Rose is responsible for her own actions, and what she did wasn't smart. However, the whole situation should have been the Doctor's responsibility, and it's mostly his fault what happened.
The Doctor is, at this point, not just a Time Lord, but the only Time Lord. It's his job to make sure that paradoxes like these don't happen, and that fixed events stay in one piece. Beyond biological responsibility is the fact that he's been a time traveller for ~900 years. Rose has for no more than a couple of months. Rose isn't an animal or a child, but there's a lot about the rules of time travel which she doesn't know. The Doctor has also had multiple companions in the past, and should be expected to know how to handle inexperienced humans. He needs to not put people in situations without telling them what they can and cannot do, and he needs to judge whether his companion can handle something before putting them in a situation.
Taking Rose to her father's death wasn't a very good idea, but it's okay. Taking her back was extremely stupid and irresponsible of him- he should have known what could happen, both because of his experience and because he's supposed to be biologically tuned in to the status of the timeline (which the writer of this episode appears to have forgotten, but that's forgivable). I think the worst thing he did was actually attempting to strand Rose in an altered past timeline in which another version of herself was present. If the TARDIS hadn't lost it's dimensionality, he would have just left- and things would have gotten a whole lot worse than they did.
If the Time Lords were still around at this point, I can't imagine how much trouble the Doctor would have been in.
ETA: This isn't a bad thing, writing wise. I like it when characters make bad moves, and I think it was good for both the Doctor and Rose. Except for the fact that Doctor Who can never make up it's mind on how to handle a paradox, and what exactly Time Lords are capable of (which certainly isn't the fault of this episode- it had been going on for decades before), there was nothing wrong with how the characters and situation was handled. They were being dumb and impulsive, not OOC or 'wrong'.
I sometimes get the impression in Father's Day that he's not exactly sure what the repercussions of him being the Only Time Lord are yet. I don't think he expected Chronovores.
The Doctor is, at this point, not just a Time Lord, but the only Time Lord. It's his job to make sure that paradoxes like these don't happen, and that fixed events stay in one piece. Beyond biological responsibility is the fact that he's been a time traveller for ~900 years. Rose has for no more than a couple of months. Rose isn't an animal or a child, but there's a lot about the rules of time travel which she doesn't know. The Doctor has also had multiple companions in the past, and should be expected to know how to handle inexperienced humans. He needs to not put people in situations without telling them what they can and cannot do, and he needs to judge whether his companion can handle something before putting them in a situation.
Taking Rose to her father's death wasn't a very good idea, but it's okay. Taking her back was extremely stupid and irresponsible of him- he should have known what could happen, both because of his experience and because he's supposed to be biologically tuned in to the status of the timeline (which the writer of this episode appears to have forgotten, but that's forgivable). I think the worst thing he did was actually attempting to strand Rose in an altered past timeline in which another version of herself was present. If the TARDIS hadn't lost it's dimensionality, he would have just left- and things would have gotten a whole lot worse than they did.
If the Time Lords were still around at this point, I can't imagine how much trouble the Doctor would have been in.
ETA: This isn't a bad thing, writing wise. I like it when characters make bad moves, and I think it was good for both the Doctor and Rose. Except for the fact that Doctor Who can never make up it's mind on how to handle a paradox, and what exactly Time Lords are capable of (which certainly isn't the fault of this episode- it had been going on for decades before), there was nothing wrong with how the characters and situation was handled. They were being dumb and impulsive, not OOC or 'wrong'.
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If the Time Lords were still around at this point, I can't imagine how much trouble the Doctor would have been in.
Good Lord lol. Whatever it would be, it would probably make Two's forced regeneration look like a love pat @.@
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But I do think he needed to be more careful!
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