Doctor Who "The Runaway Bride" Reaction!! David Tennant & Catherine Tate! 

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Making Donna not a romantic interest was such a smart move, makes her not just a carbon copy of Rose

The actress playing the empress is called Sarah Parish - she is fantastic in everything she's in.

Hearing Donna yell OY will never ever get old.

Never ever have I seen any 'reactionary' reacting with such enjoyment to Catherine Tate in this episode, because she's so 'shouty', but thank the (Time)lords, you know how to appreciate her. Bless you.

The catch in his voice when he says “Her name was Rose.” 😭

"DOCTOR!!!" "Blimey, you can shout!" 🤣 Yes she can.

"Then what happens next is your own doing", in this context, is one of the coldest lines in all of fiction. I liked it so much I put it in my debut novel. Dark Doctor moments are a real treat. And thank goodness Donna was there to say "You can stop now." Companions serve many functions in the show and to the Doctor. One of the most crucial is to be there to say things like "You can stop now." Good stuff. Too bad Donna never stayed on as a full time companion. Oh well, what could have been.

This is such a key moment for the Doctor as well. He warns the Racnoss three times, and then he just murders them all. He's so powerful, and most of the time he's just holding back because he doesn't want to kill. Never forget that he's the Oncoming Storm.

You're one of the few reactors I've seen like Donna right out of the gate.

“Are we robbing a bank right now?” “I’m okay with it” 😂😂🤣 Me too

Her crazy antics were one of my favorite things about donna. The thing about the pockets cracks me up every time. It's even funnier that recently my cousin just got married and one thing she loved about her wedding dress is that it had pockets. Lol. Enjoy the ride

"This feels like a Power Rangers villain." --- I have watched this so many times and never thought of that, but you are 100% right!! LOL

I love the chase down the motorway. The string to pull levers on the TARDIS, the crunching of the cars, the cheering of the kids in the backseat.

Neris, the biggest Doctor who villian.

Donna was a great foil to the Doctor.

"Mary Poppins was a timelord" .....Timelady, some can afford the upgrade....

The Fabulous Donna... and lets not forget th wonderful performance by the mum, Jacqueline King

9:16 "Love Don't Roam" by Murray Gold & Oscar Brown Jr (Sung by Neil Hanlon) is a forgotten gem of his work 😍 & there will be a few more original full songs to come! "Well, you took me in, you stole my heart, I cannot roam no more. Because love, it stays within you, It does not wash up on a shore. But a fighting man forgets each cut Each knock, each bruise, each fall, But a fighting man cannot forget Why his love don't roam no more. Oh, reel me in, my precious girl, Come on, take me home. 'Cause my body's tired of travelling And my heart don't wish to roam." 💔💔

The 10th doctor and Donna have great chemistry you are in for a treat further down the line. I love these two together. David Tennant is my fave doctor of all time. I love him as 10 and 14. Fun fact David Tennant used to get in trouble at school here in Glasgow because all his essays, homework etc were about doctor who and wanting to play the doctor. That’s the reason he became an actor. Great reaction. Take care 😘🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

"'Cause sometimes, I think you need someone to stop you."

My best friend’s wedding dress had pockets- I’m not saying that Donna’s situation here had anything to do with it… but it totally did 😂

Donna is definitely the highlight of this episode!

I love Donna. She might be my favorite person. Catherine Tate has such an ability to turn on a dime… bombastic and hysterical one second and then tragic the next. I was so lucky to be able to see her and Tennant in Much Ado in London, and I loved The whole thing, but her line “Kill Claudio,” after such a chaotic comedy moment broke my heart and gave me chills.

Great Christmas episode, and Catherine Tate was brilliant as Donna Noble. It was a third Doctor story, The Time Warrior, which aired in December 1973 when the Doctor’s home planet was finally given the name Gallifrey, and I believe that this is the 1st episode that mentions Gallifrey in NuWho! Glad you enjoyed this story and season 2! IMO season 3 is even better, with the latter half of it producing some of the best episodes ever of NuWho!

"Santa's a ROBOT!"

