Yet more Turn Left thoughts
Jun. 25th, 2008 12:13 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jedi_of_urthHere’s something that I can’t quite get out of my head regarding Turn Left, so I’m going to share it instead. Just as more evidence that I’m reading RTD’s story the way he sees it too.
Rose’s talk with Donna about the Doctor reminded me a lot of the Family of Blood scene which brought us the “Fire and ice and rage” speech because the Turn Left scene was in a lot of ways the way I imagined Rose would have dealt with that situation. She described the Doctor as wonderful yes, but she also talked about his hair. She said the Doctor could have saved the world, but she made Donna’s choice in the matter the most important thing in the universe.
Because to Rose, that GREAT HAIR is more a characteristic of the Doctor than burning at the center of time or sending armies running with a look; and if she was to see certain TARDIS opening gestures that I’m trying to repress, she’s assume the Doctor was just being weird again. Not as a legend, to her he’s a wonderful man and a hero yes (with really great hair), but not a god or a Jesus-Tinkerbelle-weirdo.
And Donna, the ordinary human, is the most important thing in the universe. John Smith was told he was useless even when he was the one making the sacrifice to bring the Doctor back, but Rose isn’t like Martha or Tim, she knows that people, even people whose lives weren’t supposed to exist like this, matter as much as anything.
Sarah Jane is kind of like that, when she and Rose bonded over the Doctor it involved laughing at him for stroking bit of the TARDIS. Donna gets it but it’s hard to say she loves it and certainly isn’t in love with it. But there’s a reason why the Doctor loves Rose, because he gets to be the hero, and she gets to be the heroine, and sometimes the goddess, and they share cupcakes at the end of the day. She makes him real, and a real man can love, the legend that’s just a story isn’t enough.
Is it Saturday yet?
Rose’s talk with Donna about the Doctor reminded me a lot of the Family of Blood scene which brought us the “Fire and ice and rage” speech because the Turn Left scene was in a lot of ways the way I imagined Rose would have dealt with that situation. She described the Doctor as wonderful yes, but she also talked about his hair. She said the Doctor could have saved the world, but she made Donna’s choice in the matter the most important thing in the universe.
Because to Rose, that GREAT HAIR is more a characteristic of the Doctor than burning at the center of time or sending armies running with a look; and if she was to see certain TARDIS opening gestures that I’m trying to repress, she’s assume the Doctor was just being weird again. Not as a legend, to her he’s a wonderful man and a hero yes (with really great hair), but not a god or a Jesus-Tinkerbelle-weirdo.
And Donna, the ordinary human, is the most important thing in the universe. John Smith was told he was useless even when he was the one making the sacrifice to bring the Doctor back, but Rose isn’t like Martha or Tim, she knows that people, even people whose lives weren’t supposed to exist like this, matter as much as anything.
Sarah Jane is kind of like that, when she and Rose bonded over the Doctor it involved laughing at him for stroking bit of the TARDIS. Donna gets it but it’s hard to say she loves it and certainly isn’t in love with it. But there’s a reason why the Doctor loves Rose, because he gets to be the hero, and she gets to be the heroine, and sometimes the goddess, and they share cupcakes at the end of the day. She makes him real, and a real man can love, the legend that’s just a story isn’t enough.
Is it Saturday yet?
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Date: 2008-06-25 06:24 am (UTC)