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zeborahRose grows from an everyday kind of a woman to something like a goddess. Okay, she gets downgraded a bit to action-heroine, but by and large, she grows as a character.
Martha grows from an everyday kind of student doctor to a save-the-world action-heroine. She's stronger to begin with than Rose was to begin with; and the Doctor (and the show) is a jerk to her and try to convince us that her love interests are interchangeable; but again by and large, she grows as a character.
They're both stronger people when they leave the show than when they arrived.
Donna, though. Donna mostly stays the same old awesome bolshie character, which is great. Until the show decides to break her. Irrevocably breaks her, and makes a huge point of how she's broken but still refuses to do anything about it except hand her her own interchangeable husband.
And that drives me up the wall.
--So does the simple fact that the Doctor did that to her without her consent. But a single event is merely sad; a tragedy requires a whole story arc.
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One other note. When the Doctor dumps his humanified counterpart on Rose in the alternate universe... I just don't see this working.
Not because I think the Doctor would get bored of Rose, though I've seen at least one fanvid that posits this.
But because I don't think Rose has any interest at all in a human Doctor. She wants the Time Lord, and she wants the travel. Human!Doctor can't give that to her.
Martha grows from an everyday kind of student doctor to a save-the-world action-heroine. She's stronger to begin with than Rose was to begin with; and the Doctor (and the show) is a jerk to her and try to convince us that her love interests are interchangeable; but again by and large, she grows as a character.
They're both stronger people when they leave the show than when they arrived.
Donna, though. Donna mostly stays the same old awesome bolshie character, which is great. Until the show decides to break her. Irrevocably breaks her, and makes a huge point of how she's broken but still refuses to do anything about it except hand her her own interchangeable husband.
And that drives me up the wall.
--So does the simple fact that the Doctor did that to her without her consent. But a single event is merely sad; a tragedy requires a whole story arc.
--
One other note. When the Doctor dumps his humanified counterpart on Rose in the alternate universe... I just don't see this working.
Not because I think the Doctor would get bored of Rose, though I've seen at least one fanvid that posits this.
But because I don't think Rose has any interest at all in a human Doctor. She wants the Time Lord, and she wants the travel. Human!Doctor can't give that to her.
