Rose's journey is absolutely one of my favourite things about the new series and I definitely agree that the Master basically filled that emotional connection for the Doctor in s3.
She's got such a well-drawn and powerful journey and we really did someone there to balance out her absence in S3 and while Martha could be the other person in the TARDIS who had some of Rose's outward qualities, we needed the Master to hit the emotional base notes.
Without the Master, it's possible Jack might have gone some of the way to filling that role, but while I tend to ship Jack/Doctor and I find their relationship rather brilliant and interesting, a lot of their connection (especially in Utopia) seems to come through Rose.
*nods*
It's talking about Rose that lets the two of them stop being silly idiots at the beginning of "Utopia" and hug and start to get over their issues a little.
I admit I've long been fascinated by the idea of Rose and the Master meeting. The way he speaks of her looking into the Time Vortex... obviously that's to make Martha feel inadequate but he's fascinated, both by all that she did when it drove him mad and, so I imagine, by a human whose loss has so deeply affected the Doctor.
Oh, yes, definitely. He'd probably be really annoyed if he ever found out how much longer the Doctor spent mourning Rose.
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She's got such a well-drawn and powerful journey and we really did someone there to balance out her absence in S3 and while Martha could be the other person in the TARDIS who had some of Rose's outward qualities, we needed the Master to hit the emotional base notes.
Without the Master, it's possible Jack might have gone some of the way to filling that role, but while I tend to ship Jack/Doctor and I find their relationship rather brilliant and interesting, a lot of their connection (especially in Utopia) seems to come through Rose.
*nods*
It's talking about Rose that lets the two of them stop being silly idiots at the beginning of "Utopia" and hug and start to get over their issues a little.
I admit I've long been fascinated by the idea of Rose and the Master meeting. The way he speaks of her looking into the Time Vortex... obviously that's to make Martha feel inadequate but he's fascinated, both by all that she did when it drove him mad and, so I imagine, by a human whose loss has so deeply affected the Doctor.
Oh, yes, definitely. He'd probably be really annoyed if he ever found out how much longer the Doctor spent mourning Rose.