History Recap / DoctorWho60thASTheStarBeast

* HappyEndingOverride: . "The End of Time" showed Donna and Shaun starting off HappilyMarried, with the implication that the Doctor had helped set them up financially. However, Donna (thanks to the influence of the Doctor still in there) gave ''all'' her lottery winnings away after buying a house, and, while Sylvia is much nicer towards her daughter, she and Wilfred have spent the years since walking on eggshells around her, with Wilfred apparently losing a lot of his cheerful rambling about aliens. That said, their otherwise happy with their lot.

OnceUponATime, or if you prefer, Once Upon a ''Time Lord'', there was a time alien with a time-travelling blue box who once hailed from the planet Gallifrey known as the Doctor; and there was a woman from Earth named Donna Noble, who befriended said alien after being caught up in [[Recap/DoctorWho2006CSTheRunawayBride a ruse with a giant spider monster who sabotaged Donna's wedding back in Christmas of 2006]]. The Doctor and Donna then went on to have plenty of adventures during the year 2008, but when The Doctor had to deal with ''[[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E12TheStolenEarth the]]'' [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E12TheStolenEarth biggest Dalek invasion on Earth]], his own regenerative Time Lord power, and the knowledge of a Time Lord, was accidentally passed to Donna, though saving the world as we know it- and as a result, [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E13JourneysEnd he locked the power in Donna's mind alongside all of her memories with the Doctor to prevent her brain]] from [[MySkullRunnethOver blowing up]] due to the overwhelming amount of information in a Time Lord mind, the worst SadisticChoice amongst lifetimes of them.

Fifteen years have passed for Donna since the [[Characters/DoctorWhoTenthDoctor Tenth Doctor]] parted ways with her, and many centuries have passed for him. After becoming [[Characters/DoctorWhoEleventhDoctor a handsome, fez-loving bloke with a bow-tie]]; [[Characters/DoctorWhoTwelfthDoctor a stern yet altruistic old Scottsman who preached for kindness but loved shutting people up]]; [[Characters/DoctorWhoThirteenthDoctor and a really brilliant woman who found out that her]] ''[[Recap/DoctorWhoS38E10TheTimelessChildren own species were using her to gain her time-godly powers]]'' [[BusCrash (on top of them becoming extinct off-screen!)]], the Doctor has now been given a familiar form that resembles their tenth incarnation.

And recently, Donna has been dreaming about monsters, aliens, robots, adventures and the like, despite having no memories of them. Despite living a normal, [[HappilyMarried happily-wedded life]] with her new husband Shaun, on top of mothering her daughter Rose (named after a particular girl Donna might've recalled), Donna needs to find out what has been causing the dreams.

As for the [[Characters/DoctorWhoFourteenthDoctor Fourteenth Doctor]]... he thinks that the story of the Doctor and Donna Noble has yet to truly end. And the next chapter of this story, is about to begin...

In present-day Earth (i.e. late November 2023), the Doctor arrives in London after spending an hour or so dealing with [[Recap/DoctorWhoMagazine584To597LiberationOfTheDaleks simulated Daleks attempting to destroy the universe]] and [[Recap/DoctorWho2023CiNSDoctorWhoChildrenInNeed making Davros and his assistant proud when it comes to designing a real Dalek]]. For once, the Doctor definitely deserves to do something non-Dalek related, something that will help him find out the reason behind this "familiar" incarnation. And as he helps out a random citizen in the streets of London... ''he ends up running into Donna Noble.'' The very last person he can run into, especially given his current face. Donna calls out for "Rose", which greatly confuses the Doctor even more, and we see that this particular Rose, is in fact, the daughter of Donna, and not Rose Tyler ([[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E13JourneysEnd who was last seen in a parallel dimension]]).

Before this new Rose can introduce herself to the Doctor, out of nowhere do we see a spaceship crashing down onto London, (only this time, [[Recap/DoctorWho2007CSVoyageOfTheDamned it's thankfully not loaded with nuclear energy]]). In the midst of the spaceship falling out of the sky, Donna is too busy minding her own business as she stacks all of Rose's arts-and-craft purchases just long enough to miss the spaceship (which, to be fair, isn't the first time that Donna misses out on something that's not even normal to begin with). Thankfully, the Doctor's worries of Donna recognizing him are nulled as Donna snarks on the Doctor's nostalgia-ridden suit he's got on without even remembering who he really is. As Rosie leaves with her mother, we hear ''another'' person calling out for Rose. This person ''also'' ends up being part of Donna's life, as the taxi driver the Doctor encounters is Donna's own husband, Shaun Temple. The Doctor ends up taking Shaun's taxi cab towards the spaceship's crash site thanks to the Doctor's usage of psychic paper (which has yet to adjust to his gender change), and the pair proceeds to "Allon-sy!"

As the two men get acquainted, we find out that Donna was able to use [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E17E18TheEndOfTime her lottery winnings back in 2009]] for a good cause, and by that, we mean she donated it all away to charity (£166 million, mind you!). Well, after buying a new house, of course. They then turn left onto the next road ([[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E11TurnLeft get it?]]), as we cut to a BBC news report on the spaceship crash...before it's intercepted by good ol' UNIT, as the militant group heads on over to the crash site, as does the Doctor. We see a wheelchair-using UNIT member investigating the spaceship, and makes note about how the ship was able to pull up and settle down despite making a collision course at first. In other words, ''the spaceship didn't crash at all.'' No signs of life are apparent on the ship...or at least, when the ship parked.

Meanwhile as Donna and Rose walk home, some bullies cat-call Rose by calling her "Jason", which reveals to the audience that Rose is transgender. Donna stands up to Rose though, but Rose is the kind of girl who hides from the crowd. Regardless, Donna loves her daughter very much, and will do '''anything''' it takes to protect her. As they enter their home, they greet hello to Donna's mother Sylvia, who is relived that Donna did not see the flying spaceship crashing into London, and Rose puts away all her arts-and-craft purchases inside her blue shed, where she makes plush toys for her online businesses. Sylvia is still getting the hang of using the correct terminology for her transitioned granddaughter, while Donna takes pride in being a good mother as she gloats to her ''own'' mother about it. Donna still questions about the "dreams" she might have remembered in real life, and laments about missing something in her life because of it. Although in due time, that missing part of her life will come back to blow her mind away...

While Rose is taking out the trash, her best friend Fudge runs out of his house to tell her about the spaceship...and how an escape pod managed to fall off from said ship, with a potential alien or two inside. However, when they go to investigate the pod's crash site, the pod is empty. Whatever was in it, is now loose. And it managed it sneak away into the garbage bags in the alleyway next to Rose's house. Rose carefully moves the bags away...and encounters what seems to be the most adorable extra-terrestrial in the universe, as it meekly "meeps" at her.

This cute baby-faced alien is known as the Meep, and yes, the Meep talks! Rose befriends the poor little Meep as the Meep tells her how the Meep got to Earth: crash-landing into London, and escaping from killer aliens as the Meep deals with a broken paw. Those mean aliens Meep mentioned ends up on Earth as well, as Fudge manages to run into two bug-eyed humanoid aliens with laser pistols. Luckily, he's safe from harm, although the two mean-looking aliens are only here to hunt down the Meep.

Back at the Meep's spaceship crash site, the Doctor continues his investigation with the use of a brand-new sonic screwdriver, as the wheelchair-using UNIT member drops on by to introduce herself as Shirley Anne Bingham, a scientific advisor (just like the Doctor). The Doctor laments to Shirley about his new look, as she mistook him for the Tenth Doctor, while also reminiscing about the time he had with Donna. And given how destiny has been eyeing on her recently, the Doctor is completely worried about what might happen to her ''if'' she gets in danger. In any case, the Doctor hitches a ride on a UNIT vehicle so he can reach the Meep's escape pod crash-site. Shirley rejoins the batch of UNIT soldiers as the soldiers take a look inside the Meep's spaceship, which is totally inaccessible for Shirley (no ramp access). That being said, that might have unintentionally been a good thing, as the UNIT soldiers' minds have been brainwashed by a psychedelic wave upon opening the spaceship's door...

Back at the Noble's house, Rose managed to house the Meep in her shed, as the Meep plays with it's new "little friends", which are just mere toys that Rose made with her own hands. The Meep is saddened by the Meep's own lonely situation, something that Rose can relate to. However, their conversation attracts the attention of Donna, and thus the Meep hides in the pile of plush toys, hoping that Donna won't notice the ''very realistic looking'' plush toy Rose has. However, this "toy" can blink on its own, and Donna decides to see if the "toy" is real enough by poking it straight in the eye. Predictably, this ends up annoying the Meep. Donna '''exclaims.'''

The UNIT soldiers arrive at the pod site, and the Doctor heads on over to the Noble's house, where Donna and Sylvia panic at the sight of the Meep. And then Sylvia hears the Doctor. ''Uh-oh.'' In a matter of moments, the Doctor makes his way into the house to see the Meep, and all hell breaks loose as Sylvia tries to cover it up. And then Shaun walks in on them, because of Sylvia's good-smelling cooking (tuna madras, by the way). One awkward "meep meep" later, and the UNIT soldiers at the pod site are told by the (brainwashed) soldiers to head towards the location of the Meep...

The Doctor decides to stay put with the Nobles for now, as he mends the Meep's paw and catches up on how the family has been doing as of recent times. The Doctor notices one person being missing from the house-- that being good ol' Wilfred Mott. Sadly, he's not with them anymore...or at least, in a literal sense, as he's currently in sheltered accommodation due to his age (as he can't manage the stairs no more). In fact, he's able to get said housing thanks to Kate Stewart. Speaking of finding a home, the Doctor offers the Meep some help to get...uh, what're the Meep's pronouns again? Doesn't matter anyway, as the Meep identifies as the Meep. As for whom the Meep is trying to escape from, the two bug-eyed aliens we saw earlier are known as the Wrarth Warriors, who, according to the Meep, cultivated Meepkind for their fur, until the galactic council banned them from doing so, causing them to kill their livestock. Right...

