What would/will it take?
Nov. 19th, 2006 11:36 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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So...I posted my no Rose/no Rae manifesto/wailing-in-the-wilderness last time out. But today...I was listening to the Children in Need concert in Cardiff via BBC Wales Radio...and I was feeling all uplifted and moved and such.
The announcer said David Tennant was the best Doctor ever. And I have to agree with that...he is the best Doctor and I adore him and I think it IS because he's lovable, funloving and slightly dangerous all at once. I do want to go on watching him be the Doctor.
So? What would it take to keep me watching?
I'm going under this cut to answer so as not to spoil anyone any further than I already have...
I want evident mourning. And to know that he hasn't given up on getting back to Rose. That the hope of doing so is close to his hearts. Like Rose...I want to believe they can't be separated "forever." I honestly think a romantic, knightly quest like that suits the Doctor. And it suits the modern Doctor far more than alien-celibacy as a reason for no sex with the beautiful and alluring and funloving girls he travels with all the time. The BBC censors don't want the sex...and here is the perfect reason why there is none. After all it could take him YEARS to figure out how to get back to Rose. And he might need the help of other Time Lords or entities to do it even then. But he's not the sort to give up, is he?
I think Dr. Who should be fun. I don't think Rose's memory should dominate the show but it should be referenced every so often the way they currently reference the Time War and his grief over that. Loving Rose should become part of the fabric of who the Doctor is and he should be true to her because she is still out there on a beach at Bad Wolf Bay, waiting for him for at least five hours. So it should come up if someone makes a pass at him or he is tempted to settle down. If he's trying to unite two lovers. If he has to give a passionate speech about love enduring hardship. If Jack comes back and brings up how he gives up and leaves people behind. Whatever.
I think I could go on watching the show if they cooled it on the romance and let the ideal of Rose as his soulmate become part of the fabric of the mythos surrounding him. And...it must be said...if I can continue to believe they will be reunited some day. I am reminded for example of Robin Hood and Maid Marion (Coincidence that Marion is her middle name?)true to each other despite years of separation. Of course, I'm not a fan of that firing the arrow part to bury him...I really want David to end his run with a Rose/Ten reunion. They can start the next Doctor up a hundred years on. Make it just like Chris with no real explanation about what happened when he takes up with the next companion in line. I see this scenario as a win/win for the BBC because it would create an alternative universe Rose/Ten loop that could spawn books and movies and such and yet the tv show format would remain sacred. But...if they do that...I still want to SEE Rose and Ten reunited on-screen. <<<--Because that's the money shot and fingers crossed they will do it.
So...I posted my no Rose/no Rae manifesto/wailing-in-the-wilderness last time out. But today...I was listening to the Children in Need concert in Cardiff via BBC Wales Radio...and I was feeling all uplifted and moved and such.
The announcer said David Tennant was the best Doctor ever. And I have to agree with that...he is the best Doctor and I adore him and I think it IS because he's lovable, funloving and slightly dangerous all at once. I do want to go on watching him be the Doctor.
So? What would it take to keep me watching?
I'm going under this cut to answer so as not to spoil anyone any further than I already have...
I want evident mourning. And to know that he hasn't given up on getting back to Rose. That the hope of doing so is close to his hearts. Like Rose...I want to believe they can't be separated "forever." I honestly think a romantic, knightly quest like that suits the Doctor. And it suits the modern Doctor far more than alien-celibacy as a reason for no sex with the beautiful and alluring and funloving girls he travels with all the time. The BBC censors don't want the sex...and here is the perfect reason why there is none. After all it could take him YEARS to figure out how to get back to Rose. And he might need the help of other Time Lords or entities to do it even then. But he's not the sort to give up, is he?
I think Dr. Who should be fun. I don't think Rose's memory should dominate the show but it should be referenced every so often the way they currently reference the Time War and his grief over that. Loving Rose should become part of the fabric of who the Doctor is and he should be true to her because she is still out there on a beach at Bad Wolf Bay, waiting for him for at least five hours. So it should come up if someone makes a pass at him or he is tempted to settle down. If he's trying to unite two lovers. If he has to give a passionate speech about love enduring hardship. If Jack comes back and brings up how he gives up and leaves people behind. Whatever.
I think I could go on watching the show if they cooled it on the romance and let the ideal of Rose as his soulmate become part of the fabric of the mythos surrounding him. And...it must be said...if I can continue to believe they will be reunited some day. I am reminded for example of Robin Hood and Maid Marion (Coincidence that Marion is her middle name?)true to each other despite years of separation. Of course, I'm not a fan of that firing the arrow part to bury him...I really want David to end his run with a Rose/Ten reunion. They can start the next Doctor up a hundred years on. Make it just like Chris with no real explanation about what happened when he takes up with the next companion in line. I see this scenario as a win/win for the BBC because it would create an alternative universe Rose/Ten loop that could spawn books and movies and such and yet the tv show format would remain sacred. But...if they do that...I still want to SEE Rose and Ten reunited on-screen. <<<--Because that's the money shot and fingers crossed they will do it.