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Rose, it'southward about time you truly appeared this season!

"Plow right, and never meet that man. Turn right, and change the world!"

— Fortune Teller

The one where Rose returns and we find out what the universe's similar without the Doctor in it.

Written by Russell T Davies.

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The Doctor and Donna drop past the Chinese-inspired planet Shan Shen, a long way from Globe. The Doctor does some shopping while Donna lets herself be talked into a complimentary fortune-telling session. But the fortune-teller is interested in Donna'due south past, not her future... specifically, she wants to know how Donna came to meet the Doctor, going all the way dorsum to a single decision. Something creepy and crawly moves towards Donna and latches onto her back.

Call up "The Runaway Bride", when nosotros first met Donna? She was marrying a guy she'd met at work. Flashback to Donna's first solar day at H.C. Clements. Her mum comes along, and harangues Donna well-nigh interviewing for a dissimilar job, a meliorate job, with some guy she knows. All Donna has to do is plough correct instead of left at a certain intersection, and she'll never accept started at H.C. Clements, never have met Lance, never have been sucked aboard a TARDIS in flight, never — and this is the crucial bit — told the Doctor to cease when he was murdering a Racnoss nest. And then the Md drowned in the Thames and died permanently that Christmas Eve, and Donna didn't much intendance, considering she never knew who he was. To Donna, the only affair out of place seems to exist the fascination her friends have with something on her back that they glimpse, and Rose Tyler of a sudden turning up looking very distressed.

Earth, as it turned out, would end up caring very much.

When the Royal Hope Hospital was transported to the Moon the Plasmavore was stopped, but the infirmary was trapped on the Moon until it was likewise late. All but Oliver Morgenstern died — including medical pupil Martha Jones — and the Earth escaped devastation only considering one Sarah Jane Smith, at the hospital with Luke, Maria and Clyde, was able to deactivate the Expiry Ray earlier dying.

Without the Doctor effectually to finish it, the starship Titanic crashed into London the following Christmas, destroying the entire urban center with its nuclear engine. Donna and her family are OK, because they left London for Christmas on Rose's communication.

Rose keeps popping upward in Donna's life as information technology continues to suck more and more than. Assist promised from the United States to the victims of the nuking of London is cancelled afterwards the Adipose kill millions of them. The Sontaran stratagem very nearly succeeds, as well; it is stopped simply by the Torchwood Three team, at the toll of their lives and leaving Jack stranded on the Sontaran homeworld.

Donna and her family are forcibly moved to Leeds, while the minorities are shipped off to "labour camps". Ane night, when Donna notices that The Stars Are Going Out, she finally decides to follow Rose.

Rose, remaining nameless, explains who the Doc was and that he was never supposed to dice. She takes Donna to a UNIT operations base where they take hooked upwardly the Doctor'due south TARDIS to their equipment, which includes a circumvolve of mirrors. Rose and UNIT apply the equipment to show Donna the presence of a large beetle riding her back, though they tin can't remove it. Instead, Rose tells Donna that they are going to correct the timeline, but information technology requires sending Donna herself back to fix it. After realising this might wipe her from existence, Donna agrees to practise and so, and is told to end herself from turning right on that fateful 24-hour interval.

The fourth dimension jump leaves her half a mile away with but a few minutes to go to the intersection, which is incommunicable. Without any other options, Donna throws herself in front of an oncoming vehicle, fatally wounding her, but creating a traffic jam for which her earlier, impatient self is unwilling to wait, and makes the left turn. As the alternative Donna dies, Rose appears again to her, and before she blacks out tells her a ii-discussion message to requite to the Doctor...

