Confusion about DW finale ire

[arabian]

Being completely honest, I'm really confused and surprised by the amount of anger I'm reading over two aspects of the Doctor Who finale.

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[the_spin]

I was sad about Donna, but I honestly wasn't expecting her story to end happily at all, and this is why: Donna was awesome. The writing for Donna was fantastic and they made her an incredible character, and that IMMEDIATELY told me she was headed for disaster. I think if they hadn't planned such a tragic end for her she wouldn't have ended up nearly as fabulous as she did, because the production team wouldn't have been striving as hard to make everyone love her (case in point: Martha).

And because of that I'm okay with the ending, because it gave us a season of Donna Noble being a totally amazing awesome BFF to the Doctor which I really doubt we'd have gotten otherwise.

I'm less happy about the Doctor/Rose ending, but mostly because I thought it was awkwardly scripted and shot, and I can't believe the fucking Confidential had better kiss footage than the actual episode.

And I was a little irked by the human!Doctor thing, but not for the reason most of the fandom is, I think. My major problem is that by making the Doctor who goes with Rose part-human, they're kind of destroying one of the things I liked best about the ship, which is all the angst about aging and cross-species weirdness, etc. I don't really want a Doctor and a Rose who get married and have kids and grow old and die together.

That's not really my happy ending, though I get why they did it. My happy ending is Rose happily living out her life with an alien Doctor, who then moves on with his life with some measure of contentment after she dies and goes on to have other adventures and other loves. I'm okay with how it played out though; I'm kind of looking forward to angsty bluesuit!Doctor fic, though not to the inevitable rash of babyfic and weddingfic.

[arabian]

I must concur on the kiss. What the hell!??! That DWConfidential kiss was so damn hot!! And Blue-Suit Doctor actually looked into it (as opposed to the one we got). Yeah, my biggest issue was the execution of that scene which I blamed mostly on Tennant in my reaction post.

Ah, don't worry, you can still get that angst because in my canon, Rose is immortal like Jack. See, if having all of that vortex "killed" the Doctor, then it totally killed Rose, but while she had the vortex in her, she was operating under that influence, like Gwyneth in "The Unquiet Dead," she was actually dead. So when the RoseTARDIS gave life, she not only gave it to Jack, she gave it to Rose too. So, Blue Suit Doctor can die, but Rose won't. So that will be years in the future with advancement that allows travel between the universes, and then immortal Rose can go looking for Time Lord Doctor and there can be a whole new barrel of angst because she's lived and loved another Doctor.

See, got it all worked out, LOL!

So need to make some kissy-face icons.

[the_spin]

Oh man, A Thousand Languages is like, one of my all time favorite Doctor/Rose fics. It's brilliant.

And I totally wrote my own happy ending series finale AU, as well. Got to make up your own canon as you go along, am I right?