![]() One of Winslet's first acting roles was in the BBC teen drama Dark Season, written by Davies. Casting įor the role of River Song, whom producer Russell T Davies describes as "sort of the Doctor's wife", the production sought to cast Kate Winslet. Josh and Ella, Donna's two children in the computer-generated world, were named after Steven Moffat's son and his son's friend. "Forest of the Dead" was initially announced under the title "River's Run", before its name was changed relatively late in production. The name "squareness gun" was coined by Rose Tyler in the earlier episode. Moffat suggests that it was left in the TARDIS after " The Parting of the Ways", and taken by River Song in the Doctor's future. Charlotte assures her that the simulation is now a "good place" where she will be safe as the Doctor fixed the data core.Īccording to Steven Moffat, the squareness gun used by Professor River Song to help the party escape from the Vashta Nerada at the beginning of the episode is intended to be the same sonic blaster that was used by Jack Harkness in the episode " The Doctor Dances". River wakes up in the Earth simulation and is greeted by Charlotte and River's team members who had fallen victim to the Vashta Nerada. The Doctor saves her pattern to the core. He finds a data recorder inside the mechanism which has preserved River's thought pattern. ![]() As the Doctor and Donna leave behind River's diary and sonic screwdriver, the Doctor wonders why his future self would give River his screwdriver. Lee is unable to call out to Donna as he leaves. ![]() The patrons stored inside the computer rematerialise on the Library surface, where they teleport away to safety. River knocks him out and takes his place, insisting that the Doctor's death now would prevent her meeting him in her own past. The Doctor prepares to hook himself to the computer terminal, aware this will likely kill him. The Vashta Nerada allow the Doctor one day to free the people trapped in the computer core, including Donna, after which the Library will belong to them. In the core, the Doctor learns from the Vashta Nerada their forests were used to create the books of the Library. The Vashta Nerada inhabit the suit as shown at the Doctor Who Experience. Aware that time is skipping, Donna is alerted by Miss Evangelista, one of River's team members killed by the Vashta Nerada, that she is in a simulation. Within the simulation of a contemporary Earth village, Donna is tended to by Dr Moon (an avatar of the virus checker program) and introduced to Lee, whom she marries. The Doctor realises Charlotte's mind is struggling to cope after "saving" the thousands of patrons by transferring their physical forms to the computer core 100 years ago when the Vashta Nerada attacked. Lux's grandfather had a giant computer constructed at the core of the Library to allow Charlotte's mind to live on among the collected works of humankind. During a respite, Lux explains that the Library was constructed by his grandfather for Lux's aunt, Charlotte, who was diagnosed with an incurable disease at a young age. ![]() Other team members are consumed by the Vashta Nerada, their space suits animated by the swarms. The Tenth Doctor, River, Strackman Lux, and the remainder of their team flee the microscopic Vashta Nerada on a planet-sized Library. The episode also features the death of River Song ( Alex Kingston), an archaeologist who has a close relationship with the Doctor, but because of the non-linearity of this partnership, the Doctor in the episode has only just met River. At the same time, another time traveller, the Tenth Doctor ( David Tennant), seeks to rescue Donna, and thousands of other humans saved inside the library hard drive while being pursued by the microscopic swarm called Vashta Nerada. ![]() In the episode, the time-travelling temp Donna Noble ( Catherine Tate) is trapped inside a virtual reality in a planet-sized library's hard drive in the 51st century and has false memories implanted of a married life. It is the second of a two-part story the first part, " Silence in the Library", aired on 31 May. It was first broadcast by BBC One on 7 June 2008. " Forest of the Dead" is the ninth episode of the fourth series of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. List of Doctor Who episodes (2005–present) ![]()
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