Rest assured I was on the Internet within minutes registering my disgust throughout the world

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Just saw this week's Doctor Who and you know, the episode was decent, all things considered, it had its moments, had some instances of human beings actually acting human, didn't feature any gratutitous kissing (at least, not involving Ten)...

...and then I saw the previews for next week before turning it off.

Oh god.

Oh god.

OH JOHN RINGO GOD NO.

I don't believe I've hollered "WHAT?! WHAT?! WHAT?! NO!!" at my televised media display screen before with quite the fervor as I just did, and that includes the response to the concrete slab-fucker scene from a few seasons ago.

There's only one way this little premise could work and if what we see next week is not that way, I fear next week I will be hollering "RUSSELL T. DAVIES YOU ARE DEAD TO ME, DO YOU HEAR ME? OOPS NO, YOU CAN'T, BECAUSE YOU ARE DEAD TO ME."

Sigh.

Comments

[zhym.livejournal.com]

Have to disagree with you hard on that point. I much prefer Donna over either Rose or Martha. For starters, she isn't all googly-eyed and in wuv about the Doctor. Ten needs more smacking around and fewer women treating him like the goram high school prom king ("will he notice me? Is he LOOKING AT ME? OMG HE's A LONELY GOD!!!"). Donna's the first extended companion of the new series that he really treats like an equal, and it's not because she's a time traveller or brilliant, it's because she won't stand for anything else. I like that.

As for The Doctor's daughter: I'm more optimistic than most. It does open lots of questions, but the mere existence of a daughter doesn't bug me. He's 900+ years old. Surely in all that time the Doctor has "danced" more than a few times, and he had a granddaughter, so we know he could spawn. Why not a daughter?

A daughter who is a blonde Lara Croft...well, that doesn't bode well. But the season has been very good so far, so I'll wait until the episode shows before fretting about it.

[theswordmaiden.livejournal.com]

When Donna misunderstood what he said about wanting a mate and told him right away that she won't have any of that nonsense, I was thrilled! I know he's hot, but he doesn't need to be a love interest. And I think Donna brings a bit more much-needed maturity (I mean attitude, not age) than the last two.

I think it's the possibility of having some love-child that bothers us. I don't care how many centuries old he is, he can still choose not to dance and that kind of a past is just not inevitable. I guess it's so hard to find characters on good TV shows who do not or have not been able to exercise sexual self-restraint, that I'm holding out hope here. (I might be watching too much BSG though)

[zhym.livejournal.com]

What, a millennium of life, more or less, and you'd begrudge him one dance? He's the Doctor, not the 1,000 year-old virgin. Not having gotten busy at least once goes way past "restraint."

As children go, "love-child" is the best variety, I think.

[theswordmaiden.livejournal.com]

Yes, I realize it's commonly believed that to exercise sexual self-restraint is to be a virgin, but that's not what I said. It's already been established long ago that he had a family and I have no problem with that. I said that he could have been restrained enough to not have a love child pop up out of nowhere, not that he has to be a virgin, though I'll ignore what you say about the latter. I'm just sick of what I see on TV about self-restraint and I hope this won't be the billionth example.

As for love-children, I hope I made it clear that it's not them I have a problem with.

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Yeah, we know the Doctor had a family, and he misses them dearly, but it's not been a part of his past he's been willing to discuss with anybody. That's one of the reasons why I hope this daughter is one he knows, possibly Susan's mother, because it would provide interesting backstory and do one of those nifty retro-answering things that I loved so much about the first season.

The whole love-child angle, on the other hand, just plain stinks and would imply that Russell T. Davies just can't conceive (hurr) of a character who, WITH OBVIOUS INTIMACY ISSUES, would opt not to Dance, as it were. I agree, it's refreshing to have a character who doesn't want to Dance every chance he gets, and still stay compelling.

But on the other hand, there's... the other hand. All this will be neatly sidestepped if it turns out Jennywho was indeed cloned from the Jar Hand and I'll be simultaneously relieved yet annoyed.

[zhym.livejournal.com]

Perhaps I just don't get what kind of child a "love-child" is supposed to be. I am not hip to the vernacular--what distinguishes a "love-child" from any other sort of child? Is that a hitherto-unknown child? The preview didn't sound like Ten was surprised that he had a daughter, just surprised that she'd popped up.

I'd expect the child to be from a previous regeneration anyway. Nine or Ten making babies would be very out-of-character, I agree. I don't know enough about Six, Seven, and Eight to have an opinion. Five? Maybe. Four? You just know he and Romana danced regularly. Two and Three seem unlikely candidates (I don't doubt that Three would, but he was stuck on Earth the whole time and I really don't see him as the type to be making babies with humans), and, of course, there's One and Susan's mother, which would make sense but probably isn't what's going to happen.

The point is that Nine and Ten have intimacy issues, but that's not necessarily true of the previous versions. I think there's also room between "dances every chance he gets" and "never dances" that leaves room for someone to dance once in a while without being a dancing fool about it.

[theswordmaiden.livejournal.com]

LOL, hurr indeed. But don't forget, when a person has huge intimacy issues, then obviously he will deal with it by having sex with a lot of people!!!

Anyway, I'm mainly hoping for a clone or Susan's mother.

[antikythera.livejournal.com]

Hell, attitude and age. Nice to see a woman over thirty-five who is pretty and still dreams of stuff like going to the stars.