I have slam-;packed days for the next few days. I still definitely intend to hit the treadmill tomorrow morning, and I very much hope to do so sometime on Friday but it may get put off until evening. Tomorrow not only is our roof being replaced, but I have prep for a photo session on Friday plus a rehearsal for my cabaret at the Orlando Fringe Festival, plus very likely a trip to Disney with my son to avoid being in the house while said roof is being replaced. Then on Friday I have my first professional photo session to get acting headshots. It's all very exciting. As for today, I did manage treadmill and push-ups, although sit-ups fell by the wayside yet again. Oops.

So let's talk Doctor Who so I can go get my beauty sleep.

The Doctor's Daughter

(TARDIS Data Core recap)

This story features Georgia Moffett as Jenny, the Doctor's actual daughter via genetic sampling and parthenogenesis. She also happens to be the daughter of Fifth Doctor Peter Davison, making her actually the Doctor's daughter. But oh, it gets more complicated. David Tennant and Georgia Moffett met on the set filming this episode, and then began dating a year later. They subsequently married in December of 2011, making her also the Doctor's wife. Not only that, but as a couple they have three children (two girls and a boy), as well as another son from a previous relationship. This means that she is also the mother of the Doctor's daughters (and sons, one by adoption). Two of the children made appearances in The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot, which means that at this point she, her father, her mother, her husband, and two of her children have all appeared on Doctor Who (her mother voiced a character in an official Big Finish Audio story). You know what they say, the family that plays together....

As for the story itself, it's a good one. Martha gets accidentally hijacked on another trip with the Doctor and Donna when the TARDIS runs off on its own. They wind up in the middle of a war that has been going on for generations, between a group of humans and a group of aliens called the Hath. Both sides use a genetic sampling machine that creates new soldiers rapidly via parthenogenesis, which is how Jenny winds up being created via a skin sample from the Doctor. The soldiers are being killed off in battle so quickly that multiple generations are created each day, all of them born with a kind of tribal memory of why they are fighting.

The big reveal comes when Donna uses her SuperTemp skills to suss out that the numbered plaques located throughout the underground construction are actually dates of when each section was finished, which then leads them to realize that this war has actually only been going on for seven days. In that time so many generations have come and gone that their mission has been distorted like a game of telephone. In the end the Doctor does a Very Clever Thing, releasing a terraforming thingamajig that promises to make the planet a paradise for the newly-reconciled humans and hath. Unfortunately Jenny catches a bullet at the climaxes, and subsequently dies in the Doctor's arms.

But oh, the bigger twist - after the Doctor and companions leave, Jenny comes back to live (presumably due to a combination of her Time Lord physiology plus the magical terraforming energy), and winds up zooming off in her own little spaceship to go explore the universe and have amazing adventures.

It really is a great one-off story, and it's kind of a bummer that in the years since then Jenny has never returned. Who knows, maybe she will come back to the show someday. It might be a lot of fun to have her finally bump into her dad again, only to find out that now he is Jodie Whitaker. Time Lord parenting is weird.

STATS:

Doctor(s): Tenth
Companion(s): Donna Noble, Martha Jones
Episode(s): The Doctor's Daughter
Steps Walked: 7,527 today, 2,898,712 total
Distance Walked: 4.03 miles today, 1,512.22 miles total
Push-ups Completed: 100 today, 2,614 total
Sit-ups Completed: 0 today, 929 total
Is the Doctor So, So Sorry?: Oddly, no
Weight: 251.32 lbs (five day moving average), net change -55.98 lbs