Freedom; Fic; Donna

[ameretrifle]

Free. And still the worst judge of my own work ever. ("An e-mail... saying she was impressed with my final? But... I thought I was half-assing that. How in the hell...?") Of course, keeping that in mind's gonna help me during the ficathon I recklessly joined. "Maybe this fic isn't a shame upon my family's honor for which I will have to commit

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[nina_ds]

Drive-by post, because I really should be concentrating on Other Things (like work) at the moment, but I wanted to comment on your last couple of paragraphs.

I understand exactly what you mean. I'm caught in a real bind. I love Donna to bits. And part of it is because she calls Ten on his shit, but not all of it - some of her best scenes in this latest episode actually came away from him. But I don't want her stuck with him.

I don't really want to see him rehabilitated. I want him to be the same person who committed the crimes so there's still the possibility he can be punished for them.

I agree. I read a post last night that almost made me nauseous, where someone was pointing out that Ten was overwriting and co-opting Nine's arc. Now, it wasn't because this hadn't occurred to me, because I said the same thing in my post on "Fires of Pompeii", but that fandom was seeing that was painful. Essentially, Nine healed and died for Rose - and Ten, in a way - and Ten regenerated as an ass. He gets redemption and adoration from throngs of easily-pleased fans, whereas Nine - a much superior character, a better person, and God knows a better actor - is diminished to redundancy. GRRRRRRR.

Have you watched the new Robin Hood? BTW, if you're looking for a good Robin Hood, I strongly recommend this.

[ameretrifle]

Oh, good. ^^ I am going to try to catch "Fires of Pompeii" this week (I'm pretty sure that's the one that's showing)-- granted, the main reason I missed "Partners in Crime" last week was because I was asleep, god only knows why; but I really am finding S4 hard to even approach. RTD's had enough prior success at defying even my lowest expectations; if it should actually be fairly good, and my expectations should creep up higher in spite of myself, well-- that could be a hell of a crash, and once was more than enough for me, thanks. Maybe he's learned something. Even flatworms can learn things. About this quickly, too.

I've started wondering-- if Ten were suddenly written better, and Tennant dropped all of his most annoying mannerisms, would that be enough for me to forgive him, or would I have to have some sort of comeuppance as well? And would that be a bad thing?...

Ten was overwriting and co-opting Nine's arc -- this is why it's probably a bad idea for me to start with 'Fires of Pompeii'. x.x Though from what I've heard, I doubt there's any less of it in any other episode. I doubt I have the emotional maturity to take that gracefully. And I think there's probably a finite number of fics written for the sole purpose of beating up Ten that I can get away with. (I was astonished enough when I got away with one. That might be the limit.)

The new Robin Hood-- I tried the first episode, as I recall, but it didn't exactly catch my attention. Not in any favorable way, at least. Can't even remember why exactly at the moment. Was it pacing issues, or campy in the wrong ways? *shakes head* Been too long. I don't know what about the promos has been making me nervous-- my best guess is that my conditioned reflexes toward Tennant have generalized to include any cheeky British prettyboy making wisecracks about how awesome he is. (In Tennant's case, I use the word 'prettyboy' advisedly.) 'Robin Hood' probably doesn't deserve it, though I did think I saw the Sheriff of Nottingham wearing sequins and delivering a terribly campy villain speech-- so, revise that-- even if Robin Hood does happen to deserve it, I don't think I'm reacting to it for its own sake. I'm just irritated at this hold they still have over my psyche. I'm not going to allow it.

[nina_ds]

Another quickie you might enjoy: This pinged my Google alert this morning.