Finished Doctor Who Season 2!

[laleia]

1. Okay so the Doctor/Rose was a lot heavier this season, and it was clear to me that the show ships Doctor/Rose and I am okay with that, but especially as I watched this series out of order and read a TON of fanfic (TRUFAX: reading fanfic before partaking of the canon severely influences your shipping tendencies while you watch the show) before actually sitting through and watching the first two seasons, I don't actually feel any of the Doctor/Rose love myself but am willing to accept that others do, and also to read fanfic for it. (Because I will read fanfic of virtually any pairing, even IF I find Doctor/Companion to be skeevy.)

2. Now that I have watched two seasons of Mickey, I am more okay with the Mickey/Martha endgame in that presumably Tom (who I haven't actually met) would have gone through life-altering events in an alternate universe in the Year That Wasn't, but didn't go through them in this universe, so there's a difference of experience. Whereas Mickey has had the life-altering experience of having to make decisions to save the world, and putting your life on the line everyday, etc. So while I am not happy about this (and really, the main reason I am not happy is because I have read so much lovely Martha/Tom fanfic), I understand it more. This coming from someone who hasn't even watched all the Martha episodes yet, much less the Tom ones! So I might change my mind again!

3. I think that the Doctor and Pete trying to make decisions for Rose and for Jackie is incredibly insulting. They should get to decide which universe they stay in, and not tricked into an alternate one. If Rose wants to stay on her world, and Jackie wants to stay with her, then neither the Doctor nor Pete has any right to make them do otherwise.

4. That being said, regardless of how important the Doctor has become to her, I completely disapprove of Rose choosing the Doctor over her mother. Obviously, I come from a very specific background, but I think family should come first almost all of the time. If you're choosing between your mother and a significant other, you need to choose your mother.

Obviously, there are numerous exceptions to this (if your parents suck, if they are terrible people, if they are very much in the wrong, etc.) and of course in the real world when you're making the "choice" between your family and a significant other, it's usually a false dichotomy because real life rarely has convenient parallel universe plot devices that mean you will never see each other again so any choices are usually imposed by a person rather than a law of the universe, and people can change.

Anyway, my point is that I don't think Rose should have chosen the Doctor over her mother, and probably a lot of this because I've never been in love and don't really believe in the idea of love, so I fail to see how you would choose your boyfriend over your mother in any situation. (I'm not including Pete as her parent because he's not, really.)

5. I actually like the idea of Rose/TenII better now although I recognize that there are still a ton of issues, but that's why I like fanfic that sits down and addresses all those issues in long, plotty detail.


Oh dear, Internet-isms that I have until now mostly observed have finally worked there way into my speech patterns. Er, writing patterns? Lj-post patterns? Regardless, I feel like I have been Internet-ified.