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Daily Mail headline generator!
It became necessary for me to link the above site, after it generated for me the classic headline, WILL LESBIANS INFECT THE QUEEN WITH AIDS?
Great for teh lulz.
On some fandom related lulz, I found this article.
I haven't the faintest idea what most of the article is about, but the analogy used to explain the confusing stuff amused me immensely:
"The dichotomy is, as per usual, best illustrated with reference to Doctor Who:
Rose Tyler is engaged in a frantic, neurotic attempt to root herself and The Doctor within some kind of matrix of meaning and identity, played out against the backdrop of her electra complex, whereas Martha can more readily assimilate the irrational contradictions of travel in time and space because basically, she's tagging along for a laugh, with maybe the promise of a shag at the end of it."
And on the subject of Doctor Who, I am trying not to amuse mysef with the thought that certain sections of fandom *cough*Rosefen*cough* seem determined to have S3 turn out rather, well, Rebecca-esque, with Martha as the new bride.Shakespeare Code probably didn't help, what with it sort of feeding into this mentality.
Which means I am now picturing the Rosefen as an army of Mrs Danvers'. Jasper Fforde would be proud.
ETA: WILL TONY BLAIR IMPREGNATE THE MEMORY OF DIANA? *dies*
It became necessary for me to link the above site, after it generated for me the classic headline, WILL LESBIANS INFECT THE QUEEN WITH AIDS?
Great for teh lulz.
On some fandom related lulz, I found this article.
I haven't the faintest idea what most of the article is about, but the analogy used to explain the confusing stuff amused me immensely:
"The dichotomy is, as per usual, best illustrated with reference to Doctor Who:
Rose Tyler is engaged in a frantic, neurotic attempt to root herself and The Doctor within some kind of matrix of meaning and identity, played out against the backdrop of her electra complex, whereas Martha can more readily assimilate the irrational contradictions of travel in time and space because basically, she's tagging along for a laugh, with maybe the promise of a shag at the end of it."
And on the subject of Doctor Who, I am trying not to amuse mysef with the thought that certain sections of fandom *cough*Rosefen*cough* seem determined to have S3 turn out rather, well, Rebecca-esque, with Martha as the new bride.
Which means I am now picturing the Rosefen as an army of Mrs Danvers'. Jasper Fforde would be proud.
ETA: WILL TONY BLAIR IMPREGNATE THE MEMORY OF DIANA? *dies*
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I'd be more open to this theory if it hadn't been posted after "Daleks in Manhattan".
COULD LESBIANS RIP OFF YOUR MORTGAGE?
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Egads. How can people, you know, avoid the blatantly obvious like that? Not to mention, said smuggery is precisely why there was a Torchwood to get her stuck in an alt-Universe.
...Say, from that argument, that means Rose being forever stuck in the alt-Universe is justified.
DOES FEMINISM HURT HOUSE PRICES?
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WAY TO GO, TEAM TARDIS.
WILL THE BBC HURT THE CHURCH?
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Even on just a more personal note, pychologically speaking, Rose is still at the stage of life where she is working out her identity. And considering identity is often seen as a match between your own perception of yourself, and how others see you... having a peer group of one person, who is not, shall we say, the most objective viewer of you can't exactly be the healthies way of identity formation.
Yes, adolescent identity formation was the topic of one of my lectures last week. So I can actually back this up with citationsCOULD GAYS STRIP YOUR MORTGAGE OF ALL DIGNITY?
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Was that thought of as a good thing? I remember her being irrationally fearless whilst being in a Daleks
eyepieceface "I destroyed him" *shakes head*DO ASYLUM SEEKERS SCROUNGE OFF CLIFF RICHARDS?
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WILL THE FRENCH STRIP YOUR HOUSE OF ALL DIGNITY?
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DOES NEW LABOUR KILL THE ELDERLY?
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DOES THE LEFT IMPREGNATE CLIFF RICHARD?
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DO GYPSIES KILL THE CHURCH?
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COULD THE E.U. IMPREGNATE FARMERS?
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COULD SINGLE MOTHERS RUIN BRITISH JUSTICE?
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DO BRUSSELS BUREAUCRATS DESTROY BRITAIN'S SWANS?
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COULD GREENPEACE KILL YOUR MORTGAGE?
