A Discovery
Feb. 1st, 2007 07:30 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
salienneOk, as you all might or might not know, I've been obsessively reading Doctor Who fanfics for, oh, about the past month (I know, I know, it makes me kinda sad too), especially Rose/Doctor ones (because, come on, they're adorable). Basically, the two have the whole "We clearly love one another but won't do anything about it cuz the Doc'd get hurt" thing going on. And I've noticed something in fanfic world (besides the fact that most of the fics are terrible, which is to be expected): people seem to be completely incapable of finding a nice medium. There are almost always too extremes: the "Let-me-say-absolutely-everything-amidst-much-drama!" and the much rarer "Let's be cynical to the point of death."
After the Doctor overhears Rose talking to herself about her feelings for him.... and comparing their relationship to Spiderman 2:
He closed his eyes and bit his lip as the tears flowed down his cheeks.
“I…”
He shuddered.
“I love you, Rose Tyler.” He moaned. “Oh God, I love you so much! I don’t want anything to happen to you! I don’t want to lose you!”
"I love you."
*cut text*
“Rose.” Her name was a sigh tinged with impatience. “I thought we were past this.”
A review:
This story is honest. You know, when I got to the end I was hoping Rose would indeed wake up next day to find the TARDIS outside her mum's place and the Doctor politely telling her to leave. That is what I am going to imagine happened next. Because it's realistic and fair and different and just plain right.
Now, the Doctor and Rose are not creatures that suddenly decide to reveal their emotions and have hott smexx. They're very human (character-wise, anyway) and can't just drop all inhibitions. But at the same time, there's not this great hostile tension between them that would force them apart if one of them finally did something. Bloody hell, realism is not cynicism, just as fanfiction isn't the place to figure out some half-assed reason for the two to get a good shag in. Is a balance THAT hard to find?
...And now to actually do my hw. I just had to put this somewhere because my roommate is pretty fed up with my DW obsessing.
Ta mates.
After the Doctor overhears Rose talking to herself about her feelings for him.... and comparing their relationship to Spiderman 2:
He closed his eyes and bit his lip as the tears flowed down his cheeks.
“I…”
He shuddered.
“I love you, Rose Tyler.” He moaned. “Oh God, I love you so much! I don’t want anything to happen to you! I don’t want to lose you!”
"I love you."
*cut text*
“Rose.” Her name was a sigh tinged with impatience. “I thought we were past this.”
A review:
This story is honest. You know, when I got to the end I was hoping Rose would indeed wake up next day to find the TARDIS outside her mum's place and the Doctor politely telling her to leave. That is what I am going to imagine happened next. Because it's realistic and fair and different and just plain right.
Now, the Doctor and Rose are not creatures that suddenly decide to reveal their emotions and have hott smexx. They're very human (character-wise, anyway) and can't just drop all inhibitions. But at the same time, there's not this great hostile tension between them that would force them apart if one of them finally did something. Bloody hell, realism is not cynicism, just as fanfiction isn't the place to figure out some half-assed reason for the two to get a good shag in. Is a balance THAT hard to find?
...And now to actually do my hw. I just had to put this somewhere because my roommate is pretty fed up with my DW obsessing.
Ta mates.
