A Meme of Her Own Making
Happy New Year, friends and listers!
I felt like posting about the new Sherlock, but I haven't actually watched it yet - I'm struck in that awkward rut where you REALLY WANT TO WATCH but also don't want to ruin a moderately good thing.
So, instead, I've been making a list of 15 Favourite Characters Ever and let me tell you, it was very harrrrd. ( Read more... )
I felt like posting about the new Sherlock, but I haven't actually watched it yet - I'm struck in that awkward rut where you REALLY WANT TO WATCH but also don't want to ruin a moderately good thing.
So, instead, I've been making a list of 15 Favourite Characters Ever and let me tell you, it was very harrrrd. ( Read more... )
Okay. So, Donna is my favourite character in the UNIVERSE (beating Buffy by a narrow margin).
She's just so powerful, basically. She starts out as a sitcom comic relief character. The Nagging Secretary. Actually, she starts out by that terrifying creature we must all shun and must never become: a Desperate Woman. Desperate for a shag, for respect and money and tenderness.
Then, by the power of personal awesomeness alone, she finds sentient fat and thereby transforms the genre of her life from bleak office dramedy to kooky sci-fi. The Doctor just provides the props. Then, by the second episode, she makes the show cease being "The floppy-haired deity and his long-suffering assistant" and becomes "The Donna Show (with some skinny bloke emoting in the background)". She's a hero, with heroic choices and heroic character development, and awesome morality and blazing empathy and sexy common sense. She kills herself for the greater good and saves individuals when she can't save worlds.
And the thing is, no, she doesn't need the Doctor for this, not at all. She failed to have ~Grand Adventures~ when she was still cobwebbed by desperation, because sometimes in life you really just can't do better than a dusty trip to Egypt - but, actually, then she kept working on it, starting to pay attention to the world, chasing down the sentient fat, basically, being the only linear Companion who finds the Doctor instead of vice versa.
I didn't like the ending. I don't think anybody did. In my headcanon, she's off in alt!verse being a Time Lady (with alt!Doctor and Rose as her adoring if somewhat dim Companions). But I don't think she's better of dead or doomed for a life of empty sitcomhood - because wherever she goes, the universe will, slowly, accept the fact that she is awesome, because she shall shape her fate accordingly.
(And, incidentally, the husband and the money help with no longer being desperate. They don't make up for anything, but they - level things out, lessen the horrible drumbeat of failure - and in that silence, she will be able to build empires.)
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