Yes, various people have ranted about that over here. It would have added all of ten seconds, but was CRUCIAL character introduction/development. It really makes you believe and understand him at the end of the episode when Donna asks, 'Would you rather be on your own?' and he says, 'No. Actually no.' Without that scene, you don't really get it. You don't really get him, and potential viewers who may have just tuned in to watch this for the first time won't get that emotional connect with the Doctor.
And then scifi they cut out Donna's scenes at the end of FoP. I think scifi looks at an ep and edits according to what they think is needed for the plot development of any particular episode. They don't seem to care about long range character arcs at all. Which is really stupid, 'cause who actually watches Doctor Who for the crack plot? Really?
But I've heard that the first couple of Who episodes have been a few minutes longer than normal, and that future eps will be down to 42/43 minutes, so maybe SciFi will stop hacking up Doctor Who.
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And then scifi they cut out Donna's scenes at the end of FoP. I think scifi looks at an ep and edits according to what they think is needed for the plot development of any particular episode. They don't seem to care about long range character arcs at all. Which is really stupid, 'cause who actually watches Doctor Who for the
crackplot? Really?But I've heard that the first couple of Who episodes have been a few minutes longer than normal, and that future eps will be down to 42/43 minutes, so maybe SciFi will stop hacking up Doctor Who.