You are welcome. Thank you for a lovely comment. Not too many people calling this one brilliant. But I did hope that readers would feel the bond between them. That's what I got out of Fear Her...that they had been knocking about the universe trying to think of happy places to go and enjoy one another's company.
Also, since Rose tells us she "made up her mind a long time ago" that she is never going to leave him. And yet, she didn't make the seriousness of it all clear to her mother. And...since we have Jackie lamenting how hard it is to be "the one left behind"...and we have that business in AoG of Rose keeping the extent of the relationship from her mother. I think it is very likely that the Doctor believed Jackie meant more to her than HE did. To me, all of it is an alien understanding of things.
He gets hit hard in AoG when it seems he can't protect Rose from anything. His lifestyle takes it's inevitable toll. This is another reason why I favor him going to Pete's World to live semi-quietly with Rose. It would keep her safe and allow him the life he's never had.
He loses her mother in Doomsday...and it must make him feel like he's destroyed Rose. Rose, herself, is in a room with the Daleks, sure to be exterminated. It must have seemed to him that getting her to a place of safety was the only way to keep her alive. Most people don't mention the extent of failure and pain he's facing in Doomsday BEFORE the loss of Rose. And if she had gone into the void...? He would have torn our world apart to reach her.
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Date: 2007-11-19 12:45 pm (UTC)Also, since Rose tells us she "made up her mind a long time ago" that she is never going to leave him. And yet, she didn't make the seriousness of it all clear to her mother. And...since we have Jackie lamenting how hard it is to be "the one left behind"...and we have that business in AoG of Rose keeping the extent of the relationship from her mother. I think it is very likely that the Doctor believed Jackie meant more to her than HE did. To me, all of it is an alien understanding of things.
He gets hit hard in AoG when it seems he can't protect Rose from anything. His lifestyle takes it's inevitable toll. This is another reason why I favor him going to Pete's World to live semi-quietly with Rose. It would keep her safe and allow him the life he's never had.
He loses her mother in Doomsday...and it must make him feel like he's destroyed Rose. Rose, herself, is in a room with the Daleks, sure to be exterminated. It must have seemed to him that getting her to a place of safety was the only way to keep her alive. Most people don't mention the extent of failure and pain he's facing in Doomsday BEFORE the loss of Rose. And if she had gone into the void...? He would have torn our world apart to reach her.
Rae