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Remembering the way we left things, Whovians are questioning how the Doctor and Donna can be back together for the 60th anniversary. Donna\u2019s last adventure with Ten featured her taking on the mantle of DoctorDonna when she gained the power of the Time Lords to defeat Davros. Knowing this would \u201cburn up\u201d Donna\u2019s mind, the Doctor wiped her memory and hoped they\u2019d never meet again. Donna then appeared in Tennant\u2019s swansong, where she nearly remembered their adventures, but once again, had her mind wiped by a failsafe.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n
Fuelling the theories that Tennant\u2019s return isn\u2019t as the Doctor who regenerated into Matt Smith\u2019s Eleven, eagle-eyed fans noticed he\u2019s done away with his usual trench coat and has a new suit. Even if it\u2019s a simple wardrobe update, it doesn\u2019t explain how the Doctor and Donna are running around like nothing ever happened. Russell T Davies has already described their reunion as \u201cimpossible\u201d, and if this isn\u2019t the Donna we left in 2010\u2019s The End of Time<\/a>, it\u2019s possible she\u2019s an alternate version who didn\u2019t become DoctorDonna.<\/span><\/p>\n
A Doctor between two Roses<\/b><\/h2>\n $\"""\"$ <\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/picture><\/div>
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At the centre of it all appears to be Finney\u2019s mysterious casting as Rose, whose character description doesn\u2019t give anything away. While being referred to as New Rose raises some questions, it also leans into the idea of the multiverse.<\/span> This isn\u2019t the first time Doctor Who has dipped a toe in the multiverse, and nor is it the first time Donna and Rose (specifically, the version played by Billie Piper) have been part of it.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n
In season 2, the Doctor and Rose accidentally travelled to a parallel universe where the Cybermen rose again, and Rose was later trapped in that world after a clash with the Daleks. Rose was to return in season 4 when the walls between realities broke down, but at the close of the story, Tate\u2019s DoctorDonna explained how \u201cdimensional retroclosure\u201d sealed the walls between universes. This stopped multiversal travel and confined Piper\u2019s Rose to an alternate universe with the Meta-Crisis Doctor.<\/span><\/p>\n
It\u2019s possible Finney\u2019s Rose has found a way to traverse the multiverse like the OG famously did in Rose Tyler: The Dimension Cannon audio anthology on Big Finish. Piper has repeatedly said she\u2019s open to<\/span> reprising her role as Rose<\/span><\/a>, but it remains to be seen if she\u2019ll actually make a comeback. For now, Finney\u2019s casting neatly sets up the return of Piper\u2019s Rose, or just as easily honours Tennant\u2019s days without having the star who played arguably his most famous companion along for the ride.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n
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When Whittaker\u2019s Thirteen escaped a possible-future version of a nuclear-ravaged Earth in Orphan 55<\/a>, she told us. \u201cThe future is not fixed, it depends on billions of decisions and actions, and people stepping up.\u201d This was teased years earlier when the Doctor-lite Turn Left<\/a> explained how drastically things can change with a simple decision. Ten\u2019s iconic episode featured Donna being manipulated by a Time Beetle, and although \u2018Donna\u2019s World\u2019 was erased from existence, it\u2019s got us thinking about how many others there are.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n
Doctor Who has long established that N-Space is the Prime Universe in canon, but over the past 60 years, we\u2019ve learned about a lot more. Across various media, the Doctor has visited an alternate Earth populated by the vampire-like Haemovores, the many alternate realities that have been conquered by Cybermen, and even one with Tardis Tails \u2013 an anthropomorphic cat version of the Doctor.<\/span><\/p>\n
More recently, in 2021\u2019s six-part Flux, The Division revealed their secret base was in another universe, and attempted to relocate to that parallel reality before the Doctor foiled their plans.<\/p>\n
2003\u2019s Exile audio story even featured an alternate universe where the Doctor regenerated into a woman long before Thirteen. It was Ten who told us about billions of parallel universes stacked on top of each other, and also him that reiterated travel between them was nearly impossible since the Last Great Time War \u2013 emphasis on the \u201cnearly\u201d part of that one.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n
Altogether, the more you look, the more evidence there is that parallel worlds have always played a role in Doctor Who, even very recently. Who\u2019s to say this isn\u2019t finally building to something for the show\u2019s 60th anniversary?<\/p>\n
The multiverse isn\u2019t all it seems<\/b><\/h2>\nBefore we start cheering for a 60th anniversary multiverse, it\u2019s worth noting that there are rival theories for what\u2019s going on with Tennant and Tate\u2019s return. Some have claimed that Thirteen will revert back to Ten\u2019s face before passing the baton to<\/span> Ncuti Gatwa\u2019s Fourteen<\/span><\/a>. Elsewhere, people have suggested that New Rose is Donna\u2019s daughter and is named after Piper\u2019s version because of some long-dormant memory in Donna\u2019s subconscious.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n
Arguably, Finney being 18 means she\u2019s too old for this theory to work. Even if Donna got pregnant as soon as she parted ways with the Doctor, her daughter would only be 12 (unless we\u2019re taking a leap into the future?). Besides all of this, a Multiverse Rose who looks completely different to the one we all know is an altogether more interesting prospect. Hey, it worked for all those Loki and Spider-Man variants in the MCU.<\/span><\/p>\n
It wasn\u2019t long ago that <\/span>Hugh Grant<\/span><\/a> was tipped to lead Doctor Who for a Marvel-style makeover, and it could still happen. Even if it seems obvious to just copy the MCU, returning showrunner Davies has spoken about his desire for Doctor Who to have<\/span> a Disney Plus-esque channel of spin-offs<\/span><\/a>. Multiple parallel Doctors are a possible way to pull this off, as well as tapping into the nostalgic potential of bringing back old Doctors and allowing breakout characters to have their own adventures without messing up the timelines too much.<\/span><\/p>\n
Picture the scene where Finney gets her own live-action series that adapts The Dimension Cannon and follows New Rose searching for Doctors across the multiverse. It might seem unlikely that Davies would want things to get so meta, but what\u2019s more ambitious for the future of Who than handling a multiverse of continuity and cameos? <\/span><\/p>\n
If Doctor Who does go down this route, we\u2019d bet a few more familiar faces will return, and if you want to see Baker, McCoy, Smith, and more for the 60th celebrations, the multiverse is a good place to start. <\/span><\/p>\n
And while we\u2019re at it, why not bring back Dame Joanna Lumley as the Doctor from the 1999 Comic Relief Special? When you enter the multiverse, absolutely anything is possible.<\/span><\/p>\n
Doctor Who returns to BBC One this autumn, and is available to stream on BBC iPlayer<\/a>. Check out more of our\u00a0 Sci-Fi<\/a>\u00a0coverage or visit our\u00a0 TV Guide<\/a>\u00a0to see what\u2019s on tonight.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n
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