers it. He then says a great line “I never would” and
then tells both armies to make the foundation of their new society be that of
the man who never would. A great moment
in the shows history and definitely a bright point to a story that is well just
mediocre.
That’s the problem with
The Doctor’s Daughter is that it is just an ordinary story that has the dubious
notion of having The Doctor making a clone daughter. Otherwise it isn’t all that special it is
just mediocre and well a bit of a filler.
Plus did we really need to have Martha in this story at all as she
didn’t add much to the story as she was just left outside with a Hath walking
around looking for a way back in. At
least Freema got paid for it.
The Doctor’s Daughter a
story with some good moments in it but as a story as a whole it is just
ordinary and very mediocre. I just
couldn’t really get into this story at all once the reveal of what his daughter
really was. I mean it was a good gimmick
but it was just that a gimmick. Well at
least David Tennant met his future wife during this story as he ended up
marrying Georgia Moffett a couple years later.
Grade C
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