Freedom; Fic; Donna

[ameretrifle]

Free. And still the worst judge of my own work ever. ("An e-mail... saying she was impressed with my final? But... I thought I was half-assing that. How in the hell...?") Of course, keeping that in mind's gonna help me during the ficathon I recklessly joined. "Maybe this fic isn't a shame upon my family's honor for which I will have to commit

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[nina_ds]

Drive-by post, because I really should be concentrating on Other Things (like work) at the moment, but I wanted to comment on your last couple of paragraphs.

I understand exactly what you mean. I'm caught in a real bind. I love Donna to bits. And part of it is because she calls Ten on his shit, but not all of it - some of her best scenes in this latest episode actually came away from him. But I don't want her stuck with him.

I don't really want to see him rehabilitated. I want him to be the same person who committed the crimes so there's still the possibility he can be punished for them.

I agree. I read a post last night that almost made me nauseous, where someone was pointing out that Ten was overwriting and co-opting Nine's arc. Now, it wasn't because this hadn't occurred to me, because I said the same thing in my post on "Fires of Pompeii", but that fandom was seeing that was painful. Essentially, Nine healed and died for Rose - and Ten, in a way - and Ten regenerated as an ass. He gets redemption and adoration from throngs of

[ameretrifle]

Oh, good. ^^ I am going to try to catch "Fires of Pompeii" this week (I'm pretty sure that's the one that's showing)-- granted, the main reason I missed "Partners in Crime" last week was because I was asleep, god only knows why; but I really am finding S4 hard to even approach. RTD's had enough prior success at defying even my lowest expectations; if it should actually be fairly good, and my expectations should creep up higher in spite of myself, well-- that could be a hell of a crash, and once was more than enough for me, thanks. Maybe he's learned something. Even flatworms can learn things. About this quickly, too.

I've started wondering-- if Ten were suddenly written better, and Tennant dropped all of his most annoying mannerisms, would that be enough for me to forgive him, or would I have to have some sort of comeuppance as well? And would that be a bad thing?...

Ten was overwriting and co-opting Nine's arc -- this is why it's probably a bad idea for me to start with 'Fires of Pompeii'. x.x Though from what I've heard, I doubt

[nina_ds]

Another quickie you might enjoy: This pinged my Google alert this morning.