Out of interest ...

[preserved_ginger]

Why is it that AU Season-Two-fic-with-Nine is A-OK on the comms, but people turn their noses up at AU Season-Three-fic-with-Rose?

I don’t get it.

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[azriona.livejournal.com]

It's considered wanky because of the huge diversity between Rose and Martha, whereas Nine and Ten are both loved, really. Nobody hates on Nine, or Ten, ergo it's ok to replace the latter with the former for the sake of an interesting read.

Hadn't thought of it that way, but I agree.

I wonder, if instead of Martha, we had Donna straight away in S3, would there be so many S3-with-Rose fics? The theory being that Donna seems to be more or less generally accepted as a good companion, in a way that Martha is not. Much in the same way that Ten was a good replacement for Nine.

Therefore, replacing Donna with Rose, instead of replacing (or supplementing) Martha, wouldn't be seen as OMGHOWDAREYOU but another case of "an interesting read".

Does that make sense? It's sort of twisty logic.