Who’s the Daddy?

Doctor Who – The Doctor’s Daughter

[SPOILER WARNING]

A great little episode, although it did feel like there was too much going on for just a single episode story. The pace was good throughout the whole episode, but it just felt like there could have been more exploration of the characters and situation than the single episode allowed.

The Doctor has a daughter – shock, horror! (Well, no. We’ve always known he had a granddaughter… ) But this daughter was created by a cloning process from a tissue sample that was forcibly taken from the Doctor. The episode saw the Doctor trying to stop the war, while his daughter Jenny tried to understand how there was more to life than fighting. Donna was very good at reconciling the two, and showing that they were more alike than either of them wanted to see.

I loved the idea of the war having only taken place over seven days, but had been fought for ’several generations’ due to the daily creation of humans and Hath to fight. The Hath did seem a little pointless though, mainly due to the fact that they couldn’t speak clearly and we had to rely on Martha’s interpretation of what they were saying. (who in their right mind creates a race of fish/human hybrids and forces them to breath through gills??!)

And I wonder if it’s the last we’ve seen of Jenny … ?