After defeating the cute but murderous Meep, the Doctor was showing off his new TARDIS interior to the restored Donna Noble.
She accidentally spills on the console which causes the TARDIS to catch fire!
Psst! Daleks? The key to defeating Time Lords is spilling coffee on their stuff.
Anyway, what is to become of the Doctor and Donna?
That's for this week's edition of Doctor Who Is NEW! to reveal.
And what pray tell is my review of the 2nd 60th anniversary special, "Wild Blue Yonder"?
It's... weird.
<cracks knuckles>
Well, I can see my work here is done.
We'll be back next week for another edition of Doctor Who Is NEW!
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Uh, you're still here?
Oh! You think I need to elaborate more about the 2nd 60th anniversary special, "Wild Blue Yonder"?
OK, fine! Here goes.
It's... really weird.
<deep sign of relief>
And that should be all we need to say about that.
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But... no?
Fine!
The Doctor and Donna wind up on a space ship at the outer most edge of the universe. Bereft of the TARDIS and his sonic screw driver, the Doctor has to solve the mystery of what is going on with this weird space ship at the edge of nowhere and how to get Donna back home.
The Doctor and Donna encounter alien duplicates of themselves except for some odd bits.
Like their arms are too long. Or they grow to large blobby giants. Or the spiky shark teeth. Or the Doctor's head is coming out his ass.
You know, little things like that.
These alien beings are up the evulz for no good reason anyone explains but they're trying to eat the Doctor and Donna so they need to be stopped.
Who these aliens are and what that ship was doing out there are on the very edge of existence is never fully explained.
Perhaps this will be a mystery for a future episode to solve. Or not. They served their purpose of putting the Doctor and Donna Noble through their paces and engage in that Doctor/Donna banter we all love so much.
David Tennant and Catherine Noble have to do a lot of heavy lifting not only as the Doctor and Donna but also as their distorted alien dopplegangers.
We do get a couple of bits with other people. In a pre-credits bit of silliness, the TARDIS winds up parked in the top of an apple tree in 1666 with Isaac Newton underneath as he discovers the concept of... mavity. (Yeah, I spelled that right.)
And in the epilogue, we get a moment with Bernard Cribbins as Wilfred Mott.
And the Earth is in crisis.
The Celestial Toymaker is coming!
It looks like next week we'll be introduced to the 15th Doctor.
The BBC recently released this publicity still of Ncuti Gatwa is the Doctor and Millie Gibson as companion Ruby Sunday.
For reals, my work here is done this week.
We'll be back next week for another edition of Doctor Who Is NEW!
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