GitF was one of the few times I actually liked Rose in S2 - possibly because she spent less time making cow-eyes at the Doctor and because she and Mickey were great together.
it's just that there is woefully very little Doctor/Donna interaction throughout S4, when you compare it to Doctor/Rose or Martha in the other seasons, so anytime a character comes in who threatens to decrease the Doctor/Donna airtime, I don't really like them.
I get that completely and tbh, I feel the same - like I said, I wish we'd had a couple more of the fun episodes. I could happily have done without The Doctor's Daughter, despite the fact that it did have some good moments in it, and would have traded it, no problem, for another more Doctor-and-Donna-are-awesome-together episode.
I like that both the Doctor and Donna don't feel the need to pretend with each other. For Donna, in particular, that's a really big thing because she's so insecure about herself - so letting herself just BE herself with this amazing, incredible man shows an incredible amount of trust. And for the Doctor to be able to let his defences down with her is a huge thing for him too - he's a planet/galaxy/universe saving alien with the weight of time on his shoulders, but with her, he doesn't need to prove it or keep up an act. He knows she can see through his bullshit so he doesn't try to pull it.
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it's just that there is woefully very little Doctor/Donna interaction throughout S4, when you compare it to Doctor/Rose or Martha in the other seasons, so anytime a character comes in who threatens to decrease the Doctor/Donna airtime, I don't really like them.
I get that completely and tbh, I feel the same - like I said, I wish we'd had a couple more of the fun episodes. I could happily have done without The Doctor's Daughter, despite the fact that it did have some good moments in it, and would have traded it, no problem, for another more Doctor-and-Donna-are-awesome-together episode.
I like that both the Doctor and Donna don't feel the need to pretend with each other. For Donna, in particular, that's a really big thing because she's so insecure about herself - so letting herself just BE herself with this amazing, incredible man shows an incredible amount of trust. And for the Doctor to be able to let his defences down with her is a huge thing for him too - he's a planet/galaxy/universe saving alien with the weight of time on his shoulders, but with her, he doesn't need to prove it or keep up an act. He knows she can see through his bullshit so he doesn't try to pull it.