Doctor Who, Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love School Reunion/Girl in the Fireplace

[surrexi]

(Warning! Extreme Verbosity Ahead! Proceed With Caution!)

I'm going to perhaps not strictly follow the rules (they're more like guidelines, anyway?) because I want to briefly touch on Tooth & Claw and then I can't really address the things I want to address about School Reunion and Girl in the Fireplace without taking them together.

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[surrexi]

I think that the Doctor's reaction at the end is not only to do with how short human lives are but also his effect on said lives.

Oh yes, definetely. I think he absolutely feels guilty at the idea that if he and Rose were to be separated by something other than her death, it could/would give her a lot of emotional problems (I like to pretend Doomsday didn't happen when I think about SR/GitF because they so perfectly foreshadow what the Doctor's going to go through/be like post-Rose, *sniffles*).

But, I just can't suspend my disbelief long enough to convince myself that Ten loved Reinette. Crush and hero worship, yes. Love? Don't believe it.

Absolutely see your point there, and I'm definetely using the term "fall for" loosely when I say he falls for Reinette. But he was definetely caught up in a whirlwind of emotion over her, and that's why I think GitF serves such an important purpose in terms of illustrating what happens to the Doctor because of his relationship with Rose, whereas in SR Sarah Jane served that purpose with regards to Rose.