Journey's End

[clair_de_lalune]

I made it home from Edinburgh yesterday. After getting up at 3:30 am BST, I finally made it to Detroit at 12:30 pm EDT. Unfortunately, my luggage didn't arrive with me. I got a call at 7:30 this morning that 1 of my 2 bags has made it - the other, who knows: Edinburgh, Amsterdam, Timbuktu? *sigh

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Welcome back! And thoughts on Dr. Who.

[anonymous]

I think that there are only 11 regenerations, which would explain why the creators are adding in some safety nets for expanding the mythos (Jenny, humanish Doctor, etc.). Sweety told me there was some question as to whether the series would continue, and they certainly did pull out all the stops on this one

Re: Welcome back! And thoughts on Dr. Who.

[jaderabbit]

Whoops! I didn't realize I wasn't logged in when I wrote that long comment. Sorry about that. I hope to hear more about your take on the episode after you've re-watched it.

Re: Welcome back! And thoughts on Dr. Who.

[clair_de_lalune]

I would agree that Rose was already falling in love with the Ninth Doctor...it's funny, but I have an easier time accepting that the Ninth and Tenth Doctors are the same man than I do accepting that the Tenth Doctor and his humanish self are the same man. I just don't know what it was about him that makes me so reluctant to believe he's essentially the same man as the Doctor. It's really weird, but maybe I'll feel differently when I have a chance to see it a second time.

--The Doctor loved Rose, but as he pointed out, he loved her when he was hurt and angry and *needed* to love her. It's possible that now that she's been gone for a while, he doesn't really need her the same way (decent of him not to say so). Rose really couldn't be a permanent small-c companion for the Doctor, being mortal and all, but she and the humanish Doctor are much more on a level

Re: Welcome back! And thoughts on Dr. Who.

[cynodd]

Jaderabbit says: I also couldn't help wondering if he knew that leaving Rose again was the way to go, knowing that he has Dr. River Song in the future. But I'm not sure when Dr. River Song arrives--perhaps Rose is long dead by then--so maybe that's not an issue.

I think this is a good point. Last night after talking with you, Clair, for a bit, I was thinking on the way home about Riversong, and how the aloneness he's experiencing/expressing at the end of the episode might just make him seek out River Song, the one connection he knows is in his future. And he did start to love her at the end of that episode, I think, so that would help with the easing of his love for Rose, whereas the Human Doctor knows that River Song is in the Time Lord Doctor's future, not his. He won't have that love in the future, and he knows that, too.

[rattlesnakeroot]

Welcome home! :)

[clair_de_lalune]

Thanks! :)