Haven't seen a discussion post for the new special, so I'll get the ball rolling. Thoughts, insights, bits you loved... let it all out.
this post was submitted on 26 Nov 2023
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It was alright but I didn't enjoy it as much as others seem to have done. Everything was so obvious. Donna tells her daughter that she will protect her so you know this will come in play later. The coffee thing was mentioned and I immediately knew she'll spill it. The way the "why Donna didn't die" was a bit resolved in a weird way, she is a woman so she can "let go" and give birth, which is so weird that the Doctor didn't think about this (he literally was a woman just before). Ultimately it doesn't make sense, someone passes a disease to their kid it doesn't mean that the disease is now weaker. That's not how inherited illnesses work. I love that there's a trans character but everything about her is just them saying that she is trans, I wanna know more about her and not just her sexuality. It was handled good in the conversation between Donna and her mother but then it went a bit overboard for my taste.
well it's not an inherited illness but yeah, the whole thing was "a human brain can't handle that much dumped into it" which is why she had to forget. Processor overload.
Yea I used illness as an analogy. Passing something down to your child doesn't necessarily mean it'll get weaker. But even when accepting this, I find the resolution unsatisfactory.
I fully understand yoir point of view, but could it also be because their minds are linked, at least in some way, so thay instead of being focused on just one there's two sharing the load, like, how a single core CPU could run something, but if you start doubling the cores, it makes it easier. Maybe if Rose had a child as well, that'd make it easier as well.