This isn't getting a thank you - this is getting an I LOVE YOU! Donna and the Doctor have the most wonderful chemistry, and of all the companions, Catherine Tate is my absolute favorite. It's a joy to know that Catherine and David are great friends in real life and have a fantastic body of collaborations. I can recommend some wonderful wonderful short videos with the two of them - search for 'David Tennant is Catherine Tate's new English teacher', 'Much Ado 2011 David Tennant and Catherine Tate', 'Lauren got Tik Tok famous but is she bovvered?', 'Nan and the Ghost of Christmas Present', They are GLORIOUS.

If you don't like how the Earth was formed... wait for the moon.

Ah Donna! Brilliantly different from Rose. The joke about 'pockets' and referencing 'Chez Alison' is now part of our family vocabulary.

Sarah Parish was having a blast, as can be seen in the BTS confidential episode. She has been in several projects with David. Prior to this she had played one part of a love triangle with David Tennant and David Morrissey in Blackpool.

3 months old and nobodys talked about the songs. This episode made me fall in love with neil hannons music

Always thought this was such a great monster design! Also the way it ends when Dr says her name was rose, brings tears

My favorite DW Christmas special. The first 15 minutes alone are pure gold.

Some people find Donna a bit loud and shouty in this episode, but her reactions to what is going on are really not unreasonable. I highly recommend checking out the Comic Relief skit with Catherine Tate as obnoxious teenager Lauren Cooper and DT as her new teacher - very funny.

This was so camp. I loved it. I've seen every episode multiple times but I love sharing it with someone new, especially a yank. :) hehe.. Matt, Sydney AU. You go, gurl.

That was a brilliant Christmas evening show. A couple of years later the actor playing Lance (Don Gilet) turned up in the mildly popular soap opera Eastenders, we didn't trust him of course, because of what he had done to Donna. Turns out we were right, as he was a serial killer, always good to trust your instincts...

"C'mon you can leap into a marriage, but you can't leap into a TARDIS!" Iconic. I will never forget that.

I dunno if anyone has suggested it, but you should watch a comedy bit with Catherine Tate and David Tennant that was done for Comic Relief. She has this high school character named Lauren and he turns up in a Lauren sketch. They also were in Much Ado About Nothing together, for anyone who might have wanted to see them as love interests. It suits them very well.

Donna is iconic 😂

I love Donna because she is a stand in for all of us regular girls. Not perfect. Not special. And we are told we are special. And ALWAYS the Murray Gold score and original music.

11:43 I was in Spain… scuba diving 😂 yeah it’s always hilarious, somehow Donna missed everything

19:33 love your reaction here! This is the first time the Doctor’s home planet is mentioned in the revived series, and the Empress recognising the name as the slaughterers of her race is just… Perfect!

Most of the Doctor's regenerations are shown on screen. Two weren't (at the time of the original production), but were shown later in special minisodes etc.

Those cliffhanger endings are something of a staple of Doctor Who. And the writers often have a way of making things appear as if they were planned all along. 😊 Those endings are of course shot as late as possible, when they're already preparing for the next series. If a series ends with a regeneration, expect that the scene was just shot with a blank spot where the new actor would be inserted later. Some of the DVD commentaries say that Russell T Davies is particularly skilled in making unplanned snafus appear as if that was how it was supposed to be.

GAWD, I love the chemistry between Donna and the Doctor.💖💖

I really enjoyed your reaction to this episode! It is such a brilliant one!

Everything about this episode was, is and always will be my favorite! But this also became a really important episode too, particularly the cab chase scene. Years ago I had made some life choices that felt like I was left in a dead end, and for a while I was just angry and sad about it, and didn’t know what to do nor had the courage to change anything. When I came to this episode I saw so much of my situation in Donna’s at the beginning - she had a goal that she was pulled off course from, and she kept trying to troubleshoot problem-solve but she kept running into dead ends, or she didn’t have the resources she needed, like cab fare, or pockets! She had a well-meaning person around, but her immediate problems where less his concern, and so she kept trying to solve things on her own, until, in desperation, she jumped in a cab with a Santa robot, and she found herself speeding down the motorway with the doors deadlocked. After discovering Donna here I would often listen to the score of this scene, when avenue after avenue of escape was closing down for her, until the only thing left was to trust The Doctor and take a literal leap of faith from a moving vehicle. I visualized myself as Donna, gathering up the courage to leap, and eventually I realized I had to be both Donna AND the Doctor, I had to be the one chasing that cab in the TARDIS, and telling myself to trust me and leap to freedom, and I had to trust myself to have that TARDIS ready at the same time I got the courage. It does get a little confusing, I admit. But Donna always gave me an example of someone who tried everything she could do, and had to trust in something outside herself. This scene, these actors, that music, for a good while, gave me strength as I learned to trust and take my own leap. For that Donna is very special to me, and I’m so glad you’ve now met her here! I’m so excited for you with what’s next!

