[ 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)]

I can see if you like tragic stories how you can enjoy Donna's ending. And I like a good tragic story now and then, but Donna's just felt unnecessarily cruel. Or maybe I cared more about her than others or over identified with her or something. But she was the first companion I saw that was just genuinely friends with the Doctor. She was fully her own person and their friendship was so genuine, and at the same time you saw Donna grow and really become her best self. She was so unhappy before her adventures with the Doctor, and had had such a journey of self discovery throughout, and then they just dropped her back to that sad unhappy state before hand. Lost all that self confidence and joy and growth.

Also I have a real issue with people fucking around with memories. I have a general big issue with people lying, and erasing memories and then everyone in her life knowing about it? Big fucking lies from people that are supposed to love and support her.

But as for Anya, fuck Joss for that. It felt like he just didn't like the actress and fucked her over in a cheap way to get the original gang alone.

[(Anonymous)]

It was the loss of her growth and confidence and joy that got me, like you said. At that point death would have been /kinder/, because at least she could have died as her best and happiest self--she understood what was happening to her and could have made a choice. And like yeah, we saw her get married, but that wasn't the Donna the Ood sang about, or the Donna who turned left; it was a Donna robbed of all of that by her best friend because HE thought it was best for her, and it fucking /wasn't/.

Hell, Rose and Martha didn't have what I would call happy endings to their adventures, but at least they had /themselves/. Same with Amy and Clara later--especially Clara. Her time had its faults but man I had some kind of catharsis when she got to tell the Doctor that he did NOT get to make a similar choice for her.

[philstar22]

Plus, the Doctor took away her choice. She specifically said she'd rather die and he did it anyway. Probably in-character for 10 TBH, but the narrative seems to think we're supposed to think he did the right thing.

OP

[(Anonymous)]

Same with Amy and Clara later--especially Clara. Her time had its faults but man I had some kind of catharsis when she got to tell the Doctor that he did NOT get to make a similar choice for her.

If you're talking about the end of 'Face The Raven' I totally agree. That was a far better companion death, on her own terms but no less a tragedy.

That moment is also why I hate 'Hell Bent' so much. Having the Doctor find a loophole in that death to me totally negates the power of that moment and that choice.

Re: OP

[(Anonymous)]

Agreed! Clara's "let me be brave" was so beautiful!