Rose h8, again.
May. 25th, 2006 11:49 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tencrushNos' got me thinking about Rose again, spreading the h8 and such. (I applaud her for it, I really do) And the whole thing actually got me thinking about fangirl projection and the Rose thing. Maybe I just don't get it.
If I'm honest about Who, the thing with me is, I never wanted to be the companion. Maybe that's a strange quirk of mine, but I always wanted to be The Doctor. In that sense the Doctor was always pretty asexual for me. Why the hell would you want to be the companion? Maybe that's what bugs me about the Rose love.
And thinking about it now, that's obviously why Ten has broken my brane, because wanting to be the Doctor and do the Doctor at the same time just leads to a mind full of WANK.
*goes for wank*
(not really, obviously, I'm far too busy with stuff)
If I'm honest about Who, the thing with me is, I never wanted to be the companion. Maybe that's a strange quirk of mine, but I always wanted to be The Doctor. In that sense the Doctor was always pretty asexual for me. Why the hell would you want to be the companion? Maybe that's what bugs me about the Rose love.
And thinking about it now, that's obviously why Ten has broken my brane, because wanting to be the Doctor and do the Doctor at the same time just leads to a mind full of WANK.
*goes for wank*
(not really, obviously, I'm far too busy with stuff)
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Date: 2006-05-25 02:40 pm (UTC)For me it's the fact that, I've been watching the Doctor since I was six years old at least, and I've seen companions come and go, but for me it was always the Doctor. *points at icon*
Also, companions are traditionally pretty useless, and ripping on them is also a tradition. So for me it's kinda jarring to be sold on a companion over and over again. To be told she is the Bestest Ever and that I should feel nothing but lurve for her.
Bollocks, I say. I like Rose when she's being likeable and I root for her to take a one-way trip on a Starliner when she's being a chav bitch, simple as that.
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Date: 2006-05-25 03:55 pm (UTC)Yeah this is what bugs me, and I think it's mostly a hangover from the Rose-centric attitude of series one. Series one just really wasn't about the Doctor enough for my taste. I cheer every time Rose gets captured (which she's actually doing a lot more this series, I've noticed) in an old-skool style, because I like my companions a bit crap. That's what they're there for.
She's nothing special, goddammit!
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Date: 2006-05-25 06:24 pm (UTC)Ek-flipping-zactly. I don't h8 Rose, I h8 what the show's adoration of her says about the rest of the companions, and indeed humanity in general.