I agree with a lot of what you say here. I think it's taken pretty much until this last episode for me to be comfortable and happy with David Tennant's Doctor - he is such a contrast with Christopher Eccleston which, on the whole, can only be a good thing, I think. In a lot of ways he is more-like the Patrick Troughton, cosmic clown-type of Doctor over Chris Eccleston's more dour Hartnell-esque version. Although there are also strong elements of Tom Baker in Tennant's Doc.
I think that the relationship between the Doctor and Rose in the first two episodes, where they were so full of themselves and so pleased with everything ("irritating giggling-together-all-the-time" - definitely) was intentional and so upfront because Rose was going to be hit with the revelation that she wasn't the first girl to go travelling with him and very probably won't be the last. And his relationship with Madame De Pompadour added to that. I think that the rest of the series will be working on this (especially considering that a lot of what we're getting in this series, as well as the Doctor as a God/Angel stuff is the fact that he is incredibly lonely.)
I did find the Sarah Jane stuff very moving, she is pretty much the earliest Companion that I remember ('My' Doctor is very definitely Tom Baker) and I think that the episode showed that she is a strong woman and did make a life for herself but, as she said, what is life on one planet going forward one day at a time compared to what she had with the Doctor. I think she may have been more strongly affected by the Doctor leaving her because she absolutely did not want to go and the Doctor did not want her to leave either - he got summoned to Gallifrey and was not allowed to take non-Time Lords with him. There was the suggestion that he would come back for her after he was finished there but he never did. I think part of her anger with him was the fact that he just left her hanging there and she never knew what happened to him. Every other companion (with the exception, I think, of Susan) has parted ways with the Doctor voluntarily and so this one character, who was one of the best, if not THE best, companion the Doctor has ever had, was perhaps the best choice to return.
All that said, I am SO looking forward to next week and the return of the Cybermen! Yay!
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
timeasmymeasure
no subject
Date: 2006-05-10 09:31 am (UTC)I think that the relationship between the Doctor and Rose in the first two episodes, where they were so full of themselves and so pleased with everything ("irritating giggling-together-all-the-time" - definitely) was intentional and so upfront because Rose was going to be hit with the revelation that she wasn't the first girl to go travelling with him and very probably won't be the last. And his relationship with Madame De Pompadour added to that. I think that the rest of the series will be working on this (especially considering that a lot of what we're getting in this series, as well as the Doctor as a God/Angel stuff is the fact that he is incredibly lonely.)
I did find the Sarah Jane stuff very moving, she is pretty much the earliest Companion that I remember ('My' Doctor is very definitely Tom Baker) and I think that the episode showed that she is a strong woman and did make a life for herself but, as she said, what is life on one planet going forward one day at a time compared to what she had with the Doctor. I think she may have been more strongly affected by the Doctor leaving her because she absolutely did not want to go and the Doctor did not want her to leave either - he got summoned to Gallifrey and was not allowed to take non-Time Lords with him. There was the suggestion that he would come back for her after he was finished there but he never did. I think part of her anger with him was the fact that he just left her hanging there and she never knew what happened to him. Every other companion (with the exception, I think, of Susan) has parted ways with the Doctor voluntarily and so this one character, who was one of the best, if not THE best, companion the Doctor has ever had, was perhaps the best choice to return.
All that said, I am SO looking forward to next week and the return of the Cybermen! Yay!