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** While in the mainframe, Dr. Moon causes Donna to forget her reality with the Doctor, going around with a seemingly normal life but a lingering sense that something is off. [[spoiler: After Donna gets mind-wiped in "Journey's End", her life for the next 15 years ends up resembling the virtual reality life -- an overall sense of happiness, but with the lingering feeling that something is missing.]]

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** While in the mainframe, Dr. Moon causes Donna to forget her reality with the Doctor, going around with a seemingly normal life but a lingering sense that something is off. off and knowing she's forgotten something. [[spoiler: After Donna gets mind-wiped in "Journey's End", her life for the next 15 years ends up resembling the virtual reality life -- an overall sense of happiness, but with the lingering feeling that something is missing.missing and knowing she's forgotten something.]]

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* HarsherInHindsight: The episode ends with River Song making a HeroicSacrifice. At the time, it's pretty sad, but we don't really feel much connection to her since she'd only just been introduced. But as the show continues, we find out more about her and her relationship with the Doctor, and that first episode becomes simply heartbreaking to watch... especially once you realize the Doctor himself should have mourned her death far more than he did, it was just unlucky chance that he didn't know her when she died.
* HeartwarmingInHindsight: Donna is absolutely heartbroken to lose her children and husband, even if she believes they weren't real. Over a year later in "End of Time Part 2" she did manage to get married, and 15 years later in "The Star Beast", she is shown with a grown-up daughter.

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* HarsherInHindsight: HarsherInHindsight:
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The episode ends with River Song making a HeroicSacrifice. At the time, it's pretty sad, but we don't really feel much connection to her since she'd only just been introduced. But as the show continues, we find out more about her and her relationship with the Doctor, and that first episode becomes simply heartbreaking to watch... especially once you realize the Doctor himself should have mourned her death far more than he did, it was just unlucky chance that he didn't know her when she died.
** While in the mainframe, Dr. Moon causes Donna to forget her reality with the Doctor, going around with a seemingly normal life but a lingering sense that something is off. [[spoiler: After Donna gets mind-wiped in "Journey's End", her life for the next 15 years ends up resembling the virtual reality life -- an overall sense of happiness, but with the lingering feeling that something is missing.]]
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Donna is absolutely heartbroken to lose her children and husband, even if she believes they weren't real. Over a year later in "End of Time Part 2" [[spoiler: she did manage to get married, married,]] and 15 years later in "The Star Beast", [[spoiler: she is shown with a grown-up daughter.daughter and a husband who adores her, just as Lee did.]]
** The DVD writer commentary indicates that in the first draft of the script, Lee would have been revealed to be transgender (assigned female at birth). [[spoiler: Donna ends up having a transgender daughter (assigned male at birth) in canon in "The Star Beast"]].
** River talks about her final night with her Doctor to see the Singing Towers of Darillium. [[spoiler: "The Husbands of River Song" reveals that night to have lasted 24 Earth years.]]


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