As for the casting announcement, hmm... my general feeling is "wait and see." At least Martha will be back mid-season (and on Torchwood), so that's heartening. When we watched the Christmas special, our general reaction was, oh, thank god she's not signed on for next season. o_O So... yeah. You and naye have raised some good points, though. The show's writing has been so consistently compelling that I don't think it'll fall through now, and perhaps... perhaps Donna is actually the kind of tonic the Doctor needs. Because her approach is more blunt and forceful (kinda like head trauma!), and she probably won't edge around the Doctor's trauma like Martha did with him being sad about Rose, or like Jack would... "What, you're sad because your enemy died? Are you insane? BUCK UP!" seems more her style... ^^ And that could be cool, too.
Is she gonna be in the upcoming Christmas special, too, though? I'm guessing not, if that's the Titanic from its original time sticking through the TARDIS wall...
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Date: 2007-07-05 01:09 pm (UTC)As for the casting announcement, hmm... my general feeling is "wait and see." At least Martha will be back mid-season (and on Torchwood), so that's heartening. When we watched the Christmas special, our general reaction was, oh, thank god she's not signed on for next season. o_O So... yeah. You and naye have raised some good points, though. The show's writing has been so consistently compelling that I don't think it'll fall through now, and perhaps... perhaps Donna is actually the kind of tonic the Doctor needs. Because her approach is more blunt and forceful (kinda like head trauma!), and she probably won't edge around the Doctor's trauma like Martha did with him being sad about Rose, or like Jack would... "What, you're sad because your enemy died? Are you insane? BUCK UP!" seems more her style... ^^ And that could be cool, too.
Is she gonna be in the upcoming Christmas special, too, though? I'm guessing not, if that's the Titanic from its original time sticking through the TARDIS wall...