![]() ![]() Because their meetings are occurring in reverse directions along their personal timelines, the remaining times she will encounter him will be when he's younger and doesn't know her yet. He takes her to the Singing Towers of Darillium, which any fan knows is the last time the Doctor will see his wife before she dies. And at the end, comes a scene that fans of the Doctor/River pairing have come to know and dread. A crashed spaceship reaches out for help from the Doctor, and thus he gets thrust onto River Song’s team, tossed around from place to place on an adventure through the galaxy. Peter Capaldi’s second Christmas Special as the Doctor, “The Husbands of River Song,” sees the Time Lord in the year 5343, this time meeting up with his wife who, for once, does not recognise this incarnation of him. “The Runaway Bride” isn't a bad episode per se (the part where the Doctor is drowning the Racnoss is particularly poignant), but because it seemed to many fans like the Doctor was spending more time calming Donna down and being slapped rather than provide viewers with more action and mystery like the non-Christmas episodes tend to explore. ![]() By the end of the episode, Donna has lost her fiancé, and although the Doctor does invite her to travel along with him, she declines. It also took place literally back-to-back with the heart-wrenching ending scene in which the first companion of the revival, Rose Tyler, got stuck in a dimension that the Doctor can't visit.Īfter appearing in the Doctor’s space-time ship, the TARDIS (an acronym for "Time And Relative Dimensions In Space"), on her wedding day, Donna is dragged along on an adventure with a sinister plot developing right under their noses. It's notable for introducing Donna Noble (Catherine Tate), who would become a companion later on in the series. This is the second Christmas Special aired during David Tennant’s run as the Tenth Doctor. ![]()
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