Belated thoughts on Dr Who
Jul. 9th, 2006 11:20 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
graculusJust call me an old cynic, but I was seriously disappointed with the second part of the season finale of Dr Who - after doing such a cracking job of setting up the whole Dalek v Cybermen thing, it felt like they rushed through dealing with it in order to cram in as much sickly sentimentality between Rose and the Doctor as they could muster.
On the Dr Who Confidential afterwards, it was clear that RTD is almost as smitten with Rose as he is with the whole Dr Who premise, which is a bit odd in my mind. To the point where he's saying 'oh, I never considered killing her off'. Pffft.
For everyone who shares your view, matey, there's those of us who could easily have lived without hideous amounts of running mascara and declarations of twu wuv. It seems like you go from one extreme to the other - you leave Jack behind to die and he never gets mentioned again, even in passing (hey, didn't I used to have someone else travelling with me as well?) and then you do this? *shudders*
I wanted Rose to die. There, I've come out and said it. Bring on the torches and pitchforks, I don't care! At times she was an excellent companion, with all the resilience and ability to push the plot forward you could ask for, but at other times her clinginess grated on me immensely and I'm glad she's out of the picture.
Like someone else has said, it's always been the nature of the Doctor that companions come and go and if anything the focus on this relationship above everything else hasn't always been positive. I loved it in the previous season when it was Rose and Jack and then Mickey turned up...
Anyway, that's enough for now... more later, maybe.
On the Dr Who Confidential afterwards, it was clear that RTD is almost as smitten with Rose as he is with the whole Dr Who premise, which is a bit odd in my mind. To the point where he's saying 'oh, I never considered killing her off'. Pffft.
For everyone who shares your view, matey, there's those of us who could easily have lived without hideous amounts of running mascara and declarations of twu wuv. It seems like you go from one extreme to the other - you leave Jack behind to die and he never gets mentioned again, even in passing (hey, didn't I used to have someone else travelling with me as well?) and then you do this? *shudders*
I wanted Rose to die. There, I've come out and said it. Bring on the torches and pitchforks, I don't care! At times she was an excellent companion, with all the resilience and ability to push the plot forward you could ask for, but at other times her clinginess grated on me immensely and I'm glad she's out of the picture.
Like someone else has said, it's always been the nature of the Doctor that companions come and go and if anything the focus on this relationship above everything else hasn't always been positive. I loved it in the previous season when it was Rose and Jack and then Mickey turned up...
Anyway, that's enough for now... more later, maybe.
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Date: 2006-07-09 12:19 pm (UTC)In RTD's defence, he does seem to have plans for addressing the 'abandoning Jack' thing, but I was thrown by the Children in Need 'episode' where the Doctor acknowledges that he knows Jack lived. If he knew that, why didn't he go back for him?
It only makes sense to have left Jack on the Game Station if the Doctor didn't realise he was alive or, if despite realising (after encountering the Time Vortex) that Jack was alive, he was so overcome that he promptly forgot and then, on the verge of regeneration, wasn't capable of making the decision to go back.
But for Rose to collude in that decision was weird too. Even if the Doctor was exhibiting one of his occasional personality disorders, she should have cared. After all, she brought him back to life! Die, Rose! Die!
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Date: 2006-07-09 12:26 pm (UTC)...Damn, the damn pipes are back. AAArgh!