Donna wakes up in the fortune teller's tent, the Time Beetle having fallen off her back, expressionless. Stunned and horrified, the fortune teller scurries away as the Dr. arrives. Donna explains what she saw, and the Dr. explains that the Fourth dimension Beetle is part of the Trickster's Brigade. Donna wasn't picked for any special reason: stealing timelines is only what the Trickster'south Brigade does, and it usually has no major effect. Donna just happened to exist a fleck more involved in time-shattering events than the usual victim. The Md casually comments on all the coincidences around Donna, when she suddenly recalls Rose. The Doctor, instantly alert, asks Donna for more information, and Donna repeats her last words:

Bad Wolf

The Physician races outside to find every imprint and sign, even the TARDIS doors, now proverb "BAD WOLF". Upon running within the TARDIS, closely followed past Donna, he hears the Cloister Bell has started tolling, signifying that now is the time for a bear on of Oh, Crap!

Donna: Dr., what is it? What'south Bad Wolf?
The Md: Information technology's the end of the universe.

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Tropes:

• Abstract Eater: The Time Beetle. According to Rose and the Doctor, it's a member of the Trickster'due south Brigade; they feed off of time by changing a life in tiny means, such as meetings never made, children never built-in, or a dearest never loved. The universe unremarkably compensates around it, simply in Donna's case information technology creates an entire parallel world.
• Adult Fear: Peachy Britain devolves into a police state and things get increasingly dour with economic depression. It'southward made all the worse by the obvious Holocaust parallels at i indicate. The government sends foreigners abroad to "labour camps" equally they're unable to just behave them. Donna, while agitated, clearly doesn't grasp the state of affairs in full. Her grandfather, Wilfred, lived through WWII and cries every bit he watches history repeat itself.
• All for Nix: The reason Sylvia tried to force per unit area turning Donna into turning right was considering she wanted Donna to get a permanent job as the personal secretarial assistant of Jival Chowdry, owner of a photocopying business, rather than her staying as a temp at H.C. Clements. Donna stuck with her position in the original universe, but she decided to listen to her mother in this universe. And after the River Thames is airtight for months, Chowdry is unable to deliver to half his contracts, all of whom are on the other side, and ends upward having to permit her become due to lost revenue. Needless to say, that'southward the earliest and least of Donna's troubles.
• Allohistorical Allusion: Equally the Titanic destroys London, Wilfred says that he was meant to exist downwardly at that place selling papers, which is what he was doing in his first advent.
• America Saves the Solar day: Subverted. They were going to ship aid money to help Britain ("God bless America!"), simply the Adipose disaster was relocated to America (presumably because of the London radioactive fallout) and ended up killing 60 million Americans, and then they focused on recovering from that instead.
• And Starring: Billie Piper makes it into the opening credits like this.
• Anyone Tin Dice: Starting with the Doctor himself! An entire hospital killed with but ane survivor, the entirety of London killed when the Titanic crashes (including Elizabeth II, who had stayed in London during Christmas that twelvemonth, to "reassure the people it was rubber") and 60 million Americans killed and converted to Adipose. Among the confirmed dead are Martha Jones, Sarah Jane Smith, Gwen Cooper, and Ianto Jones. Jack cannot die, so he was taken to Sontar after the alternate path "The Poison Heaven" took.
• Apocalypse How: In the Alternate Timeline, the crises escalate into a Course ane fallout over the course of less than two years. Britain ends upward nether martial police with the whole of Southern England flooded with radiation after the Titanic obliterates London, the many who are displaced from this are crowded into designated houses, and somewhen the "England for the English" Law gets passed. Never mind France closing its borders after getting overwhelmed with refugees, or lx million of America's population getting turned into Adipose.
• Arc Words:
  • "Bad Wolf". The arc words from series 1 supersede the text on every single surface with text. Even the signs on the TARDIS just read "Bad Wolf" over and over.
  • The bees disappearing.
  • We find out what exactly the "something on [Donna'due south] dorsum" is.
• Bad Future: Without the Doctor there to stop several of the season's events, the state of the Earth gets worse and worse. Southeastern England is flooded with radiations and the whole country starts looking Nazi-ish.
• Berserk Button: Donna is and so cleaved downwards by the alternate universe that when Rose tells her she'south brilliant, she gets angry.
• All-time of All Possible Worlds: The alternating universe in this episode is very much a worse place. We have it created when Donna turns right, which causes the Md to die under the Thames Barrier when he defeats the Racnoss because Donna wasn't at that place to stop him. Several contemporary attacks on Earth cause mass casualties, and/or wipe out several of the Doctor's allies (including Martha, whom he never met here). Naturally, Donna sets her timeline back on its proper form at the finish of the episode.
• Black Box: Blue — the TARDIS. Rose and UNIT don't know how information technology works, just they "scraped off the surface" and jury-rigged a time machine that might work.
• Borrowed Catchphrase: Rose borrows the Doctor's, "I'yard lamentable... then sorry..."
• United kingdom Is Merely London: Averted, as the latter sections of the story take place in Leeds, in West Yorkshire Oop North, due to London being destroyed.
• Broken Record: BAD WOLF BAD WOLF BAD WOLF BAD WOLF BAD WOLF BAD WOLF BAD WOLF BAD WOLF BAD WOLF BAD WOLF BAD WOLF BAD WOLF
• Bugs Herald Evil: Time Beetles feed in much the same way Weeping Angels practice, and are weapons used past the Trickster's Brigade.
• Butterfly of Doom: As the title indicates, all Donna does is turn right instead of left. This plunges the globe into a dystopian hell.
• Call-Back:
  • Rose hates being saluted by Unit, a quirk shared with the Doctor.
  • At the end, Rose's appearance and the upcoming danger is heralded past the words "Bad Wolf" appearing everywhere the Physician looks. These were the Arc Words of Series one, actualization everywhere they went, only not well-nigh as frequently.
• Cardboard Box of Unemployment: Donna is downsized from her clerical job. She leaves with a paper-thin box containing her possessions... along with another items that aren't technically hers, but she decides to have as compensation.

