[ SECRET POST #5957 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5957 ⌋

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01. [SPOILERS for Doctor Who, Buffy the vampire slayer]




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02. [WARNING for rape/sexual assault]

[Oz]



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03. [WARNING for body horror]

[Monster Factory]


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04. [WARNING for discussion of pedophilia]




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05. [WARNING for discussion of child abuse]




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06. [WARNING for discussion of transphobia]


























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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Funny thing, OP, is that Donna's final episode wasn't designed to be a tragedy. RTD was very surprised at the backlash (and there was a lot) at the time because he thought he was making a gift to DW viewers: that everybody could've been Doctor's companion, they just had their memories taken away from them. No one, and I mean no one, who saw the episode had came to that conclusion. RTD failed to get his point across. It is bad writing.

[(Anonymous)]

He shouldn't have written it so rapey then.

[(Anonymous)]

I didn't know that. That makes it even worse somehow. What the fuck was he thinking.

[sparklywalls]

I still don't like that explanation personally. The attraction toward the idea of being The Doctor's companion (for me anyway) is that I can have an ordinary life before and after but still have done all these extraordinary things with my extraordinary friend. The Doctor even says several times that they like humans because we're capable of so much while being just regular people. Our shorter lifespan and not being able to re-visit certain timeline points (especially if they witnessed the companions aging and dying) sucking for The Doctor aside of course.

Even erasing her short-term memory would've been better than taking away EVERYTHING. I'm sorry, I just can't get over her pleading for The Doctor not to take away everything that had made her the person she was over the course of her journey with him - and that's maybe a credit to Catherine Tate's acting, but it's still a plot that I absolutely loathe to this day.

[(Anonymous)]

Is that confirmed? It's the first time I heard anything about it, despite having been in DW fandom at the time and Donna's ending always being a hot button topic whenever it comes up.

[(Anonymous)]

DA from downthread: I’ve never heard that either and I was huge into DW and the fandom at the time.
I don’t remember him being even a little surprised at the audience reaction because it was clearly an upsetting scene. The music, the aftershow, everything about it made it clear this was A Big Tragedy. And I could be confusing this with a different special but I’m pretty sure BBC put on a warning card before the title screen.

[(Anonymous)]

I see bad fiction writing but it's not Donna ending, it's your comment. Your RTD hateboner can be seen from space