Neither Harriet nor Donna were mothers, though. Donna was a fully developed character, who had a difficult side to her, but who was also revealed to be brave and loyal. Likewise, Harriet was a complex character redeemed in The Stolen Earth. I have no complaint about three-dimensional characters with flaws -- that's Good Storytelling 101. I also don't have a big problem with, for example, the Racnoss Empress, a genocidal mother, because a lot of the baddies are just supposed to be two-dimensional, though of course multi-layered baddies like the Master or Davros are much more interesting. But I remember thinking as I made my way through the RTD back catalog (I started on DW just before the Moffat era), can't you write *one* decent, kind, smart, loving mom?
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Date: 2021-09-24 08:44 pm (UTC)