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Synopsis: The Doctor ( David Tennant ) and Donna Noble ( Catherine Tate ) arrive back on Earth and discover everyone seems to be going crazy. With help from UNIT, they learn the human race is being driven insane by a subliminal noise known as "the Giggle." Further investigation reveals long-time Doctor nemesis, the Toymaker ( Neil Patrick Harris ) is behind it. Unfortunately, after thousands of years traveling time and space without a break, the Doctor might be too exhausted to win. Review: My wife and I still had some time before bed last night after watching the Doctor Who episode Wild Blue Yonder and decided to watch The Giggle as well, knowing it was the last one (at least for now) with David Tennant. After watching it, my opinion was honestly a bit mixed. While I didn't necessarily hate the episode, it also wasn't among my favorites either. The Toymaker is one of the oldest Doctor Who villains, dating all the way back to when the show was still relatively n...

Synopsis: After Donna Noble ( Catherine Tate ) spills coffee on the TARDIS control panel, she and the Doctor ( David Tennant ) are sent spiraling out of control across time and space before coming to a stop onboard a spaceship at the far edge of the universe. While waiting for the TARDIS to make repairs, it suddenly leaves them stranded in what the Doctor believes to be a built-in flight response to danger despite the mysterious ship they discovered seeming to be abandoned. They soon learn they aren't alone, however, when a pair of aliens appear and try to duplicate their form so they can be the ones to leave when the TARDIS returns. Review: After re-discovering this series on Disney Plus earlier this week and watching The Star Beast a couple days ago, my wife and I decided to see the next installment in the Doctor/Donna adventure, Wild Blue Yonder . The episode more than exceeded our expectations. As I mentioned before, Donna remains my favorite Doctor companion, and this episo...

Synopsis: After regenerating into a form almost identical to one he once had, the Doctor ( David Tennant ) returns to London and inadvertently crosses paths with his former companion, Donna Noble ( Catherine Tate ), who still does not remember him after having her memory erased to keep her exposure to Time Lord knowledge from killing her. The Doctor's attempts to keep his friend safe are soon put in jeopardy when an alien craft crashes in London and an alien refugee, Meep ( Cecily Fay ), is discovered by Donna's daughter, Rose ( Yasmin Finney ), putting them all in danger as another group of aliens known as the Wrarth continue to hunt Meep down. Review: My wife and I used to watch Doctor Who together on a regular basis after the series was rebooted in 2005. However, we both started to lose interest around Doctor 12 ( Peter Capaldi ) and just stopped watching it about midway through Doctor 13 ( Jodie Whittaker ). To clarify, the latter had less to do with the actor playing th...