Journey's End

[altariel]

I'm so upset about Donna I might be forced to fanfic.

Comments

[kerravonsen]

I cried.

Join season4b and fic there. Please. Pretty please.

[kathyh]

I love your fanfic and if you write some it will go a little way to stop me sniffling over Donna so please go for it!

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Do it. I'm depressed. I rather think I need it.

[katlinel.livejournal.com]

I was seriously wanting to HEX (as in B7) Donna's story. Seriously.

[katlinel.livejournal.com]

And I would love to read your fanfic on the subject.

Hmm, time I got an Donna icon.

[metamorphosa.livejournal.com]

I cried. And cried, and cried and cried. I cried for him and for her. And because I'm apparently a sucker for misery, I rewound it to the point where he held her, and cried again.

Admittedly there was probably a build up of tears that I'd been holding back through most of the episode for The Doctor. *Sniffle*.

[watervole.livejournal.com]

I started crying when Wilf was talking to the Doctor at the very end. He knew exactly what both Donna and Ten had lost.

[metamorphosa.livejournal.com]

Yes, that part completely finished me off, too. By that point I was hugging (and snivelling into) a very soggy cushion!

[fallingtowers.livejournal.com]

I've just finished the finale, and I'm sobbing out loud right now. It's pretty embarassing. I mean, there might have been a tear or two when all the companions were hugging and laughing and flying the TARDIS home, but then Donna started to break down and -- yeah, waterworks.

And I would very much like to read a fanfic of yours about her.

Hazel cried

[(Anonymous)]

Hazel cried buckets at the end.

RTD certainly managed to pack everyone in to his finale didn't he...

[kalypso-v.livejournal.com]

Oddly enough, the only time I felt tearful last night was during the documentary when Catherine Tate said goodbye to the cast and crew. This would be because I didn't think it was a terribly good episode. But sitting on a bus this morning I suddenly got quite weepy on Donna's behalf.

What seems to be upsetting me most is the sense that the Doctor took this step against her will. I could sort of see that he was taking a short cut to the end of the discussion they'd have had if only there'd been time, and Donna's brain hadn't been scrambling already which might be impairing her judgment; he's very probably right that she'd have worked through "I really don't want this to happen but I don't want to die yet even less, and there isn't a third alternative, so OK, you'll have to do it, goodbye." But the image I was left with was of Donna begging him not to make her go back. And that's just very distressing.

[manna]

he's very probably right that she'd have worked through "I really don't want this to happen but I don't want to die yet even less, and there isn't a third alternative, so OK, you'll have to do it, goodbye."

That would've softened the impact, though, which would've been a shame. I just loved the fact that the writing didn't flinch, and didn't cop out at the last minute and try to mitigate the awfulness it in any way.

[kalypso-v.livejournal.com]

I'm not suggesting that holding that conversation would have been a good idea dramatically, only that the Doctor must imagine that that would have been how the conversation would have gone in order to do what he does.

I don't think it's out of character, either, because although he's got better at saying sorry it didn't feel unlike locking Susan out of the Tardis - deciding what choice she ought to make and then enforcing it. Both are very distressing moments.

That wasn't what turned me against the episode, though; I began to feel irritated quite early on.

[katlinel.livejournal.com]

Have a Donna icon now - that's better.

[manna]

It was so jaw-droppingly cruel. Half of me was going OMG, NO!, and the other half was that's AMAZING. I mean, dude. DUDE. Genius.

Exterminate the music...

[raspberryfool.livejournal.com]

I just wanted the orchestra to shut the hell up. The continual intrusive music spoilt it for me. The series producers don't seem to realise is that dramatic tension, emotion etc are best done subtly with silence, or at least minimal music, instead of a continuous sop-fest. Maybe most viewers don't notice it, but being a non-regular, I did.

Mind you, S:AAB was just as bad, IIRC... *sighs*

Multi-lingual Daleks though - nice touch.

Re: Exterminate the music...

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Lots of people find the music too loud, but we've never had a problem with that. Do you have stereo speakers built into the TV?

Re: Exterminate the music...

[raspberryfool.livejournal.com]

No, I normally would use a NICAM VCR. I reserrected my old Betamax VCR to record it, which has mono sound which i listened to through headphones via a stereo amp. Maybe it was mixed for stereo and the mono downmixing affected the music / dialogue mix. I dunno, all this technology...

[i-smell-shite.livejournal.com]

We've just came back from holiday and then watched it. I cried, and had a good sob even more through Dr Who confidential. Oh I'm off again. I love RTD.

[gair.livejournal.com]

It is genuinely the worst thing that could have happened. I can't decide whether that is in-universe or out-of-universe, ie whether it is tough-but-right or OMGRUSTYYOUFUCKERNO.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

It is ALL of these things.