What I love about your comments, Cat, is that you go to the heart of what I'm doing in a chapter. I set out to make your heart go out to Rose and, also, to outline the power shift in the Doctor/Rose relationship. Rose is older and more experienced and, a bit harder. But, the girl she once was is still alive inside of her. She'd sort of viewed a return to him as a return to relying on him to take charge.
Instead, he's piled on a whole barge-load of extra stress. She has to take care of her Mum and, maybe, him. And she's now facing a completely life-changing, life-threatening shock.
Thank you for your comments and for the lovely compliment about my Doctor and his extreme alienness. He is lacking empathy, but also a bit of awareness. I feel for him, too, because he's trapped in what would, for us, be a snowsuit for subzero weather. He has lost touch with his surroundings, for the moment, and that's made him snappy and reactionary. He is...I think...a little scared of Rose. She can, after all, hurt him at the core. Also, she does things he finds incomprehensible. We can't overlook the fact that no Time Lord could control the vortex as Rose did. That he died, just directing it back home. And then there is the smaller things that she notices, about people...and him...via her own empathy.
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Date: 2013-04-09 07:06 pm (UTC)Instead, he's piled on a whole barge-load of extra stress. She has to take care of her Mum and, maybe, him. And she's now facing a completely life-changing, life-threatening shock.
Thank you for your comments and for the lovely compliment about my Doctor and his extreme alienness. He is lacking empathy, but also a bit of awareness. I feel for him, too, because he's trapped in what would, for us, be a snowsuit for subzero weather. He has lost touch with his surroundings, for the moment, and that's made him snappy and reactionary. He is...I think...a little scared of Rose. She can, after all, hurt him at the core. Also, she does things he finds incomprehensible. We can't overlook the fact that no Time Lord could control the vortex as Rose did. That he died, just directing it back home. And then there is the smaller things that she notices, about people...and him...via her own empathy.
Rae