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butterflyAKA: The Episode Where Rose is the Doctor.
"Everything's coming up Doctor!"
This is a mirror episode of The Idiot's Lantern. Set in the future rather than the past, dealing with a young female child instead of an older male character, one has an alien that shows its power through television and the other through drawing and, in both cases, one of our intrepid heroes ends up a victim of the alien's power.
In The Idiot's Lantern, Rose has her face taken away by the Wire. For the Doctor, seeing Rose treated this way makes 'everything very simple, because now no power on this earth can stop me'. When he figures out the solution, he remarks that it's just what Rose noticed at the beginning of the episode. At the end, he spies Rose from afar, face intact, and rushes toward her to sweep her up in a hug (and Rose gets the emotional moment of sending the boy to bond with his exiled father).
In Fear Her, the Doctor is turned into a child's drawing and Rose must figure it out herself (with only a little suggestive help from the Doctor, as she gave in TIL). She finds herself tools (pickaxe yay!), tries to talk the Isolus into being reasonable, saves the two 'ordinary' people by telling them how to be strong for themselves, and worries about the Doctor. Worries about his loneliness (and the Doctor gets the emotional torch lighting moment, when he sends the Isolus home -- Rose bonds with the human and the Doctor with the alien).
Before S3, this episode could be taken as Rose embellishing her own importance. Of course, the Doctor will find another hand to hold -- he always has before. But with S3, it's obvious that Rose was as perceptive as the Doctor always gave her credit for being.
The whole world isn't enough for the Isolus. It's still so lonely. Even with Rose Tyler, the Doctor is lonely. There are places inside him that no human can quite reach. But with Rose, those places didn't matter, because she was already touching him in so many ways that no one ever had before.
"Fear. Loneliness. They're the big ones, Rose. Some of the most terrible acts ever committed have been inspired by them. We're not dealing with something that wants to conquer or destroy."
Right now, the Doctor is in a very vulnerable place. He's lonely. He's afraid. He's downright suicidal. Rose was right to worry about him.
"There's a lot of things you need to get across this universe. Warp drive... wormhole refractors... You know the thing you need most of all? You need a hand to hold."
Not a generic hand. Not just anyone's hand. From the very beginning, the Doctor and Rose have held hands for comfort and caring and understanding, not just in the rush of danger. Rose intuitively understood him -- she understood his mania and his pain and his need. She shared them. She understood his desire to help and shared that.
I really do truly believe that Rose is the love of the Doctor's life. It took nine hundred years of phone box travel before he found her. He only had a brief span of time with her, but in that time, they shared so much joy and love. She's going to be his forever, even if he never sees her again.
That's one hell of an epic love story.
"Everything's coming up Doctor!"
This is a mirror episode of The Idiot's Lantern. Set in the future rather than the past, dealing with a young female child instead of an older male character, one has an alien that shows its power through television and the other through drawing and, in both cases, one of our intrepid heroes ends up a victim of the alien's power.
In The Idiot's Lantern, Rose has her face taken away by the Wire. For the Doctor, seeing Rose treated this way makes 'everything very simple, because now no power on this earth can stop me'. When he figures out the solution, he remarks that it's just what Rose noticed at the beginning of the episode. At the end, he spies Rose from afar, face intact, and rushes toward her to sweep her up in a hug (and Rose gets the emotional moment of sending the boy to bond with his exiled father).
In Fear Her, the Doctor is turned into a child's drawing and Rose must figure it out herself (with only a little suggestive help from the Doctor, as she gave in TIL). She finds herself tools (pickaxe yay!), tries to talk the Isolus into being reasonable, saves the two 'ordinary' people by telling them how to be strong for themselves, and worries about the Doctor. Worries about his loneliness (and the Doctor gets the emotional torch lighting moment, when he sends the Isolus home -- Rose bonds with the human and the Doctor with the alien).
Before S3, this episode could be taken as Rose embellishing her own importance. Of course, the Doctor will find another hand to hold -- he always has before. But with S3, it's obvious that Rose was as perceptive as the Doctor always gave her credit for being.
The whole world isn't enough for the Isolus. It's still so lonely. Even with Rose Tyler, the Doctor is lonely. There are places inside him that no human can quite reach. But with Rose, those places didn't matter, because she was already touching him in so many ways that no one ever had before.
"Fear. Loneliness. They're the big ones, Rose. Some of the most terrible acts ever committed have been inspired by them. We're not dealing with something that wants to conquer or destroy."
Right now, the Doctor is in a very vulnerable place. He's lonely. He's afraid. He's downright suicidal. Rose was right to worry about him.
"There's a lot of things you need to get across this universe. Warp drive... wormhole refractors... You know the thing you need most of all? You need a hand to hold."
Not a generic hand. Not just anyone's hand. From the very beginning, the Doctor and Rose have held hands for comfort and caring and understanding, not just in the rush of danger. Rose intuitively understood him -- she understood his mania and his pain and his need. She shared them. She understood his desire to help and shared that.
I really do truly believe that Rose is the love of the Doctor's life. It took nine hundred years of phone box travel before he found her. He only had a brief span of time with her, but in that time, they shared so much joy and love. She's going to be his forever, even if he never sees her again.
That's one hell of an epic love story.
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Date: 2007-05-02 04:43 am (UTC)Such a good point -- every story after that would have had the same dynamics of Fear Her. The Doctor and Rose were completely partners, completely equals, completely in love.
Anyway, this was beautifully put. I absolutely agree. No wonder he's feeling what he's feeling. *sniffs*
Thank you. And, yes, I completely understand the Doctor's pain.