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]

I think you hit the nail on the head, really. "New and shiny possibilities." Combined with the idea, as was mentioned already, that writing current of future set stories is less awkward than writing something that's set in the past. I think it's for the same reason it is/was difficult to see all our happy pic spams and shippy moments from S2 after S4 ended: we feel a pang of sadness because when know that happiness doesn't last.. we know what will happen to them.

As for Nine/Rose? I think the Nine/Rose shippers have had a long time to come to terms with the passing of Nine, and can comfortably write him and Rose having endless adventures together (plus, we know that Rose still continues on with a Doctor in some form). And, it's different because Ten/Ten II are the faces of the crisis at hand, the happy moments and the heartbreaking. It's a more tender (for a Doctor/Rose shipper) topic because of what has happened between them.