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Donna Nobel

Catherine Tate

Reviews

The most important woman in all of creation by Nathan Mullins 19/8/08

Donna Nobel was fiesty, bolshy, she knew what she wanted and she threw herslef into time and space with one man who she dreampt of finding after her last adventure with him in The Runaway Bride. In that episode, I had doubts about her character, because I thought the episode lacked something that I felt had something to do with her, which probably was her personality. However, this was something I have had to get used to throughout her adventures in time and space with the Doctor who she finally found whilst on an adventure herself.

Though, I must say, since The Runaway Bride, she has certainly progressed and her personality has changed from what we got used to in her last episode with him. During The Fires of Pompeii, she brought a lot of real emotion to Donna I thought and that after first viewings of that episode and the one previous, I thought, 'My god, they've gone and done it again! They've given us a companion we can feed our love and sorrow off.'

The episodes she was in were brilliant to say the least. She had all the best writers writing for her as well, giving her episodes like Turn Left, The Sontaran Strategem/The Poison Sky, The Fires of Pompeii and Journey's End. Pretty much all of them apart from one which was Planet of the Ood, which I felt was over the top; nothing to do with her, but the episode in general.

Her and David Tennant get on like a house on fire. The two of them in their characters are a joy to watch, bouncing ideas off one another and just a great couple of actors who know how to make a show work for an audience watching at home.

In my opinion, she was easily the best of the three companions so far. I liked both Rose and Martha but they didn't give the emotions that Catherine Tate gave and that's why I acknowledge her as one of the best since Doctor Who's revival, though the repetitiveness got to me in the end!