Sorry about that. But I popped over to read some of your comments on the finale...and I think you are remarkably insightful about a lot of things. But ultimately we disagree on Donna, too. I can see what you are saying about her mum...but again...in that scene...you miss what Wilf says, "But she was better with you. She was." And Sylvia ends up calling Donna useless right before Donna decides to die. I don't see a big change in Sylvia at the end. I see the Doctor telling her what to do...and her telling him to leave. And sadly, I see everyone in Donna's life lying to her for the rest of her life...denying her the true scope of her specialness. Yes, it is possible she could become something more this time around...that some of her greatness might be remembered...the way Agatha Christie remembered through her amnesia. It is possible Rose and Eleven will make a happy life together. But the entire end is all..."Now what?" And we have to believe that things will get better...because that's all we have.
When you craft a story...you can take it somewhere. It would have been very easy when crafting this story to have showed the shot you have in your icon as the kiss. To have had Rose lean into Eleven for comfort. To have had Sylvia be the one who is upstairs with her sleeping daughter...brushing her hair from her face and telling the Doctor that she is special. But Sylvia is the same cold person...and Rose is running after 10 and 10 is still sad and broken and alone...the things Rose cared about helping him with. If Ten had said...you helped make me better...and then HAD been better...it would have worked. But 10 isn't better at the end...he's the same as always only even MORE exhausted and alone. Now, if this is the end for Rose and Donna and 10.2 (if he's NOT Eleven) then all we have to look forward to is more of the same...a new companion who the Doctor will love and lose. This is the pre-destination of River Song. The future can be rewritten but not if you refuse to change anything.
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Date: 2008-07-21 03:39 pm (UTC)When you craft a story...you can take it somewhere. It would have been very easy when crafting this story to have showed the shot you have in your icon as the kiss. To have had Rose lean into Eleven for comfort. To have had Sylvia be the one who is upstairs with her sleeping daughter...brushing her hair from her face and telling the Doctor that she is special. But Sylvia is the same cold person...and Rose is running after 10 and 10 is still sad and broken and alone...the things Rose cared about helping him with. If Ten had said...you helped make me better...and then HAD been better...it would have worked. But 10 isn't better at the end...he's the same as always only even MORE exhausted and alone. Now, if this is the end for Rose and Donna and 10.2 (if he's NOT Eleven) then all we have to look forward to is more of the same...a new companion who the Doctor will love and lose. This is the pre-destination of River Song. The future can be rewritten but not if you refuse to change anything.
Rae