A Little More Who/Donna Stuff

[ithildin]

I realized why my annoyance seemed so familiar: Nick getting LaCroix to wipe Tracy's memories of Vachon's death after 'Ashes to Ashes'. I really hated Nick for that.

And I still don't think it makes any sense. Maybe her family won't talk about it, but what about all the time she's been gone and what will her friends say? It's just there's so many other things they could have done, but they settled for a memory wipe. Very weak storytelling IMHO.

A bit later as I continue to ponder...

It would have been better to put her in a situation where she wakes up and they tell her she was in an accident and do the 'you have amnesia' thing. I still would have thought it was crap, but it would hold up better than what they ended up doing.

Comments

[donna-c-punk.livejournal.com]

I'm just wondering how she's going to avoid remembering ANYTHING. Esp. with the Daleks being on a fricking NEWS now. Isn't that sure to spark SOMETHING since it was the last major deal she went through with the Doctor? What if somebody brings up the wedding? Or the past two Christmases or ... I don't know how it's POSSIBLE! Are Wilf and Sylvia going to put Donna into a cell and keep her isolated for the rest of her life? These things are out there, people are talking about them and any one could fire up a memory inside of her. RTD, WTF?

[ithildyn.livejournal.com]

Yeah, the more I thought about it, the sillier it got. Enough holes to drive trucks through.

[fides.livejournal.com]

At least they brought that up in the show as a problem and gave a 'canon' response rather than just totally ignoring the possibility.

[boji.livejournal.com]

You want craters for plot holes? How far back does the mind-wipe go? All the way to HC Clements? What does that mean in terms of the fiance and the wedding that didn't happen? I mean really!!!???

It's worse - continuity wise - than Jack's inflammable, indestructible great-coat.

[ithildyn.livejournal.com]

[nods] Will she still think she's engaged? My brain hurts the more I think about it.

Yeah, Jack should patent that nifty fireproof fabric! Not to mention his hair [g]

[donna-c-punk.livejournal.com]

How far back does the mind-wipe go? All the way to HC Clements?

Yeah, what happened after she "turned right"? Or was she never in the car to make a decision to turn either way?

[jinxed-wood.livejournal.com]

It's worse - continuity wise - than Jack's inflammable, indestructible great-coat.

I always assumed that, while the coat looked like a WW2 army coat, it was in fact fabricated with 51st century fabric [hand waves, hand waves]

[beccadg.livejournal.com]

Heh, but sometimes it gets grubby and "battle damaged" and sometimes it doesn't? I figured it was like with Superman's costume, sometimes it's covered under the "indestructible/fixed point" clause, and sometimes it ain't.

[jinxed-wood.livejournal.com]

To paraphrase myself - This is New Who; they don't do plot, they do wooby :-P

[ithildyn.livejournal.com]

Heh.

[panthology.livejournal.com]

... Thank you. I'm reading over my morning coffee and I needed that laugh :D

[jinxed-wood.livejournal.com]

[G] I aim to please :-P