If you think the rabid Martha fans have been quiet, you obviously haven't spent much time on any of the remotely Martha-oriented communities, or suffered from a bunch of them decamping to your journal and heaping personal abuse upon you for being a fan of Rose. I've witnessed these things personally.
Picking particularly poor examples of crap!fic on Teaspoon as the justification for painting the entire community of Who fans who happen to like Rose as nuts is patently unfair, and I'm not interested in playing that game with you.
You and I have clearly been watching a different show for the past 27 years or so if you think the way Rose has been portrayed is identical to how previous Doctor/Companion relationships have been. If you'd prefer to think that David Tennant playing the Doctor as being in love with Rose is overacting, then that's your prerogative.
What this essentially boils down to, for me, is that if you don't like the person playing the Doctor, you don't like the writers of the show, and hate the companion that's had the most significant role in New Who so far, then why are you watching it? More importantly, why do people feel the need to watch it, dislike it, and then versus complaining to the people making the show where it might actually have some impact, they'd rather hound people who have the temerity to like the show largely as written?
This isn't to say I don't have criticisms for the way certain issues have been handled in the show (obviously, since I think Martha got used about as badly as a chew toy between two pit bulls, and since I think they did a solid disservice to Sarah Jane in SR's retcon), or that I don't think critical discussions of the show are warranted, but when every discussion about any problem in any of the episodes eventually boils down to people who don't like Rose jumping in and yelling 'ROSE SUX AND IT'S ALL HER FAULT!', it just gets old.
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Picking particularly poor examples of crap!fic on Teaspoon as the justification for painting the entire community of Who fans who happen to like Rose as nuts is patently unfair, and I'm not interested in playing that game with you.
You and I have clearly been watching a different show for the past 27 years or so if you think the way Rose has been portrayed is identical to how previous Doctor/Companion relationships have been. If you'd prefer to think that David Tennant playing the Doctor as being in love with Rose is overacting, then that's your prerogative.
What this essentially boils down to, for me, is that if you don't like the person playing the Doctor, you don't like the writers of the show, and hate the companion that's had the most significant role in New Who so far, then why are you watching it? More importantly, why do people feel the need to watch it, dislike it, and then versus complaining to the people making the show where it might actually have some impact, they'd rather hound people who have the temerity to like the show largely as written?
This isn't to say I don't have criticisms for the way certain issues have been handled in the show (obviously, since I think Martha got used about as badly as a chew toy between two pit bulls, and since I think they did a solid disservice to Sarah Jane in SR's retcon), or that I don't think critical discussions of the show are warranted, but when every discussion about any problem in any of the episodes eventually boils down to people who don't like Rose jumping in and yelling 'ROSE SUX AND IT'S ALL HER FAULT!', it just gets old.