I suppose that, in many ways, I identify with Rose as well as enjoy her as a character. I'm in a completely unremarkable job, but I don't feel that that makes me a completely unremarkable person. Not everyone is put into a position where they get the chance to show off the best parts of themselves, but because of her getting to know the Doctor, Rose can.
I certainly think that, yes, Rose was crafted the way she was because that's what this story needed -- a focal point, a person to represent to the Doctor what it was he was saving when he sacrificed his people. So, yes, she needs to both be 'every human' and also to be the potential of humanity. That's what she is, in the beginning of Rose, untapped potential. The Doctor gives her a chance to fulfill that potential in a way that she'd never been taught how, because she'd been surrounded by people who only expected life to be one average day after another. She'd never been taught to expect more, and yet she did ("That shop's been giving you airs and graces.") and when she was given a chance to get more out of life, she took it.
Which is why the idea offered by some that she should 'go back home' to her mother at the end of the season rather horrifies me.
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Date: 2006-07-01 09:45 am (UTC)I certainly think that, yes, Rose was crafted the way she was because that's what this story needed -- a focal point, a person to represent to the Doctor what it was he was saving when he sacrificed his people. So, yes, she needs to both be 'every human' and also to be the potential of humanity. That's what she is, in the beginning of Rose, untapped potential. The Doctor gives her a chance to fulfill that potential in a way that she'd never been taught how, because she'd been surrounded by people who only expected life to be one average day after another. She'd never been taught to expect more, and yet she did ("That shop's been giving you airs and graces.") and when she was given a chance to get more out of life, she took it.
Which is why the idea offered by some that she should 'go back home' to her mother at the end of the season rather horrifies me.