[ SECRET POST #2085 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2085 ⌋

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Comments

[fauxkaren]

"shouldn't have been". Lol. Ok. Who died and made you show runner?

And sorry that the storytelling on the show has matured since the show was conceived in the 60s?

Both Martha and Donna were brought back after their departures to give more closure to their stories, so it's not like Rose is so special. RTD obviously just liked giving his characters closure.

[(Anonymous)]

And I don't agree. Nor do I think the treatment of companions leaving has anything to do with "the storytelling of the show". At least before RTD the writers realized that the main character was the Doctor.

Why do you have a hard on for defending Rose's shitty arc? It wasn't well written and it wasn't played out well. Even people I know that LOVE Rose thought RTD did her a disservice by dragging her out over and over again.

I would have rather Rose learned to live without the Doctor and learn that having a man (or man shaped Alien) isn't the end all be all and that she could have a happy life without being obsessed with him.

[fauxkaren]

Now who is the one treating the person they are talking to like an idiot?

When RTD rebooted the show he changed the way stories were told on it and I loved it. I loved that the focus was on the companions. Tbh, I don't care all that much about the Doctor as a character. I loved Rose and Martha and Donna and I loved that we really got to konw them and that they each had their own story.

And I defend Rose's arc because I don't think it's shitty. :)

I don't think it's perfect. But I think it's good and I think it's fairly well-constructed. Rose starts out as a shop girl who has no future and doesn't know what she wants in life. In series 1 the Doctor shows her the universe and she knows that is what she wants. She wants to travel with the Doctor. And she FIGHTS for it. In series 2, she becomes more competent in that role that she'd decided that she wanted. Her story becomes complete when we see her again in series 4 and we see that she has basically become a version of the Doctor.

Pro-tip: Women aren't worthless just because they love a man. She presumably had a decent life in Pete's World, but that doesn't mean she doesn't also want to be with the Doctor. And why shouldn't she want to be with the man she loves? There's no shame in that. And Rose fights for what she wants.

[othellia]

I love this comment. And honestly, I loved the focus on the companions to because - hey, guess what - they're more like real people than the Doctor will ever be. I'd rather watch a shop girl who wants something more from life, or a med student on top of her academics but struggling through her personal life, or a temp who's made it through half her life only to wonder where it all went... be exposed to this wondrous but danger-filled thing and grow as people while retaining the core of themselves that makes them who they are.

Stories that focus on the Doctor can get a bit boring since a lot of them always seem to turn into how great and immortal and noble and tortured and witty and let-this-character-narrate-how-perfect-and-mysterious he is. The Doctor isn't making huge character development leaps every season simply because of how old he is and how long he's been around.

It's the companions who change, the companions that add their own unique spice to the show, and for that reason, yeah, I loved it when the companions had the focus.

[mrv3000]

I agree with all of this.

I get the impression that people think Rose was thrown back in S4 as fanservice. But RTD planned Doctor #2 ever since Ten's hand got lopped off in TCI. (At least I think I remember hearing about that from The Writer's Tale.)

I do think there were problems with how it all went down in JE, but as far as Rose hopping universes after the Daleks pulled down the walls - I have zero problems with her going after what she wants.

That's what I love most about Rose's arc: she goes from an aimless drifter to someone who goes after what she wants. (Stunningly enough, when she does make decisions for her own life, fandom has called her selfish. Because apparently every good person must stay with their parents FOREVER and never live their own lives. FANDOM. WHAT GOES THROUGH YOUR BRAIN?)

[(Anonymous)]

I like how any time a person disagrees with you or says something you don't like you treat them like they're an idiot. It's really endearing and doesn't make you seem like a horrible person at all.

[fauxkaren]

And I like the way you have the courage to hide behind anonymity. It's touching. :')

[(Anonymous)]

DA

We're all effectively anonymous, the idea that an icon and a DW account make you not-anon and therefore "brave" is equally 'touchinged'. It makes no f-ing difference in practice. Unless you plan to spam their journal with your butthurt *Rose is teh greatest companion evar* comments?
Or can I assume I can look up 'fauxkaren' in your local phone book?
Also, protip: using the phrase 'protip' in that condescending, 'let me lecture you about reality and how you should think exactly as I do because of my learnings' way, makes you sound like a massive arse.

[fauxkaren]

I can't make people sign their names to their comments and I can't stop people from making sock accounts.

But it is really frustrating to have anons on my ass all the time. I like to know if it's a specific person or if it's multiple people. I'd just like to have a name to the comments so that I can remember "oh yes, I got into it with X about Y that one time. I remember them". Like have the courage to own up to what you have to say or don't say anything at all.

I hate feeling like I'm flying blind. I'd just like to be able to know who it is that dislikes me so much so that I can either avoid them in the future or so that I can at least remember what we'd disagreed about in the past.

[(Anonymous)]

The person she disagreed with, however, was all sunshine and rainbows and didn't at all behave as if their opinion on a work of fiction was objective fact.