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#Death of the Doctor (Sarah Jane Adventures)
gurumog · 2 years
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The Sarah Jane Adventures
S04E06: Death of the Doctor, Part 02
First aired Oct 26th, 2010
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So so so so so obsessed by the parallels of the Torvic incident ("I am the Master") and Andrea making a deal to swap her life for Sarah Jane's in "Whatever Happened to Sarah Jane?". Never forget we got the death's champion deal in the form of the SJA
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doctorwhoisadhd · 2 months
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did the math and over the course of my winter break i watched/read/listened to 119 dr who things
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xxxlunathecatxxx · 1 year
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Matt in The Sarah Jane Adventures 💚
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thingsasbarcodes · 1 month
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The Sarah Jane Adventures 4x06 - Death of the Doctor (Part 2)
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irn-bru · 1 year
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im actually so obsessed with the wedding of sarah jane smith you have no idea. not only does the trickster fuck exponentially as a villain, they had the doctor in his timelord victorious era (getting very close to it) and gave it actual weight despite being a kids show. his conversation with the trickster wouldn't have been out of place in the main show (once again petitioning for the trickster to be a main doctor who antagonist). nigel havers is also there
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single-snail · 2 years
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“can you change color or are you always white?” clyde langer i’ve got some great news for you
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azazel-dreams · 2 years
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Sarah Jane Adventures - Death of the Doctor by Gary Russell
Rating: ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
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incomingalbatross · 2 years
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On the one hand, I admit that theorizing Andrea Yates is Yates’s little sister is a little contrived, in that it means her best friend and her big brother both just happened to get mixed up in Alien Nonsense 5-10 years after her death; on the other hand, there’s nothing to contradict it in either “Whatever Happened to Sarah Jane?” or “Invasion of the Dinosaurs,” and thus I choose to believe it because it makes life more fun.
It also, incidentally, explains why Yates and Sarah are instantly on familiar terms in “Invasion of the Dinosaurs” (which ought to be their first meeting, otherwise) and why he enlists her help in “Planet of the Spiders” despite the whole, you know, erasing-humanity fiasco.
...Oh, and it adds a fun new level of pain to "Invasion of the Dinosaurs” and “Whatever Happened,” so that’s another plus.
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astralpenguin · 2 years
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new uquiz! find out which one of my interests you are! most of the results are good things i promise
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myname-isnia · 4 months
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It doesn’t matter how old I am or how much I’ve changed as a person, the SJA episode about Sarah Jane’s parents will make me sob just as much as when I was 9
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lonelyzarquon · 4 months
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THE SARAH JANE ADVENTURES | Death of the Doctor
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I love how Tales of the TARDIS has the TARDIS basically be a fix fic author with the power to make those fics canon, like
SPOILERS
"I'm going to create the scene where 5 and at least one of his companions actually talk about Adric's death and grieve properly."
"I didn't like that the Doctor had that falling out with Ace I'ma make them talk it out."
"Peri's departure was confusing so I'll create some closure. I think the Doctor needs that."
And outside of just the Doctor, TARDIS loves the companions and is like "Vicki left kind of abruptly and I miss her and Steven" and "Fuck you Time Lords I'm giving Jamie and Zoe their memories back"
I don't know enough about the Sarah Jane Adventures to talk about that last one, but the TARDIS loves Jo too. And Sarah Jane. Enough to know about this gang of kids she fought monsters with.
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Alternate Doctor Who Companion Endings
The Hartnell Years
Barbara: becomes an Aztec queen
Ian: Stabbed by a TARDIS-possessed Susan running with scissors
Susan: Eaten by a normal-sized Earth woodlouse while shrunk
Vicky: Conscripted into a civil war between large-sized non-Earth moths and ants
Steven: arrested for mugging a man for his Rolex in 1066
Katerina: journeys with the Doctor for eight multi-part serials before falling in love with a Samurai and staying in Edo period Japan
Sara Kingdom: becomes a Golden Era Hollywood stunt actor
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The Troughton Years
Polly: Becomes a fish person
Ben: Conscripted into being a Highlander
Jamie: New face new man
Victoria: Killed by a Cybermat
Zoe: vanishes in Foam
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The Pertwee Years
Liz Shaw: falls in love with a Silurian
Jo: accidentally drops the Doctor's tupperware box of anti-matter
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The Baker Years v1
Sarah-Jane: stays on Peladon to pioneer feminism
Harry Sullivan: accidentally replaced by a Zygon
Leela: steamed
Romana 1: a Mishap with a giant squid on a methane refinery. Regenerates.
