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FIC: Not With a Bang, But With a Whimper

Mar 30, 2009 13:43

Title: Not With a Bang, But With a Whimper
Author: Amanda (lilianvaldemyer)
Pairing: Doctor/Donna
Word Count: 800
Rating: R
Spoilers/Warnings: Doctor Who S4. Sort-of angst, adult themes, sex that's not non-con but could be if you squint.
Disclaimer: Not mine, more's the pity. The title belongs to T.S. Eliot, in case you're unfamilar with the quote.
Summary: This ( Read more... )

pairing: doctor/donna, fanfic: doctor who

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poshlil March 30 2009, 08:40:54 UTC

I think so, yeah. I mean, here the issue isn't that he took it away, but that he was going to, and she knew he was going to (and canon!Donna knew as well, the look on her face when she begged him... oh, Donna). She worked so hard and waited so long to find him again and for him to pull that kind of stunt. It's just (if you want my honest opinion) lazy writing on RTD's part, because they characterisation up to that point was a Doctor who needed Donna in a way he hadn't needed anyone prior to her. The Thames and Pompeii are perfect examples of that. So having him wipe it all is just admitting that he couldn't be bothered, or didn't want, to write the storyline in which the Doctor moves Heaven and Earth to fix hi enormous cock-up.

The whole library episodes speak volumes really. His reaction to her 'death', the incredible lengths he went to to save her then - that's not a Doctor who'd wipe her memory. Amen to Moffat's writing, i say. And incidentally, River Song. She doesn't know this face, but she goes on about how young he looks. So she can't know him as Eleven either, which means the earliest incarnation she could know is 12 (by which time a human Donna would possibly be dead and a Time Lord Donna would almost certainly be raising their Time Lord babies on Gallifrey II). Pah to River and all her babble.

I think Martha and Rose's adoration left him no choice but to play the hero, which is why he needed someone to stop him so badly by the time you get to TRB. Honestly, can you have imagined Martha or Rose being gutsy enough to demand he leave, or to force him to save someone from the volcano? I can't. I honestly can't. Which makes Donna so much more than a human, and so much closer to a Time Lord, than we really notice at first. And he does go on about how she saves him, which makes her even more important, because how many people do you reckon have saved him since he was a boy on Gallifrey? I'm betting none.

Honey, i wouldn't have said that unless it was half written already. ;) It will be almost a twin to this, just with Donna thoughts and observations. I might even let you have Q&A with the author on anything that takes your fancy.

I am glad. Our spams make me happy and fulfilled. As a person and an author.

*vaguely wonders what that chanting is*

lounge_lily March 30 2009, 09:35:36 UTC

That's very true and something I hadn't considered before and now that I have it just makes it all the more wrong. Okay, Rusty had to write to the fact that Catherine had only signed for one season but how much more emotionally satisfying would it have been if the Doctor had moved heaven and earth as you say but still failed. Oh, it would probably rip your heart right out but it might just be a more honest conclusion to the relationship.

River Song *pfft* The only reason he told her his name is because he knew what was coming and that he needed to trust her. I personally think he only hooked up with her in the future because he felt bad she sacrificed herself for him. But you probably already know that. Or understand it better than I do anyway. I'm not good with jumping through time and maintaining time lines 'n stuff. I offer The Time Travellers Wife into evidence. I just couldn't keep up! And yes, 12 or 13 at least. That's a part I couldn't get my head around; she recognises him immediately but he's not her Doctor? WTF?

See, this actually makes more sense than my thought that he had a choice to play the hero. In Pompeii, when Donna he doesn't step up when she expects him to save everyone it doesn't faze her; she decides to save them herself. I honestly think this is where he realised that he'd cracked it for a winner; he was going to be able to share the burden (of the Time Lord yeah, yeah, we get it; you're life's difficult, blah blah blah.

You big tease! I'm sharpening my pencil as we speak at the prospect of a Q&A with the author!

Right back at ya.

::write companion piece, write companion piece, write comp-:: I can't hear anything.

poshlil March 30 2009, 09:41:31 UTC

Yeah, that. She's all "oi, pretty boy, bring your psychic paper and come with me" but doesn't know him. And even if it IS that he gets all mopey and ages dramatically in the next year after Donna's mishap, that leaves ... what, six or so months by the time we have Planet of the Dead for Ms Song to have all her adventures. Dream on archaeologist biatch! I think that TARDIS diary was a huge set-up. She met him once in the future. And him being him was all "oh, oh, you died so we could live, oh have a snog".

Heh. "It's the BURDEN, Donna. My god-awful burden of being a Time Lord!" "... Shut it alien boy. What about the burden of TRAVELLING with you?"

I may or may not have MS Office open now, and i may or may not be wrestling Donna's thoughts on teasing him out of her.

lounge_lily March 30 2009, 10:00:15 UTC

Then heaven forbid that I detain and/or distract you in anyway. ::sits quietly in the corner, very, very patiently::

poshlil March 30 2009, 10:11:32 UTC

Well, you are a love. This one might be longer. Dark!Donna demands a whole lot of screen time.

lounge_lily March 30 2009, 10:16:58 UTC

Well she has a lot to say. He has been a complete prick about the whole thing.

poshlil March 30 2009, 10:27:13 UTC

He has. He's copping it now, don't you worry.

lounge_lily March 30 2009, 10:52:27 UTC

Deservedly so.

poshlil March 30 2009, 11:10:22 UTC

One sentence to go. Give me five and it'll be up.

Have i mentioned i love this Donna? I love her. So much. She's incredibly therapeutic. I don't need a shrink, i need to write more porn.

\o/\o/\o/\o/\o/ because I've been remiss lounge_lily March 30 2009, 11:23:38 UTC

I feel kind of bad that I'm benefitting from your therapy, but the best of it is that you're feeling better. I'm glad.

Re: \o/\o/\o/\o/\o/ because I've been remiss poshlil March 30 2009, 11:27:47 UTC

Yay arms!

Please don't. I like to write for people. It gives me a sense of achievement. And your willingness to listen to depressed rambly me deserves some benefit, yeah?

*hits post button*

Re: \o/\o/\o/\o/\o/ because I've been remiss lounge_lily March 30 2009, 11:53:31 UTC

I will honour your sense of achievement but my willingness to listen to you deserves no benefit. Truly.

*Hits possibly every button I have, never mind the bloody post button!* I still can't talk about it yet.

Re: \o/\o/\o/\o/\o/ because I&#39;ve been remiss poshlil March 30 2009, 11:55:47 UTC

Well, i think it does. Not everyone takes time out to conduct meta babble about Tennant's ten inches with me. Or puts up with the angst.

Are you...really? Wow. I mean - wow. Your speechlessness has rendered me speechless. I don't think i've had this effect on anyone before.

Re: \o/\o/\o/\o/\o/ because I&#39;ve been remiss lounge_lily March 30 2009, 12:01:44 UTC

*Pfft* Anytime. I'll try and string something together over there.

Re: \o/\o/\o/\o/\o/ because I&amp;#39;ve been remiss poshlil March 30 2009, 12:02:55 UTC

Oh, take your time. Q&A opens now. ;)

(Forgive me if i don't reply until the morrow though; i'm this close to falling asleep at the keyboard)

Re: \o/\o/\o/\o/\o/ because I&amp;#39;ve been remiss lounge_lily March 30 2009, 12:09:12 UTC

It's going to take me that long to absorb this and form coherent questions. Sleep well.

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