Well, I think a lot of it is the new and shiny factor, the flip side being that we haven't really gotten our heads around what did happen enough to say screw it and write AU fic (well that's a lot of my problem).
It's easier for me (and probably lots of people) to write things that are canon compliant, so season 2 retrospective, season 3 angst, post JE stuff is. Alright so the night TSE aired I started writing some seriously AU stuff that may never see the light of day (as oh so much of my stuff can attest too) and I'll probably get back to that point of disregard for canon, but I'm still dealing with my mixed feeling towards canon which kind of gets stuck in my brain.
The thing about Nine/Rose popularity over Ten(anything)/Rose is that they *have* had time to get to a screw canon frame of mind. And it's far enough back that canon isn't the looming shadow it is in the Ten/Rose world. And there are people for whom it has always been a different, maybe preferred, creature anyway.
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It's easier for me (and probably lots of people) to write things that are canon compliant, so season 2 retrospective, season 3 angst, post JE stuff is. Alright so the night TSE aired I started writing some seriously AU stuff that may never see the light of day (as oh so much of my stuff can attest too) and I'll probably get back to that point of disregard for canon, but I'm still dealing with my mixed feeling towards canon which kind of gets stuck in my brain.
The thing about Nine/Rose popularity over Ten(anything)/Rose is that they *have* had time to get to a screw canon frame of mind. And it's far enough back that canon isn't the looming shadow it is in the Ten/Rose world. And there are people for whom it has always been a different, maybe preferred, creature anyway.