Doctor Who: Looking Back At The Alternate Doctors

6. The Meta-Crisis Doctor & The DoctorDonna

Doctor Who Metacrisis Doctor & DoctorDonnaWho Played Them? David Tennant and Catherine Tate When Did They Appear? The Series 4 finale Journey€™s End These two are really love it or hate it Doctors with some fans loving that there were two David Tennants onscreen and that Donna was finally able to save the universe in a big way while other fans found that they were too much of a deus ex machina. And while their climatic scene is exciting enough, I personally don€™t feel that these characters work very well. Their biggest flaw is that they don€™t seem like characters in their own right and just feel like direct copies of the Tenth Doctor without any specific character traits of their own. Some of Donna€™s mannerisms are retained but her overall personality seems to be overtaken by the Doctor€™s until she€™s just a mouthier Tenth Doctor. Having said that though, her final scene has a pretty big emotional impact even if it was a bit of a cheat since we€™d been promised someone would die. And let€™s not even get into what happened to the Meta-Crisis Doctor.
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JG Moore is a writer and filmmaker from the south of England. He also works as an editor and VFX artist, and has a BA in Media Production from the University Of Winchester.