But I don't think season 3 was about Rose -- she was the red herring -- the Doctor's real, lingering angst was about Gallifrey, and in the end, Martha (and Jack) took second place to that.
One of the really interesting revelations is that Rose IS Gallifrey -- someone who had all that messy last-of-his-kind genocide-committing guilt in the Doctor's head displaced onto her poor, 19-year-old head. He KNEW she was a talisman, a kind of protective device from all that...and that she would leave him, too, and it would all come crashing down worse than ever. But he did it anyway. And that's what played out in S3 -- it's when everything he's put off comes crashing down around him, with the Master as the personification of the Doctor's desperation.
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Date: 2007-09-23 02:56 am (UTC)One of the really interesting revelations is that Rose IS Gallifrey -- someone who had all that messy last-of-his-kind genocide-committing guilt in the Doctor's head displaced onto her poor, 19-year-old head. He KNEW she was a talisman, a kind of protective device from all that...and that she would leave him, too, and it would all come crashing down worse than ever. But he did it anyway. And that's what played out in S3 -- it's when everything he's put off comes crashing down around him, with the Master as the personification of the Doctor's desperation.