Actually, Donna being married off, I agree with. It brings her story to a "full circle" close (minus the Marshmen, of course), since it was the disruption of her first wedding that took her into the Doctor's life. It's only right that the last we see of her is her getting married like she originally wanted, even if it wasn't to Lance as she originally intended. In that way, it reminds me of Ben and Polly's exit, as they were dropped back off on the same day they left and allowed to continue their lives as if nothing had happened. Which, for Donna, it hadn't, sort of. And the beauty of her passing out and missing/not remembering important stuff gels perfectly with all the times she didn't notice Daleks and spaceships and such before she ever met the Doctor.
I agree about the Mickey/Martha marriage being a bad idea, but the logic of "Why It's a Bad Idea" is spotty, at best. New Who and it's spinoffs like to have interracial couples as a norm, from Rose and Mickey to Donna/Lance and Donna/New Guy, Ricky/His Partner Whose name I forget. So why does it feel like the only reason Martha and Mickey ended up together at the end was that they were both black and not irrevocably attached to anyone? Yeah, technically Martha was engaged to Tom, but it sucks that we don't ever find out what happened to him and why they didn't wind up together like they were planning to.
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Date: 2010-01-03 06:58 pm (UTC)I agree about the Mickey/Martha marriage being a bad idea, but the logic of "Why It's a Bad Idea" is spotty, at best. New Who and it's spinoffs like to have interracial couples as a norm, from Rose and Mickey to Donna/Lance and Donna/New Guy, Ricky/His Partner Whose name I forget. So why does it feel like the only reason Martha and Mickey ended up together at the end was that they were both black and not irrevocably attached to anyone? Yeah, technically Martha was engaged to Tom, but it sucks that we don't ever find out what happened to him and why they didn't wind up together like they were planning to.