Doctor Who 4x13

[such_heights]

such_heights in shock finale-liking scandal! God. Without even looking at many reaction posts I already know this makes me out to be some weak and feeble fangirl. Pfft. I will freely admit that having only seen it once I will have missed finer points, compounded by both alcohol and watching it with a whole crowd of other people (omg. so much fun.), but all the same. Squee, I has it! Please not to be harshing it in this particular post, thank you kindly. 10 points, off the top of my head, on 'Journey's End'.

01. There was so much hugging in this! Yay! A couple we were denied, but mostly speaking, loooots of hugging which was made of yay. Rose & Martha possibly my favourite, eeee. (Girlslash now, plz?)

02. On that note, EVERY COMPANION FLYING THE TARDIS. I DIED OF GLEE.

03. Mickey! Jackie! Just seeing them was fantastic, and omg Mickey in Torchwood? WITH MARTHA? *goes boom* I really didn't want to believe those rumours in case they were too good to be true. Other people are 'meh' about this, I know, but I think it's FANTASTIC, so there we are. Plus, to be honest, it's sensible in terms of writing for the shortened Torchwood S3.

04. Jack and Martha, bffs, ftw once more!

05. Tosh saving Gwen and Ianto! That's my woman! ♥ ♥ ♥

06. I adored the way they took the arcs of What It Is to be a companion and What It Is to be the Doctor and really blew them outwards in such a direct way. I've been thinking and thinking about what was said in this episode and I still haven't got it all sorted. Brain food, mmmm, so tasty. Loved all that.

07. Time Lady!Donna! NEVER HAVE I SEEN SUCH AN AMAZING THING IN ALL MY DAYS ON THIS EARTH. Aaaaaaaaah!!!! I want to watch those bits FOREVER AND EVER, and undoubtedly shall over the coming months.

08. I know I'm forgetting a whole bunch of other things that were fantastic. Oh! Jack's imagined fourway with the various Doctors, hahahaha, I can has that fic now please? And oh there was a massive laugh at the screening I was at with his INCREDIBLY PHALLIC bit of TARDIS flying. Oh, Jack. (Needed moar snuggles with his team post-Daleks, but alas.)

09. I am still thinking on the whole Rose/alt!Doctor thing, have yet to get my head around it. Veeeery interesting, though.

10. Oh, and most importantly, DONNA. D: There's a distinct possibility I'm never really going to recover, Jesus.

Comments

[lorannah.livejournal.com]

I agree 100%.

What happened to Donna broke my heart but I was really surprised to see people saying she would have been better dead because either a) she's worthless or b) her life without the Doctor is worthless.

Which gets a massive WTF from me.

Because:

a) Like you said she was totally awesome before the Doctor came along, it was just nobody saw it even herself (which is probably why she fell so hard and fast and determinedly when Lance showed her some attention). Now even though she might not yet see it, everyone else has and they are going to treat her differently which will change the course of her life. Plus as a piece of personal canon, I like to think that the little bit of the Doctor that might still be rattling around inside her is his curiosity and that that could help spark her own which was really well shown in Turn Left (if that makes any sense).

b) This seems to me like fandom buying into the whole idea that life without the Doctor can't be positive or meaningful, which ruined the Rose story for me in the end. Don't get me wrong, life with the Doctor is obviously fantastically mind-blowing (most of the time) but that doesn't mean that there aren't things to do and experiences to have and life to live on Earth too. Plus life on earth is rapidly expanding knowledge wise in the new universe. I've seen suggestions that the former idea is exactly what the programme is trying to suggest and it does in some storylines but others show that that's not true - i.e. Martha and Jack and post-School Reunion Sarah Jane. Plus we saw in Forest of the Dead that Donna could be happy with a normal life and that she does want to find love and have children - something that probably couldn't have happened if she'd stayed with the Doctor. So even though those were things I think she would have willingly sacrificed to be with him but that doesn't mean she cant have a wonderful satisfying life without him. We all have to make do with what's given to us but that isn't always a tragic disappointment. (Whups got a bit over-involved there)

I will miss her though.