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"Donna is not allowed to use womanly wiles, it’s played as a joke. RTD being shitty about women over 35 again"

Honestly this is still my biggest gripe with RTD era 1. Not the last time it happens this series either.

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yeah I think this is a massive blindspot for RTD. Moffat, whatever his issues, is very clear that older women can be sexy. you don't have to be Freud do you

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Think I mentioned this before, but if memory serves, Journey's End was the nadir for this sort of thing (the Donna/Jack encounters), so I look forward to what you said about it in a few weeks time.

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Jack will shag owt - except women who can remember when 'Hey Matthew' by Karel Fialka was on Top Of The Pops for some reason

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Honestly, I do always wonder what the plan was with Martha. It feels like they had Freema for only a couple of days' filming that overlapped with Tennant and Tate between this and the Sontaran two-parter. (Oh I just remembered how much she gets split off in the finale too!)

I recall she gets a much more active role in Torchwood. (It's really easy to forget she was in Torchwood.)

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