Comments | use_theforce_em: And then Davros KILLED THEM ALL!!!

use_theforce_em

And then Davros KILLED THEM ALL!!!

Jul 06, 2008 01:03

(...Maybe psych? Which is just another way of me saying, this is another spoilery review. Of the season finale. In which I will be gushing my endless love, btw. You have been warned.)

( Russell, here is my soul, as promised. I knew you wouldn't let me down. XD )

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hangingfire July 7 2008, 00:59:26 UTC

I think I'm going to be depressed and pissed off over what happened to Donna for ... oh, the next year. Which is to say that from a writing standpoint it was exactly the gut-punch it needed to be and precisely the price the Doctor had to pay at that point, but OH GOD NO DONNA NO NO NO. I know at least part of why my heart is so broken over her is what I've said before about relating to where she was in her life, and to see her so ordinary just killed me. I mean, you know that the potential for her to be extraordinary again is always there, but you wonder if she'll ever tap into it again. And I have to admit, it hurts me a little that Rose gets her Doctor, but DoctorDonna is gone forever, only left in the memories of the Doctor and the Ood. Not that I begrudge Rose her happiness, mind you, because she does deserve it. (And it's hardly easy going for the Doctor: Rose finally gets a shot at her happiness with the man she loves, in an unexpected way, but he, the Time Lord, still won't ever see her again.) But DONNA. And Wilf's last ( ... )

use_theforce_em July 13 2008, 21:03:58 UTC

It was ultimately the right choice from a writing perspective for sure, how he put everything together. Rose is really the only person who gets what she deserves, and there's such an unfortunate truth to that, of course. The funny thing is, I found myself less heartbroken for the Doctor because I know River is in his future. Which is amazing, considering that we know so little of her. It was somehow more okay to me anyway. But Donna. There's just nothing to make up for that. Nothing that makes you feel like it was worth it. And just like you said, to see her so ordinary, and having that fear that she might reduce herself again and never realize how wonderful she is. A fic sort of started writing itself in my head as a way of making it all at least semi-okay. I'm going to have to write it out soon. It will make me feel a little better about the whole thing. >.(Of course, in some ways Zoe and Jamie are worse as well, because of the fact that the knowledge they had wasn't about to kill them the way it would have killed Donna. The Time ( ... )

hangingfire July 14 2008, 16:13:55 UTC

I think there are a lot of us out there writing fics to try and make ourselves feel better about Donna. I've got one in the works as well, which takes its title and epigraph from the Pogues song "Lullaby of London". The thing about the Doctor is, 1) he's got River Song to look forward to, in a bittersweet sort of way and 2) he is, in his own way, resilient. He'll find his way back.

Mostly I'm just glad to see proof that Davies is the intelligent writer I've always thought him to be, in that he was smart enough to not just let all those sacrifices slide without calling the Doctor on them at some point. And Tennant totally delivered in that scene. (The whole German-speaking Nazi Dalek thing is, actually, even more perversely funny after you see Genesis of the Daleks. Somewhere, Terry Nation is smiling.) (ETA: Also? Just discovered that Terry Nation was a Welshman, from Cardiff. HA ( ... )