Romana 2: becomes a vampire
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The Davison Years
Nyssa: stays on Earth to become a paleontologist
Tegan: goes home with the wrong Doctor (it was a choice of 5, whoops)
Adric: gets lost in an Escher building. Left behind.
Turlough: succeeds in killing the Doctor. Sent home by the Black Guardian with an extremely silly hat
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The Baker Years v2
Peri: turned into a bird by a slug
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The McCoy Years
Mel: stays and joins a rebel punk roller derby team and takes on alien!Thatcherite non-Britain
Ace: becomes a Time Lord (with a baseball bat)
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The McGann Years
Grace: stays dead
Chang Lee: stays dead
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The Eccleston Years
Adam: promoted and eaten by a gelatinous ceiling
Captain Jack: is so successful on Trinny and Suzannah that he gets and stars in his own future!TV show, How to Look Good Naked. Becomes a celebrity. Stays.
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The Tennant Years
Rose: possessed by Cassandra
Martha: blows up Earth with the Oster Haagen key
Donna: refinds her real life husband from Silence in the Library after being downloaded
Mickey: becomes parts in a clockwork spaceship
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The Smith Years
Amy: becomes an Angel
Rory: finds out his fiance sexually assaulted another man the night before their wedding and leaves to build a better life
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The Capaldi Years
Clara: genuinely leaves and never comes back after that moon bullshit because she's fed up with his abuse
Bill: stays on the Cyber-infested spaceship to lead the colonists as they start a new society
Nardole: Cyber-converted, but is the quirky comic relief robot. The Doctor leaves him with Bill, in case he's useful.
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The Whittaker Years
Yaz: joins Zheng Yi Sao, is now starring in Our Flag Means Death s3
Graham: stays in the frog universe with his dead frog wife
Ryan: seduced by King James VI and I, becomes prince consort
Dan: goes to space with his grumpy dog friend on new adventures
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doctor-donnaa · 2 months
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“Turn Left” is such a unique and phenomenal Doctor Who episode! It is so powerful and brilliantly performed! It is carried almost entirely by the companion, and the Doctor is barely in it. But it is still one of the best episodes of the show. At the heart of the story is not the alien standoffs and space adventures (even though it takes place in a parallel universe), but the very real human horrors and tragedies that do happen in real life, and that’s what makes this episode so heart-wrenching and raw. The plot is the story of Donna and her family and how horribly wrong her life and the life of the entire universe goes in a world where Donna and the Doctor never meet and never save each other.
It starts on such an optimistic note, showing how happy both Doctor and Donna are together, having adventures and exploring some new planet and having a blast, but Donna meets a trickster who asks if she wants to find out her future, but Donna is so content and at the height of her character development at that point, so she is already confident and HAPPY, and  doesn’t want to know, because she already has everything she needs to be happy at that very moment  and nothing else matters.
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“I can see a man, the most remarkable  man…”, the trickster instantly sees and realizes how important this stranger’s presence is in Donna’s life and makes Donna reveal how she met the Doctor and how it changed her life. So, Donna gets tricked and it ends up creating a parallel world where Donna makes one wrong turn, accepts a different job and never meets the Doctor on Christmas, and he ends up dying because Donna wasn’t there, so there was no one to stop him. And things spiral from there, every single alien invasion and global disaster that happens afterwards, result in the world collapsing without the Doctor (with Donna by his side). And Donna keeps meeting Rose who jumps from another dimension and tries to make Donna believe that there was a different world where things were better because she did meet the Doctor and they were able to stop this nightmare from happening. But Donna doesn’t believe Rose at first.
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The story is filled with so many raw and devastating moments that showcase how terrible everything is in this “what if…” world where the Doctor doesn’t exist. Donna and her family end up refugees and lose everything and everyone they knew.
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Donna is still shouting at the world but nobody is listening.
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Donna and the Doctor not meeting results in not just the Doctor’s death, but also deaths of multiple companions and friends, like Martha, Sarah Jane and the Torchwood team.
Rose tells Donna all of this, but Donna, wonderful and amazing Donna, in this world she thinks of herself even less than she did before meeting the Doctor in her own reality. She literally throws it in Rose’s face how she can’t fathom why Rose is telling her about these big events and how it all could have been saved by the Doctor, she can’t understand why Rose is telling Donna about this, why her, she’s just nobody and can do literally nothing. That’s the pain in that moment when Donna is laughing through tears at even the possibility of her own worth and importance. And she gets angry when Rose tries to get her to come with her to prove that what she’s saying is true, that stars are going out and Donna could help stop this from happening. But Donna just thinks Rose is messing with her.
