It struck me as a little weird that she would pine away for thirty years for the Doctor, given what little I know about her; seems to me she would've "had a life of [her] own" already.
Yeah, when she said that I kinda paused, because wow. That is a long time. But I think I can understand that she felt no one/thing else could live up to him and that life.
I love that I'm not sure whether to believe the Doctor's "not you," and think that Rose is actually different in some way from the ones who came before, or not. It might have been a lie to make her feel better, after all. Could be.
(I've seen this idea before and so I've been thinking about it.) Yeah, it could have been a lie. But I really, really would rather not think it was a lie, even if he did it to make her feel better. Because that would be leading her on and an extremely crappy thing to do. She was very vulnerable at that point since having just admitted she thought there was something between them, and if he knew he'd end up leaving her one day, she really deserved the truth so she could have ended it then before it really got bad. The lie, in my mind, is all kinds of ugliness down the road. Naturally they're not going to be together forever and ever, which he hammered home after that, but I really think she'll be the one to walk...or die. (meeep.)
But I think this episode did a really good job at showing that it's not that easy to put his relationships with his companions--or even the Doctor himself--into neat little boxes like that.
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Date: 2006-05-02 05:27 am (UTC)Yeah, when she said that I kinda paused, because wow. That is a long time. But I think I can understand that she felt no one/thing else could live up to him and that life.
I love that I'm not sure whether to believe the Doctor's "not you," and think that Rose is actually different in some way from the ones who came before, or not. It might have been a lie to make her feel better, after all. Could be.
(I've seen this idea before and so I've been thinking about it.) Yeah, it could have been a lie. But I really, really would rather not think it was a lie, even if he did it to make her feel better. Because that would be leading her on and an extremely crappy thing to do. She was very vulnerable at that point since having just admitted she thought there was something between them, and if he knew he'd end up leaving her one day, she really deserved the truth so she could have ended it then before it really got bad. The lie, in my mind, is all kinds of ugliness down the road. Naturally they're not going to be together forever and ever, which he hammered home after that, but I really think she'll be the one to walk...or die. (meeep.)
But I think this episode did a really good job at showing that it's not that easy to put his relationships with his companions--or even the Doctor himself--into neat little boxes like that.
Oh yeah. Completely!