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Akotowaa's avatar

I can't believe Davies said that thing about Donna getting on the audience's nerves. She is, till date, my favorite companion! I love her!

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Babette’s Fancy Diner's avatar

That was the season that knocked me out of Doctor Who fandom. I came in aboard the Martha Jones train and spent a season watching this clever, tender hearted, capable young black woman explicitly relegated to the role of “not good enough for the Doctor because she isn’t Rose”. But I liked the end of her season, because, as you say, she got the ending she deserved, with a life to live and experiences to keep. By the time we met Donna I was already emotionally de-invested from the show, so Donna’s ending didn’t devastate me the way it would have otherwise. I did, however, write a fix it fic which remains the story I am proudest of writing in that fandom. The ending of season 4 was all the things you say and intense ableist besides. Ultimately I stopped watching Doctor Who because after multiple seasons it was clear the writers just aren’t very good at what they do. They get a lot of money from the BBC to make it so it’s flashy and excitable but the writers are amateurs in the way that only men are allowed to be in professional settings, and I don’t have patience for it.

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