The Empress of the Racnoss was played by Sarah Parish, and oh boy did she have fun with the role. I mean, if you're going to be trussed up with this massive spider costume, you might as well go whole hog and chew the hell out of that scenery. She has frequently co-starred with David Tennant on things, including my two favorites of those collaborations: the musical serial Blackpool and the really heartbreaking Recovery. In Recovery, David plays a man who suffers a brain injury and Sarah Parish played his wife who has to help him through things. It's so good and so sad.

I know you've already watched some of season three at this point, so I can say I'm so excited for the next episode.

Another Christmas Special! A Staple of the RTD Era of Doctor Who and my childhood🫣

“What kind of magic science alien technology is this?” 😂

I do like they sprinkled in him thinking about Rose. It would have been way to jarring to have him suddenly fine after that. I love the "I'm in my wedding dress" "yes you look lovely"😂😂 apparently the song the doctor sees the couple dancing to is a song written specifically for the doctor and rose 😢😢😢

Impossible is normal in DW😅. And somehow all the craziness works. And yes, the Doctor needs someone, not just to fight the loneliness, he is extremely powerful and ancient and when he is hurting and angry that power could be very dangerous. He needs someone at his side to pull him back, who does not have the ballast he is carrying, someone still "innocent" so to speak, someone to remember what he is fighting for.

Please react to Good Omens next. The show has a lot of interesting theories and speculation around it and I would like to hear your take on it!

They have appeared together at a few Comic Cons. Have you seen Catherine's comedy sketch show?

One of my absolute favourite episodes! Love Donna 😊 My personal favourite companion in NuWho. Oh, the Racnoss Empress is played by Sarah Parish. Very underrated actress.

after such an emotional end to series 2, i love that they included a more comedic episode!

Instantly iconic t-shirt

Absolutely loved this reaction! ❤ can’t wait to see you enjoy the next one. I quite like it myself - but Donna is a great character I think her sassiness is so amazing 😂

20:04 it's empressive! :-D

Loved donnas character, I’m glad you did too

"Orders from Mr Saxon" 👀

Great t-shirt! 😊👍

'Orders from Mr Saxon'

The Empress is Sarah Parish who was also in Blackpool with David.

16:53 this is how the Earth was form in the Transformers Universe from the Transformer god of death/Unicron which turns into the Earth. Bunch of alien spiders or a planet eater planet that wakes up and destroys everything

Why did I automatically follow what you were saying when you started with 'Space, the final frontier...'

The Racnoss Empress is Sarah Parish. The diifference in appearance is quite like the Klingon Sisters or the Borg Queen from Star Trek: TNG - really attractive. She really went all out.

So just to let you know we have a charity evening once a year called children in need and for a few times doctor who did a mini episode for them. They are worth finding and watching as and when get to them in the timeliness.

Yeah I love Donna ❤😊

i am STOKED for this season!

Ohh neat! I didn’t know you were doing doctor who reactions. I know you from your movie reactions (I remember your there will be blood reaction) but this is a nice surprise. Doctor Who is my all time favourite thing. Not just show, but THING. It’s basically half of my life so to share that with you is awesome. You’re in for a ride. Going to go back and see your previous reactions too. I’ve watched this show since literally before I can remember, I would dress up as the doctor every day and always wave around a sonic screwdriver in first school. I still do. (Well, not in a school, that would be weird). Hope you have as much fun as I do watching the greatest show ever made! Although- I am one of those people who doesn’t like series 11-13. Not because I’m against a female doctor, I actually think Jodie Whittaker was the best part. The writing declined greatly, and it was not a good watch for me. (I will say, I am someone who notices a lot of details in regards to plot points, consistency and continuity and I am fully aware that many people do not at all care about that, but the lack of regard to continuity is what killed my enjoyment with those series of the show). In fact, analysing those episodes and why they were (imo) bad, is what gave me my love for storytelling. That said, you might fully enjoy them! We’ll just have to see and I’ll stay tuned in and ready. Even without those, there is still so much good stuff to look forward to and don’t let what anyone says effect your enjoyment, you should go into it without any bias. Good luck with the channel and have fun!

