I rather like the times when nothing really happens. We've now reached exactly the point in S2 that hooked me on both reading and writing fanfic. Not Doomsday, but the massive subtext between the glimpsed intimacies of FH, in particular (it's still my favourite ep). A part of me never wants stuff to happen - for that, I have the DVDs. I love the way they've had space to grow into a much more established and complex relationship. In that sense, it's already AU. And consistent with the feel of S3, I think. He wasn't a lover who'd never plucked up courage to declare his love. He was a full-blown grieving widower.
One thing that hits me is how much Rose is changing, and has already changed, and the impossibility of ever going back. That's a frequent theme with DW companions, but particularly Rose because of her unusual openness to the alien and her instinctive grasp of it. (Incidentally, you capture the dynamics of the gender war as applied to a teacher/pupil relationship and different learning styles quite brilliantly).
Army of Ghosts mentioned those changes, and if we get through to a reunion, it'll be with the air well and truly cleared, and Rose released into her life with the Doctor in a way she never would otherwise be.
One final point - the way you write about the TARDIS is quite beautiful and I've seen something similar happening in the design department on TV, not only between Classic and DW but over the entire NW arc. Desktop theme, indeed. Has the Moff no soul?
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One thing that hits me is how much Rose is changing, and has already changed, and the impossibility of ever going back. That's a frequent theme with DW companions, but particularly Rose because of her unusual openness to the alien and her instinctive grasp of it. (Incidentally, you capture the dynamics of the gender war as applied to a teacher/pupil relationship and different learning styles quite brilliantly).
Army of Ghosts mentioned those changes, and if we get through to a reunion, it'll be with the air well and truly cleared, and Rose released into her life with the Doctor in a way she never would otherwise be.
One final point - the way you write about the TARDIS is quite beautiful and I've seen something similar happening in the design department on TV, not only between Classic and DW but over the entire NW arc. Desktop theme, indeed. Has the Moff no soul?