Suddenly, the brainwashed UNIT soldiers arrive at the Noble estate to search for the Meep! How does the Doctor know they're brainwashed? Well, by using the sonic of course. Before even considering to escape through the back, the Wrarth Warriors come crashing into the house, and prepare to hunt down the Meep! Now ''both'' sides of the house are totally inaccessible due to gunfire and laser-fire. Luckily, the Doctor has a plan; seems the new sonic is new in other ways as he's able to create forcefields to protect the family and Meep from fire. That being said, the group has to travel upstairs and through the attic's brick wall in order to escape through a neighboring house, allowing for a proper escape route via Shaun's taxi cab. All this happens alongside UNIT soldiers trying their best to stop those Wrarth Warriors from intercepting. When the gang manages to escape, the Doctor checks up on a "dead" UNIT soldier...only to find out that they still have a pulse after being shot by a Wrarth. And why are their lasers not causing scorch marks on the taxi? As the team escapes, the Doctor realizes that things might have gone very, ''very'' wrong.

As the team pulls into a carpark, the Doctor decides to give the Meep an impromptu trial case, as the Meep might have not been telling their story straight. He summons two of the Wrarth as defendants, as the Doctor invokes Shadow Proclamation protocols 15, P, and 6. To start off, Donna confirms that the taxi has no scorch marks from the Wrarth's lasers. Next, the Doctor reaffirms that the UNIT soldiers that were gunned down by their lasers, were not even killed to begin with, as the two Wrarth Warriors (who are truly known as Sergeant Zogroth and Constable Zreeg) confirms that they were using stun guns only, and these ones apply anesthetic! The Meep, however, also reaffirms that the Wrarth wants to kill the Meep...only for the Doctor to remind the Meep that the brainwashed UNIT soldiers were shooting to kill, not stun. Therefore, they might have been working in the Meep's favor. To bring the case to a complete close, the Wrarth explain the truth behind the Meep as a whole. The Meep (as a species) went wild after their planet's psychedelic sun went as mad as they did. And the Galactic Council didn't outright ban the Wrarth from making Meep fur coats (as if the Wrarth even wanted to make coats in the first place), the council was actually ''eaten'' by the Meeps. Therefore, the Wrarth were sent in to kill off the species to prevent the Meeps from slaughtering more people across the galaxy. And the Meep that's currently with the group is the only Meep left in the universe, and is also the '''leader''' of the Meep species.

It turns out this whole entire time, the Meep was faking their sob-story, brainwashing UNIT soldiers for the Meep's sake, and ''plans to kill off the human race when it proceeds to get their spaceship working again.'' The now gremlin-like Meep proceeds to shoot the two Wrarth Warriors in cold blood, and corners the gang with the assistance of their brainwashed goons. The Meep then proclaim that the Meep is "THE BEEP OF ALL THE MEEPS!" as Zogroth regrets his decision of taking on this particular duty ''after'' he retired. The Meep taunts Donna for being stupid and also taunts her "weird child", which angers Donna. The Doctor attempts to mediate the situation by offering the Meep some knowledge about himself (since he is a two-hearted alien like the Meep is) as long as the Meep spares the Nobles. And while he's able to get the Meep to accept the offer, his next offer in regards to getting the Meep off the Earth safely is rendered useless as the Doctor is knocked out by the brainwashed soldiers. With the group kidnapped, the Meep triumphally cackles.

When the gang arrives to the Meep's spaceship, they notice that even more brainwashed people have been working on the Meep's side to get the spaceship back up and running. Heck, the brainwashed folk even praise highlines to the Meep! And yes, because of how the spaceship uses a dagger drive to start it's engines, it's going to blow London up into a smoldering pile of smoke and ash if its able start up completely. Luckily, help is on the way as Shirley is able to take down two brainwashed UNIT soldiers to free the gang from being imprisoned. After all, UNIT-made wheelchairs are equipped with tools and weapons for any situation! However, as Donna leaves with her family to escape, she realizes that she must do more good for the planet, for London, her family, and for her daughter. After all, she donated all that lottery money for charity, right? Thus, Donna runs back to the Doctor in order to help him stop the engines from being activated.

As the Doctor does his best to stop the clock, the spaceship's deadlocked is sealed...which won't affect the Doctor that much, as he proceeds to use his hands to stop the engines. What ''will'' affect him, however, is the spaceship's maxifold bisecting. In layman's terms: '''The Doctor and Donna are now separated by a glass wall.''' The Doctor is separated from a Noble by a glass wall. Swap out Noble for Mott, rewind 15 years and the Doctor is quite understandably at his limit. The dagger drive starts digging down, as cracks begin to spread throughout London, with fires being unleashed from the ground up. The only way for the Doctor to stop all of this...is to bring back her memories from all those years ago. As the Doctor angrily yells about how destiny's a bitch, Donna tells him to get on with it. With the key words once uttered all those years ago, binary included, the [=DoctorDonna=] is finally unleashed once again, with all of her Doctor-related memories brought back as well.

With Donna fully back in action, what does she do first? Yell at the Doctor because she gave away almost the entirety of ''£166 million'' on charity thanks to the memory wipe making her as soft as the Doc. Oops. With less than a minute left before London's preventable destruction becomes unpreventable, [=DoctorDonna=] and the Fourteenth Doctor get to work on saving the gosh-darn day. 55 seconds later, and they've done it! Sadly, Donna falls ill because of the prolonged use of Time Lord knowledge, and for all we know, dies in the arms of the Doctor. With the brainwashed UNIT soldiers right in front of the two, the Doctor is more than willing to die for good right then and there[[note]]A bullet in each heart ''would'' do it.[[/note]], now that he lost one of his best friends, all thanks to his own doing. No matter what, they still managed to save the world.

But wait! The brainwashing is turned off by a familiar person! It turns out that Rose Noble is the one to save the Doctor from being shot to death, and with that...Donna...is alive? Oh. ''Well then''.

Turns out that when Donna Noble birthed Rose, half of her Time Lord power was passed onto Rose. Makes logical sense given how Donna was half-human during all this time, but because of that, Donna was able to survive the mind-blowing side-effect of being a half-human half-Time Lord hybrid. Heck, it even explains why Donna's daughter named herself Rose, why the shed was TARDIS blue, and why all of those plush toys she made looked familiar. They were designed after the monsters that Donna and the Doctor encountered both on-screen ''and'' off-screen (such as Daleks, Cybermen, Ood, and others). At the end of the day, the Doctor is simply male. And female. And neither, and more! [[note]][[ItMakesSenseInContext (And jammy.)]][[/note]]

As for the Meep, however, a second attempt at revenge is quickly foiled as the Doctor sends the Meep flying off into the night sky, grumbling as the Meep parachutes down to Earth, grumbling angrish. The following day, the rest of the Wrarth Warriors arrest the so-called "Beep of all the Meeps", and will honor Zogroth and Zreeg for giving their lives to save the planet, nay, the galaxy from the Meep. But as the Meep prepares to serve the Meep's sentence, the Meep warn the Doctor about a "boss", as the Meep looks forward to telling said boss about the fact that the Doctor has two hearts like Meep does. Unfortunately, that's all the cryptic information the Doctor's getting, something that they tend to hate.

With the day saved, Donna and Rose choose to let go of their Time Lord power together, and remain as their true selves, something that Rosie has never done until now. Aww. As the Doctor tells the Noble family that their house will be fixed up for free thanks to UNIT (they ''did'' blow it up, anyway...), he offers Donna one last trip through time and space for old time's sake. While Donna initially declines, the Doctor then offers Donna to take her to meet Wilf somewhere in the past. She accepts, and the two go inside arguably the most magnificent console room the TARDIS has ever had, complete with coffee maker! It's simply a gorgeous reskin for sure, and as Donna wistfully looks back fondly on the old days for once, she ''accidentally spills her coffee onto the TARDIS.''

This ends up causing the non-waterproof TARDIS to go haywire, as the Doctor and Donna hold on tight for dear life. As the cloister bell (AKA the TARDIS's signal to [[BringMyBrownPants switch to brown trousers]]) chimes endlessly, the TARDIS disappears from Earth, sending the reunited partners in crime...[[Recap/DoctorWho60thASWildBlueYonder into the wild blue yonder.]]

* AdaptationalGenderIdentity: The Meep here follows BizarreAlienSexes, while the comics counterpart was explicitly a male. Rose Noble essentially takes the role of Sharon Davies, who was cis.

* AdaptationalIntelligence: In the original story, the Wrarth had to explain to the Doctor that they were the good guys, and were chasing him because they assumed he was in league with the Meep’s true persona. Here, he realises on his own that they have no malicious intentions and announces this to the Meep.
* AdaptationalVillainy: While the Meep in the original comics was TheSociopath, he did not have a taste for humans.

* AlwaysChaoticEvil: According to the Wrarth, the Meeps were turned into a race of psychopaths by their living sun going "mad".

* AmnesiacResonance: Despite the Doctor and Sylvia doing everything in their power to avoid dropping his name in front of her, Donna still unconsciously remembers some things and retains her CharacterDevelopment, giving the rest of her lottery money to charity after buying her new house because she assumed “it’s what [the Doctor] would do”. She later bars herself within the factory housing the Meep's ship, declaring that she has to go help the Doctor, something which Sylvia picks up on given that they'd been careful not to tell Donna who the Doctor is.

* BeehiveBarrier: When the Doctor creates freestanding forcefields with the sonic, they glow with hexagons whenever they get hit.

* BondOneLiner: The Meep fires one off right before shooting the Wrarth warriors at the mock trial.
--> '''The Meep:''' [[VillainousBreakdown Oh, to hell with this!]] Exhibit C! ''[The Meep pulls out a gun and shoots both Wrarth Warriors]'' No stun-guns for me! Just ''die!''

