Who Blather
Jun. 24th, 2008 08:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
meddowMore Turn Left and Finale related things, mostly Donna randomness.
1. Where is all the Donna/Rose? Come on fandom, get your act together. I am such a Donna multi-shipper – Ten/Donna Donna/Martha Donna/Master, Donna/Sarah, Donna/Brigadier – lately I’ve decided Donna/Nine would be quite excellent. Could you imagine those two together – they’re both equally stubborn and stroppy. Actually, they’d probably kill each other before anything could happen. Brilliant.
2. Meanwhile Wilf called Donna his lucky star – Wilf totally ships Martha/Donna. Unless that’s some Madonna reference that supposed to be about that other famous Madonna, the one not married to Guy Ritchie. Well, we know RTD likes his Jesus references, and there has been the ongoing theme of children. Yes, I am reading way too much into things.
3. I really hope there’s a series four soundtrack, because I absolutely adored the music that played when Donna entered the circle of mirrors for the second time. Murray Gold sure knows how to overpower a scene, but the soundtracks always make for good listening when not watching the show.
4. I’m not sure about the Donna being special from birth thing. Donna being born special sort of undermines on of the many thing I love about her: that she’s just a normal person. I don’t mind the destiny thing, normally characters with destinies are good looking orphans with special talents and rarely older than 21 and I love characters that buck the trend. .
Unless the special from birth thing is retrospective from what she will do in the finale. Still, I’m going to be just a little disappointed if Donna is revealed to have superpowers that she doesn’t go out and acquire herself or aren’t the result of chance.
5. Apparently Mr Smith is going to be in the next episode XD. I just love that evil/brainwashed-by-Sarah-to-be-good computer. Shame that there seems to be no Alan, Maria or Clyde.
6. Random crack theory: Donna is the TARDIS. I have no idea how this would work.
7. Apparently there’s 25/1 odds on Catherine Tate being the next Doctor. Erm…yes please! (I for one forgot David Tennant was even in the show until he turned up again) Doctor who?
8. I can’t hate Sylvia Noble. I really can’t. But then I like Francine Jones and Chrissie Jackson (and all out love Jackie Tyler, but how can you not love Jackie Tyler?) Maybe it’s because she’s so deeply depressed to the point of being catatonic towards the end. And sometimes I feel fandom ascribes motivations on characters that are a bit more horrid than the writer intended. Don’t get me wrong, saying you’ve given up on a child is awful, (although the ‘yeah’ I ascribe to mental illness), but I get the feeling the way she acts towards Donna isn’t malicious but out of exhaustion. Donna strikes me as a person who when she was a teenager and in her twenties went about burning a lot of bridges while her family watched on. What do you do with a child now in her mid-thirties who could have hand the world if she had chosen to use that brain of hers and apply herself instead of going boy mad (as Wilf implies in TSS) and winding up with few qualifications? You attempt to get her security, and by this point you’re probably so frustrated you don’t bother with the niceties. And Donna can probably dish is out as good as she take it in Turn Left but is restraining herself, which is what you do when your mother is depressed for fear of making her worse.
Anyway, my point: Sylvia is sometimes nasty and certainly not acting in the encouraging way Donna needs and really needs to open her eyes to who her daughter is, but she’s not the devil, her motivations are not hateful and certainly her slow descent into depression is deserving of our sympathy.
9. I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: if anything happens to Harriet Jones, I’m going to be very pissed off.
1. Where is all the Donna/Rose? Come on fandom, get your act together. I am such a Donna multi-shipper – Ten/Donna Donna/Martha Donna/Master, Donna/Sarah, Donna/Brigadier – lately I’ve decided Donna/Nine would be quite excellent. Could you imagine those two together – they’re both equally stubborn and stroppy. Actually, they’d probably kill each other before anything could happen. Brilliant.
2. Meanwhile Wilf called Donna his lucky star – Wilf totally ships Martha/Donna. Unless that’s some Madonna reference that supposed to be about that other famous Madonna, the one not married to Guy Ritchie. Well, we know RTD likes his Jesus references, and there has been the ongoing theme of children. Yes, I am reading way too much into things.
3. I really hope there’s a series four soundtrack, because I absolutely adored the music that played when Donna entered the circle of mirrors for the second time. Murray Gold sure knows how to overpower a scene, but the soundtracks always make for good listening when not watching the show.
4. I’m not sure about the Donna being special from birth thing. Donna being born special sort of undermines on of the many thing I love about her: that she’s just a normal person. I don’t mind the destiny thing, normally characters with destinies are good looking orphans with special talents and rarely older than 21 and I love characters that buck the trend. .
Unless the special from birth thing is retrospective from what she will do in the finale. Still, I’m going to be just a little disappointed if Donna is revealed to have superpowers that she doesn’t go out and acquire herself or aren’t the result of chance.
5. Apparently Mr Smith is going to be in the next episode XD. I just love that evil/brainwashed-by-Sarah-to-be-good computer. Shame that there seems to be no Alan, Maria or Clyde.
6. Random crack theory: Donna is the TARDIS. I have no idea how this would work.
7. Apparently there’s 25/1 odds on Catherine Tate being the next Doctor. Erm…yes please! (I for one forgot David Tennant was even in the show until he turned up again) Doctor who?
8. I can’t hate Sylvia Noble. I really can’t. But then I like Francine Jones and Chrissie Jackson (and all out love Jackie Tyler, but how can you not love Jackie Tyler?) Maybe it’s because she’s so deeply depressed to the point of being catatonic towards the end. And sometimes I feel fandom ascribes motivations on characters that are a bit more horrid than the writer intended. Don’t get me wrong, saying you’ve given up on a child is awful, (although the ‘yeah’ I ascribe to mental illness), but I get the feeling the way she acts towards Donna isn’t malicious but out of exhaustion. Donna strikes me as a person who when she was a teenager and in her twenties went about burning a lot of bridges while her family watched on. What do you do with a child now in her mid-thirties who could have hand the world if she had chosen to use that brain of hers and apply herself instead of going boy mad (as Wilf implies in TSS) and winding up with few qualifications? You attempt to get her security, and by this point you’re probably so frustrated you don’t bother with the niceties. And Donna can probably dish is out as good as she take it in Turn Left but is restraining herself, which is what you do when your mother is depressed for fear of making her worse.
Anyway, my point: Sylvia is sometimes nasty and certainly not acting in the encouraging way Donna needs and really needs to open her eyes to who her daughter is, but she’s not the devil, her motivations are not hateful and certainly her slow descent into depression is deserving of our sympathy.
9. I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: if anything happens to Harriet Jones, I’m going to be very pissed off.
