Okay, really sleepy now, should probably not be commenting, but YES AGAIN ALL OF THIS.
I do want to say, though, that I actually love the notion of Rose/human!Doctor, not because of what Rusty thought he was doing but because I see it as being a sort of -- leveling, maybe. Human!Doctor still has all of the proper Doctor's memories and hangups and alienness, but he also has to navigate an entirely different sort of life that Rose knows more how to deal with than he does. So the eventual goal is still a compromise, but it's one in which they both have something to teach one another and they might actually manage it this time.
Or anyway that is how I deal with it and don't run off screaming into the sunset. Tragically I have not found a similarly charitable reading for Donna's fate.
Re: moar essay!
I do want to say, though, that I actually love the notion of Rose/human!Doctor, not because of what Rusty thought he was doing but because I see it as being a sort of -- leveling, maybe. Human!Doctor still has all of the proper Doctor's memories and hangups and alienness, but he also has to navigate an entirely different sort of life that Rose knows more how to deal with than he does. So the eventual goal is still a compromise, but it's one in which they both have something to teach one another and they might actually manage it this time.
Or anyway that is how I deal with it and don't run off screaming into the sunset. Tragically I have not found a similarly charitable reading for Donna's fate.