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.
I think Rose tried and then lapsed when she got used to him being there. Otherwise he'd probably just have demanded to be sent home before they went anywhere else.
Honestly, most of the Doctor's behavior in this episode feels so unlike him in the rest of the series.
Really? I thought it totally fitted. He's impulsive, loved-up, funny, making it up as he goes along, existentially lonely. What does he do that's abnormal for him?
For me, SR is part of why this episode feels so unneeded. It covers the same ground, but much more poorly.
Nah, I think SR needs the reinforcement precisely because so many people seemed to come out of that one somehow convinced that "oh, it doesn't apply to Rose, it wouldn't be like that for her."
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.
I'm not sure what you think he was like in GitF as opposed to elsewhere?
(Here is a link thing to someone's meta on Rose as PoV/identification (http://drakyndra.livejournal.com/116622.html), cos it may make sense of our divergent views of her? I linked! That is like a footnote or something, yay!)
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I think Rose tried and then lapsed when she got used to him being there. Otherwise he'd probably just have demanded to be sent home before they went anywhere else.
Honestly, most of the Doctor's behavior in this episode feels so unlike him in the rest of the series.
Really? I thought it totally fitted. He's impulsive, loved-up, funny, making it up as he goes along, existentially lonely. What does he do that's abnormal for him?
For me, SR is part of why this episode feels so unneeded. It covers the same ground, but much more poorly.
Nah, I think SR needs the reinforcement precisely because so many people seemed to come out of that one somehow convinced that "oh, it doesn't apply to Rose, it wouldn't be like that for her."
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.
I'm not sure what you think he was like in GitF as opposed to elsewhere?
(Here is a link thing to someone's meta on Rose as PoV/identification (http://drakyndra.livejournal.com/116622.html), cos it may make sense of our divergent views of her? I linked! That is like a footnote or something, yay!)