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rabid1stBy this time EVERYONE who even occasionally reads my blog knows what I think should happen in Ten's final episode. But...the real crux of the issue is what writer/producer (and all around Father Christmas) Russell T. Davies thinks. So, does Russell think that Rose/Ten should be honored with a happy for her lifetime ending? I've quoted him before...but let's look at what he just told the Times Online was the absolute #1 thing he loved about his reign as show runner...
1 Rose and the Doctor’s final goodbye, Doomsday (2006)
The Doctor burns up a sun to say goodbye to Rose. I love this because it happens in the episode where the Daleks and Cybermen meet for the first time. The ultimate intergalactic smackdown — but the whole thing’s a romantic weepie in disguise! Ha ha! After we’d shot it, David and Billie had to go and have a good hug in the van. But I always knew I’d have to split up the Doctor and Rose — they were devoted to each other, there’s no way she’d go and marry King of the Zobulans, or stay at home with mum. So that huge, huge plot of parallel universes — Daleks one side, Cybermen the other, Earth in the middle and all that — only existed to put two characters on either side of a wall. You sort of work backwards, really.
And again...there's this quote from The Writer's Tale...RTD, himself, tells us that Bad Wolf Bay 2 is not going to work.
"That scene doesn’t work. I have always known that, from the moment I typed it out, but I don’t know how to fix it. Rose has to be stupid to fall in love with Doctor 2. No matter what I do, that’s not her Doctor. I can Elastoplast over it by saying that Doctor 2 needs Rose, but that’s slight. You don’t feel that….
….One thing I do know: this isn’t a couple-of-lines rewrite…There’s no sentence that will paper over the cracks. It’s a plot rewrite. I’ve got the story wrong. And that’s massive, potentially."
Yes, this is absolutely right...there is no way she'd give up on HER Doctor! No way! RTD got that bit wrong. Rose and Ten are devoted to one another. And they would accept no substitutes. So...to fix it...you have to work backwards from what SHOULD have happened.
Ten isn't happy. We can certainly all see that now. Assume Rose is not happy. How do you fix it? Imagine what it would take to...well...switch Doctors and give Rose HER Doctor for the happy ending he really does deserve.
You will see that Donna's metacrisis must go wrong...and who else do we know that could have had a metacrisis go wrong? The Master. And can they get Billie to do one more cameo appearance? And does this mean that the current Doctor isn't the real Doctor anymore? Shouldn't he be dead and in the Doctor Who Afterlife...with the other people that we know are dead in our universe...Pete, Jackie and Rose? And, heck, maybe even the Time Lords? You can't cheat at regeneration like Ten cheated, can you? Isn't it all going wrong?
So, it's not IF it should be done?
It's only a question of how do you do it?
The end scene is there...Ten and Rose are devoted to one another and finally reunited...nothing, not even an unbreachable wall can keep them apart...and so...the scene is him running to her...and sweeping her into his arms...they kiss...and then they walk away holding hands or arm-in-arm. That's the proper ending, so work backwards from there, I say.
Speaking of working backward...I went looking for the RTD quote from The Writer's Tale and I found a post of mine from March, 2009...reading it you can see why every recent headline has set my heart to pitter-pattering and raised my pony hopes.
http://rabid1st.livejournal.com/207128.html#cutid1
1 Rose and the Doctor’s final goodbye, Doomsday (2006)
The Doctor burns up a sun to say goodbye to Rose. I love this because it happens in the episode where the Daleks and Cybermen meet for the first time. The ultimate intergalactic smackdown — but the whole thing’s a romantic weepie in disguise! Ha ha! After we’d shot it, David and Billie had to go and have a good hug in the van. But I always knew I’d have to split up the Doctor and Rose — they were devoted to each other, there’s no way she’d go and marry King of the Zobulans, or stay at home with mum. So that huge, huge plot of parallel universes — Daleks one side, Cybermen the other, Earth in the middle and all that — only existed to put two characters on either side of a wall. You sort of work backwards, really.
And again...there's this quote from The Writer's Tale...RTD, himself, tells us that Bad Wolf Bay 2 is not going to work.
"That scene doesn’t work. I have always known that, from the moment I typed it out, but I don’t know how to fix it. Rose has to be stupid to fall in love with Doctor 2. No matter what I do, that’s not her Doctor. I can Elastoplast over it by saying that Doctor 2 needs Rose, but that’s slight. You don’t feel that….
….One thing I do know: this isn’t a couple-of-lines rewrite…There’s no sentence that will paper over the cracks. It’s a plot rewrite. I’ve got the story wrong. And that’s massive, potentially."
Yes, this is absolutely right...there is no way she'd give up on HER Doctor! No way! RTD got that bit wrong. Rose and Ten are devoted to one another. And they would accept no substitutes. So...to fix it...you have to work backwards from what SHOULD have happened.
Ten isn't happy. We can certainly all see that now. Assume Rose is not happy. How do you fix it? Imagine what it would take to...well...switch Doctors and give Rose HER Doctor for the happy ending he really does deserve.
You will see that Donna's metacrisis must go wrong...and who else do we know that could have had a metacrisis go wrong? The Master. And can they get Billie to do one more cameo appearance? And does this mean that the current Doctor isn't the real Doctor anymore? Shouldn't he be dead and in the Doctor Who Afterlife...with the other people that we know are dead in our universe...Pete, Jackie and Rose? And, heck, maybe even the Time Lords? You can't cheat at regeneration like Ten cheated, can you? Isn't it all going wrong?
So, it's not IF it should be done?
It's only a question of how do you do it?
The end scene is there...Ten and Rose are devoted to one another and finally reunited...nothing, not even an unbreachable wall can keep them apart...and so...the scene is him running to her...and sweeping her into his arms...they kiss...and then they walk away holding hands or arm-in-arm. That's the proper ending, so work backwards from there, I say.
Speaking of working backward...I went looking for the RTD quote from The Writer's Tale and I found a post of mine from March, 2009...reading it you can see why every recent headline has set my heart to pitter-pattering and raised my pony hopes.
http://rabid1st.livejournal.com/207128.html#cutid1