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08:42 am: Doctor Who: season finale- spoilers
I probably need to see the episode again (tonight, 9pm, BBC3, I hope): but...

I was disappointed.

And angry that the Doctor didn't save Donna.

My sympathy for him in lonely emo angst in the TARDIS was severely muted by, well, he did it to himself. He mindwiped Donna. (Yes, yes, it was set up that He Had No Choice, He Did It To Save Her Life.) He ditched Rose in another universe with his human copy of himself. He left Jack and Martha and Mickey behind in Cardiff. And most of all... instead of saving Donna, he killed her. Rose may have been told "stay home, look after your man, quit adventuring across time and space" but at least Rose gets to remember what it was like to travel the universe with the Doctor. Donna gets mindwiped. What an original plot twist; a man decides that a woman can't cope with that much knowledge because it will destroy her mind, so that knowledge must be removed from her and she must be left in ignorance.

It's not that I wanted her to die: if the plot twist had been that Donna dies to save the rest I would probably have been emo about that, too. But this is worse.

Sometimes "everybody lives" is the wrong answer.

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From:[info]ide_cyan
Date:dayordJuly 2008 02:19 pm (UTC)
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Yeah. In that same vein (though running the opposite way?), I didn't feel that River's upload at the end of "Forest of the Dead" was a resurrection.

That she doesn't even remember having had something to lose isn't merciful. It's like... Alfred Bester's The Demolished Man. In a TV show so frelling stuffed with arbitrary plot devices pulled out of the writer's sleeves that the contrivance doesn't wash as an honest dramatic necessity.
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From:[info]yonmei
Date:dayordJuly 2008 08:30 pm (UTC)
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In a TV show so frelling stuffed with arbitrary plot devices pulled out of the writer's sleeves that the contrivance doesn't wash as an honest dramatic necessity.

Yes.

I want to write a post about this for feministsf, though I anticipate getting another bunch of male Whovians in when I do. :-(
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From:[info]ide_cyan
Date:dayordJuly 2008 02:12 am (UTC)
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This link might be useful to you: Nea wrote about RTD's treatment of companions and potential companions' agency:
http://neadods.livejournal.com/706227.html

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The two-identical-Doctors thing also kind of underwhelmed me because Farscape did something similar much, much better.
From:[info]eileenlufkin
Date:dayordJuly 2008 02:09 am (UTC)
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That does sound maddening. I hope it make more sense on a re-watch.

Anyway, I'm having a great time at the picnic! So much yummy food, and smart, nice people to eat with!

Come blow bubbles for your cats to chase!
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From:[info]yonmei
Date:dayordJuly 2008 08:31 pm (UTC)
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It rained all day in Edinburgh in the real world, but on virtual Whinney Hill it was most sunny and delightful.

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