River--a very active, adventuring, Indiana Jones figure--sacrifices her life to save all the people and the Doctor, and then she...ends up stuck for eternity in a database with some coworkers, taking care of three semi-real children. "Everybody lives." This is living? It's not quite as bad as Ursula-the-paving-stone, but it's not what I'd call a happy ending.
I could write it off as a character flaw of the Doctor's--that he can't leave anyone, and particularly females, their agency and allow them to die completely, but rather likes to save them at the last second, often into some kind of half-life--and be totally cool with it, except that I don't think the creators see it as a flaw.
(Also, the whole "I became ugly, but now I'm intelligent as a consolation prize!" thing made me headdesk a bit.)
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Date: 2009-09-10 12:57 pm (UTC)I could write it off as a character flaw of the Doctor's--that he can't leave anyone, and particularly females, their agency and allow them to die completely, but rather likes to save them at the last second, often into some kind of half-life--and be totally cool with it, except that I don't think the creators see it as a flaw.
(Also, the whole "I became ugly, but now I'm intelligent as a consolation prize!" thing made me headdesk a bit.)