But What About You?
OK, spent the night in Great turmoil trying to decide how I felt about THE ending and what I kept coming back to is when Rose say's "But What about You?"
I just don't believe that Rose would turn her back on the Doctor, & I don't think he would turn his back on her, all the moments that they shared during SE & JE, the look on Tens face as he is running towards her, the first hug they share, the grin on his face when she tells him that she was building a machine to bring her back to him tell me that Ten loves Rose & wants to spend "forever" with her. Yes maybe he was trying to gift her the perfect life but what he may deem as a perfect life is never a life that we have been led to believe that Rose even wanted.
If you go back to Doomsday when Ten tried to send Rose off & she came back he never fought her, she said what she wanted & although he may have huffed & puffed he let her have it so I think he could never have left Rose behind if she didn't want to be, which is why he runs away because he thinks he is doing what is right, without even checking what she wants really - & this is the bit I don't buy. In the whole time they spend together they never have a talk, maybe because Ten is avoiding it because after 10.2 is made he knows that there is only one outcome, or maybe its because he is afraid.
The other thing I keep coming back to is PotW - RTD has never really covered what happened to Rose then, what where the long term affects? it was also never covered that Jack could not die & that Rose was the reason for that, we never saw Jack talking to Rose I just don't buy that they didn't have at least a chat before Jack headed off. When the Doctor & Jack first saw each other in TSoD one of the first things Jack asked about was Rose, they had a entire conversation about Rose, so why would Jack not want to have some sort of conversation with Rose when he finally gets to see her. ALSO it is supposed to be about 2-4yrs in Roses timeline since we last saw her so why does she have the same feel of Rose circa 2005, with Martha you could see what changes she had been though, you could see that as a Character she had developed - she even carries herself differently.
Last but not least I find that the utter desolation of Ten when we last see him so sad that I am not overly inclined to invest my emotions anymore in a Character that has no hope, & yes, yes there is River Song but to be frank I don't really care about her - OK so maybe the Doctor has some kind of life with her & he cares enough about her to make sure that she has some kind of happy ending but really I just don't care, the same as I didn't care that Martha loved the Doctor & I don't really care about 10.2, so he loves Rose & he wants to spend his life with her but to me 10.2 is just the Doctors twin brother, he's not the Doctor.
Why did the Doctor have to leave Rose in Alt!Verse to repair 10.2 he could have put her on earth in say Ireland or Canada - then there is no problem with her being on the "list of the dead" - she could have been the friend that 10.2 needed & the Doctor would always have had the open door of hope. But as it ended there was no hope, there was no satisfaction that he had given the love of his life a happy ending & there was no one to be his friend - there was not even a glimmer of Donna feeling a connection to the Doctor - although........... I did see her ring glimmer in the light & when she was being SuperDonna saving the world I am sure (& correct me if I am wrong about this as I have not had the heart to go back & check) but I am sure that she talked about a BioDamper & waved her hand about when she was defeating the Daleks..............
So for me a sad feeling all round as A) I do not believe that Rose would give up on the Doctor B) I do not like to think that Ten is not happy C) I don't like to think that Donna lives a sad life - I want her to walk in the dust, to think more of herself D) I was not happy that Jack & Rose had no resolution E) 10.2 feels like the Booby prize & for me more often than not if I can't have what I want then I would rather go without AND F) Where is the HOPE? there is none and I'm just not interested in spending a evening in to be totally depressed and left feeling crappy! I hope RTD has something up his shirt otherwise I will not be happy!
I just don't believe that Rose would turn her back on the Doctor, & I don't think he would turn his back on her, all the moments that they shared during SE & JE, the look on Tens face as he is running towards her, the first hug they share, the grin on his face when she tells him that she was building a machine to bring her back to him tell me that Ten loves Rose & wants to spend "forever" with her. Yes maybe he was trying to gift her the perfect life but what he may deem as a perfect life is never a life that we have been led to believe that Rose even wanted.
If you go back to Doomsday when Ten tried to send Rose off & she came back he never fought her, she said what she wanted & although he may have huffed & puffed he let her have it so I think he could never have left Rose behind if she didn't want to be, which is why he runs away because he thinks he is doing what is right, without even checking what she wants really - & this is the bit I don't buy. In the whole time they spend together they never have a talk, maybe because Ten is avoiding it because after 10.2 is made he knows that there is only one outcome, or maybe its because he is afraid.
The other thing I keep coming back to is PotW - RTD has never really covered what happened to Rose then, what where the long term affects? it was also never covered that Jack could not die & that Rose was the reason for that, we never saw Jack talking to Rose I just don't buy that they didn't have at least a chat before Jack headed off. When the Doctor & Jack first saw each other in TSoD one of the first things Jack asked about was Rose, they had a entire conversation about Rose, so why would Jack not want to have some sort of conversation with Rose when he finally gets to see her. ALSO it is supposed to be about 2-4yrs in Roses timeline since we last saw her so why does she have the same feel of Rose circa 2005, with Martha you could see what changes she had been though, you could see that as a Character she had developed - she even carries herself differently.
Last but not least I find that the utter desolation of Ten when we last see him so sad that I am not overly inclined to invest my emotions anymore in a Character that has no hope, & yes, yes there is River Song but to be frank I don't really care about her - OK so maybe the Doctor has some kind of life with her & he cares enough about her to make sure that she has some kind of happy ending but really I just don't care, the same as I didn't care that Martha loved the Doctor & I don't really care about 10.2, so he loves Rose & he wants to spend his life with her but to me 10.2 is just the Doctors twin brother, he's not the Doctor.
Why did the Doctor have to leave Rose in Alt!Verse to repair 10.2 he could have put her on earth in say Ireland or Canada - then there is no problem with her being on the "list of the dead" - she could have been the friend that 10.2 needed & the Doctor would always have had the open door of hope. But as it ended there was no hope, there was no satisfaction that he had given the love of his life a happy ending & there was no one to be his friend - there was not even a glimmer of Donna feeling a connection to the Doctor - although........... I did see her ring glimmer in the light & when she was being SuperDonna saving the world I am sure (& correct me if I am wrong about this as I have not had the heart to go back & check) but I am sure that she talked about a BioDamper & waved her hand about when she was defeating the Daleks..............
So for me a sad feeling all round as A) I do not believe that Rose would give up on the Doctor B) I do not like to think that Ten is not happy C) I don't like to think that Donna lives a sad life - I want her to walk in the dust, to think more of herself D) I was not happy that Jack & Rose had no resolution E) 10.2 feels like the Booby prize & for me more often than not if I can't have what I want then I would rather go without AND F) Where is the HOPE? there is none and I'm just not interested in spending a evening in to be totally depressed and left feeling crappy! I hope RTD has something up his shirt otherwise I will not be happy!