But in a way, it's like Jackie and Alternate!Pete - Rose just ended up in a fucked up relationship pretty much like her parents.
Which could be awesome to play with, except it played out in the episode like some sort of creepy reward for Rose's loyalty or something, and that won't attract the right sort of people to play with it.
Plus bringing Rose back in felt like a sop to fanbrats. I kept screaming at the tv, "Billie Piper quit! Deal with it, people!"
Rose/Ten, and especially the way she kept trying to get back to him rather than figure out her life in the alternate universe, made perfect sense. Ten/Rose, however, never actually got supported. So 10.5 was not really gonna be all that much more helpful, actually. I sort of wonder if he's just an animate body pillow - the inanimate version would serve her just as well, I suspect. He'll inevitably be disappointing because there is no TARDIS, there are no adventures, and that's what Rose desperately wants (the sex was supposed to be a side dish to the adventure, not the main course).
Which is what brings us back around to Jackie/Alt!Pete. These aren't the people they married, but they're similar, and those similarities are what are going to be both most comforting and most maddening. And that'll be Rose's issue - he has the personality and the memories, but there's a whole gap of time they were apart, in which awesome stuff happened that she wasn't part of, and the future isn't going to be at all what she predicted/wanted out of the relationship. And it may be easier for Jackie and Pete, who in both timelines have the similar history and acknowledge that they aren't the same people as their previous spouses. 10.5 is supposedly 10, but this'll prove whether Rose was in love with the Doctor or the Time Lord. (and if 10.5 really is Ten in memories, feelings, etc., he has the same feelings for Rose and would have come up with the same idea, since he is Ten and would likely have the same thought processes, so I'm not sure there's a lack of consent there. Or more specifically, I'm not sure his consent needs to be voiced - I don't think that was the creepy aspect about it. He isn't a stranger in the image of Ten. I think it was lazy plotting and fucking stupid writing for him to exist, but I don't think he's getting sold by Ten as a Doctor-shaped sex slave to Rose.)
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Which could be awesome to play with, except it played out in the episode like some sort of creepy reward for Rose's loyalty or something, and that won't attract the right sort of people to play with it.
Plus bringing Rose back in felt like a sop to fanbrats. I kept screaming at the tv, "Billie Piper quit! Deal with it, people!"
Rose/Ten, and especially the way she kept trying to get back to him rather than figure out her life in the alternate universe, made perfect sense. Ten/Rose, however, never actually got supported. So 10.5 was not really gonna be all that much more helpful, actually. I sort of wonder if he's just an animate body pillow - the inanimate version would serve her just as well, I suspect. He'll inevitably be disappointing because there is no TARDIS, there are no adventures, and that's what Rose desperately wants (the sex was supposed to be a side dish to the adventure, not the main course).
Which is what brings us back around to Jackie/Alt!Pete. These aren't the people they married, but they're similar, and those similarities are what are going to be both most comforting and most maddening. And that'll be Rose's issue - he has the personality and the memories, but there's a whole gap of time they were apart, in which awesome stuff happened that she wasn't part of, and the future isn't going to be at all what she predicted/wanted out of the relationship. And it may be easier for Jackie and Pete, who in both timelines have the similar history and acknowledge that they aren't the same people as their previous spouses. 10.5 is supposedly 10, but this'll prove whether Rose was in love with the Doctor or the Time Lord. (and if 10.5 really is Ten in memories, feelings, etc., he has the same feelings for Rose and would have come up with the same idea, since he is Ten and would likely have the same thought processes, so I'm not sure there's a lack of consent there. Or more specifically, I'm not sure his consent needs to be voiced - I don't think that was the creepy aspect about it. He isn't a stranger in the image of Ten. I think it was lazy plotting and fucking stupid writing for him to exist, but I don't think he's getting sold by Ten as a Doctor-shaped sex slave to Rose.)