Turn Left: Who was the fortune teller?

[RoJoHen]

Was this ever explained? Who was that fortune teller? Why did she know who Donna was? And why did she want to prevent Donna from meeting the Doctor, therefore leading to his death?

 

[captcalhoun]

she was a member of the Trickster's Brigade according to the Doctor

 

[Starkers]

Chan--I have no idea--Tho

 

[Admiral_Young]

^ Yep that was the actress...and yes it was someone from the Trickster's Brigade as mentioned before.

 

[Stevil2001]

She wasn't specifically after Donna/the Doctor-- the Time Beetle just derived its power from changing history, and they lucked out by finding someone who could make a particularly big change.

 

[Starkers]

She really did ham up her evilness, I'm amazed Donna went anywhere near her!

 

[RoJoHen]

She wasn't specifically after Donna/the Doctor-- the Time Beetle just derived its power from changing history, and they lucked out by finding someone who could make a particularly big change.

Hmm, I guess she just seemed to be very concerned with targeting Donna specifically. Maybe not.

 

[Stevil2001]

She probably does that to every gullible-looking tourist who walks by. But as I recall, she has some kind of exclamation of surprise when she realizes about Donna and her connection to the Doctor.

 

[RoJoHen]

I didn't think it was her connection to the Doctor that surprised her, more that for some reason she was able to combat the effects of the time beetle thing. Maybe I read too much into it, but that's how it seemed to me.

 

[Stevil2001]

Oh, I rewatched where I thought that was, and I was misremembering. But at the end, the Doctor says: "It got lucky, this thing. Changes your life in tiny little ways. Most of the time the universe just compensates around it." It wasn't looking for something big.

 

[Cutter John]

So basically she was the beetles partner or slave. Helping to lure in victims for it. I didn't see her act as so much evil as it was a character putting on a mysterious fortune teller act.

 

[David cgc]

She probably had some kind of sixth sense that told her Donna was good mark, that she had a single moment that could've altered her life utterly. It didn't tell her that it'd break the universe if she did, though.

 

[23skidoo]

She probably had some kind of sixth sense that told her Donna was good mark, that she had a single moment that could've altered her life utterly. It didn't tell her that it'd break the universe if she did, though.

No, I think the Trickster set it all up. The Whatever Happened to Sarah Jane episode was very obviously a trial run for what the Trickster had in mind for the Doctor. And when it flopped, he went back to targeting smaller fry like Sarah Jane!

Alex