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COULD NEW LABOUR IMPREGNATE BRITAIN'S SWANS?
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WILL LESBIANS KILL THE BRITISH PEOPLE?
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DO TEACHERS LEAD CLIFF RICHARD ASTRAY?
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WILL THE FRENCH LEAD YOUR DAUGHTERS ASTRAY?
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DO LESBIANS HURT THE ELDERLY?
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COULD THE FRENCH LEAD BRITAIN'S SWANS ASTRAY?
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COULD CHANNEL 4 IMPREGNATE HOMEOWNERS?
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WILL THE BBC INFECT YOUR DAUGHTERS WITH AIDS?
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COULD GAYS GIVE YOUR PENSION CANCER?
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WILL THE GERMANS RIP OFF THE QUEEN?
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DO GYPSIES STRIP HOUSE PRICES OF ALL DIGNITY?
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DO GAYS IMPREGNATE THE BBC?
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WILL THE BBC INFECT THE ELDERLY WITH AIDS?
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On the one hand, the Bad Wolf is terrifying. On the other, it's a chance to see Rose get shippy with the Doctor. You can pretty much guess where some people are going to jump.
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Also, this theory floating around, that the alleged Bad Wolf references in S3 mean Rose is coming back -- completely miss the point that half the Bad Wolf never left the show. Poor thing had an arrow in it a couple of weeks back; she can't be happy about that.
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I do like it when people get that fact pointed out to them. (There's also the fact that one of the Bad Wolf consequences is coming back this series - ie. Jack)
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Maybe there's an unending supply of mascara in all the bathrooms, and when Martha finally moves in properly, she'll wake up to find her hair dyed blonde and all her clothes turned into hoodies?
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But seriously, I've been thinking about Rose a lot lately. Not surprising when I will go and read posts by people who wish she'd never left and believe she's coming back.
But it has occurred to me that one could, if one wished, fanwank S2 Rose by saying that the TARDIS changed her personality -- she couldn't hold the Doctor back because the TARDIS can't do it either.
And deep in the soul of the TARDIS, where the echoes of all of her inhabitants exist, there is the Bad Wolf -- an error in the code, an unpredictable force feared by all the other echoes. A wound for Martha to heal, if you will.
...Erm, I've been trying to write that fic for a few days. I can talk about it eloquently enough.
But seriously, I've also been thinking that Nine didn't need a companion to stop him -- he needed one to connect him with humanity and inspire him to actually do things. And it was his inability to act that killed him in PotW -- he chooses not to activate the gamma wave, and sits back to wait for the deus ex machina.
*kind of hates Nine*
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As for the Nine thing... well, you know that theory that it's whatever the fatal flaw of a particular Doctor that gets reversed after regeneration? Well, we went from unable to act Nine, to Ten who acts before thinking, pretty much. No wonder the dynamic with Rose went wonky, he went from needing a cheerleader to needing someone to hold him back.
*is not a huge Nine fan either*
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To the best of my recollection, the only time Nine really needs someone to hold him back is "The Unquiet Dead", where war guilt leads him to offer human corpses to the Gelth. And although Rose argued against it, I kind of lost my affection for her in that scene, because her argument basically came down to, "Don't. Because I said so." While I was screaming at the TV about human death customs and mourning and ... stuff.
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When was the last time Rose seriously argued with the Doctor, anyway? (Excluding her daddy issues, which aren't, on the scale of things, serious)
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She fought for her right to flirt with Cap'n Jack in "The Doctor Dances".
But mostly she's the Doctor's cheerleader while other people argue with him.
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Will the unemployed ruin farmer benefits?
And yeah, I was a RosexDoc shipper (still am in a way I guess) but more of as friends then anything else. I just...can't see them getting down and dirty, as she never really tried to sort out any of his enigma, despite the fact that he was angsting over her when she left. But then, she was younger, Martha is more of a go-getter...and, hilariously enough, I didn't think I'd like Martha. Then I watched the first epi with her and was like...man...she's a little like me...this is neat!
And, the rest is history.
By the by, thanks for expressing interest in my dark!Ten fics. I'm going to start posting my first DW one shot at the end of the week or next week (finals week, ya know? No time!) on my lj. You're welcome to stop by if ya feel like it, I need good crits!