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And now ladies and gentlemen, a tap dance...
Yeah, I can *still* skew it shippily, dammit. Just watch! This may be bullshit, but it makes sense to me.
Ow. Ow ow ow ow ow. God, it's so hard when both the leads' hearts are being ripped out. This was like angsty fic heaven. Can I "ow" again?
Like my post on School Reunion, I stand by my statement that this show has been all about the Doctor and Rose and their journeys. Much of this show has been character development, character development, character development...with a side of monsters. Most of the development has been Rose being changed as a direct result of traveling with the Doctor, but the Doctor's been doing his own changing as well. Subtly most the time (barring, you know, regeneration), but now we get to this ep where everything really does change for him. Kinda nice to see a profound event in his life for once.
And dammit if they didn't just tackle the biggest separate Doctor and Rose issues of them being together. No, they really did. It was pretty brilliant, actually, if they're meaning to go forward with Doctor/Rose. And really, these issues *needed* to be dealt with to go forward since School Reunion left them sort of stuck. (Still, ow.)
The Doctor – The Doctor most definitely fell in love and one thing that experience managed to do was to make him ordinary. I don't mean that in a bad way. He did something so non-god (as they've been hammering in the references so far this season), that ultimately it may help him get to a place where he's not feeling so above, beyond and apart from everyone else - it brought him to a place he may not have even known was possible. He was in love with a *human* and the universe didn't end nor planets collide. But he also experienced the "having to watch someone you love die" he mentioned from School Reunion. So how will it end up changing him? It was too painful an experience for him to remain stagnant despite his "I'm always all right," but we have yet to see how he'll respond. At least now he will know: Is love worth it? Or is the pain too much? Will he *really* let Rose in now or will he forever keep her at arm's length?
Rose – Change comes around through pain and baby, Rose has had her share the last two episodes. Up until this point, Rose has pretty much been a child. Her love for the Doctor has been this teenage adoration/puppy-love type of thing and up until these last two episodes, that type of love was unchallenged. That puppy-love? That's probably the only way she's ever known how to love. Look at Mickey – talk about a teenage-type romance relationship. But now that she's watched the Doctor choose someone over her, she's free to *really* evaluate her love for him, plus the puppy-love will most likely disappear. The question is, will it be replaced? Does she continue to love him, knowing all she knows now? Is it worth it? In the end if she does decide it's worth it, you'll be seeing Rose with a much more "adult" love.
Of course, now we know that the Doctor did lie to Rose in School Reunion about not leaving her. And it could be he had no intention of lying, but that love makes you do things you'd never dream of. Hopefully this will give the Doctor a bit of clarity in addition to his future decision concerning Rose – if he chooses the "arm's length" with her, then he needs to *stop* saying things like he'll never leave her, etc. because then he's no better than what Rose has been doing to Mickey. And it's a pretty shitty thing to do.
And speaking of Mickey, this all could be setting up nicely for some sort of resolution with Rose and Mickey. Maybe Rose needed to feel exactly what Mickey's been feeling... Strike that. She *did* need to feel what Mickey's been feeling. It's called Karma.
Now a side note that I have to mention - I found it pretty hard to believe the insta-love. Maybe if it had been a two-parter or something. (Of course, feel free to write off my dissatisfaction due to my pre-conceived shipper insanity.) But clearly the writers needed to hit the fast forward button (hence mind-meld shortcut) to get the emotional punch that they wanted. (And that part was *heartbreaking*. OMG.) And because of my not believing the insta-love, the choice of the Madame over Rose felt a bit off. Although, if I can't understand why the Doctor did it, I can understand why the writers did it - they love love LOVE their parallels. (See Mickey.)
*sigh* I am sad for Doctor/Rose now. I don't think it's totally destroyed (and it may come out of it stronger), but it was definitely a SG-1 A Hundred Days episode, except take how Jack blows off Sam at the end and multiply that by 10.
Ow.
Ow. Ow ow ow ow ow. God, it's so hard when both the leads' hearts are being ripped out. This was like angsty fic heaven. Can I "ow" again?
Like my post on School Reunion, I stand by my statement that this show has been all about the Doctor and Rose and their journeys. Much of this show has been character development, character development, character development...with a side of monsters. Most of the development has been Rose being changed as a direct result of traveling with the Doctor, but the Doctor's been doing his own changing as well. Subtly most the time (barring, you know, regeneration), but now we get to this ep where everything really does change for him. Kinda nice to see a profound event in his life for once.
And dammit if they didn't just tackle the biggest separate Doctor and Rose issues of them being together. No, they really did. It was pretty brilliant, actually, if they're meaning to go forward with Doctor/Rose. And really, these issues *needed* to be dealt with to go forward since School Reunion left them sort of stuck. (Still, ow.)
The Doctor – The Doctor most definitely fell in love and one thing that experience managed to do was to make him ordinary. I don't mean that in a bad way. He did something so non-god (as they've been hammering in the references so far this season), that ultimately it may help him get to a place where he's not feeling so above, beyond and apart from everyone else - it brought him to a place he may not have even known was possible. He was in love with a *human* and the universe didn't end nor planets collide. But he also experienced the "having to watch someone you love die" he mentioned from School Reunion. So how will it end up changing him? It was too painful an experience for him to remain stagnant despite his "I'm always all right," but we have yet to see how he'll respond. At least now he will know: Is love worth it? Or is the pain too much? Will he *really* let Rose in now or will he forever keep her at arm's length?
Rose – Change comes around through pain and baby, Rose has had her share the last two episodes. Up until this point, Rose has pretty much been a child. Her love for the Doctor has been this teenage adoration/puppy-love type of thing and up until these last two episodes, that type of love was unchallenged. That puppy-love? That's probably the only way she's ever known how to love. Look at Mickey – talk about a teenage-type romance relationship. But now that she's watched the Doctor choose someone over her, she's free to *really* evaluate her love for him, plus the puppy-love will most likely disappear. The question is, will it be replaced? Does she continue to love him, knowing all she knows now? Is it worth it? In the end if she does decide it's worth it, you'll be seeing Rose with a much more "adult" love.
Of course, now we know that the Doctor did lie to Rose in School Reunion about not leaving her. And it could be he had no intention of lying, but that love makes you do things you'd never dream of. Hopefully this will give the Doctor a bit of clarity in addition to his future decision concerning Rose – if he chooses the "arm's length" with her, then he needs to *stop* saying things like he'll never leave her, etc. because then he's no better than what Rose has been doing to Mickey. And it's a pretty shitty thing to do.
And speaking of Mickey, this all could be setting up nicely for some sort of resolution with Rose and Mickey. Maybe Rose needed to feel exactly what Mickey's been feeling... Strike that. She *did* need to feel what Mickey's been feeling. It's called Karma.
Now a side note that I have to mention - I found it pretty hard to believe the insta-love. Maybe if it had been a two-parter or something. (Of course, feel free to write off my dissatisfaction due to my pre-conceived shipper insanity.) But clearly the writers needed to hit the fast forward button (hence mind-meld shortcut) to get the emotional punch that they wanted. (And that part was *heartbreaking*. OMG.) And because of my not believing the insta-love, the choice of the Madame over Rose felt a bit off. Although, if I can't understand why the Doctor did it, I can understand why the writers did it - they love love LOVE their parallels. (See Mickey.)
*sigh* I am sad for Doctor/Rose now. I don't think it's totally destroyed (and it may come out of it stronger), but it was definitely a SG-1 A Hundred Days episode, except take how Jack blows off Sam at the end and multiply that by 10.
Ow.