* BreakingTheCycleOfBadParenting: Sylvia never held back her criticism of Donna and always made her feel like nothing she ever did would be good enough. By contrast, Donna goes out of her way to make sure Rose knows just how much her mother loves and supports her.

** In "The Doctor Dances", the Ninth Doctor spent an incredibly long time trying (or so he said) to resonate concrete with the Sonic Screwdriver. A few incarnations later, the Doctor's newly updated screwdriver does it much quicker.
** Way back in "Journey's End", [=DoctorDonna=] said she could think of ideas the Doctor would never be able to think of. This pays off fourteen years later, when Donna and Rose manage to survive being a Meta-Crisis by doing something the Doctor never considered: just ''giving up the regeneration energy''.

* TheBusCameBack: Donna, Sylvia, and Shaun Temple return after last being seen in "The End of Time" thirteen years prior.

--->'''Sigma:''' [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E17E18TheEndOfTime This song is ending, but the story never ends.]]\\
'''The Doctor:''' I think... the story hasn't ended yet.

** A minor one, but Fudge's surname is apparently Merchandani; in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E11TurnLeft Turn Left]]", the Merchandanis were one of the refugee families sharing the house in Leeds with the Nobles and the Colasantos.
** The Doctor is once again [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E17E18TheEndOfTime separated from a Noble by a piece of glass and is ultimately forced to make a terrible decision to save the world that ends with someone regenerating.]] He clearly recognises and ''does not'' appreciate the homage.

** Compared to the last time he wore this face, the Doctor is noticeably more sincere, casually admitting that Donna was his best friend, paying a seeming DueToTheDead for Wilfred and being more openly regretful of having wiped Donna’s memories. He even openly declares his love for both of them, something that surprises him.
--->'''The Doctor''': I'm so glad you're back, 'cause ''it killed me'', Donna...[[BrutalHonesty it killed me, it killed me, it killed me.]]
** Sylvia clearly took the Doctor's criticism in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E13JourneysEnd "Journey's End"]] to heart; though she remains fussy and overbearing, she is nowhere near as demeaning and condescending to Donna as she used to be, actively showing her affection and preparing meals for her family despite not living with her any longer (though Donna is [[MyBelovedSmother not altogether pleased]] by the latter).

** The Psychic Paper is still giving the Doctor [[Characters/DoctorWhoThirteenthDoctor female-designated titles]], causing him to slap it and tell it to "catch up!"
** The Doctor, upon meeting Shirley, notes that he was [[Characters/DoctorWhoThirdDoctor UNIT's first Scientific Advisor.]]
** The Doctor briefly mentions his regeneration into [[Characters/DoctorWhoEleventhDoctor a person wearing a bowtie]], [[Characters/DoctorWhoTwelfthDoctor a Scotsman]], then [[Characters/DoctorWhoThirteenthDoctor a woman]].

--->'''The Doctor:''' Oh! Here we go again!

** The Doctor has kept the [[Recap/DoctorWhoS16E3TheStonesOfBlood barrister's wig, and uses it to conduct a trial against an alien race]].

--> '''The Doctor:''' [[LampshadeHanging I think all that coincidence was heading here, to save London from burning.]]
* CorruptedCharacterCopy: It's been stated that the Meep is based on E.T. from ''Film/ETTheExtraTerrestrial''. In the movie, E.T. is left behind by accident and is found by Elliot, who decides to help E.T. get back home and protect E.T. from the United States Government. In the episode, the Meep is forced to evacuate while the Meep's ship is pursued by an intergalactic government agency. The Meep is similarly found by Rose, who decides to help the Meep after she empathizes with the Meep's situation and desires to return home. They even reference the scene where E.T. hides among stuffed toys to hide from a parental figure. However, the Meep is eventually revealed to be evil as the Meep kills Constables Zogroth and Zreeg, before revealing that the Meep will be returning home (but will be using a ship that will destroy London in the process). The ambiguity of E.T.'s gender is also referenced as Rose points out to the Doctor that he's assuming the Meep is male and should really ask if the Meep has any preferred pronouns.

* CruellaToAnimals: Subverted. The Meep claims that the Wrarth are interplanetary fur trappers who have nearly wiped out the entire Meep species for their pelt. Later it turns out that the Meep is lying.
* DeathByAdaptation: Zogroth and Zreeg are murdered by the Meep as soon as the latter does the EvilAllAlong reveal when they survived in the original comic.

* DecompositeCharacter: In the comic, Zogroth and Zreeg arrested Beep at the end. Here they're killed and some other unnamed Wrarth Warriors come to collect Beep.

* DemotedToExtra: Aside from the Wrarth Constabulary, Fudge goes from a secondary temp companion for the first half to a throwaway role.

* DisabilityImmunity: An amusingly mundane example. Scientific Advisor Shirley Anne Bingham avoids being mind-controlled like the other UNIT soldiers because, being in a wheelchair, she is unable to reach the cockpit of the Meep's ship.
* DisneyDeath: Donna apparently "dies" for all of a minute before TheReveal that she passed the metacrisis on and into her daughter.

* DudeNotFunny: The Nobles react this way to the Doctor declaring the Meep a "[[{{Pun}} fashion victim]]" after learning that the Wrarth allegedly hunted the Meeps for their fur.

* EyeScream: Beep the Meep's attempts to pretend to be a cuddly toy are foiled when an oblivious Donna pokes the Meep in the eye, complete with audible "squish".

** Rose telling The Meep that she doesn't feel like she belongs on Earth. It's later revealed that she inherited some of the Meta-Crisis Doctor's consciousness from Donna.
** [=UNIT=]'s rounds are shown physically piercing and eventually shattering the Sonic-generated forcefields while the Wrarth's weapons seemingly have no effect, foreshadowing the true pro-antagonist dynamic in the story.

* FluffyTheTerrible: The Meep is a cannibalistic and unhinged member of a warrior race driven mad by the light of an insane sentient sun. The Meep is also incredibly cute, resembling a cross between a bush baby and a pet fancy rat. The Meep also refers to themselves as “the Beep of the Meeps” after it shows its true colours in a tone meant to be intimidating.
* GameFace: After dropping the cute friendly alien act, the Meep gets sharply angled red eyes with visible fangs and claws. in that the Meep is still an adorable fuzzy critter even with these changes.

* HappyEndingOverride: . "The End of Time" showed Donna and Shaun starting off HappilyMarried, with the implication that the Doctor had helped set them up financially. However, Donna (thanks to the influence of the Doctor still in there) gave ''all'' her lottery winnings away except for buying a house, and while Sylvia is much nicer towards her daughter, she and Wilfred have spent the years since walking on eggshells around her, with Wilfred apparently losing a lot of his cheerful rambling about aliens. That said, Donna's otherwise happy with her lot.
* HeadphonesEqualIsolation: The guy whose house is nearest Shaun's cab is dozing while wearing headphones, completely oblivious to either the firefight outside or the people breaking into his house through the attic and coming down the stairs.
* HereWeGoAgain: Quoted verbatim by the Doctor after he gets slapped by Sylvia Noble ''again'' (thus resuming the Running Gag of Tennant's Doctor getting slapped by his Companions' Mothers).

* {{Homage}}: When Donna approaches the shed, Rose urgently requests The Meep hide. [[Film/ETTheExtraTerrestrial The Meep does so by blending in with all the cute fuzzy plush toys that Rose created. Donna almost falls for it, but eventually discovers that The Meep is a living being.]]

* ImplausibleDeniability: Sylvia initially tries insisting that ''nothing'' is happening, even as her granddaughter has brought a small furry alien into the house, until finally she can't keep it up. Claiming that the otherwise normal-looking man who just walked into their kitchen is ''also'' not real probably doesn’t help her case.
* IndyPloy: The Doctor ensures the survival of the Noble family and himself by bluffing that he's in league with the Wrarth, and that the group would need to be captured to find out the Wrarth's true plans.
* InsectoidAliens: The Wrath Warriors

* IWarnedYou: Sylvia's only response to the TARDIS's bumpy takeoff is an exasperated "I told you!"

* MadnessMantra: The people possessed by the Meep have "Hail to the Meep! Hail to the Most High!" as theirs.
* MaliciousMisnaming: Some of the boys from Rose's school bully her by yelling her deadname at her in the street. She shrugs it off but is clearly upset hearing it, [[MamaBear as is Donna]].

** Sylvia punches the Doctor when he tries to get into the house to stop Donna from spotting him.

* MistakenIdentity: Shirley assumes the Doctor she’s meeting is the same one who [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E4TheSontaranStratagem helped with]] [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E5ThePoisonSky the Sontarans]] 15 years ago, and gets concerned when he mentions becoming [[Creator/MattSmith a person with a bow tie]], [[Creator/PeterCapaldi a Scotsman]], and [[Creator/JodieWhittaker a woman]] because she believes those are from his future. The Doctor clarifies that he's regenerated into one of his older faces.

** It's subtle, but those helmets that the UNIT soldiers are wearing look notably similar to those worn by the robo-men in '' Film/DaleksInvasionEarth2150AD''
** The specific attention to the fact that the Wrarth are using stun guns while the Meep isn’t calls back to a scene from the original comic, in which the Meep covered up its murder of two soldiers by claiming he was only using “a stun weapon that [[ExactWords puts the target to sleep]].”

* NoLongerWithUs: The Doctor asks about the whereabouts of Wilfred Mott, and is told that he's no longer there. Once he offers his condolences, Donna icily tells him that Wilfred is in fact still alive. He's just living in sheltered accommodation due to his advanced age.

* NonHumanNonBinary: The Meep's preferred pronoun is the definite article (the), which means that the Meep prefers "the Meep".

