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I chose Nine for this story because he's my favorite and I love to write him, but it left me with a lot of challenges. Regeneration was the major issue since at this point in time the audience is aware that Time Lords can regenerate, but Rose isn't. In the corresponding scene from Futurama, Professor Farnsworth calls Fry's return a "regeneration," and since I couldn't think of another word for it, I decided to leave it as it was in the original. So I didn't consider this scene a "leaking through" moment for Rose. It was intended more as a "wishful thinking" sort of thing.
Then I wanted him to somehow realize she was thinking of him as more than a friend
Me too! I kind of want to answer this by saying that it was too early in their relationship or that I wanted it to be canon complaint or something else along those lines that means I totally planned it this way. But the truth is, I wasn't able to do it gracefully in the time I had allotted.
When I started writing, I wrote the end first. I knew how I wanted it to end because I really wanted the point of the story to be about the importance of fiction (with a side portion of the difficulty in cross-species communication as a nod to Solaris). My idea was that the Doctor implants the book in her head and she reads it and figures it out on her own. Throughout the story, the dreams of the Doctor were supposed to be his real mental projection. But then I thought about him entering her mind without permission and it didn't make sense since their argument in The End of the World about the TARDIS getting into her brain. Ten would have done it, I think, but not Nine.
Wow, sorry for the long comment! Thank you for reviewing! I really appreciate it!
I chose Nine for this story because he's my favorite and I love to write him, but it left me with a lot of challenges. Regeneration was the major issue since at this point in time the audience is aware that Time Lords can regenerate, but Rose isn't. In the corresponding scene from Futurama, Professor Farnsworth calls Fry's return a "regeneration," and since I couldn't think of another word for it, I decided to leave it as it was in the original. So I didn't consider this scene a "leaking through" moment for Rose. It was intended more as a "wishful thinking" sort of thing.
Then I wanted him to somehow realize she was thinking of him as more than a friend
Me too! I kind of want to answer this by saying that it was too early in their relationship or that I wanted it to be canon complaint or something else along those lines that means I totally planned it this way. But the truth is, I wasn't able to do it gracefully in the time I had allotted.
When I started writing, I wrote the end first. I knew how I wanted it to end because I really wanted the point of the story to be about the importance of fiction (with a side portion of the difficulty in cross-species communication as a nod to Solaris). My idea was that the Doctor implants the book in her head and she reads it and figures it out on her own. Throughout the story, the dreams of the Doctor were supposed to be his real mental projection. But then I thought about him entering her mind without permission and it didn't make sense since their argument in The End of the World about the TARDIS getting into her brain. Ten would have done it, I think, but not Nine.
Wow, sorry for the long comment! Thank you for reviewing! I really appreciate it!
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