I’ve been holding a theory that Donna, companion to David Tennant’s
Tenth Doctor in Doctor Who, was
actually the Doctor’s mother. Or at least, would be. Despite her memory “re-boot”
at the end of her story-arc, she was still half-Time Lord, infected by the
Doctor’s spare hand. After all, he had offered once that he was part human (although:
the Doctor lies). Why else was the Doctor, pre-Donna, drawn to her grandfather,
Wilf? Why was he still, long after she had returned home? Why was the Doctor so
drawn, twice, to Donna at all? There was the elder red-headed Time Lord that
only Wilf could see in the second part of The
End of Time, a woman that writer Russell T. Davies has since admitted was
meant to be the Doctor’s mother. Why was she so drawn to Wilf, but for the sake
of a final assist to her grandfather? The series certainly wasn’t overrun with
redheaded women: the elder version of Donna, having reconciled the rift in her
human-Time Lord state for reunification, memories intact. Some might argue a
stretch, given the poor ending the writers gave poor Donna Noble, but all the
clues are still there. She would become his mother, and the elder version couldn’t
tell him. Not yet.
see also: The Uncertainty Principle: stories, (2014)
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