When we first met Donna Noble, in the closing moments of 2006’s Doomsday, she was about to get married to Lance Bennett, who was perfectly lovely– if you overlook the fact that he spent months systematically spiking Donna’s coffee to turn her into a human key and unleash a dormant race of man-eating alien spiders.
In 2008’s Forest of the Dead, Donna had married Lee, with whom she had children, and life was utterly idyllic – except that the children weren’t real, the entire world was a simulation, and in reality, Lee’s stutter prevented him from letting Donna know he truly existed.