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[mrv3000]

You ever have an itch and think maybe, just maybe, you have leprosy?

I'm trying to do a DVD commentary of a DW New Adventures book, like I've done for other books (a sort of mild MST-ing of it.) But I'm realizing that it means I'd need to read it again, or at least scan through it as apparently I've blocked much of it. Of all the DW novels I've read, for this one I have near loathing. "The Price of Paradise" in case anyone was interested. I swear the author never saw a single Rose episode in his life. Yeah, characterization in these books is sometimes a bit off, but this was someone else entirely. But at least it makes for good MST-ing.



(Sadly, this book is supposed to take place AFTER The Satan Pit.)

The Doctor gets knocked unconscious but quickly comes to - Time Lord, after all - and slyly winks at Rose. Now, in the Doctor's mind and in normal!Rose's mind this wink would be mutually understood to mean, 'I'm okay. The plan is, you follow at a distance and liberate me from these idiots.' However, the wink to 13-year-old!Rose clearly meant, 'Don't mind me. You go off and have a date with jail bait.'

And so she does. She drinks pseudo coffee in a tent built for two, thinking how nice it is to go on a date with someone young and not that old guy who she's been traveling around with. What was his name again? He had to be at least 30, and that's OLD. And wasn't she supposed to do something about the old guy? Could be, but who could think when next to so much 17-year-old dreaminess?

Meanwhile, the Doctor has felt a disturbance in the Force, but isn't quite sure what to make of it. Could be that Rose ditched him to go on a date or it could be he has gas. The Force is rather vague.

Comments

[solielle.livejournal.com]

Heh.

I generally liked that book, but it had that line. You know the one. The "hugging was usually so uncool" line. Dude. Rose is nineteen, not twelve. What the hell?

[mrv3000.livejournal.com]

I generally liked that book, but it had that line. You know the one. The "hugging was usually so uncool" line. Dude. Rose is nineteen, not twelve. What the hell?

For me that line was just the straw that broke the camel's back. Through the whole thing she sounded 12 to me. (Or 13, as my little commentary's going.) Almost quit reading long before that line.

[solielle.livejournal.com]

I liked hooking the TARDIS up to an iPod on shuffle, though.

[mrv3000.livejournal.com]

Ha! Yeah! It started out pretty good, but for some reason Rose seemed to de-evolve once they landed.