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The not thinking about Doctor Who isn't working! ARGH HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO WAIT UNTIL SATURDAY
I think Donna is going to die. This makes me very, very, very, VERY OMG SO VERY SAD. I realized just how strongly I think this is going to happen when I started trying to do one of my favorite Companion things, imagine her continuing life after the Doctor. And...I couldn't. I mean, I could come up with things Donna Noble could become or do, I just couldn't picture her actually doing them because I seem to have already internalized that she isn't going to have a life to live. I really want to be wrong. And I think there is some evidence that the death that seems inevitable might not be permanent. RTD is very big on the reset button, a habit of his I have mixed feelings about. On the one hand it is a bit frustrating and annoying to have him call takesbacksies every time major things happen. But on the other, it allows destruction on a massive scale without having to factor in a post-apocalyptic world into future stories. And I like both destruction on a massive scale and the fact that home base Earth is generally ordinary for the bulk of the stories. Cake, having and eating it, requires a certain amount of eyerolling 'Haha! Doesn't count!' that I'm prepared to live with.
So a reset could save Donna. This season itself has done it twice, with Jenny and with River both surviving 'death', and maybe that's a big clue. But all the hints that Donna has some very big things surrounding her very existence, it feels a lot like whatever her ultimate fate and purpose doesn't lend itself to being included in the big reset. She may be the reset. I'm working my way into accepting this even though I DONT WANT HER TO DIE OMG. I am a big fan of good deaths. I think this is what I am hoping for most at this point. A good death. One filled with the kind of heroism that makes me point and flail and burst with pride and love. And then spend a few days kicking things because I'd rather have her adventuring with Ten, because they are so unbelievably good together.
I think the OMGNOOOOOOO is interfering with my ability to even guess at what is going to happen with her on Saturday or why or how. So I guess I'm not speculating, really, so much as flailing about.
I think Donna is going to die. This makes me very, very, very, VERY OMG SO VERY SAD. I realized just how strongly I think this is going to happen when I started trying to do one of my favorite Companion things, imagine her continuing life after the Doctor. And...I couldn't. I mean, I could come up with things Donna Noble could become or do, I just couldn't picture her actually doing them because I seem to have already internalized that she isn't going to have a life to live. I really want to be wrong. And I think there is some evidence that the death that seems inevitable might not be permanent. RTD is very big on the reset button, a habit of his I have mixed feelings about. On the one hand it is a bit frustrating and annoying to have him call takesbacksies every time major things happen. But on the other, it allows destruction on a massive scale without having to factor in a post-apocalyptic world into future stories. And I like both destruction on a massive scale and the fact that home base Earth is generally ordinary for the bulk of the stories. Cake, having and eating it, requires a certain amount of eyerolling 'Haha! Doesn't count!' that I'm prepared to live with.
So a reset could save Donna. This season itself has done it twice, with Jenny and with River both surviving 'death', and maybe that's a big clue. But all the hints that Donna has some very big things surrounding her very existence, it feels a lot like whatever her ultimate fate and purpose doesn't lend itself to being included in the big reset. She may be the reset. I'm working my way into accepting this even though I DONT WANT HER TO DIE OMG. I am a big fan of good deaths. I think this is what I am hoping for most at this point. A good death. One filled with the kind of heroism that makes me point and flail and burst with pride and love. And then spend a few days kicking things because I'd rather have her adventuring with Ten, because they are so unbelievably good together.
I think the OMGNOOOOOOO is interfering with my ability to even guess at what is going to happen with her on Saturday or why or how. So I guess I'm not speculating, really, so much as flailing about.
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