Post by MS on Dec 4, 2023 8:12:38 GMT
Middle 60th Anniversary Special.
Written by showrunner Russell T. Davies.
Series directorial debut by Tom Kingsley.
This starts in England 1666 and a figure comes out and mentions the last word of the episode title, yonder.
I soon realise, which was eventually confirmed, that as soon I saw this figure at the apple tree that this was Isaac Newton.
The Fourth Doctor in The Pirate Planet says that he gave the idea of gravity to Newton by dropping apples on him from the said tree and then explaining to him about it over dinner.
Not that I was actually expecting Tom Baker to turn up as the Fourth Doctor but Wild Blue Yonder presents a different explanation of how Newton got the idea of gravity but with him coming up with the word mavity instead!
This had apples falling on Newton as a result of the TARDIS coming by and carrying the Fourteenth Doctor and Donna.
When Newton told the Doctor and Donna that it is 1666, the Doctor told Newton to stay away from London.
This is a reference to the Great Fire of London which the Fifth Doctor was an unintended contributor to in The Visitation.
Donna says something to Newton only for 14 to say not to do that, a return to something 10 had said.
Incidentally Newton was played by Nathaniel Curtis who was in It's a Sin also written by Davies.
After this brief meeting with Newton, the TARDIS takes the Doctor and Donna to an apparently empty spaceship.
The song Wild Blue Yonder, which is how this episode got its name, is played and I thought it is only heard by the viewer.
However Donna then says that it was played by the TARDIS.
Not long after they stepped out of the TARDIS, the TARDIS goes off without the Doctor and Donna due to the HADS being activated and with HADS standing for Hostile Action Displacement System, Donna immediately concludes that they are in hostile action.
Jimbo the robot they meet looks kind of cute as well as the golf-cart-like vehicle that the Doctor finds and that him and Donna then ride on.
Intriguing how things unfolded and then all of a sudden two Doctors and two Donnas are presented and creepy when the fake Doctor and fake Donna presented themselves with literally long arms, when they went giant in size and the fakes meshed together.
At times I could not tell who was real and who wasn't
The real 14 tells the real Donna that he will find her and it is the same thing that 10 said to Martha in 42.
The moments when the Doctor and Donna each had a conversation with the other's doppelganger alone including one of the Donnas bringing up the Flux and a reference to the Doctor being the Timeless Child was very enthralling and gripping to see.
In a moment when both Doctors and Donnas were all together, the real Doctor brings up a salt shaker as the Doctor that salt is used to get rid of evil beings.
I was quite surprised with the Doctor bringing out the salt as I didn't take Davies and the Doctor for that matter as people who subscribe to superstition.
The climax is reached when the spaceship is about to explode due to a countdown set off by the ship's late captain and came the moment after the TARDIS finally came back and the real Doctor seeing the two Donnas not knowing which of them is real.
The Doctor asked questions to the Donnas and based on an answer to the last question asked picked a Donna and they both go in the TARDIS.
The other Donna protest that she is real Donna and I got the huge sense that the Doctor had made the wrong choice.
As it turned out the Doctor did choose the wrong Donna and this Donna certainly made it plain to this viewer that she is indeed the fake by her creepy essence.
Fortunately the Doctor realised this mistake in time and quickly made a switcheroo of the real Donna being back in the TARDIS and the fake back in the spaceship.
The fake Doctor had already met his demise when he got engulfed in a fireball and eventually it was the fake Donna's turn when the spaceship completed its destruction with the TARDIS carrying the real Doctor and Donna away from it.
The last scene has the TARDIS bringing Donna back home and meeting them is Wilf. Bernard Cribbins had completed filming on this one scene of Wild Blue Yonder not long before he passed on July 27 2022 and Wild Blue Yonder has a dedication to Cribbins in the end credits.
The Doctor and Wilf are certainly glad to be reunited but things are not well with chaos all around including horrifyingly seeing a plane crashing down and hence this ends as the lead-up to the final 60th Anniversary Special The Giggle.
Wild Blue Yonder is truly a haunting episode that delivers very well and the last scene is a well executed lead-up to The Giggle.
