grimorie | Thoughts before watching Runaway Bride (Reply)

I'm feeling a bit ambivalent about watching Runaway Bride. I suppose I'm feeling what all the old Who fans felt in one form or another. I came in watching Nine and Rose and I loved them together, loved, loved. I fell in love with Chris Eccleston's Nine and Billie Piper's Rose.

The main thing I missed about Rose and the Doctor's relationship is Rose's 'Yeah, you don't impress me' teasing attitude. And the way she always laughed at him and the way they shared the wonder of traveling through time and space.

Now that Rose is gone, someone I consider my point of view character I'm really of two minds. I've been hearing a lot about RB and reading a lot of not complimentary things said about Rose which makes me feel uncomfortable. Rose isn't a horrible person or particularly naive and all the points the other fans seems to love about Donna Rose had with Nine. Except for the hitting, that's a Jackie specialty but Rose sure threatened doing that.

I wonder if the writers why they deliberately wrote Rose the way they did in series 2? Did they need Ten to lose Rose first
before getting dark?

And I don't particularly like how they wrote Rose being a deliberate jerk to Mickey. First of all, yeah, Rose seems to forget about Mickey but she's never that oblivious to his feelings, not to a very great extent. Rose was the one constantly admonishing the Doctor to stop picking on Mickey.

But, what I think I liked about series one too was that Rose was the one doing a Captain Kirk -- Mickey, Adam, Captain Jack. Pure Kirk! It was fun seeing the male lead actually stew and glare at Rose's collection.

I missed Rose's flirty bantering with other men and Rose's smirk-y 'You're stuck with me now. Hah!' laugh at the Doctor at the end of World War III.

'Get it together, Rose.'

I've also been reading a lot of post-Doomsday fanfic and I think I'm developing an aversion where Rose becomes this sobbing woman whenever the Doctor's mentioned and suddenly she's jumping at the chance to travel with the Doctor forgetting all her responsibilities. Sure she did that when she was nineteen. Just like any other 19 year old traveling around the world would do.

But for jeebus' sake, by the time the Doctor and Rose will (if ever) get together again, she'd be older and with a lot more responsibilities especially if she's in Torchwood and there would be a lot more things tying her to Parallel Earth than just Jackie and Mickey. Quite probably she'd also have a bloke.

I guess, if RTD and Billie Piper decides to have Rose again in as a guest in an episode I want to see Rose doing very well in the Parallel Earth, living a fantastic life, and not at all pining for the Doctor. Sure, she misses that life because really traveling through time and space is still a very different, hard to top adventure.

But when the Doctor offers a chance to travel again, Rose will turn him down, not unkindly. She'll be torn, cut-up inside but she's not gonna let that affect her because as opposed to her younger self, now, she has responsibilities and more people to take care of.

And the Doctor will look at her and nod, and say quietly and proudly. "Quite right too."