Moving On

  • Post last modified:Tuesday, March 23rd, 2010
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Another thing that annoyed me about Rose was that she thought she was the first person to travel with the Doctor and the only person on Earth to know about alien life. She didn’t even think to ask whether she was or not! Rose must really rate herself.

It’s just denial. She hasn’t thought about it, at least in part because she’s chosen not to. It hasn’t been brought up, and she’s seen no reason to go into it — probably because she knows what the answer will be. If she doesn’t ask, she can pretend all she likes. It’s a part of being infatuated.

She admits out loud that she knew somewhere in her mind that there had to be someone else before her; it just wasn’t important enough to bring up. What teed her off so much here was being confronted with the situation she’d been avoiding so long (even after the Doctor went into his history with “dancing”), and then the math that came as a result.

“So… okay, here’s your old Companion. That’s… interesting. Wait, though. Why haven’t you said anything about her? What does that say about her? What does that say about you? What does that say about me?”

Basically, she’s being forced to deal with issues she’s been putting off, hoping she’ll never be faced with. That’ll annoy anyone, as it forces you to completely change your head. To open up to imperfection, to compromise. It takes away all the luster. Once you do that, there’s no going back. All you’ve got is reality — which is exactly what Rose has been trying to escape, this whole time.

This is probably one of the first big seeds sown for her leaving the series. Once she manages to get past all of this, she’ll be in more of a position to appreciate all the other things in her life — Mickey, her mum, even the simple inanities of twenty-first century London.