Written by showrunner Russell T. Davies.
Series directorial debut by Tom Kingsley.
This starts in England 1666 and a figure comes out and mentions the last word of the episode title, yonder.
I soon realise, which was eventually confirmed, that as soon I saw this figure at the apple tree that this was Isaac Newton.
The Fourth Doctor in The Pirate Planet says that he gave the idea of gravity to Newton by dropping apples on him from the said tree and then explaining to him about it over dinner.
Not that I was actually expecting Tom Baker to turn up as the Fourth Doctor but Wild Blue Yonder presents a different explanation of how Newton got the idea of gravity but with him coming up with the word mavity instead!
This had apples falling on Newton as a result of the TARDIS coming by and carrying the Fourteenth Doctor and Donna.
When Newton told the Doctor and Donna that it is 1666, the Doctor told Newton to stay away from London.
This is a reference to the Great Fire of London which the Fifth Doctor was an unintended contributor to in The Visitation.
Donna says something to Newton only for 14 to say not to do that, a return to something 10 had said.
Incidentally Newton was played by Nathaniel Curtis who was in It's a Sin also written by Davies.
After this brief meeting with Newton, the TARDIS takes the Doctor and Donna to an apparently empty spaceship.
The song Wild Blue Yonder, which is how this episode got its name, is played and I thought it is only heard by the viewer.
However Donna then says that it was played by the TARDIS.
Not long after they stepped out of the TARDIS, the TARDIS goes off without the Doctor and Donna due to the HADS being activated and with HADS standing for Hostile Action Displacement System, Donna immediately concludes that they are in hostile action.
Jimbo the robot they meet looks kind of cute as well as the golf-cart-like vehicle that the Doctor finds and that him and Donna then ride on.
Intriguing how things unfolded and then all of a sudden two Doctors and two Donnas are presented and creepy when the fake Doctor and fake Donna presented themselves with literally long arms, when they went giant in size and the fakes meshed together.
At times I could not tell who was real and who wasn't
The real 14 tells the real Donna that he will find her and it is the same thing that 10 said to Martha in 42.
The moments when the Doctor and Donna each had a conversation with the other's doppelganger alone including one of the Donnas bringing up the Flux and a reference to the Doctor being the Timeless Child was very enthralling and gripping to see.
In a moment when both Doctors and Donnas were all together, the real Doctor brings up a salt shaker as the Doctor that salt is used to get rid of evil beings.
I was quite surprised with the Doctor bringing out the salt as I didn't take Davies and the Doctor for that matter as people who subscribe to superstition.
The climax is reached when the spaceship is about to explode due to a countdown set off by the ship's late captain and came the moment after the TARDIS finally came back and the real Doctor seeing the two Donnas not knowing which of them is real.
The Doctor asked questions to the Donnas and based on an answer to the last question asked picked a Donna and they both go in the TARDIS.
The other Donna protest that she is real Donna and I got the huge sense that the Doctor had made the wrong choice.
As it turned out the Doctor did choose the wrong Donna and this Donna certainly made it plain to this viewer that she is indeed the fake by her creepy essence.
Fortunately the Doctor realised this mistake in time and quickly made a switcheroo of the real Donna being back in the TARDIS and the fake back in the spaceship.
The fake Doctor had already met his demise when he got engulfed in a fireball and eventually it was the fake Donna's turn when the spaceship completed its destruction with the TARDIS carrying the real Doctor and Donna away from it.
The last scene has the TARDIS bringing Donna back home and meeting them is Wilf. Bernard Cribbins had completed filming on this one scene of Wild Blue Yonder not long before he passed on July 27 2022 and Wild Blue Yonder has a dedication to Cribbins in the end credits.
The Doctor and Wilf are certainly glad to be reunited but things are not well with chaos all around including horrifyingly seeing a plane crashing down and hence this ends as the lead-up to the final 60th Anniversary Special The Giggle.
Wild Blue Yonder is truly a haunting episode that delivers very well and the last scene is a well executed lead-up to The Giggle.