Yes, I know not deeply original but now instead of just mouthing it, I'm really feeling it. It started I think, on reading Paul Cornell's entry about Doctor Who canon and finding after a decade that all novels and Big Finish Audios on Eight are now considered non-canon now that DW series is back in BBC.
Then I read the recent Big Issue article on Billie Piper where Billie says that she's finally moved on from the Rose Tyler, meaning, I think, she can now play other roles besides the Doctor's companion.
It hit me that I can let go -- that if Billie's zen about it I can also be zen about it.
So, now, I came up to the following conclusions: Doctor Who is like comics. It has parallel universes and conflicting canons that I can just pick and choose, that my Rose can go on having adventures in zeppelins with Mickey and Jake and no one can contradict that because a) closed canon (for now) and b) it's my mileage.
Speaking of Paul Cornell, he was the one writer I missed during S2 -- I loved Father's Day and I loved it being so emotionally fraught for both Rose and Nine and that they actually came to conflict there. I think he was the one writer missing from the S2 line-up and looking at the DW S3 trailer especially the 'Only Human' part of the trailer S2 would have benefited from his writing.
Paul knows how to write Rose being believably human and making mistakes and yet, making it work. She doesn't come out as smug or incompetent just naive and wanting so, so very much to have the one thing she cannot have and have it bite her in the ass. He can write conflict and making relationships deeper and... all the other things.
I'm not expressing this well I do know that I miss Paul Cornell.
Oh, and S3 trailer? I know I'm going to love it! And I'm going to love Martha (as I suspected) I only wished they did these storylines in S2 because while I like the happy-hoppy-traveling vibes I'd have loved more dark stories -- more stories like Satan Pit/Impossible Planet. Plus, oh! Spoiler and Spoiler were there!
While the Doctor has his own adventures with his new shiny companion, Rose is definitely having her own now, possibly involving blowing things-up and jumping off cliffs!
Plus, all thanks to
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livii I am very much now a Rose/Benton shipper! And I don't even know who Benton is!ETA: I see Guardian made a 5 Best Companions list and Rose made it to number 2! Yay, Rose! I'm always up for some Rose love!
THE FIVE BEST
1. Sarah-Jane Smith (Elisabeth Sladen, 1973-6; recurring)
Come the 70s, feminism was making the Doctor Who girl's prime function of getting rescued look anachronistic. Enter feisty investigative journalist Sarah-Jane, who would challenge the Doctor clutching a notepad (as well as getting rescued). Elisabeth Sladen's jolly-hockey-sticks good nature made her the best-loved companion of all. She returned in last year's School Reunion a lonely spinster, unable to adjust to life on Earth after 20 years. After saving the world one more time, Sarah-Jane turned down the chance to re-join the Tardis, instead finding new adventure on Earth in CBBC spin-off The Sarah-Jane Adventures http://www.shannonsullivan.com/drwho/sarahjane.html . Go girl!
2. Rose Tyler (Billie Piper, 2005-6)
For the series' emo re-fit, Rose Tyler taught the Doctor to love and gave him a new family and place to belong following the off-screen destruction of his home planet, Gallifrey. She proved that a shop assistant with no A-levels was more than a match for an alien genius; a courageous heart to foil his cold rationale. Her exit saw her get her family back, but meant they were trapped on a parallel world: her final farewell at Bad Wolf Bay was 2006's most devastating TV scene http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HB-s5HK8Za0 .
And, hah! How on the nose was the 'emo re-fit'? Description, huh? Heee.
