The Doctor and Donna was the funniest and most consistently nice relationship in the world of Doctor Who. This was mostly because things weren’t made overly complicated by having Donna fall in the love with him--they were just friends. Season four gave us some of the best episodes of the show and culminated in the most exciting finale the show ever had. Then we lost Donna.
However, there were quite a few things that suggested that the pair weren’t quite as close friends are we first thought.
10 She Hated Him At First
The first time the Doctor and Donna met was on her wedding day. In a moment of very understandable confusion, Catherine Tate was standing in the TARDIS in front of an emotionally vulnerable Doctor, shouting at him.
This wasn’t the best way for them to meet, and it certainly meant that they haven’t spent their entire relationship seeing eye to eye.
9 And As Such, They Went Their Separate Ways
After that one Christmas special, the two went their separate ways. Obviously, while Donna had managed to pretty much save the Doctor’s life, she hadn’t been overly impressed by his lifestyle.
She decided not to go with him, suggesting that the two obviously hadn’t formed quite a tight enough bond yet.
8 And He Didn’t Say Anything About Her For An Entire Season
After his strange adventure with Donna, the Doctor ended up on the moon with Martha Jones. This was the start of the season in which he wouldn’t shut up about Rose, eventually forcing Martha to leave her adventures with the Doctor behind.
The Doctor and Donna only knew each other for about a day, but he didn’t mention her once. Not even just a funny story.
7 When She Returned, The Insults Resumed
With Catherine Tate behind the character, you have to expect a certain level of sass and anger. It’s what she’s known for, and it is the attitude she put into Donna.
However, the very fact that she spent half of her time shouting at the Doctor or giving him a series of insulting nicknames suggests that she can’t have liked him that much for a while.
6 She Kept Wandering Off
As with all of the Doctor’s companions, Donna was plagued by the fact that she was too nice deep down. Her loudness made her seem arrogant and unpleasant at times, but most of the time, she just wanted to help.
However, the fact that she kept disobeying the Doctor’s one rule (don’t wander off) she kept doing it anyway, placing both of them in danger for no real reason.
5 And Made Some Dangerous Decisions
While she was doing her wandering off, Donna often let her unexpected bravery get the better of her.
For example, in ‘Journey’s End’, she touched the Doctor’s hand. This might have effectively saved the day, but it put her in so much danger that she became part-Time Lord and had to have her entire memory of everything she experienced wiped just so she wouldn’t explode.
4 Although The Doctor Did Put Her In A Lot Of Danger
Having said that, the Doctor seemed a little more complacent with Donna’s life than the lives of Martha and Rose.
They went on some really dangerous missions, such as one that took them straight into the eruption of Vesuvius and another that saw her be taken by the Vashta Nerada.
3 She And Rose Didn’t Seem To Care For Each Other That Much
If there is one thing you need to do to prove yourself a true friend, it is that you can get along with the friends of your friends. The Doctor spoke about Rose so often, that you’d think she and Donna would really try to get along.
However, the two don’t really attempt to have a normal conversation, and Donna maintains her sassiness, even towards the Doctor’s one true love.
2 You’d Think The Doctor Would Try A Little Harder To Fix Her
One of the strange things about Doctor Who is how it treats impossible situations. Pretty much everything that is introduced into the show as ‘impossible’ is done so in order to be reversed later on. Breaking a ‘time lock’? The master returning to life? Moving between parallel universes?
Why couldn’t he just put a little more effort into saving Donna, so that she didn’t have to lose her memory?
1 And That He’d Find A Way To Interact With Her
After her memory was wiped, Donna Noble had no choice but to return to her normal life. She could never remember, but as we saw straight after her memory was wiped, she interacted with the Doctor, who pretended to be John Smith.
If he cared about her that much, surely he would have had a short interaction with her as John Smith again, just to see how she was doing?
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