Pony Pep Talk Needed...ARRGGH!

[rabid1st]

I have had a premonition of a pony-free Christmas as RTD and company start giving interviews about The Next Doctor all over the interwebs.

It took hold of me for no good reason. I have no additional spoiler news or anything, so don't fret over that. Suddenly, I just saw RTD talking up something that was completely ordinary (The Next Doctor) and I thought...he's not going to come through for us. He just doesn't get it. Though he did say he's getting better at hiding information from the press and fans.

I think this sudden loss of faith comes from the confidence they are showing going to Comic Con. They have what they think is an epic finale in the bag and they are ready to face questions from the audience with no fear of influence, no possiblity of second guessing themselves. I have to wonder what sort of reception they are going to get from the fans. Obviously, there is a lot of ill will about Donna, but most of the Rose-lovers seem to have given up the ship. I don't know...maybe this has all just gone on too long for me to keep being optimistic.

Someone give me a pep talk.

Depressing Pessimists are NOT welcome!

:grin:

Comments

Re: For those fans

[rabid1st.livejournal.com]

Again, I say to you...that's the thing! Amen!

Rose deserves to be happy away from this emo dude" but if that's the case she should be finding her own life and living it as she chooses, not fulfilling the mandate laid down by the Doctor.

I would think the LAST thing she would want is a reminder that she was the biggest fool in the universe just...hanging around in her life. I know...I know...that the 10.5/Rose lovers are all about him being the same man and Rose automatically loving him. But...wouldn't she EVER think about the man who left her...about this man being capable of such callous behavior...about HOW he is with her only because they were trapped together and HE really has nobody else?

I just don't see true love being sustainable under those circumstances. And I think those fans are simply going with the motivation of..."It's this way because it can't be any other way and so Rose will accept it...because that's how RTD wrote it." And this is the exact attitude RTD challenges in his book...when he points out that it is ONLY that way because he wrote it that way.

As a writer, I completely understand what he's saying. We can play God with our characters and make them do anything we want...but it isn't always what the CHARACTER would chose to do...and when we do that...when our plot demands that the characters behave in a way that is alien to them...we fail as writers. RTD says in his book...that the end of JE was a failure. And I think he means BEFORE he changed it, when it was still a passionate kiss on the beach and a happy Doctor.

I believe RTD was heading, all along, for the concept of WHY the companion is necessary. I believe he was heading there from the very first episode. Then, however, he fell in love with Rose...and so did his Doctor and RTD found he couldn't stop writing the Doctor in love (something else he says in his book). So, basically, I think RTD might have been heading toward the idea that the Doctor shouldn't be alone...but I hope NOW, he's come to understand that he also cannot separate him from Rose in this way.

Rae

I went on the journey

[fidesangelus.livejournal.com]

with RTD because I believed his characters. I believed these people he created were real in being people you cheered for, people you cared about because they were authentic and flawed and interesting. Their story mattered because they mattered to the viewers. By writing JE the way he did I feel it went against everything he'd written and developed before and yes, he has that right as the author, the story teller, to do as he wishes but I have the right as a viewer, as the audience, to call 'bullshit'. A story teller asks you to suspend your own reality and journey with them into one of their own creation. The Doctor and Rose love each other. Everything established by RTD in their reality says this and JE didn't even change this in my view. Doomsday destroyed people but it was true to the characters. The only possible way they would ever be separated would be if being together was physically impossible. The Doctor choosing to abandon Rose went against all of the promises he'd made before and against the love he clearly feels even if he can't express it. Ten said 10.2 needed Rose, to heal him because he was born in battle and full of anger, but honestly I feel Ten needs Rose to heal him of the grief of loosing her in Doomsday. Rose heals the Doctor and what we've seen of the Doctor since JE clearly shows us how broken he really is.