In hopes of explaining my feelings on the subject -- I saw Superman Returns today and I was just thinking about how I watched the Superman movies and Lois and Clark when I was younger and I was always such a fan of that relationship. And it made me think about how little an issue I have with certain types of inequality in relationships. I don't care that Superman is infinitely stronger than Lois. I don't care if the Doctor can sense things that Rose, as a human, never can. I don't care that Superman can speak pretty much every human language or that the Doctor knows things about space and time that Rose will never understand. I care about whether the parties involved place themselves on equal ground.
In other words, if the Doctor doesn't see himself as better than Rose, then the relationship is not hopelessly inequal. If the Doctor thinks that Rose's guts and cleverness and compassion are enough to put her on the same emotional ground that he occupies, it doesn't matter to me what the people around them might think. If Rose doesn't see him as too alien to love, then he isn't.
The Doctor saw something in Rose -- her stubbornness, her sparkle -- and he wanted to spend more time with her, get to know her better. The more he knew her, the more he liked her. Now, is Rose the only person in the world that he could have liked? Of course not. But she had the presence of mind to pull a fire alarm so that the idiots in the restarant would start to leave, she had the strength to stand up and save the Doctor's life while risking her own, and she had the curiosity to ask him who he was and when he wouldn't tell her, to try to find the answer on her own. That's more than enough to start on.
Oh, the Sarah thing. Well, I know some that didn't see it as a retcon, but they were kind of hardcore Sarahshippers to start with. Though theoretically the love for Rose itself implies a Grand Retcon where the Doctor probably got it on with a few of his ex-companions, the Sarah thing sort of sealed it.
Ah, I thought you meant some kind of S1/Rose retcon.
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Date: 2006-07-01 03:42 am (UTC)In other words, if the Doctor doesn't see himself as better than Rose, then the relationship is not hopelessly inequal. If the Doctor thinks that Rose's guts and cleverness and compassion are enough to put her on the same emotional ground that he occupies, it doesn't matter to me what the people around them might think. If Rose doesn't see him as too alien to love, then he isn't.
The Doctor saw something in Rose -- her stubbornness, her sparkle -- and he wanted to spend more time with her, get to know her better. The more he knew her, the more he liked her. Now, is Rose the only person in the world that he could have liked? Of course not. But she had the presence of mind to pull a fire alarm so that the idiots in the restarant would start to leave, she had the strength to stand up and save the Doctor's life while risking her own, and she had the curiosity to ask him who he was and when he wouldn't tell her, to try to find the answer on her own. That's more than enough to start on.
Oh, the Sarah thing. Well, I know some that didn't see it as a retcon, but they were kind of hardcore Sarahshippers to start with. Though theoretically the love for Rose itself implies a Grand Retcon where the Doctor probably got it on with a few of his ex-companions, the Sarah thing sort of sealed it.
Ah, I thought you meant some kind of S1/Rose retcon.