I am confused.

[preserved_ginger]

I get, to a certain extent, why Doctor/Rose fandom is all over Ten II right now. He’s new, and shiny, and the possibilities are practically endless. I don’t have a problem with that. It’s very much not my ship, for various reasons, but I’m dealing.

So now we have Ten II/Rose which is really popular, and Nine/Rose which is also very popular. Both of these things are fine.

What I’m confused about mainly, and what is making Doctor/Rose fandom hard for me right now, is why nobody seems to be giving Ten (or Ten/Rose, from what I’ve seen lately) much love any more.

Without Ten there would be no Ten II, so why no Ten love?

Comments

[usaku.livejournal.com]

>>It's not over; Russell can't leave the Doctor this broken, he has to find enough peace in the specials to pick up a new companion in the following series.

And you know what's sad about this? I don't think we'll get to see it. Apparently (I think it was in DWM) the 2008 special picks up after some time has passed, post-JE. It's supposedly upbeat to some degree. So, as I feared, it looks like we'll be kicking off with the Doctor being the Doctor, hunky-dory like nothing happened, with a whopping blackhole where mourning/recovery should be. By all means I hope I'm proven wrong, but I can't help seeing the glass as half-empty.

[thehornedgod.livejournal.com]

I heard this too, but I don't think the Doctor will be reset. Okay, we won't see him in pieces in the immediate aftermath of JE, but I expect it to run more or less like the last couple of Christmas specials. The Runaway Bride was upbeat to some degree but we still see the Doctor mourning Rose. By Voyage of the Damned he was such a mess after the Rose, Martha and Astrid debacles that he didn't even want a companion, Donna only got into the TARDIS by cashing in a prior invitation. Darth Moff has said he's issued orders to Russell as to where he wants the Doctor to be by series five, and I think it's obvious what they are. He needs a viable protagonist for a continuing series, which the Doctor isn't at the moment. I expect an arc leading there through the specials.

[shield-wolf.livejournal.com]

Considering the strange sort of symbolic parallelism that seems to be emerging within already revealed plot details for the special, I would have to agree that the subject of "the Doctor and Rose" has not been dropped completely and will likely be rehashed yet again in a different form.

That said, however, I am one of those fans who wonders if we aren't meant to perceive Ten as still in danger of heading down a very dark path if something drastic doesn't happen to divert him from it. Therefore, I hope that this is indeed where RTD is heading with what remains of his story in 2009.