Post by blaidddrwg on Sept 20, 2014 19:56:32 GMT -6
Remember when the Doctor "gave birth" to a daughter in season four, episode six? Yes, there have been many characters named Jenny in New Who, but none could compete with an actual offspring of the Doctor. And by "offspring," we really just mean the Doctor stuck his hand into a progenation machine and out popped blonde, perky Jenny into the world. Given, she was just another generated female soldier to fight in the Messaline army under General Cobb, and at the beginning that's all she was to the Doctor, but over the course of the episode, the Doctor himself grew attached to Jenny and, despite the fact that she was created from a small slice of his DNA, saw echoes of his own self in her. After all, it was he and Donna who gave Jenny an actual name (derived from the term "generated anomaly") instead of just tacking her up as another soldier. The Doctor and Jenny's relationship is so strong, in fact, that when General Cobb points his weapon at the Doctor, it's Jenny who steps in front of the Doctor and takes a bullet for him. Evidence of the Doctor's tight attachment to his "generated anomaly" can be seen in the way he tightly holds her as she dies, how he rocks her back and forth and lets tears fall upon her delicate, blonde head. And it's in the name of Jenny that the Doctor, with General Cobb standing right in front of him and a fully loaded gun in his hand, puts the gun to Cobb's face, looks him in the eye, and declares, "I. Never. Would." He then throws the gun to the ground. Sure, the Doctor has never been one for using weapons, but keep in mind - he was in the Time War. He was no stranger to warfare and shooting, and had it not been for Jenny, he just might have shot General Cobb right there. But her sway over him propelled him to remember his cause - that peace was always the answer.
That being said, Jenny's story didn't end there. Keep in mind - she's the Doctor's daughter. She's got Time Lord blood in her veins. Maybe not a lot, but enough to allow her to regenerate after she died. The episode leaves her stowing away on a ship, fantasizing about the planets she wants to save, the civilisations to rescue, the monsters to defeat, and how much running she has left to do.
But after that, we never hear from Jenny again. It's almost as if her story was just starting, only to never be touched again. I almost feel like RTD would be the kind of person to pick it back up, but of course, season four was his last season on Who, and surely if Steven Moffat was going to completely discard the remnants of major characters pre-season five like Rose, Martha, and Donna, whom he never mentions and who the Doctor apparently forgets completely after his eleventh regeneration, then he surely wasn't going to touch the genius that was the Doctor's daughter episode. But what do you think? Would you like to see Jenny again, see what adventures she's gotten into? Perhaps she's gone through more regenerations? Who's she traveling with? Should she be the Twelfth Doctor's next companion after Jenna Coleman leaves in December?
That being said, Jenny's story didn't end there. Keep in mind - she's the Doctor's daughter. She's got Time Lord blood in her veins. Maybe not a lot, but enough to allow her to regenerate after she died. The episode leaves her stowing away on a ship, fantasizing about the planets she wants to save, the civilisations to rescue, the monsters to defeat, and how much running she has left to do.
But after that, we never hear from Jenny again. It's almost as if her story was just starting, only to never be touched again. I almost feel like RTD would be the kind of person to pick it back up, but of course, season four was his last season on Who, and surely if Steven Moffat was going to completely discard the remnants of major characters pre-season five like Rose, Martha, and Donna, whom he never mentions and who the Doctor apparently forgets completely after his eleventh regeneration, then he surely wasn't going to touch the genius that was the Doctor's daughter episode. But what do you think? Would you like to see Jenny again, see what adventures she's gotten into? Perhaps she's gone through more regenerations? Who's she traveling with? Should she be the Twelfth Doctor's next companion after Jenna Coleman leaves in December?