Fandom meme!

[trinityvixen]

I lack this thing you call sub...subtle...something about not blaring one's opinion, loudly and often. So this is a perfect meme for me because I will be unfailingly honest. My hand to the Great Noodly One's appendage.

Name a fandom, and I'll give you the scoop on at least three of my unpopular opinions related to that fandom.

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[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

Yay Who-dom!

1) I don't like David Tennant as the Doctor. I rolled with it okay for one season, but I find his mannerisms as the Doctor repetitive and obnoxious. He's supposedly polled as being the best Doctor since Tom Baker, but I'd say that Christopher Eccleston did more with less time than Tennant has done in three seasons.

2) I sided with Harriet Jones in "The Christmas Invasion." Because she's right--depending on the Doctor to rescue you all the time is a weak strategy for defending yourself and sort of anti-thetical the whole Davies-era "being a Companion makes you the best you that you can be" manifesto. Girlfriend learned to think for herself, and good on her.

3) Donna should have refused to go with the Doctor. I think it would have been a better finishing season for Tennant's Doctor to be grounded in the present or some other time maybe in the near future with Donna as his liason with the world, a la the Pertwee years. Donna was awesome for her season, don't get me wrong, but what Ten really needed was for someone to slap him and make him stop being googly-eyed crazy and focus for once. He needed her to make him sit still. (I feel like shouting "OSUWARI!" at him, except he's not Inu-Yasha.)

[saturn-shumba.livejournal.com]

I thought David Tennant was ah-MAZE-ing at first, but nowadays...I'm glad he's leaving. I had major love for Eccleston, was sad he was only around for one season.

And I'm TOTALLY with you on Donna. I don't really like the companions that are all "I want to stay with you forever!!!" because I feel like it demeans them somehow. I'm mostly referring to Rose and Donna here. I mean, what, does the Doctor have some sort of magical dick or something?!?! That's probably why Martha is my favorite companion and is actually my favorite new Who character of ALL TIME.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

It's funny you say you don't like the DOCTOR+ME 4EVR types since I never thought Donna was one but Martha was. I mean, yes, she walked away, but she also fell right into the Rose trap of being majorly in love (suddenly, with no explanation other than, well, duh, he's the Doctor SO I MUST LOVE HIM).

What annoyed me about Donna's going with the Doctor is that it totally undid her rather cogent point about "Hey, you're kind of a psychopath, maybe I shouldn't be around you." It also took her away from where she was making plenty good discovering alien secrets on Earth without him. Donna was doing fine on her own.

I'm more coherent in the morning (hopefully)

[saturn-shumba.livejournal.com]

but she also fell right into the Rose trap of being majorly in love

She did, gah. But I forgive her because she did walk away. And moved on. And had her own fun adventures with the Torchwood people. Rose never could seem to let go, and that's one of the things that really bothered me about her.

But you are so right about Donna. In the Runaway Bride she was all anti-Doctor and then, all of a sudden, she's not? All of a sudden, the Doctor is the one she let get away? Again with the magical dick here.

Also since I missed it earlier:

feel like shouting "OSUWARI!" at him, except he's not Inu-Yasha

Awesome.

Re: I'm more coherent in the morning (hopefully)

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

I got so mad at Rose coming back. I didn't love the actress playing Martha, didn't love the character Martha, but I still found her return less annoying than Rose's. Rose needed to stay gone tragically, or her story didn't matter to me. Blah.

Re: I'm more coherent in the morning (hopefully)

[saturn-shumba.livejournal.com]

I think RTD felt the heat from the Doctor/Rose shipper's torches, which is why she came back (and why she got her own Doctor to boot.) NOT FAIR ROSE, NOT FAIR.

Re: I'm more coherent in the morning (hopefully)

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

I still maintain that if Donna couldn't survive as a hybrid Time Lord, neither could the Blue!Ten. For starters, he should be going stark raving mad being stuck on one planet without the TARDIS. But he was as physically human as Donna was and still he got to stay. And be with Rose (GAG ME).