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[randomling]

The problem with Last.fm is that if I put in N Sync or Backstreet I get all kinds of unrelated boyband crap. And apparently, either the slash completely fucks with my musical taste, or N Sync and Backstreet are genuinely far better than any other boybands ever.

Time to give up and put the Foo Fighters in, instead.

In other news, the world is making me sad, and so is the media.

I'm going to miss Donna like crazy. And I spent years disagreeing with the people who called Rose "RTD's Mary Sue" until I saw the ending he gave her, with a fake!Doctor all her own (being half-human, though, will he die as Donna would have? Or will he be okay as he was built on the Doctor template or... hey, it makes no sense). I think Donna got a crappy ending and would have felt much better about the whole thing if she'd actually died, because wiping her memory just felt incredibly bleak to me, and another example of the Doctor's (and the writers') reluctance to let someone die even when it's appropriate and can't be avoided. It's just the same as the library episode, where to ease the pain of River dying, he trapped her mind in a computer with the minds of all her friends - cold comfort indeed, and again, I would have preferred to have been left with character death rather than the cop-out we were left with. It's funny, but even with the last season ender, I wasn't this frustrated and just plain annoyed. Sigh.

The other thing that's making me sad is the book I'm reading, The Devil In Amber by Mark Gatiss. It's a sequel to his previous novel The Vesuvius Club and is doing a nice and interesting thing - revisiting the main character (Lucifer Box, a turn-of-the-century secret agent) some fifteen or twenty years after the first book, when he's middle-aged and being supplanted, rather than the dashing young thing he was in the first novel. The thing that makes me sad is this: in the first book, my favourite character was Charlie, a young guy who Lucifer meets and gets it on with during the course of the adventure. Charlie's sweet and awesome and very fiercely loyal right from the first and at the end of the book he's clearly hired as Lucifer's assistant. I spent the first few chapters of the second book wondering where Charlie was and if he would be referred to or turn up - and then there's a tiny, poignant mention that Charlie was killed in the First World War after almost ten years together, and I was so upset I had to stop reading. Over-invested, much

I'm supposed to be writing for tonight. I need to summon up a bunny that will make a particular person happy in the next hour or so.

Sigh.

Comments

[puszysty.livejournal.com]

N Sync and Backstreet are genuinely far better than any other boybands ever. Um, yes. Pretty much.

[trumpeterofdoom.livejournal.com]

N Sync and Backstreet are genuinely far better than any other boybands ever.

That's because it's TRUE. Sorry, but even Take That can't even compare, and don't get me started on Westlife.

[adelate]

DONNA. That is all. I was so scared for her the entire episode (randomly, I should've known the hand would have something to do with something, they've been showing it on screen at random times, it had to mean something) and I just spent the whole end of it, since Bad Wolf Bay, crying like a baby. (I don't really care if it was Mary Sue-ish, I loved that ending with Rose and the Doctor (also Jackie for saying she named the baby Doctor, snerk).) But yes, to come back to the point, OH DONNA. I love her so much, Lucy, you don't even know, and I'm going to miss her. :(

[http://users.livejournal.com/_titch/]

I agree with you. I really came to love Donna throughout the series and I think a proper ending would have been that she died at the end. I was left feeling a bit empty when she was left with no memories of her time with The Doctor. Le sigh. But win for 2 DT's in this episode!

[pensnest]

I really liked the Rose ending - she gets the man but not the adventure, because you can't have it all. A nicely edged resolution. Is the Doctor really The Doctor without the Tardis (and the unattainability)?

Donna. She was so awesome when she and the NewDoctor were mirroring each other. Her resolution echoes River Song so clearly, and the Doctor was wrongwrongwrong to choose for her, and to choose what she explicitly didn't want. River was willing to die rather than lose what she'd had, and so was Donna. Echoes of Torchwood, too, where Gwen refused to retcon Rhys, and so much the better for them both.

I *don't* like the messing with people's memories which seems to be so glibly done on the New Who shows, because a person *is* the collection of her experiences, and if she can't remember them... The Doctor was just as emo at the end as he'd have been if Donna had died, except that presumably he can congratulate himself on not actually getting her killed, and her family are obviously happier to have Donna there than not - but. Donna is diminished, she's going to go on through life never believing in herself, and it's a shame.

[turlough]

I don't think I'm ever going to watch this episode 'cause if there's one thing that makes me froth at the mouth it's messing with people's memories! If you take away someone's experiences you're taking away part of what makes them THEM and it's just WRONG! (Much as I love Susan Cooper's The Dark Is Rising series I almost never re-read the last book because of this. I even have a hard time not letting it taint the rest of the series.)

[http://users.livejournal.com/_ducks/]

Yes! Charlie :(