I was actually thinking about this same thing last night, though I don't think I mentioned it to you, if from a different angle.
The problem I keep having is that ever since I started getting at all into slash-shipping, which is lots of fun in itself, I keep having the unfortunate experience of running into people and befriending people who end up being virtually slashers-only, in practice if not in theory.
I just wrote about this on my own LJ, kind of, but I keep having this issue lately where, on top of some other rather wonky emotions, I keep having these incredible feelings of guilt about being torn about OTPs. It's gotten so that I usually have two (usually no more and no less) major, functioning, invested ships in a show. I'm not really sure what caused this change in my attitude toward shipping, but I'm guessing it was likely something to do with a survival mechanism after the initial heartbreak of not having Rose around anymore.
That said, I still ship Doctor/Rose very, very much, but I've also become interested in other Doctor Who ships, some of which include the Doctor, and I cannot escape the guilt even though no one that is actually my friend that I bother talking to more than once actually tries to make me feel bad about it.
If I have any issue with OTPs, it's this resulting guilt that happens when you have an OTP and it begins to wander into not-so-entirely-the-O-part-of-that territory in spite of retaining the last two letters in the acronym for me... But, of course, this is entirely my fault...
I guess the fact that you brought this up is just giving me a chance to vent this, so sorry for this being long.
I have a very dear friend who is a multi-shipper like I've become, but last night she (very, very unintentionally and I'm not upset with her really) basically made something akin to the argument that Doctor/Rose wasn't really all that special or important because it was actually, apparently, unrealistic that the Doctor in any way loved Rose more than the others and that his grief following her departure could only have been related to the true reality of the Time War and his subsequent, unavoidable solitude setting in, rather than all of it being about her due to the fact that he'd left plenty of people behind before. While I will admit that I think he loves all of them, I do think that he loved Rose in a very different and special manner and who cares if it was centered around circumstance? We all love people based on circumstance, and the fact that he so happened to be in a situation where he was more likely to let himself open up to a human doesn't mean it's less special that he did.
I do agree that some of his major and kind of psychologically cracked depression over her had to do with the aftermath of the Time War, but it wasn't as if she was just a tool for coping with it, in my opinion. Rose had (along with her family) become a surrogate to the Doctor for where he belonged, and yes, that was indeed related to the lack of Time Lords and the fact that Rose (via Bad Wolf) was the closest thing to another Time Lord in existence for about five minutes, but that doesn't somehow negate the rest of their chemistry. In fact, that makes it more special to me.
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The problem I keep having is that ever since I started getting at all into slash-shipping, which is lots of fun in itself, I keep having the unfortunate experience of running into people and befriending people who end up being virtually slashers-only, in practice if not in theory.
I just wrote about this on my own LJ, kind of, but I keep having this issue lately where, on top of some other rather wonky emotions, I keep having these incredible feelings of guilt about being torn about OTPs. It's gotten so that I usually have two (usually no more and no less) major, functioning, invested ships in a show. I'm not really sure what caused this change in my attitude toward shipping, but I'm guessing it was likely something to do with a survival mechanism after the initial heartbreak of not having Rose around anymore.
That said, I still ship Doctor/Rose very, very much, but I've also become interested in other Doctor Who ships, some of which include the Doctor, and I cannot escape the guilt even though no one that is actually my friend that I bother talking to more than once actually tries to make me feel bad about it.
If I have any issue with OTPs, it's this resulting guilt that happens when you have an OTP and it begins to wander into not-so-entirely-the-O-part-of-that territory in spite of retaining the last two letters in the acronym for me... But, of course, this is entirely my fault...
I guess the fact that you brought this up is just giving me a chance to vent this, so sorry for this being long.
I have a very dear friend who is a multi-shipper like I've become, but last night she (very, very unintentionally and I'm not upset with her really) basically made something akin to the argument that Doctor/Rose wasn't really all that special or important because it was actually, apparently, unrealistic that the Doctor in any way loved Rose more than the others and that his grief following her departure could only have been related to the true reality of the Time War and his subsequent, unavoidable solitude setting in, rather than all of it being about her due to the fact that he'd left plenty of people behind before. While I will admit that I think he loves all of them, I do think that he loved Rose in a very different and special manner and who cares if it was centered around circumstance? We all love people based on circumstance, and the fact that he so happened to be in a situation where he was more likely to let himself open up to a human doesn't mean it's less special that he did.
I do agree that some of his major and kind of psychologically cracked depression over her had to do with the aftermath of the Time War, but it wasn't as if she was just a tool for coping with it, in my opinion. Rose had (along with her family) become a surrogate to the Doctor for where he belonged, and yes, that was indeed related to the lack of Time Lords and the fact that Rose (via Bad Wolf) was the closest thing to another Time Lord in existence for about five minutes, but that doesn't somehow negate the rest of their chemistry. In fact, that makes it more special to me.
...argh, etc.
Respect. Yes, respect.