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Doctor Who: Fear Her
First off, it's way too hot in Oregon right now.
Second, I really enjoyed this episode (The Girl in the Fireplace retains its title as the only New Who episode that I haven't liked). The Doctor and Rose were so incredibly adorable. And we got to see Rose being wonderful and competent without the Doctor, but the Doctor still got to help, and he's still managing to cram a whole lot of happiness into the smallish amount of time that they have. Also, they were so flirty in this episode. That 'are you deducting' scene was just... wow. And he assumed that she was calling him a 'beautiful boy' and was put out that she was talking to the cat! Adorable.
And, of course, even without the whole 'we know that Billie won't be there in S3' thing, the Doctor knows that the natural human lifespan is a whole lot shorter than his is (see: School Reunion). He wants to enjoy having Rose in his life while he can, because she'll die or leave (or he'll regenerate and things will change again). They have a finite amount of time together, so I don't understand why they shouldn't enjoy every moment that they can.
Of course, I was feeling this way back in Tooth and Claw when I was baffled that people found Rose and the Doctor smug and annoying (there are moments when they can be either/both of these things, but I have found them, by far, to be balanced by their moments of helpfulness and kindness and compassion). Up until they were separated, they had no clue that people were being held prisoner or that anyone might have died. For them, there was no reason to think that it was anything but a lark, because they don't know that this is one of their 'eventful enough to be filmed' adventures (but it always frustrates me when the audience expects the characters to know what's happening when they aren't on-screen).
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He's just stuck and making the best of it. He'd go nuts fairly quickly, but at that moment he's resigned to it. He's (wrongly) assuming the loneliness might be fixed a bit, which is messed up but there's worse places to be and at least he still has all his own teeth.
Why were his doors open when he was looking into Reinette's head?
She just nudged it. Like he says he doesn't make a habit of it and she's very keen on finding out and taking some initative and... he probably let her in a wee bit. Cos he's emo.
Everywhere else, it creeps me the hell out. Ooo, the child has grown breasts -- I am in lust. Just... creeps me out.
IT WAS HELLA CREEPY YES.
I thought it was an interesting essay. She does hit on an important point -- Girl did leave me cold. And if that's how they plan to write the Doctor, post-Rose, then S3 may end up leaving me cold.
I am still unsure what you mean by "if that's how they plan to write the Doctor"? But then like I said I thought he was very much himself in GitF. Well, himself in a rather magnified way, because it's an odd situation and he's trying to adapt.
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Something we can agree about!
And again, the dissonance in the Doctor feels so obvious to me that it's hard for me to explain in words that I haven't already used. Suffice to say, he felt different enough that he was a version of himself that I didn't like. And I suspect I would dislike that version regardless of what else is happening.
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I... think our varying probably comes down to Rose, in a roundabout fashion? That's the one major dissonance I could see as huge in that one?