Count yellow highway lines that you're relying on to lead you home.*

[bending_sickle]

Look at the time and tell me if it's ok that I haven't done anything at all? I mean, not even breakfast. (I've been meaning to go get groceries for near a week now.) I canceled my plans to go to Madurodam (again) because of zomg torrential rain (which promptly stops). I need to pick up some textbooks for my Self Study thingy and I really ought to look up flight prices and schedules and stuff. It's not going to get done by itself, but I'm at the stage where I won't do something that's not life-and-death unless someone tells me to. So yeah. *sigh* Needs to get lunch now. Anyone got any zest they'd care to share? I'm all out of zest. And oompf. *crawls about lethargically*

I rewatched Journey's End last night, pinpointed my favorite part of the episode (Mickey kissing his gaint-ass gun), found Mickey sexy as hell, screamed out "Yes! (Idiot.)" at the "Does it really need saying?" (despite my lack of shipping), and seethedseethedseethed. As I was drifting off to sleep, figured it out. How things should have been fixed.

Point 1) Upgraded!Donna said she can think up of things the Doctor would never even dream of because the human consciousness gives her that extra little oompf. ETA: Meaning, the Doctor shouldn've been so quick to retcon.

Point 1b) Upgraded!Donna mentions the Chameleon Arch and how the Doctor can fix it. (Broken? Bzuh?) - ETA: It was the Circuit, not the Arch. Nevermind this then.

Point 2) The Time Lord Consciousness is burning Upgraded!Donna up.

Point 3) The Chameleon Arch extracts and traps a Time Lord's consciousness into a fob watch.

Kindly apply Point 2 to Point 3 and voila, fixed Donna.

Conclusion? The Doctor's a bastard, and a thick one at that. Or, of course, the Doctor could just have wiped her memory from Time-Lord-Consciousness-Moment onwards. Jerk. (Still love the bastard, though.)

Oh, and as to why Dalek Caan did a timey-whimey thing, I has theories. One fan!review pondered why on earth Caan would rescue Davros from the time-locked Time War if what he'd seen what Daleks did and would do and wanted to exterminate them for that. Why not just leave Davors time-locked and die out as the last Dalek of the unvierse? Aha! Well, if Caan got into the time-lock, then maybe the lock wasn't as good as the Time Lords had thought. Meaning Davros and the whole Dalek empire could conceivably get out sometime, or be rescued by someone other than Caan. But if Caan got Davros out of the time-lock and destroyed him in real time, then Davros and the whole Dalek race would be dead for good. It's better to kill your enemy than keep him locked up for eternity, if you don't think the prison's all that.

Also, where was the screwdriver?!? Seriously, where was it. The Doctor couldn't have fiddled with it to deactivate the containment field (magic light prison thiny)? Stupid Doctor. *sigh*
And a question about the retcon. If Donna can't ever get even a wiff of her life with the Doctor, can't ever remeber a single detail, then why didn't she spontaneously combust when she met John Smith? Why not just throw her in the Tardis while you're at it, Doctor?

And am I misreading Dalek Caan's prophecy? He was going on about one of the Doctor's companion dying, and at one point he said his most faithful companion. Now, did we just get a half-cooked prophecy or what?

I also feel terribly cheated with the whole "the darkness is coming" prophecy thingy. I mean, what was that? Just, in alternative universes - which may be a bit ahead of our own - the Reality Bomb was already working? Big whup. (In reality, yes, very big whup, but in the story it lacked a lot of oompf.)

And I'm somewhat peeved that Rose spent her entire AU!life trying to get back to the Doctor. Not just for what this means about her, but also because the Doctor told her it would destroy absolutely everything, every universe, everything. Sheesh, woman, get some perspective. And the Doctor was a-ok that. It's like, "Oh yeah, I had to put a few babies on spikes, but it was all to get back to you, my Doctor-wuv."


Links of the Day:
athousandwinds's Doctor Who Fanfic: The New Adventures of Supertemp
wenymr's Doctor Who Fanfic: And Their Song Continues
ophelia_winters's Doctor Who: Journey's End Picspam Review and Part 2
butterfly discusses, and defends, Blue!Ten.
bluejeanius's reaction to Doctor Who: Journey's End in comic form.
tencrush On RTDavies' message and Donna
jadekirk thinks about where the Doctor's hand has been and what that could mean for Simm-fans.
Doctor Who Confidential: On An End Scene
The adventures of Josie and Scott - My dear friend Josie and her boy travel across Canada. "In July of 2008 we will be driving from Nova Scotia to Nelson, British Columbia in a 2-door hatchback. We hope to use this space to chronicle our trip across this great country and our time living in BC."
greygirlbeast's pimping of Icelandic band Sigur Ros
Baen Library - Books online, for free.
Stiff: The Curious Life of the Human Cadaver by Mary Roach. ("Goes in to great depth about how human cadavers have been used to research a multitude of interesting and sometimes gross subjects.")* "Left and Leaving", The Weakerthans

Comments

[qthewetsprocket.livejournal.com]

eek...much as i hate to stomp on this idea, i think donna was talking about the chameleon circuit there, not the chameleon arch (you shoulda thought of a less confusing name there, rusty). the arch is what changes humans into time lords and back; the circuit is the thing that gives the tardis the ability to appear as any object that would blend in with its surroundings so as not to draw attention to itself. the fact that the one on the doctor's tardis is broken is why it's stuck looking like a police box (from an adventure in the early sixties). we haven't really heard the circuit discussed much in new who; and it only really showed up once or twice in old who, ie when the master's or the rani's tardis would show up, and you could never tell which object their tardis was because it was so well disguised.

anyway, i do like this idea, as it's one of many ways donna could very easily be written back into the series. as insulting as what happened to her was, at least it's flimsy as hell and easily re-written. :)

[bending-sickle.livejournal.com]

Arg, Chameleon this, Chameleon that. I knew the difference, I swear.

I'm still bitter over Donna. I think she, as a companion, did the most good for the NewWho Doctor, and she's gotten the absolute worst ride.

Only some Simm!Master will make me forgive RTD.

[phantmgreeneyes.livejournal.com]

I was wondering about the lack of screwdriver in these episodes. I loved that little thing.