** Whatever unspecified accident it was that has befallen Nerys, which while awful was not so life-threatening as to stop her being a nuisance to Donna. According to the (probably lying) Doctor, she's "been fined" for it...
** Rose's toys include various creatures and monsters that neither the Doctor and Donna interacted onscreen together, such as a Cyberman (apparently of the "Nightmare in Silver" variant) and a Weeping Angel, indicating that Donna met those species off-screen during her travels with the Tenth Doctor. But then there are other toys on were only shown before and after Donna's time, such as the Beast (before), a Lupari (the Doctor never knew about them until he found out about his past lives before the First Doctor) and a Warrior Cyberman (when the Doctor was female).[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBx2mFAJbYY Verity Scott states that Rose is connected to the Doctor]] after she was born thanks to her mother being half Time Lord, meaning she could've also got the Doctor's mind as well.
** The Doctor has acquired a new sonic screwdriver to replace the one [[Recap/DoctorWhoMagazine584To597LiberationOfTheDaleks destroyed in the Dalek Dome]], but how it came to be isn’t revealed onscreen. (Though WordOfSaintPaul indicates that [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E1TheEleventhHour the TARDIS was]] [[Recap/DoctorWhoS35E12HellBent once more responsible]]).[[invoked]]
** UNIT has apparently gone through ''fifty-five'' different Scientific Advisors since the Doctor first left them, according to Shirley.

** Donna refuses to allow Rose to see the TARDIS because "something will go wrong and you'll end up on Mars with Chaucer and a robot shark". The Doctor confirms it did, in fact, happen to him once upon a time, but Donna's tone of voice implies ''it happened to her and Ten.''

* NotHyperbole: Donna refuses to let Rose in the TARDIS on the grounds that if she does, ''something'' will happen and she'll end up on Mars with [[Creator/GeoffreyChaucer Chaucer]] and a robot shark, [[NoodleIncident before clarifying that that has actually happened.]]
* {{Novelization}}: It was announced that the trilogy was being adapted into Target novelizations, with this being adapted by Gary Russell. The book will expand upon some things like what exactly Donna remembers.

* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Once the Meep’s true colours are revealed, they refer to Rose as Donna’s “weird child”. Possibly downplayed as this might simply refer to Rose’s online business of selling [[UglyCute handmade plushies with quirky designs]], and the Meep is an alien who might not even have a frame of reference for transphobia (or human concepts of gender at all).
* PrecisionFStrike: The Meep spends the first half of the story presenting itself as a cutesy alien friend and victim of the Wrarth, and it angrily screaming "To hell with this!" is its first piece of profanity and an acknowledgement that the jig is up.
* PronounTrouble: Rose calls the Doctor on assuming Beep the Meep is automatically he, something he admits and then asks about. Beep prefers "the Meep".

* RedEyesTakeWarning: The moment Beep drops the facade of being a cute, innocent and childish alien, the Meep's eyes go from yellow to bloodshot red.

* RetroRocket: Beep's ship has this aesthetic.

** The third time, the "what"s are split between the newly-freed [=UNIT=] Soldiers, the Doctor, and the Meep... before [[NotQuiteDead Donna wakes]] and adds a fourth.
* RunningGag:
** Donna gave away all her lottery winnings (after buying a house). Something she gets pretty mad about after she regenerates.
** Continuing on a theme with modern [=TARDISes=], it explodes again, though notably ''after'' we see the new desktop theme this time around.

* SchmuckBait: Subverted, when the first set of UNIT grunts get brainwashed, and send the ones guarding Beep the Meep's escape pod to apparently go get zapped themselves. The second team soon reappear none the worse for wear.
* SequelHook: Before being teleported off the Earth, the Meep threatens to let "the boss" know about the Doctor's presence.[[note]]This "boss" cannot be the Toymaker, since the Doctor's actions in "Wild Blue Yonder" are what apparently let him back into the universe, not any word from The Meep.[[/note]] And at the end of the episode, the TARDIS is sent spiraling off into an unknown time period, later revealed in "Wild Blue Yonder" to be 1666, followed by beyond the edge of the material universe.

* SparedByTheAdaptation: In a case of a location undergoing this, the steel mill isn’t blown up as a result of the Meep’s takeoff.

* SpottingTheThread: The Doctor notices something's up with Beep the Meep's story when he sees that despite the threatening appearance of the Wrarth Warriors, Shaun's taxi isn't even dinged from their laser blasts, as well as one of the zapped UNIT soldiers being unconscious, not dead.

* {{Technobabble}}: A hallmark of any good Davies-helmed episode. Beep the Meep starts spouting out science-y words while instructing the UNIT soldiers under their control to prepare their ship. Donna and Rose start doing so as well once they tap into their Meta-Crisis abilities.
-->'''Donna''': I'll triple-drive the particle manifesto, overstep the umbilical feed, vindicate the cyberline and roast the hyperfeeds! Like this!
* {{Teleportation}}: The Wrarth Warriors have teleportation technology. The Doctor hacks it with his sonic screwdriver to summon them for Beep's trial and some Warriors beam off to space with Beep at the end.

-->'''Donna''': Here we are, having a coffee! What’s gonna go wrong--? ''[spills coffee over the TARDIS console]'' Oh my God, I did it again!

* ThirdPersonPerson: The Meep only refers to themself as "The Meep" up until the VillainousBreakdown.

* TookALevelInBadass: New Doctor, new Sonic Screwdriver with a whole plethora of new powers, including being able to generate displays, movable forcefields, and... uh, resonating concrete. (And this was done ''before'' the Disney+ deal and the expected budget increase it should bring!)

* TraumaButton: It's not dwelt on, but Donna's daughter having named herself ''Rose'' spooks the Doctor, and again when Shaun calls after her. Given that we learn that Rose's transition was partially influenced by the Meta-Crisis, it's likely that she named herself after ''that'' Rose.

* UnfazedEveryman: When walking in on his family (plus the Doctor) surrounding the Meep, Shaun simply pauses for a few seconds and then notes that the cooking smells good, and proceeds to take everything that happens afterwards quite well.
* VaguenessIsComing: Lampshaded. While being taken away, The Meep gloatingly tells the Doctor that they'll have the last laugh, because "the boss" will be very excited to hear that there's a second being with two hearts on Earth. The Doctor's reaction is [[LeaningOnTheFourthWall annoyance]] that all the warnings he gets are so ''cryptic''.
* VerbalBackspace: Claiming that he's a friend of Nerys, the Doctor says that she's fine, but when Shaun brings up the unspecified "accident" he backspaces to "not fine", and later that she's "been fined"[[note]]According to the BBC iPlayer subtitles[[/note]], implying she that was in a car accident of some kind.
* WeaponizedExhaust: The Meep's dagger-drive powered ship. Lifting off will turn London into a smoldering crater.

** After the Doctor starts undoing his story and learning the Meep is a twisted monster, the Doctor asks the Meep for their side of the story with the Meep thinking it over...
--->'''The Meep''': [[EvilAllAlong Oh, to hell with this!]]

* WhyIsntItAttacking: -- while the Wrarth Warriors ''are'' attacking, the realization that they're using the minimum force possible while doing so (notably, no scorch marks on Shaun's taxi and the brainwashed UNIT troops being unconscious instead of dead) is what twigs the Doctor that something's up with the Meep's story.

* WritersCannotDoMath: Rose is 15 years old according to WordOfGod, and the special is set in 2023, which would mean Rose was born in 2008… a whole year before her parents even met. Notably {{Lampshaded}} by Davies himself, he revealed that he deliberately "fudged the years" to accommodate Creator/YasminFinney's casting (Finney was 18 at the time).[[invoked]]

* YouMonster: Donna calls the Meep this after they kill the Zogroth and Zreeg.

OnceUponATime, there was an alien with a time-travelling blue box who once hailed from the planet Gallifrey known as the Doctor; and there was a woman from Earth named Donna Noble, who befriended said alien after being caught up in [[Recap/DoctorWho2006CSTheRunawayBride a ruse with a giant spider monster who sabotaged Donna's wedding back in Christmas of 2007]]. The Doctor and Donna then went on to have plenty of adventures during [[TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture the year 2009]], but when the Doctor had to deal with ''[[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E12TheStolenEarth the]]'' [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E12TheStolenEarth biggest Dalek invasion on Earth]], his own regenerative Time Lord power, and the knowledge of a Time Lord, was accidentally passed to Donna, though saving the world as we know it- and, as a result, [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E13JourneysEnd he locked the power in Donna's mind alongside all of her memories with the Doctor to prevent her brain]] from [[MySkullRunnethOver blowing up]] due to the overwhelming amount of information in a Time Lord mind, the worst SadisticChoice amongst lifetimes of them.

Fifteen years have passed for Donna since the [[Characters/DoctorWhoTenthDoctor Tenth Doctor]] parted ways with her, and many centuries have passed for him. After becoming [[Characters/DoctorWhoEleventhDoctor a handsome, fez-loving bloke with a bow-tie]], [[Characters/DoctorWhoTwelfthDoctor a stern yet altruistic old Scottsman who preached for kindness but loved shutting people up]] and [[Characters/DoctorWhoThirteenthDoctor and a really brilliant woman who found out that her]] ''[[Recap/DoctorWhoS38E10TheTimelessChildren own species were using her to gain her time-godly powers]]'' [[BusCrash (on top of them becoming extinct off-screen!)]], the Doctor has now been given a familiar form that resembles their tenth incarnation.

OnceUponATime, or if you prefer, Once Upon a ''Time Lord'', there was a time alien with a time-travelling blue box who once hailed from the planet Gallifrey known as the Doctor; and there was a woman from Earth named Donna Noble, who befriended said alien after being caught up in [[Recap/DoctorWho2006CSTheRunawayBride a ruse with a giant spider monster who sabotaged Donna's wedding back in Christmas of 2006]]. The Doctor and Donna then went on to have plenty of adventures during the year 2008, but when The Doctor had to deal with ''[[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E12TheStolenEarth the]]'' [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E12TheStolenEarth biggest Dalek invasion on Earth]], his own regenerative Time Lord power, and the knowledge of a Time Lord, was accidentally passed to Donna, though saving the world as we know it- and as a result, [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E13JourneysEnd he locked the power in Donna's mind alongside all of her memories with the Doctor to prevent her brain]] from [[MySkullRunnethOver blowing up]] due to the overwhelming amount of information in a Time Lord mind, the worst SadisticChoice amongst lifetimes of them.

