{"id":222532,"date":"2014-03-12T21:04:39","date_gmt":"2014-03-12T21:04:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2014\/03\/12\/after-two-companions-who-clearly-fancied-the-pants\/"},"modified":"2014-03-12T21:04:39","modified_gmt":"2014-03-12T21:04:39","slug":"after-two-companions-who-clearly-fancied-the-pants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2014\/03\/12\/after-two-companions-who-clearly-fancied-the-pants\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>After two companions who clearly fancied the pants off of the handsome Tennenth Doctor (pun intended), Donna is the bucket of ice-water in his cocky face. There would be no \u201creversing the polarity of the neutron flow\u201d with Donna Noble around, she\u2019d be far more likely to look blankly at the Doctor and insist he just gets ON with it.<\/p>\n<p>And Donna wasn\u2019t just there to act as a latter-day Tegan. The insane cockiness of the Tenth Doctor needed tempering. After Martha had been transformed from a trainee doctor to a soldier, and her family traumatised by the Master, he needed someone who could help him take stock of where he\u2019d been and the rules he chose to live by.<\/p>\n<p>Donna\u2019s role in the Doctor\u2019s life was similar to that of an elder sister, looking after a child prodigy. Yes he can do stuff that she can\u2019t do, but she ping-pongs between knowing this is astonishing and being appalled by what it all means. And she\u2019s not shy of telling him either.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbcamerica.com\/anglophenia\/2011\/08\/a-companion-to-the-doctors-companions-donna-noble\/\" target=\"_blank\">A Companion to the Doctor\u2019s Companions: Donna Noble<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>AKA, \u201cwhy Donna is the best and if you don\u2019t love her you\u2019re just wrong\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>(via <a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/brightredbirdie.tumblr.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">brightredbirdie<\/a>)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After two companions who clearly fancied the pants off of the handsome Tennenth Doctor (pun intended), Donna is the bucket of ice-water in his cocky face. There would be no \u201creversing the polarity of the neutron flow\u201d with Donna Noble around, she\u2019d be far more likely to look blankly at the Doctor and insist he &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2014\/03\/12\/after-two-companions-who-clearly-fancied-the-pants\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[13,602,4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222532"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222532\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}