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rabid1stIt has been suggested (quite fairly, I admit) that I am getting people's hopes up when they are almost certain to be left crushed and broken by the piles of manure and bundles of socks that shall rain down on them from the sky on New Year's Day as The End of Time reaches its inevitably dark conclusion.
I will acknowledge that the odds are running at a steady 50/50 for our pony actually arriving as we hope he will. Which is why today's icon is only 1/2 of a Pony! On the one hand, we have all of the peripheral plotlines in place to pull off a pony surprise to delight and amaze. On the other hand, we have Children of Earth, Journey's End and the sad excuse of tradition for RTD to fall back on if he gives us socks.
Let's see if we can be soothed a bit by a few RTD quotes...
"As the Doctor has said himself, what's the point of seeing the whole of the cosmos and all of history if there's no one to share it with, no one to join in with the wonder and awe, no one's hand to hold when it gets terrifying? Underneath all the Doctor's wit and vigour, I think there's quite a lonely man, the last of his kind, wandering inside the only Tardis in existence. He needs companionship."
RAE pipes up to say...
But solving his dilemma of lonliness with an eye opening experience in the finale or a simple acceptance of his fate at this late date...seems a bit slap happy and hard to swallow. He should have started healing in the middle of last season, if you don't mean to give us something really, solidly DIFFERENT. Driving the Doctor to this point only to sweep it all under the carpet again...seems like a huge cop out on storytelling to me.
RTD AGAIN
"In return, the Doctor offers his companions the trip of a lifetime. He changes their lives, mostly for the better," says Davies. "We've seen Donna undergo the biggest change of all. She's discovered the compassion inside her, the intelligence, and the bravery that a Chiswick temp wouldn't normally have the chance to show. At the beginning, Donna was fantastically self-absorbed - superficial, brash, and perceiving herself only in terms of her marital status." Season four's episode, Turn Left, shows "what would have happened if the Doctor hadn't liberated her from that."
RAE...
Well...let's see! Is she liberated? She's back where she started, even planning to marry again. Only, of course, NOW she's sad and doesn't know why. She's "making due"...because she has no other choice.
RTD about Rose and the Doctor
"The Doctor and Rose just complete each other," says Davies. "She had a humdrum life, with horizons no further than the chip shop, and he showed her the universe. She'd been so fiercely loyal to her mum, Jackie, and her boyfriend, Mickey, that she'd rarely looked beyond the confines of her council estate. Life with the Doctor allowed her to unlock all the passion and adventure inside her, though my favourite thing about Rose is that she was never a saint. She always kept a fantastic, ruthless, selfish streak at heart, which helped her to survive and never give up.
"At the same time, the Doctor was damaged and scarred, after the Time War, and Rose taught him compassion again. She took the Doctor from being an introverted loner, who'd run away from any contact with her family, to the man who sat down and had Christmas dinner with Jackie and Mickey. In a way, she healed him, and made the Tenth Doctor out of the Ninth, which forged an incredible bond between them."
But is it love? "It's certainly some sort of love," replies Davies, "but sometimes I think this gets massively overstated. If you look at all the lovey-dovey dialogue between them, over two years and 27 episodes, it amounted to three slight hints and no proper kisses." Hang on, their lips locked twice! "But one was a vortex transfer," insists Davies, "and the other a body swap! Not what I'd call kisses."
RAE...agreeing...
Those weren't what I would call proper kisses either. But what is he hinting at here, by saying we have three slight hints? Certainly, people do overstate the amount of romance RTD put in the show when it comes to actual lines of dialogue...but there is no denying the undercurrent of his writing definitely leads us to the conclusion that the Doctor and Rose love one another and that love is unique in the Doctor's experience so far.
Proof that RTD is cagey...
At the end of Series Two, when the Doctor left her on Bad Wolf Bay, in a parallel universe, Rose told him that she loved him. Before he'd finished his reply, he was cut off. Will we ever find out what the Doctor was going to say? "Maybe," grins Davies, "in this year's series finale. That conversation on Bad Wolf Bay has yet to be resolved, but it's by no means forgotten."
