"Turn Left"
Series: 4
Doctor: David Tennant
Companion: Donna Noble (Catherine Tate)
Writer: Russell T Davies
David Tennant has very little screen time in the penultimate episode leading up to the final two-parter with Donna. I suppose this episode would be considered a "Doctor-lite" episode, but Catherine Tate shows just why Donna Noble is so fantastic as a companion to the Doctor and as a stand alone character of her own. It demonstrates how much she's grown while remaining true to herself. Plus, I love all the throwbacks to the previous episodes in seasons three and four. Billie Piper's veneers aside, "Turn Left" is a gem from an all-around great season of Doctor Who.
The rather simplistic idea that our lives are governed by the smallest of choices really makes Donna come into her own and leads into the final episodes and the meaning behind the Ood referring to Donna and the Doctor as "Doctor Donna". Have you ever had a decision to make that could have completely changed the way your life turned out? And then think how that one choice impacted the lives of others? I can, and it's truly traumatizing to think of what would have happened if I had not stopped to talk to the recruiters from American University at the attendance-mandatory college fair and instead passed them by like I had passed by so many of the other schools that day. "Turn Left" dramatizes how Donna's simple decision had a ripple effect the universe over, and hints at just why she's so important.
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