I can see where Jackie is coming from on this. However, I think Jackie, though motherly, was thinking with only a small viewpoint. At this point, she hadn't really seen the life that Rose led, how much she and the Doctor did actually do for others.
Rose's attitude doesn't help much as she isn't articulating it too well. I do feel like she had some of the "But we do so much for others" in mind but her focus was more on "I love the Doctor so I'll stay with him forever like I said". She had built her entire being around him just as he had for her when he regenerated. She still did what she wanted (going off on her own to explore at Torchwood One) but she kept close to the Doctor and his own way of living in doing so because it's something that she found that actually fit her, not just being some shop girl.
But I do think that when Rose was trapped in the parallel world, she learned to stand on her own two feet (Dimension Canon, crossing worlds to find the Doctor and save the universe), and when she met the Doctor again, she met him on far more equal footing, an independence that she hadn't quite had prior.
As an aside: And in forty years time, fifty, there'll be this woman - this strange woman walking through the marketplace on some planet a billion miles from Earth. She's not Rose Tyler. Not anymore. She's not even human... Jackie just gave a nice prompt didn't she?
Rose's attitude doesn't help much as she isn't articulating it too well. I do feel like she had some of the "But we do so much for others" in mind but her focus was more on "I love the Doctor so I'll stay with him forever like I said". She had built her entire being around him just as he had for her when he regenerated. She still did what she wanted (going off on her own to explore at Torchwood One) but she kept close to the Doctor and his own way of living in doing so because it's something that she found that actually fit her, not just being some shop girl.
But I do think that when Rose was trapped in the parallel world, she learned to stand on her own two feet (Dimension Canon, crossing worlds to find the Doctor and save the universe), and when she met the Doctor again, she met him on far more equal footing, an independence that she hadn't quite had prior.
As an aside:
And in forty years time, fifty, there'll be this woman - this strange woman walking through the marketplace on some planet a billion miles from Earth. She's not Rose Tyler. Not anymore. She's not even human...
Jackie just gave a nice prompt didn't she?
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