I saw CoE in the pain on Jack's face, but IMHO Ten only had on his moderate-level "so sorry" face instead of the mauve-alert "so, so sorry" face that the occasion called for. I suppose I'm having unrealistic expectations, because they might have wanted to avoid talking about CoE too directly on what is ostensibly a family show, but I still wanted something more than just the Doctor acting as a wingman. I've decided to believe that this is not the first time that the Doctor has visited Jack post-CoE, which makes the tone of the scene make more sense to me.
I would have loved to have her recover her memories, but then what? Have her die?
Tons of possibilities! My cracky personal favorite would be to invent some technobabble about Donna having absorbed regenerative capacity during the metacrisis and have her regenerate. No more Catherine Tate, alas, but long live Donna! She could also have snapped into full DoctorDonna state with a few minutes before brain burnout and used the time to come up with a cure for herself, and then decided that she couldn't quite trust the Doctor in the same way after he took her memories and thus didn't want to travel with him. She could either have returned to her ordinary life, joined Gwen's Torchwood, or set off on her own wacky space adventures, possibly with Captain Jack. Hell, I would have settled for her going into DoctorDonna brain-burning mode in the presence of the Doctor and asking him to take the memories away again because she has a good life and people who need her to live. Over half of my objection to the JE mindwipe was the way the Doctor imposed the decision to live as less than she was without her consent, and making the choice to live a mundane life Donna's chosen way out of a horrible situation would have been better.
Sorry, that got long and ranty, but the more I think about it the more ticked off I am about the treatment of Donna here. She was so passive. I object to the way RTD seems to be saying "she'll be happy now because she got marriage and money, which is really what she wanted the whole time!" That's not the Donna I love.
I liked the coral and struts too, and I'm sad to see them go! I'm going to try to keep an open mind about whatever new design shows up, but just as Nine will always be my Doctor I suspect that the coral will always be my TARDIS.
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Date: 2010-01-02 07:27 pm (UTC)I would have loved to have her recover her memories, but then what? Have her die?
Tons of possibilities! My cracky personal favorite would be to invent some technobabble about Donna having absorbed regenerative capacity during the metacrisis and have her regenerate. No more Catherine Tate, alas, but long live Donna! She could also have snapped into full DoctorDonna state with a few minutes before brain burnout and used the time to come up with a cure for herself, and then decided that she couldn't quite trust the Doctor in the same way after he took her memories and thus didn't want to travel with him. She could either have returned to her ordinary life, joined Gwen's Torchwood, or set off on her own wacky space adventures, possibly with Captain Jack. Hell, I would have settled for her going into DoctorDonna brain-burning mode in the presence of the Doctor and asking him to take the memories away again because she has a good life and people who need her to live. Over half of my objection to the JE mindwipe was the way the Doctor imposed the decision to live as less than she was without her consent, and making the choice to live a mundane life Donna's chosen way out of a horrible situation would have been better.
Sorry, that got long and ranty, but the more I think about it the more ticked off I am about the treatment of Donna here. She was so passive. I object to the way RTD seems to be saying "she'll be happy now because she got marriage and money, which is really what she wanted the whole time!" That's not the Donna I love.
I liked the coral and struts too, and I'm sad to see them go! I'm going to try to keep an open mind about whatever new design shows up, but just as Nine will always be my Doctor I suspect that the coral will always be my TARDIS.