The Doctor must have missed Rose enormously? "Just wait till you see his face, when he claps eyes on her again! She was always very special to him, but I don't think he realises how much until he learns of her return."
Rose's defining scene?
"A lot of people would choose the Bad Wolf Bay scene, but for me it's the scene in The Satan Pit where Rose thinks that the Doctor is dead, ten miles below the planet's surface, with no means of reaching him, and the whole planet is about to fall into a black hole, the murderous Ood are on the rampage…but still she won't leave. The spaceship is about to depart, but she won't abandon the Doctor. She's both selfish and selfless in the same moment. It's the most beautiful, heart-wrenching performance from Billie."
RAE adds...
You can see here and in the quotes above that RTD admires the fact that Rose never gives up on the Doctor. This scene from The Satan Pit is one of the reasons that I have gone on believing in the Pony! It is out of character for Rose to simply give up on HER Doctor. She's too stubborn for that and both selfless and selfish. She would be selfish with Ten 2...denying him the comfort some fans see her giving him...but she would be completely selfless in trying to return to the war battered and lonely Doctor that she loves. That is just who ROSE TYLER is.
BILLIE PIPER ADDS...
" Sometimes you need someone to shake you and stop you in your tracks and make you look at what's going on around you and make you want to be a better person…Rose and the Doctor teach each other. She's quite closed off from the world, but she could, potentially, be someone brilliant. He shows her how to do that. And equally, she shows him how to be sympathetic, how to have morals and show and express his emotions."
And back to RTD...
"And they love one another...absolutely, unreservedly."
AND...RAE...
So, if I have mislead you all...I am sorry. I can only say I have not mislead you on the proper end of this story. There is a way to have the Doctor always tempered by the extraordinary Donna. And to bring Ten home to the woman who completes him and who he loves unreservedly. SWITCH DOCTORS! Let the new, new, new Doctor get the rest of Ten's regenerations and go on...carrying a bit of Donna with him always...remembering that he IS the Doctor, but no longer burdened by the darkness and pain of the past.
If John Simm is The Master--then Ten 2 can be The Doctor.
PONY!
I will acknowledge that the odds are running at a steady 50/50 for our pony actually arriving as we hope he will. Which is why today's icon is only 1/2 of a Pony! On the one hand, we have all of the peripheral plotlines in place to pull off a pony surprise to delight and amaze. On the other hand, we have Children of Earth, Journey's End and the sad excuse of tradition for RTD to fall back on if he gives us socks.
Let's see if we can be soothed a bit by a few RTD quotes...
"As the Doctor has said himself, what's the point of seeing the whole of the cosmos and all of history if there's no one to share it with, no one to join in with the wonder and awe, no one's hand to hold when it gets terrifying? Underneath all the Doctor's wit and vigour, I think there's quite a lonely man, the last of his kind, wandering inside the only Tardis in existence. He needs companionship."
RAE pipes up to say...
But solving his dilemma of lonliness with an eye opening experience in the finale or a simple acceptance of his fate at this late date...seems a bit slap happy and hard to swallow. He should have started healing in the middle of last season, if you don't mean to give us something really, solidly DIFFERENT. Driving the Doctor to this point only to sweep it all under the carpet again...seems like a huge cop out on storytelling to me.
RTD AGAIN
"In return, the Doctor offers his companions the trip of a lifetime. He changes their lives, mostly for the better," says Davies. "We've seen Donna undergo the biggest change of all. She's discovered the compassion inside her, the intelligence, and the bravery that a Chiswick temp wouldn't normally have the chance to show. At the beginning, Donna was fantastically self-absorbed - superficial, brash, and perceiving herself only in terms of her marital status." Season four's episode, Turn Left, shows "what would have happened if the Doctor hadn't liberated her from that."
RAE...
Well...let's see! Is she liberated? She's back where she started, even planning to marry again. Only, of course, NOW she's sad and doesn't know why. She's "making due"...because she has no other choice.