  Donna: Hole dial. Having that. Stapler, mine. Toy cactus. You can have that, Beatrice. Take hold of.

• Chekhov's Gun: Wilfred's military service is brought upwardly halfway through the episode. This volition exist important presently.
• Chekhov's Gunman: The blue truck seen passing Donna'southward automobile as she waits to decide which style to turn. Information technology'due south the primal to setting things right.
• Continuity Nod:
  • The Unit soldier who reports the Md'south death is Private Carl Harris, one of the two who were first hypnotized and after killed by the Sontarans in "The Sontaran Stratagem"/"The Poison Heaven". Since this appearance is before in the timeline than those events, it'due south unclear if they all the same happen to him.
  • The Cloister Bong (the TARDIS's Oh, Crap! point, starting time heard in "Logopolis") is ringing at the end.
  • The Trickster is a fourth dimension-altering villain in The Sarah Jane Adventures.
  • Metropolitan Mag was indeed Sarah Jane'due south former employer in the archetype series (as mentioned in her first story, "The Time Warrior").
  • References to Torchwood and The Sarah Jane Adventures.
  • The issues on Donna's dorsum is confirmed to be a nod to the spider on Sarah Jane's back from "Planet of the Spiders". The idea of it consuming the time she could take spent is direct from the Weeping Angels.
  • Donna goes out the aforementioned style Rose'due south dad went out (cede by traffic blow) to achieve the same thing he needed to do (reset a Bad Future).
• Contrived Coincidence: The ane in "Partners in Offense" is Lampshaded; the Doc remarks that out of the whole wide universe, he met Donna twice, and both times accidentally.
• Cosy Catastrophe: The middle part, at to the lowest degree, is cosy. Houses are a fleck crammed simply there'south withal nutrient, and booze and plenty of nice people to sing sea shanties with.
• Crapsack World: Without the Physician there to do his thing, the world gets worse and worse. Although at least nosotros avoided the Master'southward reign of terror, equally without the Medico's intervention he presumably died as a man at the end of time. Weirdly, Earth doesn't immediately turn into New Pyrovilia with no one to crusade the eruption of Vesuvius. ^annotation Co-ordinate to Discussion of God, fourth dimension-travelling Unit commandos took intendance of the Carrionites and the Pyroviles, every bit well every bit the furnishings of other stories set in the past, only this was deemed to be besides cocky-referential and cocky-indulgent in an episode already heavily loaded with continuity references. invoked
• Death past Despair:
  • The Doctor, without Donna, wasn't willing to save himself during the business with the Racnoss. It'south implied that the Medico was feeling so depressed and solitary after of the events of the previous episode that he doesn't actually care whether he lives or dies, which would explain why he is killed permanently. Meeting Donna eased that loneliness and allowed him to reconnect with the globe, which is why Donna was able to snap him back, then he wouldn't dice with the Racnoss. Russell T Davies confirmed that this is the case; the Doctor chose not to regenerate. UNIT speculated that information technology happened "too fast for him to regenerate" (which has never been raised as a possibility earlier short of disintegration), simply of course they wouldn't know the whole story.
  • When the TARDIS finally appears, it'due south all simply outright said she's going the same way.
• Deconstruction:
