Of course this isn't really Rose's Pete Tyler...but I can roll with a love-conquers fantasy.
I'm still unable to get over how creepy the whole substitute-Pete thing is. The beach scene was, what, three months after everything else went down? And yet Jackie's pregnant and they seem to be a big happy family? THIS CREEPS ME OUT. Because they are not the same people the other married, and "our" Jackie and Pete were headed toward divorce anyway, and OMG, I'm squicked. It's like fanfic written by a thirteen-year-old.
"Slightly goofy synth beat": Made me want to smash things.
And I try to always review a piece based on the story they're telling, not the story I'd tell with their setup
On the one hand, this makes sense. On the other hand, there's a line between that and "this conclusion does not follow logically/believably from the existing set-up," and this goes way over that line for me. They set up Rose to learn from the Doctor, to have this heroic choice, she makes it, it looks like she might pay for it...and then Pete saves her? Eh? To paraphrase nostalgia_lj, in this episode, Rose is sacrificed on the altar of the Doctor/Rose 'ship. Her arc gets warped so we can have a tragic goodbye scene.
It also bothers me that we get to see the Doctor moving on (the bride), but we see Rose looking quite stuck on that beach. Had we even had the tearful goodbye in, like, Rose's office at Torchwood, I would've been more okay with it, because we get some indication that Rose is not going to be completely broken by their parting.
Like Sarah Jane showed us...you don't get over traveling with the Doctor easily or quickly.
You don't, but at the same time, there are ways to show this without implying that a character will not ever get over it.
I'm agreeing with a lot of Nos's recent posts on this episode. It just...God, it makes me angry.
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Date: 2006-07-10 05:20 pm (UTC)I'm still unable to get over how creepy the whole substitute-Pete thing is. The beach scene was, what, three months after everything else went down? And yet Jackie's pregnant and they seem to be a big happy family? THIS CREEPS ME OUT. Because they are not the same people the other married, and "our" Jackie and Pete were headed toward divorce anyway, and OMG, I'm squicked. It's like fanfic written by a thirteen-year-old.
"Slightly goofy synth beat": Made me want to smash things.
And I try to always review a piece based on the story they're telling, not the story I'd tell with their setup
On the one hand, this makes sense. On the other hand, there's a line between that and "this conclusion does not follow logically/believably from the existing set-up," and this goes way over that line for me. They set up Rose to learn from the Doctor, to have this heroic choice, she makes it, it looks like she might pay for it...and then Pete saves her? Eh? To paraphrase
It also bothers me that we get to see the Doctor moving on (the bride), but we see Rose looking quite stuck on that beach. Had we even had the tearful goodbye in, like, Rose's office at Torchwood, I would've been more okay with it, because we get some indication that Rose is not going to be completely broken by their parting.
Like Sarah Jane showed us...you don't get over traveling with the Doctor easily or quickly.
You don't, but at the same time, there are ways to show this without implying that a character will not ever get over it.
I'm agreeing with a lot of Nos's recent posts on this episode. It just...God, it makes me angry.