Dr. Who Season 4: How I lost my heart to Donna Noble

[clueless_02]

So I'm finally back from vacation and ready to dive back into fandom starting with Dr. Who. [I went to Portland, OR and had marvelous time at all the Pride events. In general, it was awesome to go to a big city (or at least, Portland is a big city to me) and experience the joys of public transportation. No, I'm not kidding. It was awesome to be

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[madamedarque]

First of all, YAY YOU'RE WATCHING DOCTOR WHO. I miss us having a fandom in common. <3

[clueless_02]

Yay! for Fandoms in common! Seriously, we need to find a show that we can both Netflix together or something so we can have lots to SQUEE!/META! about!

But I do find season four to be fairly weak in terms of the quality of episodes and low on rewatch value--the only ones that I really love are the library episodes and the one with Agatha Christie

See those are great episodes, but I thought there were a lot of really awesome episodes in S4 like "Turn Left," and the episodes with the poison gas, and how could you not love "the band gets back together" to fight the Daleks (well except the ending of the DoctorDonna).

Oh and I'm all about the foreshadowing so all the S4 foreshadowing about Donna (there is something on your back) just played into my tv kinks.

Donna was a little too insecure for me, and I thought she mentioned she was a temp one too many times. I love them both, but to me, River is just a better-written character, or at least a more respected one.Donna's insecurity was actually fascinating to me and made me love her

[madamedarque]

"See those are great episodes, but I thought there were a lot of really awesome episodes in S4 like "Turn Left," and the episodes with the poison gas, and how could you not love "the band gets back together" to fight the Daleks (well except the ending of the DoctorDonna

[clueless_02]

See, I found Donna to be completely different from Rose and Martha. Even in Donna's first episode, I felt like she was the Doctor's equal (not saying that River is not the Doctor's equal. Like you, I agree that River Song writes her own damn future!) Rose and Martha sort of followed the Doctor around and awed in his presence, while Donna was challenging him and generally being awesome. In all honesty, I think that there are a lot of similarities between Donna and River, but Donna was just your average every day "Earth girl" being awesome while River was coming from a completely different background. I could probably articulate better but I don't want to inadvertently spoil you if you have not seen S6.

Re Amy and fandom:It seems to me that DW Fandom is a little misogynistic. I know that Donna is pretty much universally praised now, but I get the feeling that wasn't always the case. And just surfing around the net, it seems like River gets a lot of flack and poor Martha gets shit from every one.