  • Rose basically stands in for the Doctor in this episode, including the dimensional comings and goings, name obfuscation, misplaced enthusiasm, technobabble and hints of an Omniscient Morality License, but it's hard for someone else to pull this off and still be likeable.
  • This episode shows what would happen if Doctor Who-level disasters were common in an otherwise familiar man earth. It shows the level of man suffering, decease, economical low, and downright boredom that would result if the Doctor weren't there to stop every last one of them, resulting in the aforementioned Crapsack World.
• Afar Reaction Shot: The Titanic crashes into London, resulting in an enormous mushroom cloud visible from Donna's hotel.
• Dreaming the Truth: Rose speculates that Donna has been having dreams well-nigh the real timeline, her adventures with the Dr. in particular, ever since the incident with the Racnoss, the day the Doc died for good in this timeline. Donna's reaction proves Rose'south suspicion correct.
• Eagleland: This episode shows a type ane, considering America was going to send 50 meg quid in financial aid to assistance England with its radiation problem.
• Expospeak Gag: "Keep the jacket on at all times, it'southward insulation against temporal feedback. This volition correspond to local time wherever you state. This... is to combat dehydration." [offers ordinary drinking glass of water]
• Fake Shemp: David Tennant didn't actually play the Doc when he was lying on the stretcher when his body from the Thames.
• Foreshadowing: The stars blinking out.
• For Desire of a Blast: Donna turns right instead of left, and the whole world — probably the whole universe — changes.
• From Bad to Worse: Every bit bad equally the Doctor'southward universe can be, Donna'southward Earth is downright horrifying by comparison. Every scene shows the situation decaying more than and more. It's worse still when you consider what the Md'southward would-be companions become through:
  • Martha Jones never meets the Doctor, and sacrifices her life to save 1 human by giving him the concluding oxygen tank when the Regal Promise Infirmary is stolen by the Judoon.
  • Sarah Jane Smith is able to resolve the situation at the hospital at the price of her life — and the lives of her teenaged son, Luke and his friends — assuasive the Judoon to return it to World.
  • Without the Doctor's expertise (or Martha's Unit connections), Torchwood is forced to deal with the Sontarans, ending with Gwen Cooper and Ianto Jones igniting the temper by blowing up the Sontaran mothership from within it, sacrificing themselves. Jack Harkness, who cannot exist killed, is taken prisoner by the Sontarans and transported to Sontar.
  • Donna Noble. In the year post-obit her begetter'southward expiry she is fired from her job, narrowly dodges the nuclear explosion of London, is shoved into the kitchen of a home housing dozens of people with no money and no identity, only for the United Kingdom to start shipping immigrants to "labour camps" in a drastic attempt to save their own. Oh, and there's this time-travelling blonde stalking her...
• Funny Foreigner: The walking Italian stereotype in the form of the perpetually cheerful Mr. Colasanto... right up until he shares a grim farewell salute with Wilf and drops his façade completely as he and his family unit are led off to what sounds similar their deaths.
• Gilligan Cut: Wilf says America is sending assist money, so everything will be fine soon. Cut to a news report saying that threescore,000,000 Americans have been converted to Adipose.
• Heroic BSoD:
  • Rose goes bare and silent when Donna says the Md has died.

