My first cap is the happy face Blue makes when Brown and SJS are looking at the monitor, hence splicing the shots together. :) It compares well to the happy face he gives when it's Brown and Rose looking at the monitor. Brown and Blue smile at everyone on the TARDIS.
It doesn't surprise me Brown never smiles greatly at Blue and Rose together. It must hurt terribly to give up the woman you love to someone who is so similar to you. But again, Brown and Blue have very similar body language on the beach; closed off. If Blue has Brown's feelings and thoughts, then maybe Brown isn't suited to the 'one adventure he can never have.'
I don't have the health to go watch TCI and see how long it took for Rose to snuggle up to the new boy, and then compare it to the beach scene here. I do feel that given a few more seconds, they would have touched more. But imagine if TCI had gone differently, that Eccleston and Tennant were on screen together. Who would have Rose run after? I think she would have gone for the shape and colour clothes she was used to, and stared warily at this skinny boy in a suit. Yet, there was only Ten, and now in a sealed off parallel there's only Blue, and she will learn the new him all over again. The writers tell us that whoever the companion favours is still the Doctor, which is why Rose accepted Ten in TCI so quickly; time constraints. Maybe her running after Brown is telling us he's the Doctor the audience moves on with.
The main difference between this season finale and S3 is who's making the decisions. The Master chose to leave the Doctor, as did Martha. That's the life he's used to, people leaving him. But here, he's the one making people stay away from him. His decision and his morose to live with it. It should be a temporary thing, a knee jerk reaction to being told he turns people into weapons. I'm sure by Christmas without a companion he's heading for the proverbial airlock and will realise companions save him. Judging by the spoilers, there is some comment about how the Doctor treats his companions and he'll get a reality check that he doesn't want to be that sort of man.
I do agree that this ending feels wrong, because I don't like what Brown is turning into. And I like reading your Humperdinck. :)
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I think it's wrong, too
Date: 2008-07-23 11:21 am (UTC)It doesn't surprise me Brown never smiles greatly at Blue and Rose together. It must hurt terribly to give up the woman you love to someone who is so similar to you. But again, Brown and Blue have very similar body language on the beach; closed off. If Blue has Brown's feelings and thoughts, then maybe Brown isn't suited to the 'one adventure he can never have.'
I don't have the health to go watch TCI and see how long it took for Rose to snuggle up to the new boy, and then compare it to the beach scene here. I do feel that given a few more seconds, they would have touched more. But imagine if TCI had gone differently, that Eccleston and Tennant were on screen together. Who would have Rose run after? I think she would have gone for the shape and colour clothes she was used to, and stared warily at this skinny boy in a suit. Yet, there was only Ten, and now in a sealed off parallel there's only Blue, and she will learn the new him all over again. The writers tell us that whoever the companion favours is still the Doctor, which is why Rose accepted Ten in TCI so quickly; time constraints. Maybe her running after Brown is telling us he's the Doctor the audience moves on with.
The main difference between this season finale and S3 is who's making the decisions. The Master chose to leave the Doctor, as did Martha. That's the life he's used to, people leaving him. But here, he's the one making people stay away from him. His decision and his morose to live with it. It should be a temporary thing, a knee jerk reaction to being told he turns people into weapons. I'm sure by Christmas without a companion he's heading for the proverbial airlock and will realise companions save him. Judging by the spoilers, there is some comment about how the Doctor treats his companions and he'll get a reality check that he doesn't want to be that sort of man.
I do agree that this ending feels wrong, because I don't like what Brown is turning into. And I like reading your Humperdinck. :)