Doctor Who 4x13 -- Journey's End

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So...who's going to be the first to write me very fucked-up fic about how Rose Tyler has to hammer out a relationship with someone who looks like Ten, acts like Nine, and gives attitude like Donna?

In other words: surprisingly, I liked Rose's ending. Because it's not going to be anything like sunshine and fluffy bunnies and epic Twoo Wuv (hot makeouts notwithstanding) and it's! Nine! again! kind of!

Donna's ending depressed me beyond words, but -- c&ping from a comment -- I think where the audience (and maybe even she herself) might have preferred for her to die, the Doctor needed her to live. And when you've got no choice but to get rid of an actress's character, and there's no way she WOULD walk away of her own accord, you've got pretty limited choices. She's alive and she's happy and the Doctor needs that, even though it's a horrible thing to contemplate for those of us who have seen her potential.

Oh, a couple of things I liked: Donna forcibly making sure she got to hug Jack during the TARDIS Family Celebration (dude, who can blame her?), the shoutout to Eve Myles The Ubiquitous Cardiff Girl, and Martha's mother hiding under a table while the Earth moved (*snickers* someone should write me Jack/Ianto with very bad jokes about feeling the Earth move), because that is such an eminently sensible thing to do and I expect no less from any relative of Dr. Martha Jones, Queen Of Awesome.

A final note: TEN, STOP BEING SUCH A NEEDY LITTLE BITCH. Srsly. Sarah Jane gave you hugs and talked about how you have a family, you know where to find Jack & Martha & Mickey if you ever want to drop in for coffee and shagging, and you're STILL STANDING IN THE RAIN TALKING ABOUT HOW LONELY YOU ARE. Someone slap that Time Lord.

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I will buy that part of Ten IS in love with Rose in a way he isn't with Martha, and that enough of that was in human!Doctor (who was non-Time-Lord enough to actually be able to TELL HER he loved her) that they've got something to work with. No matter how unhealthy it is, Rose needs the Doctor. Martha doesn't need a copy of Ten to drag around as a constant reminder of the fact that he doesn't love her; besides, she's doing a good job of moving on. And I am SO CHUFFED that she'll probably be a Torchwood regular next season, if only because we might get to see more of Tom. (Though if Tom becomes Rhys Mk. 2 I will PUNCH SOMEONE.)