    Rose: I came and then far...

  • How the Doctor died in the first place — later on killing all the Racnoss and without Donna to snap him out of it, he either left it too late to get abroad from the inundation or was then despondent with Rose gone that he merely let himself drown.
• Heroic Sacrifice:
  • Martha gave her oxygen tank to her colleague.
  • Sarah Jane and co. died stopping the malfunctioning MRI.
  • Gwen and Ianto died exploding the Sontaran transport.
  • Donna jumps in front of a lorry to cause a tailback so her past self volition turn left and undo all the damage.
• In Spite of a Blast: It doesn't thing whether Donna turns left because she'due south beingness stubborn, or because in that location's a traffic jam, or that she has a mysterious dead doppelgänger.
• It Began with a Twist of Fate: Information technology'southward revealed that the just reason Donna Noble ever got embroiled in the Md'south life at all was because 1 solar day, she turned left, not right. Practiced thing she did, too: that same episode reveals that turning right led to the Md's permanent death, the nuclear destruction of London, and the end of reality itself. Yikes.
• Information technology's a Wonderful Plot: This episode demonstrates that Donna was correct when she said that the Medico needed someone to end him. Without her, he drowns in the Thames. To underscore this signal, the indicate of incident takes place before Christmas.
• Kicking the Dog: Donna's mother calling her a thwarting is a low blow. Even worse, she does information technology twice.
• Kill 'Em All: The Doctor, Martha, Sarah Jane, Maria, Clyde, Luke, Gwen, Ianto. With Donna and Rose the primary characters of the episode, Jack immortal and Owen and Tosh already dead, that's every character that's ever had billing in all iii series. Since this all gets reversed by the end of the episode, it's likewise an example of the Second Law of Metafictional Thermodynamics.
• Killed Off for Existent: Unit of measurement confirms that the Doctor is permanently dead. In this parallel universe at least; if he were dead in every universe then he would be Deader Than Expressionless.
• Tardily-Arrival Spoiler: When the Sontarans attack, Rose spoils the series 2 finale of Torchwood past only mentioning Ianto, Gwen and Jack.
• Leaning on the 4th Wall: After the line about the stars going out, Donna looks straight at the camera and says, "I'm gear up." Cutting to Rose, right there.
• Limited Wardrobe: Donna asks why Rose is always wearing the aforementioned clothes; presumably Rose is doing all this time-hopping in the same mean solar day, similar in "The Girl in the Fireplace".
• Make Incorrect What Once Went Right: The Trickster's beetle screws upwards time, so Rose sends Donna back to make it right again.
• The Man Behind the Man: The fortune teller and the beetle are working for the Trickster.
• Mind Spiral: Once yous get over the disaster and the sadness and the temporal weirdness and endeavor to piece of work out what the hell but happened, your eyes cantankerous.
• Missing the Proficient Stuff: Donna missed the crash of the Titanic, bringing the total to iii London-based disasters she'southward somehow managed to miss.
• Mood Whiplash: One minute, Donna and her mother are having a truly depressing conversation well-nigh their current condition, then Donna hears singing from the next room and goes to yell at them, until she sees Wilfred'southward been participating. Smash Cut to the entire family singing along with their housemates, the starting time time they've been happy for a long fourth dimension — and then they hear gunfire from outside.
• A Nazi by Any Other Name: The "England for the English" law, passed by the new emergency government, involves labour camps for minorities.
• Oh, Crap!:
  • Even before Donna goes dorsum in time, the conversation with Rose where Donna realises that expressionless is dead:

    Rose: Good luck.
    Donna: I'grand fix.
    Rose: 1 minute past ten.
    Donna: 'Cos I understand at present. You said I was gonna die, but... you hateful this whole world. It'south gonna blink out of existence. But that's not dying, 'cos a better world takes its place. The Doc's world! And I'g still alive!
    [Rose doesn't answer]
    Donna: That'southward right. Isn't it? I don't die, if I alter things, I don't die, that'south... that's right, isn't information technology?
    [Rose remains silent until...]
    Rose: I'thou sorry.

