It's funny because I just wrote a fic expressing my distaste for her ending. Donna was the most annoying person when she first appeared in TRB and then in Season 4, we saw her develop from this small-minded selfish woman who missed ALL the alien invasions to this compassionate, best friend there ever was for the Doctor and universe-saving Human/Time Lord hybrid.
And then it all got taken away.
That totally blew.
I'm a D/R shipper all the way and I was so so sad at JE when Ten manfully left 10.5 with Rose, but you know what? At least she got to keep a memento of her time with the Doctor.
Did Donna? Noooo. I honestly cried more in her scene than I did in his parting with Rose.
So I think that what RTD wrote in was good for emotional impact, it just sucked.
I feel odd with Donna because I think I preferred her in her first episode before she mellowed. (I call it that, but in some ways it feels like she got rebooted as a slightly different character.)
I loved her in her first episode. But I think she was under immense stress in "The Runaway Bride" (apparently kidnapped by a skinny Martian in a weird box, abducted by robot Santas, forced to jump for her life on the motorway, and missing her wedding), so if she was a little calmer in "Partners in Crime," I think that made sense.
Plus, by the time that we got back to Donna in PiC, she had spent however long looking for the Doctor and investigating weird alien things. She'd found a purpose in life when she didn't have that earlier.
I remember fuh-reaking out after Donnas first episode knowing she was the next companion, I hated her sooooooo hard. But she became my favorite companion of all (tied with River maybe).
The writing was good, but I'll never forgive them for it!
I think that honestly, it was one of the worst things that could happen to any companion, really- to have all that time where you have all that characterization and development, just taken away? That's horrible since she takes so many steps back and comes away from the Doctor with nothing. It's like her entire time with the Doctor might not have even happened at all.
She'd never know how much more she had been, how much more she could be, and after just flaunting us with what potential she did have...well. It broke my heart.
It's funny because I just wrote a fic expressing my distaste for her ending. Donna was the most annoying person when she first appeared in TRB and then in Season 4, we saw her develop from this small-minded selfish woman who missed ALL the alien invasions to this compassionate, best friend there ever was for the Doctor and universe-saving Human/Time Lord hybrid.
And then it all got taken away.
That totally blew.
I'm a D/R shipper all the way and I was so so sad at JE when Ten manfully left 10.5 with Rose, but you know what? At least she got to keep a memento of her time with the Doctor.
Did Donna? Noooo. I honestly cried more in her scene than I did in his parting with Rose.
So I think that what RTD wrote in was good for emotional impact, it just sucked.
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And then the writers took it all away *glares*
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The writing was good, but I'll never forgive them for it!
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She'd never know how much more she had been, how much more she could be, and after just flaunting us with what potential she did have...well. It broke my heart.
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