Fifteen years have passed for Donna since the [[Characters/DoctorWhoTenthDoctor Tenth Doctor]] parted ways with her, and many centuries have passed for him. After becoming [[Characters/DoctorWhoEleventhDoctor a handsome, fez-loving bloke with a bow-tie]]; [[Characters/DoctorWhoTwelfthDoctor a stern yet altruistic old Scottsman who preached for kindness but loved shutting people up]]; [[Characters/DoctorWhoThirteenthDoctor and a really brilliant woman who found out that her]] ''[[Recap/DoctorWhoS38E10TheTimelessChildren own species were using her to gain her time-godly powers]]'' [[BusCrash (on top of them becoming extinct off-screen!)]], the Doctor has now been given a familiar form that resembles their tenth incarnation.

* TriggerPhrase: Turns out Donna has one to unlock her Meta-Crisis abilities, which ends up being vital to save the day when Donna is the only one who can reach the controls to shut down the Meep's ship.

OnceUponATime, or if you prefer, Once Upon a ''Time Lord'', there was a time alien with a time-travelling blue box who once hailed from the planet Gallifrey known as the Doctor; and there was a woman from Earth named Donna Noble, who befriended said alien after being caught up in [[Recap/DoctorWho2006CSTheRunawayBride a ruse with a giant spider monster who sabotaged Donna's wedding back in Christmas of 2006]]. The Doctor and Donna then went on to have plenty of adventures during the year 2008, but when The Doctor had to deal with ''[[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E12TheStolenEarth the]]'' [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E12TheStolenEarth biggest Dalek invasion on Earth]], he was forced to pass on his own regenerative Time Lord power to Donna in order to save the world as we know it- and as a result, [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E13JourneysEnd he locked the power in Donna's mind alongside all of her memories with the Doctor to prevent her brain]] from [[MySkullRunnethOver blowing up]] due to the overwhelming amount of information in a Time Lord mind.

* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Once the Meep’s true colours are revealed, they refer to Rose as Donna’s “weird child”. Possibly downplayed, as this might simply refer to Rose’s online business of selling [[UglyCute handmade plushies with quirky designs]].

* GameFace: After dropping the cute friendly alien act, the Meep gets sharply angled red eyes with visible fangs and claws. Downplayed in that the Meep is still an adorable fuzzy critter even with these changes.

* HappyEndingOverride: Downplayed. "The End of Time" showed Donna and Shaun starting off HappilyMarried, with the implication that the Doctor had helped set them up financially. However, Donna (thanks to the influence of the Doctor still in there) gave ''all'' her lottery winnings away except for buying a house, and while Sylvia is much nicer towards her daughter, she and Wilfred have spent the years since walking on eggshells around her, with Wilfred apparently losing a lot of his cheerful rambling about aliens. That said, Donna's otherwise happy with her lot.

* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Once the Meep’s true colours are revealed, they refer to Rose as Donna’s “weird child”.

* WhyIsntItAttacking: Downplayed -- while the Wrarth Warriors ''are'' attacking, the realization that they're using the minimum force possible while doing so (notably, no scorch marks on Shaun's taxi and the brainwashed UNIT troops being unconscious instead of dead) is what twigs the Doctor that something's up with the Meep's story.

It turns out this whole entire time, the Meep was faking their sob-story, brainwashing UNIT soldiers for the Meep's sake, and ''plans to kill off the human race when it proceeds to get their spaceship working again.'' The now gremlin-like Meep proceeds to shoot the two Wrarth Warriors in cold blood, and corners the gang with the assistance of their brainwashed goons. The Meep then proclaim that the Meep is "THE BEEP OF ALL THE MEEPS!" as Zogroth regrets his decision of taking on this particular duty ''after'' he retired. The Meep taunts Donna for being stupid and also taunts her "freak of a daughter", which angers Donna. The Doctor attempts to mediate the situation by offering the Meep some knowledge about himself (since he is a two-hearted alien like the Meep is) as long as the Meep spares the Nobles. And while he's able to get the Meep to accept the offer, his next offer in regards to getting the Meep off the Earth safely is rendered useless as the Doctor is knocked out by the brainwashed soldiers. With the group kidnapped, the Meep triumphally cackles.

* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Once the Meep’s true colours are revealed, they refer to Rose as Donna’s “freak of a daughter”.

As the team pulls into a carpark, the Doctor decides to give the Meep an impromptu trial case, as the Meep might have not been telling their story straight. He summons two of the Wrarth as defendants, as the Doctor invokes Shadow Proclamation protocols 15, P, and 6. To start off, Donna confirms that the taxi has no scorch marks from the Wrarth's lasers. Next, the Doctor reaffirms that the UNIT soldiers that were gunned down by their lasers, were not even killed to begin with, as the two Wrarth Warriors (who are truly known as Sergeant Zogroth and Constable Zreeg) confirms that they were using stun guns only, and these ones apply anesthetic! The Meep, however, also reaffrims that the Wrarth wants to kill the Meep...only for the Doctor to remind the Meep that the brainwashed UNIT soldiers were shooting to kill, not stun. Therefore, they might have been working in the Meep's favor. To bring the case to a complete close, the Wrarth explain the truth behind the Meep as a whole. The Meep (as a species) went wild after their planet's psychedelic sun went as mad as they did. And the Galactic Council didn't outright ban the Wrarth from making Meep fur coats (as if the Wrarth even wanted to make coats in the first place), the council was actually ''eaten'' by the Meeps. Therefore, the Wrarth were sent in to kill off the species to prevent the Meeps from slaughtering more people across the galaxy. And the Meep that's currently with the group is the only Meep left in the universe, and is also the '''leader''' of the Meep species.

It turns out this whole entire time, the Meep was faking their sob-story, brainwashing UNIT soldiers for the Meep's sake, and ''plans to kill off the human race when it proceeds to get their spaceship working again.'' The now gremlin-like Meep proceeds to shoot the two Wrarth Warriors in cold blood, and corners the gang with the assistance of their brainwashed goons. The Meep then proclaim that the Meep is "THE BEEP OF ALL THE MEEPS!" as Zogroth regrets his decision of taking on this particular duty ''after'' he retired. The Meep taunts Donna for being stupid and also taunts her "weird child", which angers Donna. The Doctor attempts to mediate the situation by offering the Meep some knowledge about himself (since he is a two-hearted alien like the Meep is) as long as the Meep spares the Nobles. And while he's able to get the Meep to accept the offer, his next offer in regards to getting the Meep off the Earth safely is rendered useless as the Doctor is knocked out by the brainwashed soldiers. With the group kidnapped, the Meep triumphally cackles.

This ends up causing the non-waterproof TARDIS to go haywire, as the Doctor and Donna hold on tight for dear life. As the cloister bell (AKA the TARDIS's signal to [[BringMyBrownPants switch to brown trousers]]) chimes endlessly, the TARDIS disappears from Earth, sending the reunited partners in time...[[Recap/DoctorWho60thASWildBlueYonder into the wild blue yonder.]]

With Donna fully back in action, what does she do first? Yell at the Doctor because she gave away almost the entirety of "£166 million" on charity thanks to the memory wipe making her as soft as the Doc. Oops. With less than a minute left before London's preventable destruction becomes unpreventable, [=DoctorDonna=] and the Fourteenth Doctor get to work on saving the gosh-darn day. 55 seconds later, and they've done it! Sadly, Donna falls ill because of the prolonged use of Time Lord knowledge, and for all we know, dies in the arms of the Doctor. With the brainwashed UNIT soldiers right in front of the two, the Doctor is more than willing to die for good right then and there[[note]]A bullet in each heart ''would'' do it.[[/note]], now that he lost one of his best friends, all thanks to his own doing. No matter what, they still managed to save the world.

* HereWeGoAgain: Quoted verbatim by the Doctor after he gets slapped by Sylvia Noble ''again''.

This cute baby-faced alien is known as the Meep, and yes, it talks! Rose befriends the poor little Meep as it tells her how it got to Earth: crash-landing into London, and escaping from killer aliens as it deals with a broken paw. Those mean aliens Meep mentioned ends up on Earth as well, as Fudge manages to run into two bug-eyed humanoid aliens with laser pistols. Luckily, he's safe from harm, although the two mean-looking aliens are only here to hunt down the Meep.

Back at the Noble's house, Rose managed to house the Meep in her shed, as the Meep plays with it's new "little friends", which are just mere toys that Rose made with her own hands. The Meep is saddened by it's own lonely situation, something that Rose can relate to. However, their conversation attracts the attention of Donna, and thus the Meep hides in the pile of plush toys, hoping that Donna won't notice the ''very realistic looking'' plush toy Rose has. However, this "toy" can blink on its own, and Donna decides to see if the "toy" is real enough by poking it straight in the eye. Predictably, this ends up annoying the Meep. Donna '''exclaims.'''

The Doctor decides to stay put with the Nobles for now, as he mends the Meep's paw and catches up on how the family has been doing as of recent times. The Doctor notices one person being missing from the house-- that being good ol' Wilfred Mott. Sadly, he's not with them anymore...or at least, in a literal sense, as he's currently in sheltered accommodation due to his age (as he can't manage the stairs no more). In fact, he's able to get said housing thanks to Kate Stewart. Speaking of finding a home, the Doctor offers the Meep some help to get...uh, what's their pronouns again? Doesn't matter anyway, as the Meep identifies as the Meep. As for whom the Meep is trying to escape from, the two bug-eyed aliens we saw earlier are known as the Wrarth Warriors, who, according to the Meep, cultivated Meepkind for their fur, until the galactic council banned them from doing so, causing them to kill their livestock. Right...

