It was quite sad for me. I could have liked her more than I managed to, though. Mickey worked cos he was this amusing semi-reluctant hero people kept picking on and that's not the type either. It confuses me. I think fandom did not help by telling me she was the best thing ever. *ponders*
I couldn't get into Farscape because I couldn't get invested into the characters that I was being told to enjoy watching
I saw that once or twice and couldn't really get into it.
(naturally, I disagree with you re: Rose's intelligence, morality, funniness, and whether or not she has interests, but at this point, this should not come as a surprise to either of us).
She got that stuff to a degree, but just not enough to click my buttons and be at an advantage before she starts doing anything.
And, of course, if she'd been the kind of character that you could have loved, I likely would have disliked her and stopped watching with Rose.
Heh!
Ha, I'm vastly amused that I agree with all of those but Willow (I only ever warmed to her in S7, and even there, not all that much) and Dawn (who I took longer to like).
Dawn was weird cos I'd heard she was rubbish and then she was quite good for what she was.
Is it? Only if the person wants to go home. If the person has specifically stated how much they adore traveling and how little they want to go home, it sounds more like a terrible punishment to send them there.
She can't keep travelling forever, so they have to leave her somewhere, yeah? And the series is huge on family and this year has had a couple of moments that felt like quiet disapproval of Rose taking her own family rather for granted (played against the increasingly explicit rendering of the Doctor's loss as "family"). She just doesn't know what she has and it's quite sad.
Even if it hadn't gone on at vast length about family and the cost of the Doctor's lifestyle, what else could they really do with her to write her out? Death's just cruel, and incredibly depressing, and she can't just get abandoned somewhere.
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It was quite sad for me. I could have liked her more than I managed to, though. Mickey worked cos he was this amusing semi-reluctant hero people kept picking on and that's not the type either. It confuses me. I think fandom did not help by telling me she was the best thing ever. *ponders*
I couldn't get into Farscape because I couldn't get invested into the characters that I was being told to enjoy watching
I saw that once or twice and couldn't really get into it.
(naturally, I disagree with you re: Rose's intelligence, morality, funniness, and whether or not she has interests, but at this point, this should not come as a surprise to either of us).
She got that stuff to a degree, but just not enough to click my buttons and be at an advantage before she starts doing anything.
And, of course, if she'd been the kind of character that you could have loved, I likely would have disliked her and stopped watching with Rose.
Heh!
Ha, I'm vastly amused that I agree with all of those but Willow (I only ever warmed to her in S7, and even there, not all that much) and Dawn (who I took longer to like).
Dawn was weird cos I'd heard she was rubbish and then she was quite good for what she was.
Is it? Only if the person wants to go home. If the person has specifically stated how much they adore traveling and how little they want to go home, it sounds more like a terrible punishment to send them there.
She can't keep travelling forever, so they have to leave her somewhere, yeah? And the series is huge on family and this year has had a couple of moments that felt like quiet disapproval of Rose taking her own family rather for granted (played against the increasingly explicit rendering of the Doctor's loss as "family"). She just doesn't know what she has and it's quite sad.
Even if it hadn't gone on at vast length about family and the cost of the Doctor's lifestyle, what else could they really do with her to write her out? Death's just cruel, and incredibly depressing, and she can't just get abandoned somewhere.