Talk:The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith

Reference to Donna

Someone removed the part about "Don't forget me" referencing Donna forgetting the Doctor and leaving him alone. Do we really feel that this isn't clear? Andral (talk) 01:55, 7 November 2009 (UTC)

It may be a reference to Donna. It may be a reference to the parting words between Sarah Jane and the Fourth Doctor. It may be both. It may be neither. This is called speculation.--Jeffro77 (talk) 02:13, 7 November 2009 (UTC)

It's more likely a reference to the parting words between SJ and the Fourth Doctor, considering in the previous episode, The Mad Woman in the Attic, old footage of the Fourth doctor was shown uttering this phrase. Incidentally, that also makes the sentence "It guest stars David Tennant as the Tenth Doctor, marking the first appearance of parent programme Doctor Who's main character in a spin-off show." untrue. This is the first appearance of parent programme Doctor Who's main character in scenes explicitly filmed for the show. (Although one may argue this was already untrue: The Doctor's hand clearly appears in Torchwood's first series.) 173.12.172.149 (talk) 05:33, 24 November 2009 (UTC)

Immortality Gate

When the Doctor suggests that The Trickster must be lonely, The Trickster rebukes him by saying, "Who are you to talk to me of loneliness when the Gate is waiting for you?" Is it worth mentioning in the continuity section that this pre-empts the events of The End of Time? I did insert this detail once, but it was removed (understandably so) because Time had not yet been transmitted. Absurdtrousers (talk) 15:24, 3 January 2010 (UTC)

Continuity

Changed info from "Sarah Jane's is one of two weddings of former companions he attends in late 2010" to "late 2009". The End of Time was broadcast on Dec. 31, 2009 and Jan 1, 2010.Azzychan (talk) 08:05, 13 June 2010 (UTC)

TARDIS acronym

In the episode (6:19 on this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MgLbUveDWqU&feature=related) on Mr. Smith's screen it says "Temporal And Relative Dimensional Interference Sensed". Now, I'm not saying that TARDIS actually stands for that (bad topic name) but is that worth mentioning at all?Dalek9 (talk) 18:47, 27 September 2010 (UTC)

Not unless a reliable third party mentions it. — Edokter • Talk • 18:58, 27 September 2010 (UTC)

Alternate timeline/parallel world

I don't know the exact origin of the term "time beetle", but it's not directly stated on screen in "Turn Left". The insect is only identified as one of the Trickster's Brigade. However, Donna is explicitly mentioned as having a parallel world created around her, rather than it being a common effect of the beetle changing lives (with the universe usually just compensating) after it latches on people's backs, and nowhere is the word "timeline" used in "Turn Left" in referring to that setting where the Doctor dies.

Tenth Doctor: Just got lucky, this thing. It's one of the Trickster's Brigade. Changes a life in tiny little ways. Most times the universe just compensates around it, but with you, great big parallel world.

Donna: Hold on. You said parallel worlds are sealed off.

Tenth Doctor: They are. But you had one created around you. Funny thing is, it seems to be happening a lot to you.

Donna: How do you mean?

Tenth Doctor: Well, the Library, and then this.

Donna: It just goes with the job, I suppose.

Tenth Doctor: Sometimes, I think there's way too much coincidence around you, Donna. I met you once, then I met your grandfather, then I met you again. In the whole wide universe, I met you for a second time. It's like something's binding us together.

Donna: Don't be so daft. I'm nothing special.

Tenth Doctor: Yes, you are. You're brilliant.

Rose: (in flashback) He thought you were brilliant.

Donna: She said that.

Tenth Doctor: Who did?

Donna: That woman. I can't remember.

Tenth Doctor: Well, she never existed, now.

Donna: No, but she said, the stars. She said the stars are going out.

Tenth Doctor: Yeah, but that world's gone.

Donna: No, but she said it was all worlds. Every world. She said the darkness is coming even here.

And prior to her being sent back in time, the only other description of the world is as a "world".

Donna: Who are you?

Rose: I was like you. I used to be you. You've travelled with him, Donna. You've travelled with the Doctor in a different world.

Donna: But I never met him, and he's dead.

Rose: He died underneath the Thames on Christmas Eve, but you were meant to be there. He needed someone to stop him and that was you. You made him leave. You saved his life.

...

Donna: I'm ready.

Rose: One minute past ten.

Donna: Cos I understand now. You said I was gonna die, but you mean this whole world is gonna blink out of existence. But that's not dying, cos a better world takes its place. The Doctor's world, and I'm still alive. That's right, isn't it? I don't die. If I change things, I don't die? That's, that's right, isn't it?

The term "parallel world" is also recalled by Donna in "Journey's End", although the scene also mentions converging timelines (which later in the episode is revealed to be her unique status as a human being with a Time Lord brain than anything).

Donna: In that parallel world, you said something about me.

Rose: The dimension cannon could measure timelines, and it's, it's weird, Donna. They all seem to converge on you.

Donna: I mean, what have I ever done? I'm a temp from Chiswick.

...

Donna: And I got the best bit of the Doctor. I got his mind.

Sarah Jane: So there's three of you?

Rose: Three Doctors?

Jack: I can't tell you what I'm thinking right now.

Tenth Doctor: You're so unique the timelines were converging on you. Human being with a Time Lord brain.

TardisTybort (talk) 01:47, 2 May 2016 (UTC)