Donna was an... acquired taste for so many of us. Abrasive. Loud. Spoiled. Manipulative. Oblivious to the point of seeming just stupid. So glad they made the character likable for later. At least there was one good thing about her in in this introduction- her mother made Jackie look cultured and refined. But she did have one thing right. The Doctor DOES need companions to protect him from his true self.

I'm just over hear waiting impatiently for Season 4. :)

Ah, Christmas in London - shirtsleeve weather, blue skies, temperatures in the high 80s by the looks of it, all the trees in bloom. There's nothing like it. No, literally, there's nothing like it. The fact it's clearly July or August does take me out of this one a bit but it never seems to bother anyone else, so it's just me being nerdy. Casually, you know. You're one of the few who like Donna right out of the church. Great judge of character, she's just what the (D)octor ordered.

Hi, just keep close to you the following These events happened right after he said good bye to Rose for that is why he looks so cold and full of pain and did not move from there until Donna told him to do it. That is very important please keep it on your mind. ❤❤

I saw something at the end there. I get it. I see you :)

I would have pockets in my wedding dress.

All I can think of now is....knock knock knock knock...

Another great pairing of Tenant and Tate is the 2017 Ducktales reboot (though Catherine doesn't show up until the 2nd season- but steals pretty much every scene she's in.) Somewhat similar to Dr Who insofar as it's a kids show enjoyable by adults.

DONNA!!!!

The actress for the Racnoss Empress actually really hated the makeup! She was on Doctor Who confidential or some other show at one point and mentioned how it was really hard for her to move, speak or see. She kept biting herself, the prosthetics were hot and all the shouting hurt her throat. However, if I am remembering rightly, she also said she gave it her all because it was an honour to be cast as a villain on the show!

Catherine Tate has (or had, it's been a while) a skit show where she plays a badly behaved high school student named Lauren Cooper. I HIGHLY recommend reacting to the one where David Tennant appears as a guest. If you Google "Lauren Cooper David Tennant" it should show up.

The Doctor and Donna, the best Dynamic Dou.

Donna is the absolute best.

No spoilers - but Donna is the best companion ever!!

Great episode.

The Racnoss are a new creation for this story, and are not in any Classic Who story.

I think when time Lords get married I think their wedding dresses have pockets. That's why the doctor think it's dumb idea to get married in an outfit with no pockets

Actually there is a theory that Mary Poppins IS actually a time lord... and also that shes the oppsite of Pennywise, but thats JUST A THEORY

I love Donna. She's a great one-off companion. Totally not coming back. What nonsense are you talking about? As for the actress you mentioned, there will be an explanation how Freema Agyeman returns in the next episode. The information is very casually dropped. Another mention of Mr. Saxon here by whoever is piloting the tank. Saxon was previously mentioned in a newspaper in Love & Monsters.

Love the classic shirt. Where did you get it?

I absolutely thought this was like a Power Rangers villain. So glad someone else thought so.

Welcome to the Christmas specials.

I love how Donna is decidedly unimpressed by being in a time and space machine. Very not Rose.

Such a great pairing! It’s really too bad that she didn’t stick around

You asked if we might be the aliens/invaders. Well, the Silurians would say so.

Donna Noble has been saved.

Frequently when Doctor casts an actor and likes them they bring them back. It's usually at least a year later and not as the same character. This also happened in American television (Wagon Train, Rawhide, Gunsmoke, Star Trek...) but not so much lately. Let's face it Britain's not that big so chances are we're going to see familiar actors (Catherine Tate for instance) some time or the other. The head cat nurse in New Earth is playing another character in the next episode but it's not even noriceable because of the makeup.

15:00 No, we're going to seperate one side of his head, from the other. Then his shoulders. Then his torso. And finally, his legs. Via two forklifts. Okay.. maybe that was too much.