I confess that Donna rocks my socks too. I love Martha first and foremost, but Donna's right up there with Sarah Jane and Ace as second favourite. And the more I see of Donna, the more I wish she'd been companion last season and been there to slap snap the Doctor out his emo!angst that much sooner, and not just because Martha would have got a better arc but because the Doctor would have got a better arc too, which I want, because as much as RTD's characterisation of the Doctor annoys me on occasion, *the Doctor* is the reason I loved the show from the moment I first started watching it back in the year Dot...

Actually, seeing Martha and Donna immediately hitting it off, I wish we could have Donna AND Martha in season 3 - Donna's snarking and "you're not mating with me sunshine" would have contrasted nicely with Martha's incipient crush - and Team Cardiff could have realistically moved Martha on from that crush without hurting either her or the Doctor (Martha could/would still have loved the Doctor, I'm sure - just as I'm sure Donna loves him in a best-mates way - but Martha would have kept her self-respect and dignity - and she still could have gone off walking around the world to save everyone from the Master...)

Whoa - didn't mean to write quite so much (guess my mind just latched onto that idea and my fingers ran away with it !)