Yvaine and Tristan really reminded me of the Doctor and Rose (specifically, in the beginning, she really reminded me of the Ninth Doctor -- she was so full of sarcasm). Just on the superficials, she's ancient and forever and he used to work in a shop, yearned for more, and got it (in both cases, you have the mortal choosing the 'fantastical' life over what they'd have on regular planet Earth
Ah - that makes a lot of sense! And now that you mention it, I can see more similiarities between Yvain and the Doctor. As we see from comments like "street corner, 2 AM" and "the one adventure I can never have" - as well as the entire HN/FoB episodes - there is a part of the Doctor that yearns for a normal, domestic life and love (I've always thought that the "I don't do domestic" bit is half due to Time War attachment issues and not so much to objection on principle).
This is somewhat true of Yvain as well; she's quite happy to accept the domestic approach for a while - because as she says to Tristan while he's been transformed into a mouse, she spends all her time looking down on the ugliness of Earth, but the one thing that keeps her watching is the amazingness of how humans love. Love - and taking the chance on it - scares her, but that's something she wants, so the immortal star chooses to have that life. Sadly we haven't gotten to see the Doctor do this yet (and perhaps never will), but it would be brilliant if we could have a happy ending with him for once, and I think we still can, at the end of S4, before the reset button is hit with the Eleventh Doctor ;) And if there is a reunion, and the Doctor does get a second chance with Rose, there's very little chance that he'll hold back *g* Btw, I'm not saying he should settle down per se and go all domestic, just that I love these stories where an immortal chooses to embrace loving a mortal, damn the consequences, and that's what I'd like to see with D/R.
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Ah - that makes a lot of sense! And now that you mention it, I can see more similiarities between Yvain and the Doctor. As we see from comments like "street corner, 2 AM" and "the one adventure I can never have" - as well as the entire HN/FoB episodes - there is a part of the Doctor that yearns for a normal, domestic life and love (I've always thought that the "I don't do domestic" bit is half due to Time War attachment issues and not so much to objection on principle).
This is somewhat true of Yvain as well; she's quite happy to accept the domestic approach for a while - because as she says to Tristan while he's been transformed into a mouse, she spends all her time looking down on the ugliness of Earth, but the one thing that keeps her watching is the amazingness of how humans love. Love - and taking the chance on it - scares her, but that's something she wants, so the immortal star chooses to have that life. Sadly we haven't gotten to see the Doctor do this yet (and perhaps never will), but it would be brilliant if we could have a happy ending with him for once, and I think we still can, at the end of S4, before the reset button is hit with the Eleventh Doctor ;) And if there is a reunion, and the Doctor does get a second chance with Rose, there's very little chance that he'll hold back *g* Btw, I'm not saying he should settle down per se and go all domestic, just that I love these stories where an immortal chooses to embrace loving a mortal, damn the consequences, and that's what I'd like to see with D/R.