I am desperately sleepy, but also a bit nauseous and wound up from anger. I had heard so many of these spoilers before that I was kind of numb while watching and writing my first reaction post, but the more I've thought about it, the more furious I've become, and not with things I'd have expected.
(I cried in the Wilf scene, BTW)
Donna's ending is even worse than Jamie and Zoë's, in a way, because the Doctor did it. He did it as she was screaming for him not to. It seemed like a horrible violation. I hope she's able to "relearn" her awesomeness, but it seems a horrible fate, not only for Donna, but for her family, having to walk on eggshells around her for the rest of their lives.
Rose - eh, on the one hand, I can't be bothered. I loved her so much with Nine. I liked that there was a nod back to that, but it was such an obvious sop that it feels cheap.
But the thing that bugged me most and has made me increasingly livid is that there seems to have been no repercussion about the thing that was, for me, the key thing - Davros called the Doctor (and, it seems to me, specifically Ten) on his shit, so to speak. He won't dirty his hands with killing, but he'll use others to kill for him. And he sloughs off all his "genocide" onto Hand!Ten? What was going to happen if he didn't get rid of the Daleks, excuse me? Okay, Eight or Nine committed dual genocide in the Time War (and possibly, there was collateral damage). Nine stepped back from the Delta Wave in PotW, and it felt like the right answer at the time, given that he'd tried it before and it hadn't solved anything. He surrendered (he was suicidal, have people forgotten that?). So BadWolf!Rose shows up and commits genocide to save his bacon, and hey-ho, it's saving her that kills Nine so that Ten can be born. So Ten, in a way, is the product of a genocide. There's the Racnoss that Ten did on his own, and they were only threatening Earth, compared to all of reality - there is such a thing as scale. He meted out vengeful and spiteful punishment on the Family of Blood (and I can't remember, but weren't they the last of their kind? So isn't that genocide?).
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Date: 2008-07-06 05:37 am (UTC)(I cried in the Wilf scene, BTW)
Donna's ending is even worse than Jamie and Zoë's, in a way, because the Doctor did it. He did it as she was screaming for him not to. It seemed like a horrible violation. I hope she's able to "relearn" her awesomeness, but it seems a horrible fate, not only for Donna, but for her family, having to walk on eggshells around her for the rest of their lives.
Rose - eh, on the one hand, I can't be bothered. I loved her so much with Nine. I liked that there was a nod back to that, but it was such an obvious sop that it feels cheap.
But the thing that bugged me most and has made me increasingly livid is that there seems to have been no repercussion about the thing that was, for me, the key thing - Davros called the Doctor (and, it seems to me, specifically Ten) on his shit, so to speak. He won't dirty his hands with killing, but he'll use others to kill for him. And he sloughs off all his "genocide" onto Hand!Ten? What was going to happen if he didn't get rid of the Daleks, excuse me? Okay, Eight or Nine committed dual genocide in the Time War (and possibly, there was collateral damage). Nine stepped back from the Delta Wave in PotW, and it felt like the right answer at the time, given that he'd tried it before and it hadn't solved anything. He surrendered (he was suicidal, have people forgotten that?). So BadWolf!Rose shows up and commits genocide to save his bacon, and hey-ho, it's saving her that kills Nine so that Ten can be born. So Ten, in a way, is the product of a genocide. There's the Racnoss that Ten did on his own, and they were only threatening Earth, compared to all of reality - there is such a thing as scale. He meted out vengeful and spiteful punishment on the Family of Blood (and I can't remember, but weren't they the last of their kind? So isn't that genocide?).
My head hurts.