Just wait until you see episode 4x13. Oh, I cried
Are you fucking kidding me? No, really, are you fucking kidding me?
What the hell did Donna ever do to RTD to deserve such a fate? She has her memory completely wiped of everything she's ever done with the Doctor, yet Rose gets to live happily ever after with the Doctor 2.0? What the fucking fuck?
I'm just a little bitter about this turn of events.
Other than that, I really enjoyed the episode. Because I was completely unspoiled (with the exception of knowing that CT wasn't returning) for the episode, there was lots of gasps and "Oh my god!"s while I watched.
I loved the DoctorDonna. Yeah, maybe it was a little Mary Sueish, but I don't care. Especially since she got such a crap ending.
I really thought they were going to go somewhere with the fact that Donna really doesn't believe she's good enough, that all her bluster hides a scared woman who doesn't think she deserves something as awesome as traveling with the Doctor. They've made a point a mentioning it in the past couple of eps, and then they totally dropped the ball, returning to what she was before she met the Doctor.
Wilf broke my heart. "She's better with you." OMG! That's when I truly started to bawl. Because it's true. Davros was wrong, the Doctor doesn't turn people into soldiers, he makes them better and see that there are things in the world worth fighting and dying for.
The Doctor made Donna better. Not by letting her travel with him, but by believing in her when she couldn't believe in herself.
Crap. I am totally going to cry again.
supermom20 and I spent the afternoon fanwanking the ending. I will totally be retconning this ending with fic. It's going to be my coping mechanism.