Jenny (Doctor Who)

] "Newsround"'s Lizo Mzimba opines that Moffett's appearance as Jenny is "superb",cite web|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/newsid_7380000/newsid_7384100/7384109.stm|title= Lizo reviews sixth episode of Dr Who|work=Newsround|publisher=BBC|first=Lizo|last=Mzimba|date=2008-05-05|accessdate=2008-05-12] while "Doctor Who" producer Phil Collinson has hailed the introduction of Jenny as the Doctor's daughter: "One of the best pre-title sequences we've ever had." Despite reviewing the episode "The Doctor's Daughter" poorly as a whole, "Digital Spy's" Ben Rawson-Jones argues that Jenny "deserved a stronger narrative context for her debut", and that Georgia Moffett portrayed the character with "the right spirit, arrogance and compassion that befits a sprog of the Time Lord."cite web|url=http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/cult/a95636/s04e06-the-doctors-daughter.html|title= S04E06: 'The Doctor's Daughter'|publisher=Digital Spy|first=Ben|last=Rawson-Jones|accessdate=2008-05-12]

Ian Berriman, writing for "SFX", is somewhat more critical of the character, stating: "we’re not given much time to get to know Jenny (and you always suspect she’s a redshirt), so her “death” is not as affecting as it could have been."cite web|url=http://www.sfx.co.uk/page/sfx?entry=tv_review_doctor_who_45|title=TV REVIEW: Doctor Who 4.6 "The Doctor's Daughter"|work=SFX|publisher=Future Publishing|first=Ian|last=Berriman|date=2008-05-10|accessdate=2008-05-11] "The Stage's" Mark Wright is similarly critical of the character and her conception, writing: "I’ll admit to feeling cheated that she isn’t the real thing and it’s a bit of techno-gubbins malarkey to give the Doctor something to emote against. I don’t quite buy the bond that springs up between the Doctor and Georgia Moffett’s Jenny (a name she is given rather quickly). She is a genetically engineered soldier with military tactics and skills programmed in, and knows what to do with a gun, much to the Doctor’s horror. But why does he care, she isn’t really his daughter?"cite web|url=http://blogs.thestage.co.uk/tvtoday/2008/05/doctor-who-46-the-doctors-daughter/|title=Doctor Who 4.6: The Doctor's Daughter|publisher="The Stage"|first=Mark|last=Wright|date=2008-05-11|accessdate=2008-05-11]

Anderson, Berriman, Wright, and "The Times"' Andrew Billen all speculate that the character is likely to return to the series in the future,cite web|url=http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/tv_and_radio/article3904023.ece|title=Russia: Journey with Jonathan Dimbleby; Doctor Who; Forbidden City|publisher="The Times"|first=Andrew|last=Billen|date=2008-05-12|accessdate=2008-05-12] with Anderson assessing that the episode's ending left "vast scope" for the return of the character in her own spin-off: "Moffett herself has the obvious credentials due to her real-life dad, and she’s certainly young, attractive and athletic enough to cross quite a few barriers in viewer demographics."cite web|url=http://www.denofgeek.com/television/52545/a_new_female_doctor_who.html|title=A new, female Doctor Who?|work=Den of Geek!|publisher=Dennis Publishing|first=Martin|last=Anderson|date=2008-05-10|accessdate=2008-05-12] Billen adds: "If Jenny [...] does not spin off into, at least, her own comic books, I shall be surprised."

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