I think we're all interrogating the text from the wrong perspective. I identify with Romana because she's clever and eccentric -- 'eccentric female' is such a rare trope in tv. As a shop assistant in a dead end job who grew up with a family on welfare, I should be identifying with Rose, but I found her story quite patronising. "Got no education and no prospects, girls? Don't worry, the right man will come along to take you away from all that -- and when he's gone, there's always Daddy!"
Oh, yes. I don't identify with characters because of their background so much as their personality. Isn't the point of a character you can identify with just that you'd make a lot of the same decisions? I can have sod-all in common with a character background-wise and still identify with them. I mean, I guess I'm not meant to identify with a character whose age, gender, background, etc., are all completely different from mine, and in fact almost all we have in common as far as background is that we both have one parent from a different country than the one where we live...
But, still, if I was traveling around in the TARDIS, I'd be excited that real life is finally getting interesting, until I realized that it's scary and I seem to have accidentally signed up to babysit an out-to-lunch alien.
There's good reason for picking up all the strays and orphans and self-contained adults like Babs'n'Ian or Steven--they *don't* need to go back every five minutes episodes to check in with mum or have a fight with her.
I think the key words in this post are "RTD says." Because we know Rusty's got his head up his arse and apparently doesn't understand his own damn fandom, so why on earth is anyone listening to a word he says? (I found an especially amusing, but rather scatological, take on Rusty's writing this afternoon--in a discussion of the TVM, no less--and have been resisting the urge to paste it all over the internet ever since.)
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But, still, if I was traveling around in the TARDIS, I'd be excited that real life is finally getting interesting, until I realized that it's scary and I seem to have accidentally signed up to babysit an out-to-lunch alien.
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There's good reason for picking up all the strays and orphans and self-contained adults like Babs'n'Ian or Steven--they *don't* need to go back every five minutes episodes to check in with mum or have a fight with her.
< /bitter old school fan >
Um. Quite.
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I think the key words in this post are "RTD says." Because we know Rusty's got his head up his arse and apparently doesn't understand his own damn fandom, so why on earth is anyone listening to a word he says? (I found an especially amusing, but rather scatological, take on Rusty's writing this afternoon--in a discussion of the TVM, no less--and have been resisting the urge to paste it all over the internet ever since.)
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