    • The look on Donna'due south face (and her immediate reaction) mirrors merely almost every fan watching the episode.
  • The fortune teller's reaction to Donna casting off the Time Beetle.
  • The Doctor from the second Donna mentions that Rose was blonde. And so it gets worse not once, but twice.
  • The Cloister Bong rings. It only ever rings when something really bad is going to happen.
• The One Where Everyone Dies: The only chief characters of the Davies era non to die in this episode somehow are Rose and Captain Jack (who is immortal). Donna herself has to die in order to set things correct once more and disengage the deaths.
• Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping: Billie Piper apparently lost the accent she had used as Rose, so she speaks with a noticeable lisp. She besides has a pronounced overbite that she never used to have, mildly affecting her speech (and possibly causing the lisp). Piper said in an interview that she sounded like that because it was cold equally they were shooting in winter, and she was wearing a "tiny jacket". On the other manus, some fans note that Rose sounds quite a bit like the Tenth Doctor down to his inflections and speculate that this was intentional to testify how much Rose had become like him.
• The World Is Always Doomed: Played for genuine drama and horror. The disasters of Serial 3 and 4 nonetheless happen and, without the Dr. to cease them, the world goes directly to hell.
• Planet of Hats: Shan Shen is basically Friendly Local Chinatown on a planet wide scale. The banners, the fortune tellers, the ethnicity of its people, etc.
• Prophecy Twist: If Donna goes with Rose, she will die. She does, sort of, in that the time to come-version of the alternating Donna dies to foreclose the past-version of the alternate Donna from turning right. Donna Noble prime is nevertheless alright and keen. Although the next episode suggests that wasn't it, and Donna is still a bad insurance gamble.
• Putting on the Reich: The British government seems to practice this, if Wilfred's comments when the Colasantos are taken away are to be believed:

  Wilf: Labour camps. That's what they called them last time.
  Donna: ... what d'you mean?
  Wilf: It's happening again.
  Donna: What is?
  [cut to the perpetually optimistic Mr Colasanto, who is hugging his married woman and breaking down in tears as they are hauled away] ^note During the 2d World War many Italian families were put to work in labour camps due to Italy being allies with Germany.

