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Published: 2012-03-17 22:48:25 +0000 UTC; Views: 882; Favourites: 12; Downloads: 25
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The first companion for the reboot of Doctor Who. Rose had some pretty awesome moments. I just wish they had let her go when they let her go. Instead, they kept bringing her back and it really cheapened her end. It was a beautiful, emotional moment, and they had to ruin it by not letting her go.Related content
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Personally I liked that they brought her back. Not because I liked her as the Doctor's companion and love interest (on the contrary, her being his love interest made her a Mary Sue), but because I felt the character got a chance to redeem herself by showing how she'd grown. She still had a LOT of growing left to do, but at least she was given the chance to become her own character. She was a parrot before hand. She mimicked her mother before the Doctor came along, and she began to mirror him when he took her on as a companion. She was never her own character until after she left. Not like Martha and Donna, who were fiercely independent and unique right from the start.
In the end, though, it wasn't the writers per se who couldn't let Rose go. It was the Doctor. Had he moved on, the fans might have as well, and perhaps Rose never would have returned. Or if she had, it would have been touching instead of kind of cheesy. And what was with all the whining about Ten's regeneration, anyway? That has GOT to be something he picked up from Rose. Granted, that aborted regeneration turned out to be a Chekhov's Gun, but Rose was still being a baby about it (Jack's reaction, on the other hand, was nothing short of hilarious; I've never seen someone so disappointed that the Doctor didn't regenerate). But like I said, she still has a lot of growing to do.
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Definitely valid points, I just felt that it cheapened it. Here was a very emotional separation that was forced on them both in an amazing episode. And then the writers couldn't figure out anything new so they brought her back. Yes, her character finally got the development it should have had the entire time she was on the show, which is good and all, but suddenly that incredibly intense, emotional separation means less. Just my opinion on it. So true about the reactions to the regeneration.
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That's in the episode "Fear Her." The one with the girl that draws people into pictures.
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