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

[panthology.livejournal.com]

(I have this suspicion her ring would be a key to her remembering, like its her personal fob-watch. They focused way too much on it during the regen scene and the very end, when she was on the phone.)

At the end of 'Last of the Time Lords', wasn't the Master's ring picked up by a female hand? Just sayin'. 0:}

[beccadg.livejournal.com]

At the end of 'Last of the Time Lords', wasn't the Master's ring picked up by a female hand? Just sayin'. 0:}

True, but beside the point. Donna didn't just become "a Time Lord" she became a "Doctor-Donna" hybrid. The Master's ring, used to create another version of the Master, would create another version of the Master. Time Lord!Donna was the Doctor only better. Two versions of Ten played by David Tennant, and they were both asking her where she was getting her ideas. Catherine Tate was amazing, and seeing David play both versions of the Doctor maybe be the most fun I've had watching him in his three seasons on Doctor Who. *Ponders that.* I frankly wasn't getting the obsessive need of some fans for Donna to be the Master before the finale, and Donna being not just Super!Donna, but Super!Doctor was a blast. Hell, the teasing minx started to tell him how to fix the chameleon circuit before she started to act like she was breaking down on him.

[panthology.livejournal.com]

OK, but I was just making the connection between rings-as-plot-devices, since you mentioned Donna's.

I guess it was a slightly awkward way of saying 'hey you could be right'.

[beccadg.livejournal.com]

Oh. *Blushes.* Sorry for being overly sensitive, Panth. Donna was hearing a heart beat in the episode before, and there were people who were insisting it was The Drums and "ZOMGAWD Donna is so totally the Master" so I overreacted. Accept scantily clad Peter Wingfield as apology?

[panthology.livejournal.com]

Scantily clad Peter makes everything better *hugs*

I know what you mean hon, about some parts of fandom banging on about something until you're ready to scream ;}.

[beccadg.livejournal.com]

Scantily clad Peter makes everything better. *hugs*

Yay! *Supplies some more for good measure.*

I know what you mean hon, about some parts of fandom banging on about something until you're ready to scream ;}.

Thanks, they wore me down.