The Tenth Doctor and Journey’s End

[preserved_ginger]

It’ll sound hard to believe, but I don’t actually dislike Ten II. (I don’t like him very much, either, but that’s an entirely separate issue.)

And if I thought that Ten I was all right about it (as opposed to “all right”, which is something else again), I could sing the Ten II/Rose song with the rest of you.

But he isn’t, and I can’t, and I don’t really know even now how to reconcile the two.

Part of me wants Ten II to be the Doctor, as otherwise Ten I has given everything up for nothing. And yet part of me cannot bear the idea that Ten II is the Doctor because in many ways for me that means that the Doctor’s grieving Rose (all of Season Three, and a bloody great chunk of Season Four as well; and it was not the mourning of a man who wasn’t romantically in love with Rose, either – I don’t care what the naysayers say) was essentially for nothing, too (how can he have done that and then turned around and effectively dumped her, first chance he realistically had?)

I am conflicted (and, as more than one person on my f-list has said, I suspect that’s what RTD and co. wanted from us), horribly so, and I just don’t know what to do.

Comments

[catsfiction.livejournal.com]

It's the same for me. I'm a lot more emotionally invested in Ten I and his fate, and I worry. Not that I can't enjoy Ten II stories, but then I enjoyed denial fics after Doomsday.

I'd cope with the whole thing better if Ten I had ended up with Donna because they obviously had a healthy and happy relationship. But for him to lose both was just too much.

[wiggiemomsi.livejournal.com]

Couldn't have said it better myself! Actually, wish I HAD said it!

*Hugs*

[helygen.livejournal.com]

"Part of me wants Ten II to be the Doctor, as otherwise Ten I has given everything up for nothing. And yet part of me cannot bear the idea that Ten II is the Doctor because in many ways for me that means that the Doctor’s grieving Rose ... was essentially for nothing, too (how can he have done that and then turned around and effectively dumped her, first chance he realistically had?)"

I don't believe he's given it up for nothing: he's given it up for love. Like the saying goes, "If you love someone, let them go"

I like to think that he feels he's giving Rose, and his human counterpart, the chance of a normal life together - something he longs for himself, but knows (or at least, believes) he can never realistically achieve with a human being.

And now I'm starting to cry again, just thinking about it.