Sentire: Reaction Post

[roquentine]

This is the place for any comments you'd like to make about the Sentire series as a whole. I really appreciate your feedback, and I welcome all comments, both positive and negative.

My initial notes, just bits and pieces in no particular order (and possibly completely unintelligble), are under the cut, and I will add to them as we go along.

1. When I

Comments

[maniacalshen]

I'd like to throw in that the Doctor running away after he hurt Rose did make a great deal of sense to me. As you said, he can be a great big coward at times, and I can easily believe he saw things with your logic - the same logic that would occur to me if I'd hurt someone and was still in the "freaking out about it" stage: She's going to be angry; she won't want to see me when she wakes up. And since Jack's there to take care of her...

So I wasn't as angry at him for leaving as the others. I just got really angry at him blowing off Rose's questions in the bathtub. >_> When he finally gave the explanation in the last chapter, I saw how it could be so complicated that he needed to put some planning into the telling of it. But he shouldn't have crawled into a bathtub with her if he couldn't provide some answers.

However, that's me being angry at the character, not your story or storytelling. ;)

[roquentine]

You know, while I didn't consider this consciously while I was writing it, I think you are right... his getting into the bathtub with her was a very selfish move. Like you said, he has to know that she's going to ask him what happened, and he's really pushing his luck if he thinks she's going to just accept the fact that he's not ready to tell her yet. My reasons for putting him there were to make sure that what he thought happened happened, and to indulge a bit of masochism by forcing himself to listen to her explain it. But I never put two and two together in my own head... it really is just selfish behavior, much as he was latently selfish in bed with her.

[utopia83]

Hey! I'm posting here my reactions to the ending as well.

I liked it. The Ninth Doctor explaining everything in that way of his? Sold it to me in its entirety. He is, after all, the Ninth Doctor. He loves to bedazzle people with his knowledge and, in this case, it couldn't have been more appropriate.

I loved Rose's reaction. Season 1 Rose, as it were, and I could totally see this happening. She and the Ninth Doctor are portrayed as symbiotic during the series, and you captured their dynamics, and the shifts in it when they finally had it out on the beach, very well.

I am sad for Jack's exclusion. I do love me some OT3, but I respect that this is your story and your plotline and if you chose the bond to work in a two way fashion, I really can't harp on about it, can I? Especially since you've hit my telepathy/mindbonding/etc etc kink.

Thank you for the ride. I quite enjoyed it. :)

[roquentine]

I am so glad you did! You're right, the Doctor is never so happy as when he is explaining things, just as long as he doens't have to talk about himself, so it felt okay to have him put that part off until he absolutely had to.

I appreciate the pass on the OT3. The feeling I am getting from you OT3ers is that you all sat down for cake and while you *really* wanted yellow cake with chocolate frosting, you got white cake with chocolate frosting instead. Which is, you know, still pretty good. :)

*um, TOTALLY wants cake now*

Anyway, thank you so much for this comment, and all the ones you left in the series! I really appreciate it!

[utopia83]

*giggle* We should have cake. *nods* Cake is good.

True. We all read "Doctor/Rose, Jack". I guess we were all looking at the menu and read "Cake with chocolate frosting." We all thought it was going to be yellow, and then it turned out white.

But it was good cake nonetheless.

;)

[roguewords]

I just read the whole thing in one go (yay for c&p.) I have to say, i didn't have as much of an issue with the whole mindsex thing as i might have if i had just read it bit at a time. less time to think about what just happened, when you're reading what happens next, right?

Great story. I really enjoyed it. And definitely will be saving it. :D

[roquentine]

Thank you for your comment! And yeah... I imagine it's a bit like watching a show straight through on DVD instead of waiting for a week to pass before the next episode! :) I'm so glad you liked it!

[dameruth]

So, were you thinking of this music vid:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=Ap88Nvq44uQ

when you wrote this? Cuz I was sure thinking of it while I was reading. (And if you haven't seen it -- "Proof" by Kloot, as "performed" by Christopher Eccleston), you really MUST see it . . .). ;)

[roquentine]

Um, holy s**t... I had NOT seen that video before! What a perfect fit. :) Thank you for pointing it out to me!

[dameruth]

Yer welcome. :)

I find it very interesting that people seem to have one of two reactions to that vid -- either, "it made me really uncomfortable" or "OMG! I can't stop watching it!" Interesting, given the various "meanings" of prolonged eye contact.

(Definitely in the "can't stop watching it" camp myself -- *happy sigh*!) ;)

[51stcenturyfox]

I really loved this, darkness and all, and am recommending it.

Thank you so much for a great read.