• Real Life Writes the Plot: The reason Donna doesn't accept annihilation to make her cling to her life in this alternative universe is that Russell T Davies gave up on his original idea of her having children during the centre of this havoc, since she already had a good spousal relationship and children in Steven Moffat's episode, which would air two weeks earlier. Also, the Md hints that there's something strange about the multiple alternative universes popping up around her considering Russell and Steven were both using the same thought. It was worked into the plot later on they exchanged e-mails about the episodes.
• Reset Button: By preventing herself from turning right when she originally turned left, Donna prevented this episode from taking identify. Except in that location is still fallout; Rose uses the incident to laissez passer on a warning to the Doctor.
• Second Police force of Metafictional Thermodynamics: Granted, the point of the episode is to testify how hopeless Earth would be in a timeline without the Doctor, but come on. The characters from Torchwood and The Sarah Jane Adventures have plenty of Plot Armour on their own shows, but as soon as they're thrown into an alternate timeline, the writers can't help but kill off those entire casts.
• Series Continuity Error: "Voyage of the Damned" stated, in no uncertain terms, that the crash of the starship Titanic into the Earth would wipe out humanity- if not all life on the planet- in short social club, thanks to the explosion of the ship'due south engines. In this episode'southward timeline we run into the ship crash, and while the impact does irradiate a big chunk of England, the world across the British isles seems to be just fine (or rather, not fine, but suffering for unrelated reasons). No caption is given for the modify in this scenario.
• Set Right What Once Went Wrong: What Rose sends Donna back in time to do.
• Shout-Out:
  • The whole Only Before the End meets Kitchen Sink Drama feel hearkens back to The War Game and Davies' own The 2nd Coming.
  • Donna and her family sing "Maverick Rhapsody" with the Colasantos.
• Small-scale Part, Large Impact: While unstated in the episode, with the crash of the Titanic, it can be inferred that not merely exercise Astrid, Mr. Copper, Morvin and Foon, Rickton, Bannakaffalatta and everyone else aboard dice, only Max Capricorn successfully carried out his revenge plan and all his trustees were blamed for the event and arrested, while he got to retire to Penhaxico Two like he planned. While information technology doesn't destroy the Earth, past wiping out London and irradiating Southern England, Capricorn ultimately had one of the biggest roles in making things much worse.
• Sole Survivor: Oliver Morgenstern is the simply survivor of the Royal Hope Infirmary Incident thanks to Martha giving him the last of her oxygen.
• The Stars Are Going Out: Wilfred sees the stars going out when he can no longer see Orion's Chugalug.
• The Stations of the Catechism: We whip through the terminal 2 years of gimmicky Earth-based stories, except with much bleaker results.
• Stepford Smiler: Rocco puts on his usual cheer as his entire family is being set off to a "labour army camp".
• Tempting Fate: When the ATMOS starts poisoning the sky, Donna asks Rose how it could get worse. She finds out very presently.
• Championship Drop: The title is said several times when Donna is told what choice of hers created the Crapsack World, and what she has to make her past self do to fix things. Finally, information technology'south said when Past!Donna sees the traffic jam caused by her future self and decides she's non waiting for traffic to articulate upwardly.
• Took a Level in Jerkass: It'south made extremely clear that Donna's mellowing out was due to the Physician — she's just equally stubborn and obnoxious every bit she was in the Christmas special.
• Transformation Is a Free Action: Averted — the Doctor is unable (or as we saw with the Principal, unwilling) to regenerate while being crushed under the weight of the River Thames.
• Wham Line:
  • A gut punch of i from Wilf:
  • "Bad Wolf."
• What If?: When Donna came to a sure intersection, she fabricated a right hand plow to a photocopier business organization instead of turning left, to work at a security firm?
• What the Hell Are You lot?: The fortune teller all just screams this equally she runs from Donna after she overcomes the Time Beetle, unable to empathise how.

  Fortune Teller: Yous were and so strong. What are you lot?! What will yous be?! WHAT Will You BE?!

• What the Hell Is That Accent?: Billie Piper manifestly lost the emphasis she had used as Rose in Serial ane and ii, and so she speaks with a noticeable lisp. She too has a pronounced overbite that she never used to take, mildly affecting her speech (and perchance causing the lisp). Piper said in an interview that she sounded similar that because information technology was cold as they were shooting in winter, and she was wearing a "tiny jacket".
  • Some fans note that Rose sounds quite a bit like the 10th Doctor down to his inflections and speculate that this was intentional to show how much Rose had become like him.
• Whole Plot Reference: Russell T Davies got the plot of the episode from Sliding Doors.
• Wide-Eyed Idealist: Donna is laughably naïve in this episode, and severely overestimates how necessary secretaries are.
• Wistful Amnesia: Kinda-sorta. When Donna denies knowing anything most the Doctor, she'due south visibly crying. Rose states this is because she nevertheless remembers how events originally went. This is too likely the reason why Donna wound upwards running toward the action the nighttime of the Racnoss attack, and thus saw the Doctor's body being loaded onto an ambulance.
• Withholding Their Proper name: Rose never tells Donna her proper name, or her UNIT allies for that matter. She explains that if she says the incorrect word, information technology could "destabilise an entire causal nexus" (I.E. screw up the timeline). It as well helps delay the Doctor's panicked reaction when Donna tells him about her experiences.
• Y'all Are Better Than Y'all Think You Are: Rose and the Doctor tell Donna she's brilliant, fifty-fifty though she insists she isn't.

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