*tries not to yell "THE CAKE IS A LIE"* *fails*
Life's a trifle strange lately. On the one hand, I've survived the ficathon without having to commit seppuku to atone for my shame, and there's a truly excellent story being written to my prompts to boot; on the other hand, my mother's a bit down due to the death of one of her younger cousins (whom I have never met. My ignorance of my own damn
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As you know, I've fallen very hard for Donna, and I'm not sure why. There's just something about Catherine Tate's performance (particularly on the empathetic end) that's hitting me just right. I'm not going to deny there may be a bit of contrast amplification going on - Ten is such a prat that almost anyone is going to look good next to him, although I was never able to bond to Martha the way I wanted to. (Freema is absolutely beautiful and she's got a lovely, bubbly presence but, it must be admitted, she's a soap actress and it shows. She's still very green ( ... )
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Donna's definitely got her moments; I like her, and there were a couple moments in "Planet of the Ood" that started to sell me; I'm just not entirely there yet. Maybe it was missing "Partners in Crime ( ... )
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I haven't seen Planet of the Ood yet (really don't want to ...) but it still, days later, makes me indescribably happy that not everyone has fallen under Ten's (supposed) spell. I felt like the only kid who'd somehow missed the cool bandwagon. People are trying to tell me how great Ten is (not DT mind you, Ten) and I just can not like him. Basically for for all the reasons you've mentioned above. He's so narcissistic and he has a God complex that's off the freaking charts. The fact that he can use people and then chuck them in the trash like - well - garbage, and the majority of the fandom doesn't seem to notice let alone care, is truly disheartening.
And, should you organize an attack involving RTD and death by spoon, I will absolutely join your ranks. Also, I fear for Donna, she has potential and there's been rumors a'circling that good things do not come to her. Yet another reason why I loathe this show, or at least anything past season one.
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A paragraph's a bit much to quote, so to everything you said about Ten, OMG YES. ^^ EXACTLY. That's exactly how I've been feeling! It's damn hard to find anyone who doesn't like Ten, which is why I latch on to anyone I can find. :) nina_ds of the other comment up there was the first person I found who agreed with me. It'd been driving me absolutely up the wall, trying to figure out why I was the only person who saw anything wrong with him. Once I found just one other person who saw it too, it really did wonders for my peace of mind. It took a very long time. I'd pretty much given up on him after TCI.
I don't really want to be watching S4, either... But I am. I suppose it's because I've heard good things about Donna, and because it's a good way to stay somewhere in the fandom, even if the term "fan" doesn't exactly apply anymore. I'm thinking of just giving it up entirely; easier ( ... )
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All I can say is: ditto. Between you and Nina I feel sane again, amongst all the rabid Ten fangirls ...
That would be such a nicer way to live. I second that. Of course I've been completely ignoring the existence of Ten and reading AU Eleven girl!Doctor fic today, which makes me too happy for words. It's rather sad that AU11 is so much better than 10, but she really is. If I could, I'd go straight from 9 to 11 and bypass 10 entirely.
As to the spoons-- yeah, I've promised to help in the effort should Donna ever fall in love with Ten. From what I've seen, I should start preparing to contribute. Alibis, we'll probably need alibis... Plane tickets... phone trees... ;)
I loved that whole chunk but something about "phone trees" just made me laugh so much harder. :D
oh, dear. What rumors? I've read\heard that she's getting killed off at some point. Probably at the end of DT's run (I assume) which, if true, she very unfair to Catherine Tate. I ( ... )
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Phone trees-- probably 'cause it's so many decades out of date ^^ Still gotta be harder to track, right? Unless they've got all our phones tapped... Well, even so, no way the American government's letting the UK into their business, so that ought to safeguard everyone if we work it right... ;)
I've read/heard that she's getting killed off at some point-- really?! No way in hell they could pull that one off. That'd be bad. Though I thought I'd heard that Tennant would be back in 2010 or something following a year of defiling Shakespeare? Where the ( ... )
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*grin* That is exactly how I feel. I can manage it, but it's just so hard. I never really want to bother, but it helps with credibility. "Oh, no, no, I'm not trying to say he's the devil! The devil is probably more psychologically stable! Honest!"
*much laughing* I couldn't agree more. It is hard to write him with a sympathetic tilt. I think to make it work I'd probably have to rip his character down to the foundations and essentially rebuild him, or just channel DT, that'd probably be a little easier. I know I'm mucking with plot I know next to nothing about, but I'd also (possibly) make it so that John Smith was his actual personality, and "10" was the persona that was forced upon him. I've heard as John he was more tolerable.
Ten and Jack-- exactly. He's just terrible to Jack. I agree with that whole paragraph, just didn't wanna quote it all. He's a wanker, that's what it boils down to ( ... )
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John Smith-- oh, I saw that one. He was a bit of a whiny bitch, but he was a bit better. And half the emo whining would make a lot more sense if he was terrified of having his real personality overwritten again. He was acting a lot like becoming the Doctor again would destroy his real self, and if that were actually true, whether he consciously realized it or not, I would like him a hell of a lot more. *considers* Wow, a lot more. And considering how willing Smith was to treat Martha as a servant, to boot... That's ( ... )
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