Doctor Who

[moonlettuce]

Oh. Oh, Donna.

It is seven shades of unfair that Rose Bloody Tyler got her happy ending and Donna got everything that she'd gone through erased. She'd grown so much as a person and now it's all gone. She said no and he still took it from her.

And I understand why he did it. Given the choice between dying and not remembering he'd rather have her alive, but still. She knew what would happen and she didn't want go back to who she'd been. All that, for nothing.

And yes, there are people out there who sing songs of Donna Noble, but, damn you, RTD Doctor, you took that away from her.

I never expected to like Donna. She annoyed the hell out of me in The Runaway Bride, but week after week Catherine Tate pulled it right out of the box and brought Donna to perfect, bloody perfect, life.

And now?

You know, I watched as the ship Adric was on crashed into Earth, I watched as Sarah Jane was abandoned back on Earth before the Doctor went to Gallifrey and I watched as Ace... well, just disappeared, actually ::grin:: And this? This is possibly the cruellest goodbye to a Companion because she made a choice, she knew what the options were and she made that choice, and he still took it all away from her anyway.

Damn you, Rusty, why couldn't you have killed off Rose instead. It's not like I'd have cared about that one.

Comments

[fides.livejournal.com]

I'm not convinced Rose got a happy ending - she didn't get 'her' doctor, she got the flawed, 'human' version which wasn't the one she wanted. They are both confined to Earth and while they presumably have TW/UNIT tech to play with they are exiled from the rest of the universe with Rose put in the position where she has to fix and play prison warder to him (talk about recipy for resentment) and with the half-human!Doctor knowing that the Doctor has a relationship with River Song waiting for him. Rose's 'life' after she got stuck in the alternate reality was still centred around finding the Doctor - now what she has to show for it is a 'lesser' version of what she wanted (and one who I'm willing to bet has enough Doctor that he doesn't do inactivity well even if human!JohnSmith could have settled down). It might be cynical but I just don't believe that the half-human!Doctor can live up to the Doctor in Rose's head (or that gaining Rose can live up to loosing the universe).

I'm sure there is some lesson in there about putting men on pedestools and then being disappointed when you find that they are only human.

[spacedmonkey.livejournal.com]

Totally how I felt. The thing that made the Doctor so exciting and full of life and which drew Rose to him in the first place was the fact that he could do all those incredible things.

But what does she get? She gets a slightly insane, war broken human in the bad suit and the knowledge that the person so destroyed dimensions for is still out there somewhere and always will be even after her Mark 2 Doctor blows himself up rewiring the house or wraps his car around a lamp post.

Bad RTD. While my love foe Ten is still strong, my love for you has gone.

[catwalksalone]

Yes, yes and YES. Utterly, utterly cruel and it broke my heart so thoroughly I have absolutely no impetus to watch the Christmas special. I will, I guess. But Donna. Left without herself, left with no way back. There are no words for what I want to do to RTD right now.

[margueritem.livejournal.com]

I vote fanfic where Donna and other Doctor run away to have adventures together. Bloody, I-know-better-than-you Doctor. *kicks RTD*

I mean, what? Were they supposed to just leave the Daleks there and think, "Oh well, surely that won't come back to bite us in the ass!"?

[xandutch.livejournal.com]

Oh Donna. Poor, poor Donna.

Damn you, Rusty, why couldn't you have killed off Rose instead. It's not like I'd have cared about that one.

I wouldn't have minded losing Rose, but the impact it would have had on the Doctor and Jack for starters I most definitely can do without. And we never got the Jack/Rose reunion!