Everyone's favourite Gallifreyan Timelord has faced some real terrors over the years - Sontarans, Sea Devils, Daleks and CyberMen to name but a few. He's even survived the BBC losing faith and cancelling him for years, only for the good Doctor to bounce back onto our screens in spectacular fashion thanks to Christopher Ecclestone's 'fantastic!' performance. Sadly, it seems that the latest menace to threaten our time-travelling hero could finish him off completely - or, as is more likely, totally kill off his audience.
The latest foe doesn't have lasers, disintegrator rays or employ inanimate objects to do its bidding. It doesn't even have its own spacecraft or ability to turn invisible, fly or transport from one place to another. What this dreadful creature has is far more terrifying - red hair, moles and the most appalling screechy voice. Some believe her to be the Doctor's latest companion, but she is in fact the living embodiment of just about everything you don't need in Doctor Who - a sidekick who thinks she's funny and 'doing the show a favour' by being in it.
Some point the finger of blame directly at Russell T. Davis as head writer of the show's latest incarnation, while others feel it may actually be The Master exerting his evil presence from beyond the grave to inflict as much misery as possible on David Tennant. Either way, it appears that tens of thousands of the show's once-faithful fans took one look at Donna, said 'Am I bovvered' and immediately switched off. It is hoped the Doctor will employ his sonic screwdriver to eradicate the titian travesty or perhaps even land the TARDIS on her head, but one thing's for sure - no amount of regeneration will bring the fans back after this cosmic catastrophe.