As the team pulls into a carpark, the Doctor decides to give the Meep an impromptu trial case, as the Meep might have not been telling their story straight. He summons two of the Wrarth as defendants, as the Doctor invokes Shadow Proclamation protocols 15, P and 6. To start off, Donna confirms that the taxi has no scorch marks from the Wrarth's lasers. Next, the Doctor reaffirms that the UNIT soldiers that were gunned down by their lasers, were not even killed to begin with, as the two Wrarth Warriors (who are truly known as Sergeant Zogroth and Constable Zreeg) confirms that they were using stun guns only, and these ones apply anesthetic! The Meep, however, also reaffrims that the Wrarth wants to kill the Meep...only for the Doctor to remind the Meep that the brainwashed UNIT soldiers were shooting to kill, not stun. Therefore, they might have been working in the Meep's favor. To bring the case to a complete close, the Wrarth explain the truth behind the Meep as a whole. The Meep (as a species) went wild after their planet's psychedelic sun went as mad as they did. And the Galactic Council didn't outright ban the Wrarth from making Meep fur coats (as if the Wrarth even wanted to make coats in the first place), the council was actually ''eaten'' by the Meeps. Therefore, the Wrarth were sent in to kill off the species to prevent the Meeps from slaughtering more people across the galaxy. And the Meep that's currently with the group is the only Meep left in the universe, and is also the '''leader''' of the Meep species.

It turns out this whole entire time, the Meep was faking their sob-story, brainwashing UNIT soldiers for their sake, and ''plans to kill off the human race when it proceeds to get their spaceship working again.'' The now gremlin-like Meep proceeds to shoot the two Wrarth Warriors in cold blood, and corners the gang with the assistance of their brainwashed goons. They then proclaim that the Meep is "THE BEEP OF ALL THE MEEPS!" as Zogroth regrets his decision of taking on this particular duty ''after'' he retired. The Meep taunts Donna for being stupid and also taunts her "weird child", which angers Donna. The Doctor attempts to mediate the situation by offering the Meep some knowledge about himself (since he is a two-hearted alien like the Meep is) as long as the Meep spares the Nobles. And while he's able to get the Meep to accept the offer, his next offer in regards to getting the Meep off the Earth safely is rendered useless as the Doctor is knocked out by the brainwashed soldiers. With the group kidnapped, the Meep triumphally cackles.

When the gang arrives to the Meep's spaceship, they notice that even more brainwashed people have been working on the Meep's side to get their spaceship back up and running. Heck, the brainwashed folk even praise highlines to the Meep! And yes, because of how the spaceship uses a dagger drive to start it's engines, it's going to blow London up into a smoldering pile of smoke and ash if its able start up completely. Luckily, help is on the way as Shirley is able to take down two brainwashed UNIT soldiers to free the gang from being imprisoned. After all, UNIT-made wheelchairs are equipped with tools and weapons for any situation! However, as Donna leaves with her family to escape, she realizes that she must do more good for the planet, for London, her family, and for her daughter. After all, she donated all that lottery money for charity, right? Thus, Donna runs back to the Doctor in order to help him stop the engines from being activated.

As for the Meep, however, their second attempt at revenge is quickly foiled as the Doctor sends the Meep flying off into the night sky, grumbling as they parachute down to Earth, grumbling angrish. The following day, the rest of the Wrarth Warriors arrest the so-called "Beep of all the Meeps", and will honor Zogroth and Zreeg for giving their lives to save the planet, nay, the galaxy from the Meep. But as the Meep prepares to serve their sentence, they warn the Doctor about their "boss", as they look forward to telling said boss about the fact that the Doctor has two hearts like Meep does. Unfortunately, that's all the cryptic information the Doctor's getting, something that they tend to hate.

Back at the Meep's spaceship crash site, the Doctor continues his investigation with the use of his trusty sonic screwdriver, as the wheelchair-using UNIT member drops on by to introduce herself as Shirley Anne Bingham, a scientific advisor (just like the Doctor). The Doctor laments to Shirley about his new look, as she mistook him for the Tenth Doctor, while also reminiscing about the time he had with Donna. And given how destiny has been eyeing on her recently, the Doctor is completely worried about what might happen to her ''if'' she gets in danger. In any case, the Doctor hitches a ride on a UNIT vehicle so he can reach the Meep's escape pod crash-site. Shirley rejoins the batch of UNIT soldiers as the soldiers take a look inside the Meep's spaceship, which is totally inaccessible for Shirley (no ramp access). That being said, that might have unintentionally been a good thing, as the UNIT soldiers' minds have been brainwashed by a psychedelic wave upon opening the spaceship's door...

Suddenly, the brainwashed UNIT soldiers arrive at the Noble estate to search for the Meep! How does the Doctor know they're brainwashed? Well, by using his screwdriver of course. Before even considering to escape through the back, the Wrarth Warriors come crashing into the house, and prepare to hunt down the Meep! Now ''both'' sides of the house are totally inaccessible due to gunfire and laser-fire. Luckily, the Doctor has a plan. By using his new and improved sonic screwdriver, he's able to create forcefields to protect the family and Meep from fire. That being said, the group has to travel upstairs and through the attic's brick wall in order to escape through a neighboring house, allowing for a proper escape route via Shaun's taxi cab. All this happens alongside UNIT soldiers trying their best to stop those Wrarth Warriors from intercepting. When the gang manages to escape, the Doctor checks up on a "dead" UNIT soldier...only to find out that they still have a pulse after being shot by a Wrarth. And why are their lasers not causing scorch marks on the taxi? As the team escapes, the Doctor realizes that things might have gone very, ''very'' wrong.

As the Doctor does his best to stop the clock, the spaceship's deadlocked is sealed...which won't affect the Doctor that much, as he proceeds to use his hands to stop the engines. What ''will'' affect him, however, is the spaceship's maxifold bisecting. In layman's terms: '''The Doctor and Donna are now separated by a glass wall.''' Ring any bells? It sure does for the Doctor, and he's at his limit. The dagger drive starts digging down, as cracks begin to spread throughout London, with fires being unleashed from the ground up. The only way for the Doctor to stop all of this...is to bring back her memories from all those years ago. As the Doctor angrily yells about how destiny's a bitch, Donna tells him to get on with it. With the key words once uttered all those years ago, binary included, the [=DoctorDonna=] is finally unleashed once again, with all of her Doctor-related memories brought back as well.

With Donna fully back in action, what does she do first? Yell at the Doctor because she gave away almost the entirety of "£166 million" on charity thanks to the memory wipe making her as soft as the Doc. Oops. With less than a minute left before London's preventable destruction becomes unpreventable, [=DoctorDonna=] and the Fourteenth Doctor get to work on saving the gosh-darn day. 55 seconds later, and they've done it! Sadly, Donna falls ill because of the prolonged use of Time Lord knowledge, and for all we know, dies in the arms of the Doctor. With the brainwashed UNIT soldiers right in front of the two, the Doctor is more than willing to die right then and there, now that he lost one of his best friends, all thanks to his own doing. No matter what, they still managed to save the world.

With the day saved, Donna and Rose choose to let go of their Time Lord power together, and remain as their true selves, something that Rosie has never done until now. Aww. As the Doctor tells the Noble family that their house will be fixed up for free thanks to UNIT (they ''did'' blow it up, anyway...), he offers Donna one last trip through time and space for old time's sake. While Donna initially declines, the Doctor then offers Donna to take her to meet Wilf somewhere in the past. She accepts, and the two go inside the brand new, yet very nostalgic TARDIS, complete with coffee maker! It's simply a gorgeous reskin for sure, and as Donna wistfully looks back fondly on the old days for once, she ''accidentally spills her coffee onto the TARDIS.''

This ends up causing the non-waterproof TARDIS to go haywire, as the Doctor and Donna hold on tight for dear life. As the cloister bell chimes endlessly, the TARDIS disappears from Earth, sending the reunited partners in time...[[Recap/DoctorWho60thASWildBlueYonder into the wild blue yonder.]]

In present-day Earth (i.e. late November 2023), the Doctor arrives in London after spending an hour or so dealing with [[Recap/DoctorWhoMagazine584To597LiberationOfTheDaleks simulated Daleks attempting to destroy the universe]] and [[Recap/DoctorWho2023CiNSDoctorWhoChildrenInNeed making Davros and his assistant proud when it comes to designing a Dalek]]. For once, The Doctor definitely deserves to do something non-Dalek related, something that will help him find out the reason behind his "familiar" incarnation. And as he helps out a random citizen in the streets of London... ''he ends up running into Donna Noble.'' The very last thing he would want to run into, especially given his current face. Donna calls out for "Rose", which greatly confuses The Doctor even more, and we see that this particular Rose, is in fact, the daughter of Donna, and not Rose Tyler ([[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E13JourneysEnd who was last seen in a parallel dimension]]).

Before this new Rose can introduce herself to The Doctor, out of nowhere do we see a spaceship crashing down onto London, (only this time, [[Recap/DoctorWho2007CSVoyageOfTheDamned it's thankfully not loaded with nuclear energy]]). In the midst of the spaceship falling out of the sky, Donna is too busy minding her own business as she stacks all of Rose's arts-and-craft purchases just long enough to miss the spaceship (which, to be fair, isn't the first time that Donna misses out on something that's not even normal to begin with). Thankfully, The Doctor's worries of Donna recognizing him are nulled as Donna snarks on The Doctor's nostalgia-ridden suit he's got on without even remembering who he really is. As Rosie leaves with her mother, we hear ''another'' person calling out for Rose. This person ''also'' ends up being part of Donna's life, as the taxi driver The Doctor encounters is Donna's own husband, Shaun Temple. The Doctor ends up taking Shaun's taxi cab towards the spaceship's crash site thanks to The Doctor's usage of psychic paper (which has yet to adjust to his gender change), and the pair proceeds to "Allon-sy!"

