Two nice Doctor/Rose quotes from Richard Bach

[rabid1st]

I was chatting and the idea came up about the Doctor setting Rose free.

"If you love someone, set them free. If they come back to you they are yours. If they don't they never were."

I think the Doctor needs to come back to Rose at this point...because she's come back to him enough times to prove she is "his."

And that led me to THIS Richard Bach quote...which explains why...for the good of the show...in this time of change and hiatus...the Doctor should return to Rose.

"Until you make room in your life for someone as important to you as yourself, you will always be searching and lost."

He will always be...searching and lost...as he is at the end of JE. It's a dead end for the character to reach this point. Hopefully, it is only a false ending.

Rae

Comments

[purecreation.livejournal.com]

*sigh* One can hope. :(

[maniacalshen.livejournal.com]

Agreed. Because right now, everyone's in a state of... well, look at my icon.

[princessblue791.livejournal.com]

Well I keep hearing rumors of one the specials revovling around Rose stopping the Doctor. It supposidly will be called "Rose Tyler Defender of Earth". God only knows though. I don't know how RTD plans on dragging in the masses for the specials. Rose is the only answer.

[nightbeast.livejournal.com]

I've heard the first one before. While the sentiment is true of Rose's affections - he sent her away and she came back - it's not necessarily true of the Doctor. Rose has never let the Doctor go and the one in brown never returned to her.

There's also the issue of the Doctor loving Jack and SJS, because they came back to him, too. In fact, he had a huge family in JE and they all returned to their domestic lives; some more willing than others.

The second quote could apply to Donna as well, for she became his Time Lord equal. In the Doctor's mind, Earth would crumble without his supervision, so having someone so suited to his career would be important to him.

The Doctor is like Queen Elizabeth I of England. She couldn't wed the man she wanted to because circumstance kept them apart. Elizabeth I was 'married to England' and after a reign of everyone taking proverbial shots at her, she died the 'virgin Queen.' Hell, even Shakespeare undermined her while she reigned!

*Attempts to distract you with Hamlet pictures*

[nightbeast.livejournal.com]

... and thinking about it a bit more, the first one applies to Donna, too. He asked her to come with him after their first encounter; he didn't keep asking, he just let her go. Only for Donna to wake up Boxing Day and think she couldn't imagine her life without the Doctor. She even made a go at living without him before seeking him out. Donna is 'his.' Even if he viewed it as 'mine to do as I please' but not even Rose was exempt from that.

I quirk my eyebrow at the RTD interview where he says he's set the show up for the next twenty years. He probably means to turn the Doctor into the Valeyard in that time and has thought of twenty years worth of ideas to wear the good Doctor out. Whether anyone will actually continue to watch that path is another matter entirely.