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And things keep getting worse and worse. The metaphorical and literal darkness engulfing the life Donna ends up in until there is not a single glimmer of hope left. The family Donna shares a place with, ends up getting sent into “labor camps” just because they are not English, and it is horrific because the same things happened before and Wilf knows it, and he already grieves this family who have become friends, because he knows what is going to happen to them and where they are really getting sent to… His heartbroken and tearful “It is happening again”, Donna running after the truck taking them away screaming “Where are you taking them???” all drive home the point of how hopeless things are.
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When Donna tells Sylvia that she tried looking for a job but was rejected for “not being qualified” and adds a defeated "I guess I have always been a disappointment", she is getting the worst response from her own mother, a quiet “yeah…”
But the breaking point for Donna comes when her own grandad doesn’t fight for her anymore and ready to sell his most prized possession he never lets go of, his telescope, to make them some money for a living. Donna starts to believe in Rose’s words, when she and Wilf see the stars in the sky literally going out. That’s when Donna gives up and is ready to believe the impossible, that what Rose was saying about the Doctor is true.
And when she sees the TARDIS and hears about the Doctor’s brilliance, her first response is so heartbreaking! She honestly can’t understand how someone so extraordinary and smart and special would even want to spend time with her or need her at all. That’s how little Donna thinks of herself, and not just little, she thinks of herself as nothing, completely worthless person no one sees or hears or believes in. But the Doctor thought she was brilliant and that gives her hope.
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But here comes another tragedy that in order for this terrible reality to be unwritten, Donna needs to literally kill herself…How truly horrible and awful is that? And how truly cruel it is for Donna to hear what she needs to do after being told that there is a whole life for her with the Doctor, a different better world where Donna Noble is worthy and full of potential for remarkable things. How awful it was to be given a glimpse of hope amongst all misery, being told that the world needs the Doctor and Donna Noble to stop the stars from going out, and then have it taken away because the only way out is dying….
But brave and remarkable Donna Noble does it anyway. And she does go back to her own reality and defeats the trickster and here we get the foreshadowing of the DoctorDonna because the trickster sees the incredible power in Donna “You are so strong. What are you? What will you be?”
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Sylvia in the parallel world says to Donna “You think you’ll meet a man…”, and Donna does, just not the kind of man Sylvia implies. The kind of man who will  save her, and she will save him, and together they will stop the stars from going out and save this world and reality itself. That’s how powerful meeting the Doctor was for BOTH himself and Donna. It is a different kind of love that will save both Donna and the Doctor, and the world around them.
When Donna and the Doctor are reunited, it feels different because she already knows what it’s like to lose him and she rushes to hug him and catches him by surprise. He doesn’t know what it’s like to lose her (yet) but he will soon find out…and probably remember this hug as the last happy memory that he will cherish for millions of years and she will have to forget.
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And the very next moment is a foreshadowing of not only the metacrisis DoctorDonna but also Donna millions of years later becoming the Doctor’s home. And when Donna once again dismisses her own importance, the Doctor instantly and without hesitation reminds her that SHE IS BRILLIANT, and she smiles at him because that’s exactly what she needed to hear and that is what he always tells her. Donna has seen the world without him and the world where she felt like nothing, and the Doctor wasn’t there to show her how wrong she was. But now all is right in the world again, the puzzle pieces are back in place, at least for a short while.
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This story showed how intertwined the Doctor and Donna’s fates are. How them not meeting literally becomes their own undoing and results in a threat of the whole universe blinking out of existence. How their accidental Christmas meeting became their salvation. How without Donna the Doctor would die, and without the Doctor Donna’s life would become a nightmare. How one little detail can change so much.
“Turn Left” is such a masterpiece of drama and had such outstanding acting in it too, specifically by Catherine Tate. She carried this episode on her back (pun intended). 
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And this episode is one more proof that Doctor Who is not just silly space adventures and camp and fun escapism, it is also impactful and meaningful stories about ordinary people capable of so many profound and extraordinary and truly great things, and all they need is for someone to believe in them and remind them they can do anything and be brilliant and fantastic.
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thingsasbarcodes · 1 month
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The Sarah Jane Adventures 4x05 - Death of the Doctor (Part 1)
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