Yeah. Two Posts.

This post will be devoted solely to me ripping apart my bad predictions for the end of Doctor Who season 4. I wasn't right at all except when I said Donna had to go back in time and fix something-she did but it wasn't the Medusa Cascade like I thought.

Donna and the Doctor are at a carnival and she goes into a fortune teller's place. The fortune teller gets a really big beetle attached to her (really bad looking rubber beetle that wasn't the slightest bit convincing in the effects department) that apparently can influence decisions made in the past-in this case, the decision whether she turns the car left to go to HC Clemens or whether she goes right and gets the high-paying job her mother wants her to get.

If Donna Noble never meets the Doctor, apparently the entire planet suffers. Donna from that parallel universe winds up tossing herself in front of a truck just to get her past self to go left.

Most of the episode is devoted to that parallel universe that's created. Rose pops up as disaster begins to ensue, because the Doctor dies fighting the Racnoss when Donna doesn't stop him. There's nothing to stop the Titanic crashing down on London; nothing to stop the Adipose from exploding out of people in America (England's had nuclear fallout from the Titanic's engines).

Rose dips in and out here, mysterious and not even saying her name to Donna (who's going to figure it out in about ten seconds next ep, especially if she gets a look at his face.) The Doctor almost went through the roof (fear or terror or was that hope?) when Donna said Bad Wolf and at the end it's splashed everywhere (and I mean EVERYWHERE)-what the hell have Rose and the Time Vortex been doing?

Oh, and his ship is all red inside again like it was last year. A paradox created? Where and how and who's going to have to pay for it? And the Cloister bell was going off. These, people, are NOT good things. They mean trouble. They mean war. They mean his TARDIS is probably going to light on fire from all the bad things.

But the Doctor's still alive (although technically he never died because the mistake in time was reversed, so I don't know where he goes off to next episode. It looks like EVERYONE is coming in from ALL the spinoffs...aren't things going to be crowded? Let's see:

Gwen
Ianto
Jack
Sarah-Jane and her kids
Donna
Rose
Jackie Tyler
Mickey
Jake?
Pete?
Martha

Geez.

It appears the Daleks have invaded Earth, presumably under the orders of the Red Dalek and Davros. I caught a glimpse of Gwen and Ianto shooting and shooting at the damned things, plus the full-scale invasion fleet of a size that we haven't seen since Season 1's end.

Will the Doctor and Rose be reunited? She seemed to know a hell of a lot about a hell of a lot, so Rose has either been time-traveling without the Doctor or she's got something to hide (I betcha she has special powers...)

Does Rose have powers left over from the Time Vortex?

Is Rose doomed?(forget Donna. She's already died once. Are they going to kill her AGAIN?)

Do the bees and planets vanishing have anything to do with this? (Donna's mum seemed to think so)

Did the Ood prediction of the song ending for the Doctor come true two episodes ago with River’s death, will it come true here, or is that prediction coming true later?

Is Pete Tyler dead?

What about Rose’s sibling?

What’s up with the constant Medusa Cascade references? The Master referred to it last year. Evelina brought it up when she said the Doctor's name was hidden in the Pompeii episode. The Doctor himself mentioned taking Donna to a moon in it somewhere in one of the Sontaran episodes. And then he threw it out there again in episode 10 when talking to Skye.

Davies has said this is a big part of what's happening, and since the Medusa Cascade is a time rift that the Doctor closed up some time ago, it's important and I still don't know why...