Doctor Who!

[red_b_rackham]

I AM NOW A WHOVIAN.

Ok, so, let me just say that I've had some horrible real life stuff happening lately, and have been absent. I will eventually get around to posting about it, but the pre-Christmas rush of life is starting now, and, anyways. Basically I was going to ramble about Doctor Who on my tumblr and it started to get really long, so I figured it was a better idea to stick it here and just post lightly on my tumblr instead.



So here's what happened (not my real life stuff): I've been wanting to get into DW for a while now, but just didn't know where to start. Started asking around online peeps and got directed to the 2005 series. Began it this summer/fall. Fell madly in love with the Doctor (number nine, apparently) and Rose. Then Nine (Christopher Eccleston) became Ten (David Tennant) and at first I had trouble, just because I really fell for Nine, so I mourned losing his face - and I know, I KNOW the concept of the show, okay, with the changing Doctors and companions. I know. But I still have had a lot of trouble letting go of things, LOL.

Then I was just completely in love with Rose, and Ten, and then Doomsday happened and I was so beyond crushed. Martha came along, and I didn't dislike her, but she just wasn't Rose, so I had a lot of trouble moving on and just didn't really appreciate her. I DID greatly appreciate how sad the Doctor was at times over losing Rose, and how he clearly loved her, AND how sometimes he would look at Martha and be sad that it wasn't Rose - such good angst! And I did feel bad for Martha, because she was all love-at-first-sight, practically, with him, and he just couldn't/didn't love her back. Anyways, so it wasn't it pretty well the very end of the third season/beginning of the fourth where I actually appreciated Martha being awesome - even so, I was sort of oddly relieved when she left (which makes it sound like I didn't like her - I didn't dislike her, she just... wasn't Rose!). Her departure completely made sense with her character and with her relationship/lack thereof with the Doctor.

I really wasn't sure about Donna at first - like in that special where she was in her dress, it was FRESH after Doomsday, so I was all distraught, and she was great comic relief, but I was against having her as his companion at the time. When she showed up post-Martha, I was like, "Okay, at least the timing feels better if it's her next..." The more I see her, though, the more I love her (just finished 4.09, "Forest of the Dead" today). She's hilarious and brilliant. Her dynamic, personality, everything is so completely different from Rose and Martha, and it's awesome. She balances the Doctor uniquely from the other two and anyways, point being, I really love her now.

I just met River Song, and I know as previously as non-Whovian, I think that was a name I heard more than any other in connection to this fandom. I'm a little intrigued by her, and I assume there's more to come, based on everything she said (and implied) about her and the Doctor, but I have to be honest and say that at this point, I'm not really into her. She was pretty cool, and her sacrifice scene was amazing - plus I loved how she was with the Doctor, because it was SO Time Traveler's Wife to me.

So, ok. THE FORESHADOWING.

Back in late season 2, there was all this uncomfy foreshadowing going on. Like Rose would say things like, "Oh we're going to be together forever!" and similar things, and there would be little moments or comments from aliens or the Doctor that would just scream OMINOUS/SOMETHING BAD WILL HAPPEN - and I started to become convinced that Rose was going to die, or at the very least something horrible was going to happen to tear her and the Doctor apart. Which is exactly what happened. GUH.

Now I'm getting that same, horrible, ominous foreshadowy feeling. The Doctor has referenced dying a couple times now, and Professor Song got all, "OH! You're Donna? He told me so much about you! Nice to meet you!" when she met Donna, and then got all shifty and uncomfortable when Donna asked why Song didn't remember her/know her, when she so clearly knows the Doctor so well (and what did Song say in his ear? Also, sidenote: my money is on that she is/was/will be his wife).

Like with Rose, there's just been hints piling up in every direction that something bad is going to happen to Donna - or at the very least her companion time is coming to a close soon/by the end of the season. Plus, clearly David Tennant's time as the Doctor is coming to a close too, not only because of all the foreshadowy hints that are making me crazy, but also because in the episode list for season 4, there's one called "The Next Doctor". I already lost Nine, and Rose, now I have to lose Ten? *sob* (I know how the show goes, okay! I do, but it doesn't stop my heart from breaking!)

(Another side note: I see the fandom obsession with Jack Harkness. He is perfection and I only hope for more of him to pop up here and there.)

Lastly, ROSE. I have to believe they are not doing these things that they are doing just to mess with me, but it is messing with me. Back in Doomsday, they said Goodbye and she Loved him, and he disappeared mid-sentence, and it was established that they would never see each other again. Of course I vainly hoped for pretty all of season 3 for any sign of her or for that to change, but alas, nothing. BUT NOW. NOW THEY ARE MESSING WITH ME.

Because Donna ran into some blonde woman and gave her a message to deliver to Donna's mother who was on her way to the area - and the blonde woman turned around, AND IT WAS ROSE. WHAT. And because that wasn't enough, Rose walked away and FADED INTO THIN AIR. WHAT. Then several episodes went by without a hint of anything else, and I've been watching like a hawk, wondering what is going on, WHAT DOES THAT MEAN. Then Donna is in the TARDIS on a spaceship, and the Doctor was planet-side dealing with some human and alien issues (you know, the usual - long story), and Donna is watching what he's doing/saying on a screen. She looks away for a second, and FOR AN INSTANT, ROSE'S FACE FLASHED ACROSS THE SCREEN. I thought I was crazy or had imagined it, but I rewound and looked again, and it was her. But when it was quick, and by the time Donna was paying attention again, it was gone. Nothing has happened Rose related since.

Seriously, they're screwing with me.

Anyways, DW ramblings over for the moment. Instead of dealing with Real Life, I'm going to put another episode on before bed. Talk soon, kids.

~Red