History Recap / DoctorWhoS30E11TurnLeft

* PuttingOnTheReich: The '''British government''' seems to do this, if Wilfred's comments when the Colasantos are taken away are to be believed:
-->'''Wilf:''' Labour camps. That's what they called them last time.\\
'''Donna:''' ... what d'you mean?\\
'''Wilf:''' It's happening again.\\
'''Donna:''' What is?\\
''[cut to the perpetually optimistic Mr. Colasanto, who is hugging his wife and breaking down in tears as they are hauled away]''

'''Original air date:''' June 21, 2008

'''Production code:''' 4.11

Written by Creator/RussellTDavies.

** And then after all the above, [[ApocalypseHow/ClassX3 the stars start to visibly blink out across the night sky]], with the following two episodes revealing this is part of a greater ApocalypseHow/ClassX5 instigated by the Daleks.

** [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome This episode shows what would happen]] if ''Series/DoctorWho''-level disasters were common in an otherwise familiar human world. It shows the level of human suffering, death, economic depression, and downright boredom that would result if the Doctor weren't there to stop every last one of them, resulting in the aforementioned CrapsackWorld.

* AbstractEater: The Time Beetle. According to Rose and the Doctor, it's a member of the Trickster's Brigade; they feed off of time by changing a life in tiny ways, such as meetings never made, children never born, or a love never loved. The universe usually compensates around it, but in Donna's case it creates an entire parallel world.

** The Doctor from the second Donna tells him that the woman who warned her about the stars going out was blonde. Then it gets worse not once [[note]]“She said two words[…]Bad Wolf”[[/note]], but twice [[note]]The Doctor runs out of the tent to see every written word in sight has been replaced with “Bad Wolf” including the TARDIS herself[[/note]]

** The Doctor from the second Donna tells him that the woman who warned her about the stars going out was blonde. Then it gets worse not once [[note]]“She said two words[…]Bad Wolf”[[/note]], but twice [[note]]The Doctor runs out of the tent to see every written word in sight has been replaced with “Bad Wolf” [i]including the the words on the TARDIS[/i][[/note]]

** The Doctor from the second Donna mentions that Rose was blonde. Then it gets worse not once, but twice.

** Rose basically stands in for the Doctor in this episode, including the dimensional comings and goings, name obfuscation, misplaced enthusiasm, {{technobabble}} and hints of an OmniscientMoralityLicense, but it's hard for someone else to pull this off and still be likeable.

* BestOfAllPossibleWorlds: The alternate universe in this episode is very much a worse place. We have it created when Donna [[ForWantOfANail turns right]], which causes the Doctor to die under the Thames Barrier when he defeats the Racnoss because Donna wasn't there to stop him. Several contemporary attacks on Earth cause mass casualties, and/or wipe out several of the Doctor's allies (including Martha, whom he never met here). Naturally, Donna sets her timeline back on its proper course at the end of the episode.

* ForWantOfANail: Donna turns right instead of left, and the whole world — probably the whole universe — changes.

* TakeThat: Donna's family and the soundtrack both treat moving to Leeds [[FauxHorrific as a horrible fate]]. Creator/RussellTDavies considers rival northern city Manchester as his second home.

** And then after all the above, [[ApocalypseHow/ClassX3 the stars start to visibly blink out across the night sky]], with the following two episodes revealing this is part of a greater pocalypseHow/ClassX5 instigated by the Daleks.

* ApocalypseHow: In the AlternateTimeline, the fallout of the various alien crises' alternate resolutions (or lack thereof) without the Doctor's intervention escalate into a ApocalypseHow/Class1 within two years. Britain ends up under permanent martial law with the whole of Southern England flooded with radiation after the ''Titanic'' obliterates London, the many who are displaced from this are crowded into designated houses, and eventually the new emergency government pass an "[[ANaziByAnyOtherName England for the English]]" Law. Never mind France closing its borders after getting overwhelmed with refugees, or sixty million of America's population getting turned into Adipose.