City Of Death is one of the stories that makes a lot of people ship the Doctor and Romana romantically, although it's also because it's the only Doctor/companion potential ship without serious power-imbalance issues and because the actors briefly married in real life after they both left the show.
They had a nice vibe together. And she has the same sort of... oblivious self-confidence that I've noticed in all three of the Doctors I've met. Like when she was discovering the hidden Mona Lisas and she was just bopping along doing her thing while the Doctor was doing his thing (and I loved her pointing out the 'no eyebrows' thing, because that always niggles at me when I see a picture of the painting). Could be a Timelord thing, possibly. Or maybe that's part of why they get along so well.
I can see the point about the power-imbalance, though that's actually what I like so much about the Doctor and Rose. I find it fascinating -- like in the most recently US aired episode, where he manipulates Rose into choosing him over her family (and shows that he's aware that he is being manipulative). Because the use of the power is actually, in a lot of ways, a release of it and it actually shows that Rose does have power too. Like in Rose, where he asks her to come along -- she has the power to say 'no' and that does affect the Doctor (so much that he came back and tried again). He needs emotional contact, so the power-imbalance is nowhere near as vast as it could be.
But I've only met Romana and Rose, so I don't know how he acts with human companions when his world hasn't been destroyed. I don't know if he showed the same emotional neediness back then (he definitely still really wants Rose to like him in his tenth incarnation, though he seems to have lost the possessiveness aspect, at least judging from The Christmas Invasion, which would make it healthier for him).
Also, finished up City of Death and I really liked it. It all fit together and it was fun and exciting. Very nicely done.
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Date: 2006-04-15 02:59 am (UTC)They had a nice vibe together. And she has the same sort of... oblivious self-confidence that I've noticed in all three of the Doctors I've met. Like when she was discovering the hidden Mona Lisas and she was just bopping along doing her thing while the Doctor was doing his thing (and I loved her pointing out the 'no eyebrows' thing, because that always niggles at me when I see a picture of the painting). Could be a Timelord thing, possibly. Or maybe that's part of why they get along so well.
I can see the point about the power-imbalance, though that's actually what I like so much about the Doctor and Rose. I find it fascinating -- like in the most recently US aired episode, where he manipulates Rose into choosing him over her family (and shows that he's aware that he is being manipulative). Because the use of the power is actually, in a lot of ways, a release of it and it actually shows that Rose does have power too. Like in Rose, where he asks her to come along -- she has the power to say 'no' and that does affect the Doctor (so much that he came back and tried again). He needs emotional contact, so the power-imbalance is nowhere near as vast as it could be.
But I've only met Romana and Rose, so I don't know how he acts with human companions when his world hasn't been destroyed. I don't know if he showed the same emotional neediness back then (he definitely still really wants Rose to like him in his tenth incarnation, though he seems to have lost the possessiveness aspect, at least judging from The Christmas Invasion, which would make it healthier for him).
Also, finished up City of Death and I really liked it. It all fit together and it was fun and exciting. Very nicely done.