David Tennant was excellent as well.
And of course Billy Piper was just wonderful to watch
Posted on 01/06/2011 4:54:33 PM PST by Grig
Actor David Tennant is to marry actress Georgia Moffett. That news is fairly straightforward, albeit devastating for several single women I know.
But the type of viewer who gets confused between actors and the televisual roles they play should just give up now. You see, the pair met during the filming of the 2008 Doctor Who episode The Doctor’s Daughter. Tennant, of course, played the Doctor, while Moffett played his daughter.
Well, sort of.
The character Jenny was in fact created by inserting the Doctor’s hand into a progeneration machine, a device that took a diploid cell (containing copies of chromosomes from both of the Doctor’s parents) and split it into haploid cells (which contain one set of chromosones), using this to create a new life form: a “daughter” who was the Doctor’s direct offspring, but did not have a mother.
(Please note that even though scientists have never achieved the exact same thing with humans or animals, Japanese researchers were able to use this haploidisation a few years ago to produce a baby mouse with two biological mothers and no father.)
However, if you thought this only left the confusion of what race the artificially created daughter of a half-human, half-Timelord has, think again.
To make things even more muddled, Moffett has a famous real-life father. No, not the Doctor Who writer (that’s Stephen Moffat), but actor Peter Davidson. As in… the fifth Doctor.
That is to say, Tennant is marrying not only his on-screen daughter, but also the real-life daughter of his on-screen former self.
We certainly wish the couple all the best. But if they go on to have a daughter, we suggest she might be better off avoiding reruns of a certain sci-fi show to spare them a major identity crisis.
The Van Gogh eppie was one of the best I’ve ever seen, almost as good as Blink or Silence In The Library.
Ed
Blink was excellent all around. Despite the problems, I liked the Winston Churchill ep. with the Daleks. I want to know more about River Song. If she can inspire fear in a Dalek, that has got to be something. Seeing a rebooted Romana has also been a hope of mine. The Master got a new lease on life and K9 came back for a bit.
Oh if on;y I could clone myself. I’d love to father myself to see if I could turn out to be less of an arse.
Yeah, the River Song meme is great! I thought K9 coming back was cool, too...and I thought the Winnie actor did a great job.
Ed
From one of my favorites, Invisible Enemy. TB had some of the best stories of any of the classic Dr. Who. City Of Death is my other top TB favorite.
No probmem. I thouk you had eatem a popsicle too fast and frozem the imside of your mouth.
She is also the real daughter of the actor who played the 5th doctor (Peter Davison — ie Peter R. Moffet)).
Tennant and Moffet met on the set while filming the Doctor’s Daughter.
It is believed she couldn’t get another job on the show because she started dating Tennant.
She has a son, but was not married before.
And of course Billy Piper was just wonderful to watch
Mo....you two wauua pmay around with metterm again.
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