Doctor Who – Turn Left

This following post contains spoilers for the eleventh episode of Series 4 Doctor Who. If you don’t wish for the episode to be spoiled for you, do not continue. Otherwise, please read on, as I have no control over stopping you. So yeah, don’t comment saying “OMG! U RUIND IT 4 ME!” or anything to that effect, ’cause it just means you’re stupid for not heeding my warning

This will be my first post on Doctor Who, and what a place to start. Turn Left is the first part of the three-part finale. Series 4 has, for me, been really good, perhaps even the best yet, only the finale will tell. I’ve had laughs, I’ve cried (I’ve done a LOT of crying), I’ve had plenty of excitement, my pulse raising (most notably whenever I see Rose, but also when I watched the preview for Episode 12!)

So, Episode 11. I heard the name of the episode quite a while ago, but I couldn’t figure out what it meant. “Turn Left”, what has that got to do with anything? But then Donna meets a fortune teller and it all becomes clear. This fortune teller distracts her while a “Time Beetle” locks on to her back and she is told to do one thing – Turn Right. This one little change, an insignificant thing, causes all the events of the episode to transpire. Everything good the companions had done since Donna met the Doctor go wrong, and nobody wins.

But then, along comes a rose, or rather THE Rose. She convinces Donna that she is more important than she thinks, that she’s not “just a temp” (something Donna likes to call her self quite a lot). Jump forward quite a few scenes and some “chance” meetings, stars start going out, and we find ourselves in “The Circle of Mirrors”. This is where Donna’s defining moment takes place. Before she gets sent back, she asks one question, “so I’m not really gonna die”, and Rose only has one answer, something The Doctor says quite often, “I’m sorry”. This moment just made me cry. Donna’s running along, trying to make herself turn left, but she’s too late! Her other self is already at the place where she turns, but look! There’s a lorry! Donna kills herself so that she may live (I know, where else but Doctor Who?) and everything is put right. Before returning to the Fortune Teller, Rose tells Donna to say something to The Doctor. Two words. Two words that will change everything … that’s right, you guessed it!

BAD WOLF! The Doctor understands, he knows what it means. Rushing outside he sees it all over the signs, the signs that were in a different language earlier now all say Bad Wolf. All the writing on the TARDIS says Bad Wolf. He goes in the TARDIS and hears it. The worst sound The TARDIS can make … It’s the Cloister Bell. The bell to signal the end of the universe …

And that’s where we leave it, with a nice little preview for the next episode which had me giddier than a guy on <insert drug of choice here>. It has me itching to grow my own TARDIS (Fact: TARDIS are alive, and grown. Take a look on Jack’s desk in Torchwood, notice a bit of Coral there? I’ll say no more!)

So, stay tuned, my next post shall most probably be on the Bad Wolf. What is it, where does it come from and where can you find it!