The doctors peer? Really?

[fearmeforiampink]

Okay, so Donna gave the doctor more of a hard time in the christmas special, and she may be going less "Gief DoctorLurve" than the trailer for the first episode suggested.

But 'treating him as her peer'? The fact that she's been doing little bar feel sorry for herself and look for him for over a year makes me doubt it. She got the "Get out of the rat race" kick up the arse, and then went on a package tour to Egypt and came home and did nothing. Rather than sorting out her own life by putting in the extended effort to find something new and interesting, she scrabbles around looking for the easy way out. What would she have done if he didn't come back? Gone back to the rat race? Become yet another conspiracy theorist like the Doctor theory guy Rose meets early in the first new series? Cause I can't see her shifting to something actually new and interesting all on her lonesome.

I think she may well be an interesting character, and if she keeps away from the romance and gives the Doctor a hard time, then she can bring something interesting and new. But I think lauding the character too much overlooks the flaws that are present. And I'm guessing that the series itself will ignore the interpretation of her actions as flawed.

Comments

[lifeonsaturn.livejournal.com]

I'm giving it to episode four to show some promise. Torchwood however...Wow. Just...Nice.

[fearmeforiampink]

I think it has some promise, especially as they're likely to ignore the flaws in Donna's character that I've raised.

And I rather liked the suprise at the end.

[lifeonsaturn.livejournal.com]

well, all signs point to the wall in the void being weak again. ho hum. How else could she project herself?

[hawklord2112.livejournal.com]

she needs to seriuously STOP with the catherine tate character-isms. soon as she says "do i *look* bothered?" i'm quitting.

[lifeonsaturn.livejournal.com]

yeah, that was bothering me. What's annoying is that underneath it all, you can see there's actually some good acting, she just over cockney-ises it in that catherine tate way she does. I have to admit though, the sign language thing was classic. Especially with sarah lancashire going "sorry, are we interrupting?" when they realise they've been rumbled.

[davidnm.livejournal.com]

I do hope they stay off the romance this time, as that's starting to get tired. I have a horror that there's going to be an episode with a three-way catfight between Donna, Rose and Martha over the Doctor. That would be grim...