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arabian

Doctor Who 1x01 "Rose" rewatch-review

Jun 25, 2008 23:35

As I've stated elsewhere, once I finished series two of New Who, I was going to rewatch and review what I call my "Her Name was Rose" collection (click here for the full list of episodes). Right then, so I finished "Doomsday" last night, and rewatched "Rose" tonight ... so here are my thoughts on it. I may do this for all of the episodes, or ( Read more... )

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fishsanwitt June 26 2008, 05:08:19 UTC

I *loved* this post! I truly hope you do more.

arabian June 26 2008, 05:20:38 UTC

Aww, thank you. Well, I didn't expect to do a write-up for this, but found things to think on while watching and then sat down to write a review and an hour and 20 minutes past my bedtime, I finally finished it. So, uhm, yeah, as long as this obsession has me in its grip (and it REALLY has me!!!), I likely will. LOL!

afrocurl June 26 2008, 05:17:19 UTC

I haven't rewatched the first series since I go through the rest of it (oh man, January and the strike were good for something), but I never got the shipping in Who when I started.

Sure, I knew it existed from my flist, but the person who finally got me to watch it is not a shipper. That's the easiest way for me to describe how I came into the show. He also dislikes Rose, which may have put a weird spin on the first two series.

That said, I never argue with well-reasoned discussion of the show. I'm generally a ball of "OMG!" after episodes.

arabian June 26 2008, 05:22:15 UTC

While I recognized their chemistry, and liked the idea of Doctor/Rose, I didn't ship ship them when I first watched season one. I think I was too into Logan/Veronica and VM at the time to do so. It wasn't until I watched the second season (two years later, oy!) that I started to ship them. And then I rewatched season one the first time, and man, I was just goooooooooooone. Totally gone.

As my numerous Doctor Who posts have, no doubt, made clear. :P

cailetls June 26 2008, 12:15:40 UTC

I recently began a rewatch of season 1 also, and you hit so many of my thoughts right on the head! The plastic dummies (and plastic Mickey) were just embarrassing- but you had these AMAZING sparks flying between two insanely charming people. Which was why Ikept watching, initially at least. Long shippy treatises keep my inner fangirl happy, so please continue.

arabian June 26 2008, 13:24:00 UTC

Well, I had fun writing this one up, so I'll likely hit more episodes and write them up. I'm not sure when I'll do the next one. I could do it on Saturday, but well, that one will be pretty much blocked with anxiety and everything else under the sun about the new episode. So, I'll see.

Thanks for responding, and I'm glad to see that someone else saw a lot of what I saw too. :)

sowell June 26 2008, 13:20:08 UTC

I love your Who thoughts, especially since I share your passion for the Nine/Rose pairing. Must go re-watch S1.

Damn, no Who icons.

arabian June 26 2008, 13:25:26 UTC

Don't get me wrong, I'm passionate about Ten/Rose too. I'm so against re-casting, but because of how they built it into the show's fabric, I have no problem seeing both Nine and Ten as the Doctor and thus the man that Rose loves and whom loves Rose. It's just that Nine was the first with Rose, and, as I said, she and Eccleston have that touch more chemistry, in my opinion.

sowell June 26 2008, 13:47:16 UTC

Ten/Rose grew on me as well - by Doomsday I was sold. But like you, I find something special in the type of chemistry that Eccleston and Piper had right from the start.

arabian June 26 2008, 13:48:43 UTC

Yeah, just yeah. (And hey, if you don't feel like making your own and like them, feel free to use any of my Who icons.)

eolivet June 26 2008, 15:49:12 UTC

There was just this connection, this rightness between them. They just ... fit. And it was an immediate chemistry that made it so believable as to why the Doctor would ask her to join him

Sigh...yes, yes, yes. :D And it's interesting...obviously, the Doctor is not consciously looking for another Companion, but he keeps getting drawn back to Rose (and she drawn back to him) -- they try to abandon each other, and circumstances keep throwing them together. (sigh, and that little hesitation on "You could...come with me." I mean, he's the freaking Doctor and he's, dare I say, nervous around this girl? She totally brings out his vulnerability -- as I'm sure you'll get into with EotW ( ... )

arabian June 26 2008, 23:21:56 UTC

Obviously, I agree with everything you said here ... but for it being one of the better first episodes. Yes, it was good from a character point of view, but we KNOW that RTD could have done better with the plot. A better plot would have enhanced the character stuff, I think.

I'll probably do these reviews once or twice a week, with possibly more frequency on the weekends once the season is over.