Some Thoughts on Rose Tyler
I'm a Rose fan. That's pretty clear from everything you can discern about me: the sheer number of fics that star her, the large graphic on the top of my LJ -- my loud proclamations about the virtues of her character wherever I find hatas and doubters.
There's one thing I don't like about Rose, though. She's extremely difficult to write. Or am I ( Read more... )
There's one thing I don't like about Rose, though. She's extremely difficult to write. Or am I ( Read more... )
As for Pete's World, while I'm fascinated with the idea of playing in a sandbox where it's dark and totalitarian, it isn't my personal canon. It's a valid reading of the text, but I read the curfew that we see in the poorer neighborhoods as being temporary and a direct result of the fact that people had been disappearing from those neighborhoods because of Cybus Industries. Clearly Cybus had been doing bad stuff for years, with the government turning a blind eye, to have already infiltrated the entire populace with his earpieces, and I think that's why the resistance existed. But I think in the wake of the president's (and so many other people's) death, there was likely a big upheaval in the society and in the government, with future presidents acting to distance themselves from industries like Cybus as much as possible. So by the time Rose gets there, I don't think there was anything resembling a totalitarian government. Her hardness and BAMFness is fully explicable by the effects of working for Torchwood and working to get back to the Doctor.
All that said, I think writing Pete's World that way would be fascinating. How terrible for Rose, for her resentment of Ten's decision would have to include the fact that he banished her to a somewhat broken world, on top of everything else. And I think it would affect Ten II profoundly, living in that kind of place. I shudder to think of it.
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I think this is why people generally don't write it like that-it would hurt too much. For us shippers, who don't want to see them punished and want to see them at least get some semblance of a chance at happily ever after, Pete's World has to be a happy place without any further difficulty aside form that just inherent in the situation.
I'm ruminating on this problem, because one way to tackle it would be to write the story in which Ten II and Rose not only come to terms with each other, but save Pete's World from what it has become.
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This is certainly as plausible as my observations. I would hope that Pete's World would be slightly more hopeful than what I argued for here.
All that said, I think writing Pete's World that way would be fascinating. How terrible for Rose, for her resentment of Ten's decision would have to include the fact that he banished her to a somewhat broken world, on top of everything else. And I think it would affect Ten II profoundly, living in that kind of place. I shudder to think of it.
I don't fault the Doctor's decision all that much -- he has spent most of his life in emotional pain -- sending Ten II and Rose to live a life together is a smart choice. That being said, he didn't really stop to ask what the world he was leaving them in was really like.
I'm not sure how that would affect Ten II & Rose's relationship, but for someone born in "blood and anger and revenge", it might take a toll, absolutely.
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