Catherine Tate’s Donna is the perfect choice of companion to bring back.
During this celebration returning showrunner Russell T Davies has six whole decades of storytelling to draw from.
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A great character?
But out of the entire canon ofDoctor Whois shethecharacter we want to bring back to celebrate the 60th?
But of course, as fans, we dont care whether the people making the show arehappy.
Bastards that we are, we only care if its good.
And by that we mean She didnt fancy the Doctor.
With Donna, there were no big speeches about how wonderful and magnificent the Doctor is.
If Donna were given the same task, well, that story would have probably ended differently.
Donna is nobodys sidekick or human pet.
These companions are superheroes, they are Peter Parker, waiting for the spider bite.
The same is true for subsequent companions such as Amy, Clara and Bill.
She doesnt want to fight an alien invasion, she wants a nice, boring life of domestic bliss.
It sounds like its doing her down, but that ordinarinessisher superpower.
It means she is really, deeply affected by what she sees.
And really, thats what the Doctors companion should be.
Its a casting directors dream.
Any chance to see that again on screen is a chance not to miss.
But it proved to be too much her brain couldnt cope.
Moffat turned things around by having the Doctors memory of Clara wiped instead.
You know, unless Davies has an even more terrible fate in store for her…
Doctor Who returns on November 25 to BBC One, BBC iPlayer in the UK and Disney+