As the two men get acquainted, we find out that Donna was able to use [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E17E18TheEndOfTime her lottery winnings back in 2009]] for a good cause, and by that, we mean she donated it all away to charity (£166 million, mind you!). Well, after buying a new house, of course. They then turn left onto the next road ([[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E11TurnLeft get it?]]), as we cut to a BBC news report on the spaceship crash...before it's intercepted by good ol' UNIT, as the militant group heads on over to the crash site, as does The Doctor. We see a wheelchair-using UNIT member investigating the spaceship, and makes note about how the ship was able to pull up and settle down despite making a collision course at first. In other words, ''the spaceship didn't crash at all.'' No signs of life are apparent on the ship...or at least, when the ship parked.

This cute baby-faced alien is known as The Meep, and yes, it talks! Rose befriends the poor little Meep as it tells her how it got to Earth: crash-landing into London, and escaping from killer aliens as it deals with a broken paw. Those mean aliens Meep mentioned ends up on Earth as well, as Fudge manages to run into two bug-eyed humanoid aliens with laser pistols. Luckily, he's safe from harm, although the two mean-looking aliens are only here to hunt down The Meep.

Back at The Meep's spaceship crash site, The Doctor continues his investigation with the use of his trusty sonic screwdriver, as the wheelchair-using UNIT member drops on by to introduce herself as Shirley Anne Bingham, a scientific advisor (just like Doctor). The Doctor laments to Shirley about his new look, while also reminiscing about the time he had with Donna. And given how destiny has been eyeing on her recently, The Doctor is completely worried about what might happen to her ''if'' she gets in danger. In any case, The Doctor hitches a ride on a UNIT vehicle so he can reach The Meep's escape pod crash-site. Shirley rejoins the batch of UNIT soldiers as the soldiers take a look inside The Meep's spaceship, which is totally inaccessible for Shirley (no ramp access). That being said, that might have unintentionally been a good thing, as the UNIT soldiers' minds have been brainwashed by a psychedelic wave upon opening the spaceship's door...

Back at the Noble's house, Rose managed to house The Meep in her shed, as The Meep plays with it's new "little friends", which are just mere toys that Rose made with her own hands. The Meep is saddened by it's own lonely situation, something that Rose can relate to. However, their conversation attracts the attention of Donna, and thus The Meep hides in the pile of plush toys, hoping that Donna won't notice the ''very realistic looking'' plush toy Rose has. However, this "toy" can blink on its own, and Donna decides to see if the "toy" is real enough by poking it straight in the eye. Predictably, this ends up annoying The Meep. Donna '''exclaims.'''

The UNIT soldiers arrive at the pod site, and The Doctor heads on over to the Noble's house, where Donna and Sylvia panic at the sight of The Meep. And then Sylvia hears The Doctor. ''Uh-oh.'' In a matter of moments, The Doctor makes his way into the house to see The Meep, and all hell breaks loose as Sylvia tries to cover it up. And then Shaun walks in on them, because of Sylvia's good-smelling cooking (tuna madras, by the way). One awkward "meep meep" later, and the UNIT soldiers at the pod site are told by the (brainwashed) soldiers to head towards the location of The Meep...

The Doctor decides to stay put with the Nobles for now, as he mends The Meep's paw and catches up on how the family has been doing as of recent times. The Doctor notices one person being missing from the house-- that being good ol' Wilfred Mott. Sadly, he's not with them anymore...or at least, in a literal sense, as he's currently in sheltered accommodation due to his age (as he can't manage the stairs no more). In fact, he's able to get said housing thanks to Kate Stewart (the very same Brigadier from UNIT). Speaking of finding a home, The Doctor offers The Meep some help to get...uh, what's their pronouns again? Doesn't matter anyway, as The Meep identifies as The Meep. As for whom The Meep is trying to escape from, the two bug-eyed aliens we saw earlier are known as The Wrarth Warriors, who, according to The Meep, cultivated Meepkind for their fur, until the galactic council banned them from doing so, causing them to kill their livestock. Right...

Suddenly, the brainwashed UNIT soldiers arrive at the Noble estate to search for The Meep! How does The Doctor know they're brainwashed? Well, by using his screwdriver of course. Before even considering to escape through the back, The Wrarth Warriors come crashing into the house, and prepare to hunt down The Meep! Now ''both'' sides of the house are totally inaccessible due to gunfire and laser-fire. Luckily, The Doctor has a plan. By using his new and improved sonic screwdriver, he's able to create forcefields to protect the family and Meep from fire. That being said, the group has to travel upstairs and through the attic's brick wall in order to escape through a neighboring house, allowing for a proper escape route via Shaun's taxi cab. All this happens alongside UNIT soldiers trying their best to stop those Wrarth Warriors from intercepting. When the gang manages to escape, The Doctor checks up on a "dead" UNIT soldier...only to find out that they still have a pulse after being shot by a Wrarth. And why are their lasers not causing scorch marks on the taxi? As the team escapes, The Doctor realizes that things might have gone very, ''very'' wrong.

As the team pulls into a carpark, The Doctor decides to give The Meep an impromptu trial case, as The Meep might have not been telling their story straight. He summons two of the Wrarth as defendants, as The Doctor invokes Shadow Proclamation protocols 15, P and 6. To start off, Donna confirms that the taxi has no scorch marks from the Wrarth's lasers. Next, Doctor reaffirms that the UNIT soldiers that were gunned down by their lasers, were not even killed to begin with, as the two Wrarth Warriors (who are truly known as Sergeant Zogroth and Constable Zreeg) confirms that they were using stun guns only, and these ones apply anesthetic! The Meep, however, also reaffrims that the Wrarth wants to kill The Meep...only for Doctor to remind Meep that the brainwashed UNIT soldiers were shooting to kill, not stun. Therefore, they might have been working in The Meep's favor. To bring the case to a complete close, the Wrarth explain the truth behind The Meep as a whole. The Meep (as a species) went wild after their planet's psychedelic sun went as mad as they did. And the Galactic Council didn't outright ban the Wrarth from making Meep fur coats (as if the Wrarth even wanted to make coats in the first place), the council was actually ''eaten'' by the Meeps. Therefore, the Wrarth were sent in to kill off the species to prevent the Meeps from slaughtering more people across the galaxy. And The Meep that's currently with the group is the only Meep left in the universe, and is also the '''leader''' of the Meep species.

It turns out this whole entire time, The Meep was faking their sob-story, brainwashing UNIT soldiers for their sake, and ''plans to kill off the human race when it proceeds to get their spaceship working again.'' The now gremlin-like Meep proceeds to shoot the two Wrarth Warriors in cold blood, and corners the gang with the assistance of their brainwashed goons. They then proclaim that The Meep is "THE BEEP OF ALL THE MEEPS!" as Zogroth regrets his decision of taking on this particular duty ''after'' he retired. The Meep taunts Donna for being stupid and also taunts her "weird child", which angers Donna. The Doctor attempts to mediate the situation by offering The Meep some knowledge about himself (since he is a two-hearted alien like The Meep is) as long as The Meep spares the Nobles. And while he's able to get The Meep to accept the offer, his next offer in regards to getting The Meep off the Earth safely is rendered useless as The Doctor is knocked out by the brainwashed soldiers. With the group kidnapped, The Meep triumphally cackles.

When the gang arrives to The Meep's spaceship, they notice that even more brainwashed people have been working on Meep's side to get their spaceship back up and running. Heck, the brainwashed folk even praise highlines to The Meep! And yes, because of how the spaceship uses a dagger drive to start it's engines, it's going to blow London up into a smoldering pile of smoke and ash if its able start up completely. Luckily, help is on the way as Shirley is able to take down two brainwashed UNIT soldiers to free the gang from being imprisoned. After all, UNIT-made wheelchairs are equipped with tools and weapons for any situation! However, as Donna leaves with her family to escape, she realizes that she must do more good for the planet, for London, her family, and for her daughter. After all, she donated all that lottery money for charity, right? Thus, Donna runs back to The Doctor in order to help him stop the engines from being activated.

As The Doctor does his best to stop the clock, the spaceship's deadlocked is sealed...which won't affect The Doctor that much, as he proceeds to use his hands to stop the engines. What ''will'' affect him, however, is the spaceship's maxifold bisecting. In layman's terms: '''The Doctor and Donna are now separated by a glass wall.''' Ring any bells? It sure does for The Doctor, and he's at his limit. The dagger drive starts digging down, as cracks begin to spread throughout London, with fires being unleashed from the ground up. The only way for The Doctor to stop all of this...is to bring back the [=DoctorDonna=] from all those years ago. As The Doctor angrily yells about how destiny's a bitch, Donna tells him to get on with it. With the key words once uttered all those years ago, binary included, [=DoctorDonna=] is finally unleashed once again, with all of her Doctor-related memories brought back as well.

With Donna fully back in action, what does she do first? Yell at The Doctor because she "wasted" £166 million on charity thanks to the memory wipe making her as soft as the Doc. Oops. With less than a minute left before London's preventable destruction becomes unpreventable, [=DoctorDonna=] and The Fourteenth Doctor get to work on saving the gosh-darn day. 55 seconds later, and they've done it! Sadly, Donna falls ill because of the prolonged use of Time Lord knowledge, and for all we know, dies in the arms of The Doctor. With the brainwashed UNIT soldiers right in front of the two, The Doctor is more than willing to die right then and there, now that he lost one of his best friends, all thanks to his own doing. No matter what, they still managed to save the world.

But wait! The brainwashing is turned off by a familiar person! It turns out that Rose Noble is the one to save The Doctor from being shot to death, and with that...Donna...is alive? Oh. ''Well then.''

