And, of course, I agree! The awful bind as you put it...really does test the integrity. And I can't even bear the idea of Rose and Ten 2 going through their lives together simply because they had no other choice. He would always know that he wasn't the one she wanted. She would always be straining after something that was really just there...touchable and, yet, out of reach.
More that not appreciating that love is about the OTHER not the self...I also think that the people who wholeheartedly embrace Ten2/Rose can't possibly understand grief. I've lost people that I loved and it hurts to even go through old photos and video. I can't imagine the bitter ashes of having a living breathing copy of them...that wasn't QUITE them. I call that particularly heartless of RTD to even conceive of such a thing. But I do take a lot of comfort in the fact that he KNOWS that it was the wrong thing to do. <<--Even if he doesn't fix it, I think that puts him miles ahead of those people who can't tell that it is completely out of character for Rose.
It isn't, to my way of thinking, so very out of character for HER Doctor, though. I do think that he has himself pretty well convinced by the time he takes Rose back that he is giving her the better man. I would imagine he convinced himself that Rose would rather have the other him in the long run...than simply hang about in the TARDIS. And he has shown a marked tendency to run away from pain and put people in gilded cages...and decide things of import, all on his own...starting with the toppling of Harriet Jones in his very first adventure. I don't think that he made a good choice for HIMSELF either, though.
Again, those who miss the point think that he just didn't want to be with Rose...but I feel that he'd simply taken too many blows at that point from the return of Davros giving him that flashback, then...running to Rose, being shot down, the capture of all his friends, the TARDIS broiled, losing Donna, being told that he wasn't good for anyone while he was still grieving for Donna and the TARDIS...seeing himself acting out a genocide again...knowing Donna was going to burn up and something must be done about Ten 2...and only Rose could be trusted with him.
He's been under a lot of stress and Rose, as a good helpmate, isn't going to just figure he'll work it out on his own...she's going to make sure he's not heading off the deep end. A deep end we now ALL know he was indeed heading toward.
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Date: 2009-12-24 06:12 am (UTC)More that not appreciating that love is about the OTHER not the self...I also think that the people who wholeheartedly embrace Ten2/Rose can't possibly understand grief. I've lost people that I loved and it hurts to even go through old photos and video. I can't imagine the bitter ashes of having a living breathing copy of them...that wasn't QUITE them. I call that particularly heartless of RTD to even conceive of such a thing. But I do take a lot of comfort in the fact that he KNOWS that it was the wrong thing to do. <<--Even if he doesn't fix it, I think that puts him miles ahead of those people who can't tell that it is completely out of character for Rose.
It isn't, to my way of thinking, so very out of character for HER Doctor, though. I do think that he has himself pretty well convinced by the time he takes Rose back that he is giving her the better man. I would imagine he convinced himself that Rose would rather have the other him in the long run...than simply hang about in the TARDIS. And he has shown a marked tendency to run away from pain and put people in gilded cages...and decide things of import, all on his own...starting with the toppling of Harriet Jones in his very first adventure. I don't think that he made a good choice for HIMSELF either, though.
Again, those who miss the point think that he just didn't want to be with Rose...but I feel that he'd simply taken too many blows at that point from the return of Davros giving him that flashback, then...running to Rose, being shot down, the capture of all his friends, the TARDIS broiled, losing Donna, being told that he wasn't good for anyone while he was still grieving for Donna and the TARDIS...seeing himself acting out a genocide again...knowing Donna was going to burn up and something must be done about Ten 2...and only Rose could be trusted with him.
He's been under a lot of stress and Rose, as a good helpmate, isn't going to just figure he'll work it out on his own...she's going to make sure he's not heading off the deep end. A deep end we now ALL know he was indeed heading toward.