The Women of Doctor Who Page #3

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in "Doctor Who," was

in Russell's very brilliant

"Army of Ghosts" and "Doomsday,"

was Yvonne Hartman,

who, at that point,

runs Torchwood.

Yvonne Hartman was

a great character to play

because she was neither

a victim nor a villain.

One isn't quite sure

how to place her.

She's kind of

that businessminded lady

of the 1980s,

where it's all about

just, you know,

becoming

the most powerful.

I always remember

Russell T. Davies,

who wrote those episodes,

calling me up and saying,

"When you're

approaching Yvonne,

"I want you to think

of a woman

"that has amazing

interactive skills,

"she has charm,

"but she has absolute,

steely determination

to get what she wants."

Welcome...

to Torchwood.

That's

a Jathar Sunglider.

Came down to Earth

off the Shetland Islands

10 years ago.

What, did it crash?

No, we shot it down.

It violated our airspace.

Then we stripped it bare.

Yvonne had charm oozing

out of every pore, but she

wouldn't hesitate to shoot

you in the back of the neck

to get what she wanted

in a heartbeat.

The Torchwood Institute

has a motto --

"If it's alien,

it's ours."

Anything that comes

from the sky,

we strip it down

and we use it

for the good of

the British Empire.

For the good

of the what?

The British Empire.

There isn't

a British Empire.

Not yet.

She's so focused on being

the most powerful nation

that she forgets that

it's actually going to

mess things up

for all of humanity.

Yvonne Heartman don't

give a crap, you know?

She just knows

what she wants,

she knows what she

thinks is right,

she's going to

freaking do it.

Cancel it.

I don't think so.

I'm warning you,

cancel it.

Oh, exactly as the

legends would have it.

The Doctor,

lording it over us,

assuming alien authority

over the rights of man.

She seems to think

that she knows more

than the Doctor

and this eventually leads

to a void opening

and the Earth

being attacked simultaneously

by Cybermen and Daleks.

You just kind of want to shake

her around the shoulders

and be like

"listen to the Doctor!

He makes everything okay.

Just listen to him."

And she refuses.

And then she becomes

a Cyberman.

Just one.

We will retreat

through the breach,

regain the homeworld.

You will not pass.

What is the meaning

of this?

She becomes

a Cyberman

and then realizes

what she's done

and starts taking out

all the other Cybermen

while crying

those black tears,

like she's

a goth girl.

I did my duty for

Queen and country.

She acts autonomously

and independently

and manages to save

the entire world

and has one oily tear

that runs down her face.

I think

it's very funny,

but sad

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