I think it has everything it needs. Mickey is indeed a problem, but then it couldn't really stand having to deal with that as well so we assume that Rose got over her moment of angst and tried to make the best of it.
Except for how he's the odd man out again in the Cyberman two-parter. But hey, who needs emotional consistency when you have a horse.
We have the Doctor acting so like himself that it hurts (and hurts other people within the story),
Honestly, most of the Doctor's behavior in this episode feels so unlike him in the rest of the series. If this is the Doctor that we had in the rest of the series, I would have stopped watching long ago.
we have the compression of time to reinforce School Reunion,
For me, SR is part of why this episode feels so unneeded. It covers the same ground, but much more poorly.
Thematically, it's like the whole season in one episode.
*shrugs*
Honestly, I don't want to claim that I know the theme of the series until the finale airs. But, again, if Girl informs us about the way the Doctor will be in S3, I may end up quitting that season part of the way through, because I really did not like that Doctor.
Like you just said, the Doctor's in love with her, Jack's in love with her, no one ever calls her on anything other than Mickey.
And Gwen in The Unquiet Dead called her on being a little bit condescending. And Queen Victoria in Tooth and Claw. Reinette. Her alternate universe mom and dad in the Cyberman two-parter. And, yes, Mickey in Boomtown, who I do believe that we were supposed to take seriously. And there are quite a few people who didn't take to her -- Jabe was much more interested in the Doctor, she pissed off Cassandra, Adam turned out to be more interested in tech than in her, and Rodney in Bad Wolf called her stupid to her face.
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Date: 2006-07-01 09:58 am (UTC)Except for how he's the odd man out again in the Cyberman two-parter. But hey, who needs emotional consistency when you have a horse.
We have the Doctor acting so like himself that it hurts (and hurts other people within the story),
Honestly, most of the Doctor's behavior in this episode feels so unlike him in the rest of the series. If this is the Doctor that we had in the rest of the series, I would have stopped watching long ago.
we have the compression of time to reinforce School Reunion,
For me, SR is part of why this episode feels so unneeded. It covers the same ground, but much more poorly.
Thematically, it's like the whole season in one episode.
*shrugs*
Honestly, I don't want to claim that I know the theme of the series until the finale airs. But, again, if Girl informs us about the way the Doctor will be in S3, I may end up quitting that season part of the way through, because I really did not like that Doctor.
Like you just said, the Doctor's in love with her, Jack's in love with her, no one ever calls her on anything other than Mickey.
And Gwen in The Unquiet Dead called her on being a little bit condescending. And Queen Victoria in Tooth and Claw. Reinette. Her alternate universe mom and dad in the Cyberman two-parter. And, yes, Mickey in Boomtown, who I do believe that we were supposed to take seriously. And there are quite a few people who didn't take to her -- Jabe was much more interested in the Doctor, she pissed off Cassandra, Adam turned out to be more interested in tech than in her, and Rodney in Bad Wolf called her stupid to her face.