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[jedi_of_urth]

Recently I haven’t been able to get this quote from Everwood out of my head as regards to Doctor Who, I seriously need help.

Amy: You know what it is? It's that this whole time, you've been thinking about me. Always making sure that I'm okay, no matter what.
Ephram: Is that…is that wrong?
Amy: No, no. It's just that I was always thinking about us.

I think that, in a nutshell, parallels the Doctor and Rose a lot, particularly by Doomsday. His love expresses itself by thinking what’s best for *her,* making sure she lives, has the best life possible, no matter what; while her love expresses itself in thinking about *them.* It’s a fairly subtle distinction, but it’s why he’ll send her away even if it breaks his hearts because her safety is more important to him than anything, and why she will always come back because their life together means more to her than anything.

Now they just need to get the ending where she knows why the big grand gestures were his way of showing how much he loves her and he understands that believing in them is how you get to “forever.” It could happen if you know, there wasn’t a universe between them.

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[shaela]

I think you’re right. The Doctor never seemed to think “us”—he thought “Rose.” Which isn’t a bad thing, necessarily (though part of me wonders how much of it was that he wasn’t used to being part of an “us”).