Turns out that when Donna Noble birthed Rose, half of her Time Lord power was passed onto Rose. Makes logical sense given how Donna was half-human during all this time, but because of that, Donna was able to survive the mind-blowing side-effect of being a half-human half-Time Lord hybrid. Heck, it even explains why Donna's daughter named herself Rose, why the shed was TARDIS blue, and why all of those plush toys she made looked familiar. They were designed after the monsters that Donna and Doctor encountered both on-screen ''and'' off-screen (such as Daleks, Cybermen, Ood, and others). At the end of the day, The Doctor is simply male. And female. And neither, and more! [[note]][[ItMakesSenseInContext (And jammy.)]][[/note]]

As for The Meep, however, their second attempt at revenge is quickly foiled as The Doctor sends The Meep flying off into the night sky, grumbling as they parachute down to Earth. The following day, the rest of The Wrarth Warriors arrest the so-called "Beep of All The Meeps", and will honor Zogroth and Zreeg for giving their lives to save the planet, nay, the galaxy from The Meep. But as The Meep prepares to serve their sentence, they warn The Doctor about their "boss"[[note]]vaguely implied to be [[spoiler:The Toymaker]][[/note]], as they look forward to telling said boss about the fact that The Doctor has two hearts like Meep does. Unfortunately, that's all the cryptic information Doctor's getting, something that The Doctor tends to hate.

With the day saved, Donna and Rose choose to let go of their Time Lord power together, and remain as their true selves, something that Rosie has never done until now. Aww. As The Doctor tells the Noble family that their house will be fixed up for free thanks to UNIT (they ''did'' blow it up, anyway...), he offers Donna one last trip through time and space for old time's sake. While Donna initially declines, the Doctor then offers Donna to take her to meet Wilf somewhere in the past. She accepts, and the two go inside the brand new, yet very nostalgic TARDIS, complete with coffee maker! It's simply a gorgeous reskin for sure, and as Donna wistfully looks back fondly on the old days for once, she ''accidentally spills her coffee onto the TARDIS.''

This ends up causing the non-waterproof TARDIS to go haywire, as The Doctor and Donna hold on tight for dear life. As the cloister bell chimes endlessly, the TARDIS disappears from Earth, sending the reunited partners in time...[[Recap/DoctorWho60thASWildBlueYonder into the wild blue yonder.]]

Fifteen years have passed for Donna since the [[Characters/DoctorWhoTenthDoctor Tenth Doctor]] parted ways with her, and many centuries have passed for him. After becoming [[Characters/DoctorWhoEleventhDoctor a handsome, fez-loving bloke with a bow-tie]]; [[Characters/DoctorWhoTwelfthDoctor a stern yet altruistic old Scottsman who loves to shut people up]]; [[Characters/DoctorWhoThirteenthDoctor and a really brilliant woman who found out that her]] ''[[Recap/DoctorWhoS38E10TheTimelessChildren own species were using her to gain her time-godly powers]]'' [[BusCrash (on top of them becoming extinct off-screen!)]], the Doctor has now been given a familiar form that resembles their tenth incarnation.

Fifteen years have passed since the [[[[Characters/DoctorWhoTenthDoctor Tenth Doctor]] parted ways with Donna. And, after becoming [[Characters/DoctorWhoEleventhDoctor a handsome, fez-loving bloke with a bow-tie]]; [[Characters/DoctorWhoTwelfthDoctor an angry yet altruistic old Scottsman who loves to shut people up]]; [[Characters/DoctorWhoThirteenthDoctor and a really brilliant woman who found out that her]] ''[[Recap/DoctorWhoS38E10TheTimelessChildren own species were using her to gain her time-godly powers]]'' [[BusCrash (on top of them becoming extinct off-screen!)]], the Doctor has now been given a familiar form that resembles his tenth incarnation.

OnceUponATime, or if you prefer, Once Upon a ''Time Lord'', there was a time alien with a time-travelling blue box who once hailed from the planet Gallifrey known as the Doctor; and there was a woman from Earth named Donna Noble, who befriend said alien after being caught up in [[Recap/DoctorWho2006CSTheRunawayBride a ruse with a giant spider monster who sabotaged Donna's wedding back in Christmas of 2006]]. The Doctor and Donna then went on to have plenty of adventures during the year 2008, but when The Doctor had to deal with ''[[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E12TheStolenEarth the]]'' [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E12TheStolenEarth biggest Dalek invasion on Earth]], he was forced to pass on his own regenerative Time Lord power to Donna in order to save the world as we know it- and as a result, [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E13JourneysEnd he locked the power in Donna's mind alongside all of her memories with The Doctor to prevent her brain]] from [[MySkullRunnethOver blowing up]] due to the overwhelming amount of information in a Time Lord mind.

Fifteen years have passed since The Tenth Doctor parted ways with Donna. And, after becoming [[Characters/DoctorWhoEleventhDoctor a handsome, fez-loving bloke with a bow-tie]]; [[Characters/DoctorWhoTwelfthDoctor an angry old Scottsman who just loves to shut people up]]; [[Characters/DoctorWhoThirteenthDoctor and a really brilliant woman who found out that her]] ''[[Recap/DoctorWhoS38E10TheTimelessChildren own species were using her to gain her time-godly powers]]'' [[BusCrash (on top of them becoming extinct off-screen!)]], The Doctor has now been given a familiar form that resembles his [[Characters/DoctorWhoTenthDoctor tenth incarnation]].

As for The Fourteenth Doctor... he thinks that the story of The Tenth Doctor and Donna Noble has yet to truly end. And the next chapter of this story, is about to begin...

In present-day Earth (i.e. late November 2023), The Doctor arrives in London after spending an hour or so dealing with [[Recap/DoctorWhoMagazine584To597LiberationOfTheDaleks simulated Daleks attempting to destroy the universe]] and [[Recap/DoctorWho2023CiNSDoctorWhoChildrenInNeed making Davros and his assistant proud when it comes to designing a Dalek]]. For once, The Doctor definitely deserves to do something non-Dalek related, something that will help him find out the reason behind his "familiar" incarnation. And as he helps out a random citizen in the streets of London... ''he ends up running into Donna Noble.'' The very last thing he would want to run into, especially given his current face. Donna calls out for "Rose", which greatly confuses The Doctor even more, and we see that this particular Rose, is in fact, the daughter of Donna, and not Rose Tyler ([[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E13JourneysEnd who was last seen in a parallel dimension]]).

* ShoutOut: The brainwashed steelworkers and UNIT troops helping repair and guard the Meep's spaceship before launch bear the Meep to their ship on a litter formed from welded-together pieces of steel that looks very much like a miniature and portable [[Series/GameOfThrones Iron Throne]].

* TrashTheSet: The Noble house gets shot up between the Wrarth Warriors and Beep the Meep's brainwashed UNIT soldiers.

* VaguenessIsComing: Lampshaded. While being taken away, The Meep gloatingly tells the Doctor that they'll have the last laugh, because "the boss" will be very excited to hear that there's a second being with two hearts on Earth. The Doctor's reaction is [[LeaningOnTheFourthWall annoyance]] that all the warnings he gets are so ''cryptic''. And it turns out that "the boss" can't be the Toymaker, since it's the Doctor's actions in "Wild Blue Yonder" that give the Toymaker his way back into our universe for "The Giggle" as opposed to any notice from The Meep, so it will be a problem for the Fifteenth Doctor, or a successor of his.

OnceUponATime, or if you prefer, Once Upon a ''Time Lord'', there was a time alien with a time-travelling blue box who once hailed from the planet Gallifrey known as the Doctor; and there was a woman from Earth named Donna Noble, who befriend said alien after being caught up in [[Recap/DoctorWho2006CSTheRunawayBride a ruse with a giant spider monster who sabotaged Donna's wedding back in Christmas of 2006]]. The Doctor and Donna then went on to have plenty of adventures during the year 2008, but when The Doctor had to deal with ''[[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E12TheStolenEarth the]]'' [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E12TheStolenEarth biggest Dalek invasion on Earth]], he was forced to pass on his own regenerative Time Lord cells to Donna in order to save the world as we know it- and as a result, [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E13JourneysEnd he locked the cells in Donna's mind alongside all of her memories with The Doctor to prevent her mind]] from [[MySkullRunnethOver blowing up]] due to the overpowering Time Lord cells.

With Donna fully back in action, what does she do first? Yell at The Doctor because she "wasted" £166 million on charity thanks to the memory wipe making her as soft as the Doc. Oops. With less than a minute left before London's preventable destruction becomes unpreventable, [=DoctorDonna=] and The Fourteenth Doctor get to work on saving the gosh-darn day. 55 seconds later, and they've done it! Sadly, Donna falls ill because of the prolonged use of Time Lord cells, and for all we know, dies in the arms of The Doctor. With the brainwashed UNIT soldiers right in front of the two, The Doctor is more than willing to die right then and there, now that he lost one of his best friends, all thanks to his own doing. No matter what, they still managed to save the world.

Turns out that when Donna Noble birthed Rose, half of her Time Lord cells were passed onto Rose. Makes logical sense given how Donna was half-human during all this time, but because of that, Donna was able to survive the mind-blowing side-effect of being a half-human half-Time Lord hybrid. Heck, it even explains why Donna's daughter named herself Rose, why the shed was TARDIS blue, and why all of those plush toys she made looked familiar. They were designed after the monsters that Donna and Doctor encountered both on-screen ''and'' off-screen (such as Daleks, Cybermen, Ood, and others). At the end of the day, The Doctor is simply male. And female. And neither, and more! [[note]][[ItMakesSenseInContext (And jammy.)]][[/note]]

With the day saved, Donna and Rose choose to let go of their Time Lord cells together, and remain as their true selves, something that Rosie has never done until now. Aww. As The Doctor tells the Noble family that their house will be fixed up for free thanks to UNIT (they ''did'' blow it up, anyway...), he offers Donna one last trip through time and space for old time's sake. While Donna initially declines, the Doctor then offers Donna to take her to meet Wilf somewhere in the past. She accepts, and the two go inside the brand new, yet very nostalgic TARDIS, complete with coffee maker! It's simply a gorgeous reskin for sure, and as Donna wistfully looks back fondly on the old days for once, she ''accidentally spills her coffee onto the TARDIS.''