Actually it was reminiscent of a multiple doctor special. In the “old days” they would have yoinked a couple of ex-doctors out of the spacetime continuum and forced them to totter around with each other until one of them showed the others up and they all went back to pottering around the fringes of existence looking for celery or a new scarf.

At least this way you get a slightly more intersting cast – even if we have to put up with Harkness.

Sexist? You’re trying it on. Right?

“But it’s a really fucked story – she only finds fulfilment by assimilating all the Doctor’s *male* super knowledge so he has to wipe it and her memory and send her back to the family and being a temp.
Colour me disillusioned.”

Colour you daft and cynical, more like. 1. No “fulfillment” – the bloody opposite in fact. 2. Strong female characters regardless of metacrises. 3. “*male* super knowledge”. WTF!?!?!? What’s so bloody male about it? He’s a freaking timelord! If someone went and half-morphed with a male bat, would their new sonar be “male” as well. Or would it be a bat sonar?

Sheesh! Tardis-envy much?

http://www.behindthesofa.org.uk/2008/07/the-bollocks-ma.html#

So when the Dr Who hybrid gets left with alt-Rose, Mum comes too. The ultimate secrifice.

Except Rose’s Mum was already living in the alt-Earth, with her not-dead-in-that-timeline husband and a brand new baby son. So not sacrificing much either this time or the first time she ended up there, actually. Jackie does rather well, really.

The end last night was awful, after I had such high hopes.

Re: Donna – There will be an emergency of some kind, and Donna’s kindly doofus gramps will realise he has to break the Doctor’s vow o’ silence commandment, cos it’s the only thing to prevent the return of the Daleks/Cybermen enslaving humanity/Mickey releasing a single.

Another thing I didn’t understand is that we kept being told that the Daleks were unbeatable, yet when Donna became half-doctor she vanquished them witout any trouble. It was just a matter of pulling a few levers.

I suspect the deus ex machina nature of the Donna/Doctor swap doesn’t work well as drama. It’s more a comedy trope, ‘Freaky Friday’ sort of territory. We’re given a huge build up to the final showdown, then it’s all solved by a convenient plot point, the Donna/Doctor meld. It’s unsatisfying because it doesn’t solve the dramatic problems that have been set up for us.

But the companion/mother relationships are weird. I get a bit sick of the whingy, carping mothers.
Kim, I think Captain Jack will get his threesome, just quietly. He got to ride off into the sunset with Martha and Mickey, very happily.