RTD about Rose and the Doctor
"The Doctor and Rose just complete each other," says Davies. "She had a humdrum life, with horizons no further than the chip shop, and he showed her the universe. She'd been so fiercely loyal to her mum, Jackie, and her boyfriend, Mickey, that she'd rarely looked beyond the confines of her council estate. Life with the Doctor allowed her to unlock all the passion and adventure inside her, though my favourite thing about Rose is that she was never a saint. She always kept a fantastic, ruthless, selfish streak at heart, which helped her to survive and never give up.
"At the same time, the Doctor was damaged and scarred, after the Time War, and Rose taught him compassion again. She took the Doctor from being an introverted loner, who'd run away from any contact with her family, to the man who sat down and had Christmas dinner with Jackie and Mickey. In a way, she healed him, and made the Tenth Doctor out of the Ninth, which forged an incredible bond between them."
But is it love? "It's certainly some sort of love," replies Davies, "but sometimes I think this gets massively overstated. If you look at all the lovey-dovey dialogue between them, over two years and 27 episodes, it amounted to three slight hints and no proper kisses." Hang on, their lips locked twice! "But one was a vortex transfer," insists Davies, "and the other a body swap! Not what I'd call kisses."
RAE...agreeing...
Those weren't what I would call proper kisses either. But what is he hinting at here, by saying we have three slight hints? Certainly, people do overstate the amount of romance RTD put in the show when it comes to actual lines of dialogue...but there is no denying the undercurrent of his writing definitely leads us to the conclusion that the Doctor and Rose love one another and that love is unique in the Doctor's experience so far.
Proof that RTD is cagey...
At the end of Series Two, when the Doctor left her on Bad Wolf Bay, in a parallel universe, Rose told him that she loved him. Before he'd finished his reply, he was cut off. Will we ever find out what the Doctor was going to say? "Maybe," grins Davies, "in this year's series finale. That conversation on Bad Wolf Bay has yet to be resolved, but it's by no means forgotten."
The Doctor must have missed Rose enormously? "Just wait till you see his face, when he claps eyes on her again! She was always very special to him, but I don't think he realises how much until he learns of her return."
Rose's defining scene?
"A lot of people would choose the Bad Wolf Bay scene, but for me it's the scene in The Satan Pit where Rose thinks that the Doctor is dead, ten miles below the planet's surface, with no means of reaching him, and the whole planet is about to fall into a black hole, the murderous Ood are on the rampage…but still she won't leave. The spaceship is about to depart, but she won't abandon the Doctor. She's both selfish and selfless in the same moment. It's the most beautiful, heart-wrenching performance from Billie."
RAE adds...
You can see here and in the quotes above that RTD admires the fact that Rose never gives up on the Doctor. This scene from The Satan Pit is one of the reasons that I have gone on believing in the Pony! It is out of character for Rose to simply give up on HER Doctor. She's too stubborn for that and both selfless and selfish. She would be selfish with Ten 2...denying him the comfort some fans see her giving him...but she would be completely selfless in trying to return to the war battered and lonely Doctor that she loves. That is just who ROSE TYLER is.
BILLIE PIPER ADDS...
" Sometimes you need someone to shake you and stop you in your tracks and make you look at what's going on around you and make you want to be a better person…Rose and the Doctor teach each other. She's quite closed off from the world, but she could, potentially, be someone brilliant. He shows her how to do that. And equally, she shows him how to be sympathetic, how to have morals and show and express his emotions."
And back to RTD...
"And they love one another...absolutely, unreservedly."
AND...RAE...
So, if I have mislead you all...I am sorry. I can only say I have not mislead you on the proper end of this story. There is a way to have the Doctor always tempered by the extraordinary Donna. And to bring Ten home to the woman who completes him and who he loves unreservedly. SWITCH DOCTORS! Let the new, new, new Doctor get the rest of Ten's regenerations and go on...carrying a bit of Donna with him always...remembering that he IS the Doctor, but no longer burdened by the darkness and pain of the past.
If John Simm is The Master--then Ten 2 can be The Doctor.
PONY!