Fannish 5: Five Happy Endings You Don't Like

[gehayi]

I had to think about this for a bit. It surprised me how many books and TV shows I watch that have sad endings. Also, because I cannot answer these questions without going into depth about what I don't like, the answers tend to be long. You have been warned.

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Comments

[morri_delrae]

I would think that the dissonance between what he remembers and what he's personally experienced would be a SERIOUS problem, mentally and emotionally. And if it wasn't at first, it would become one.

I remember *instantly* thinking that the relationship between Rose and Handy would be first-quality fanfic material. Dealing with their conflicted feelings: his identity crisis, and her longing for the old Doctor who faced dangers on a regular basis; him trying to change to accommodate her better, and her missing the thrill and the action, which she considered an inseparable part of the man she loved. And finally, showing how Rose comes to love Handy for who he is, not just a Doctor look-alike, and Handy learning to care for Rose because of what they'd been through together, not because he was cloned with a ready-made set of feelings.

It has a potential to be touching, brutal, honest, heart-wrenching and heart-warming at the same time, but, like I said - it's fanfic material; the series will never show us any of that. And what we did see was little more than a half-baked immature fantasy. Russel T. Davies couldn't bear to see his precious Rose stranded in a parallel world without her man, so he broke his own canon's rules and pulled a few more out of thin air, just to give her a completely contrived, implausible "happily ever after".

To which I promptly say: "Go play in interstellar traffic".