magicallaw

I think they were really on the right track with Donna this season- a companion who improves the Doctor by being around, who undergoes personal growth, whose family doesn't constantly try to get him killed, and who doesn't go all IN LURV with him. She was really useful, unlike Rose, had no angst at all, unlike everybody, and was generally just fantastic. She was the best idea they ever had, and they killed her beyond belief and beyond what could be considered humane- and they wrote themselves into a future corner. She's still out there, so that she could be brought back potentially- but not without some pretty major fail happening.