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Still thinking about Who and relationships and whatnot, like ya do..and I started making some connections this morning that made me feel much more hopeful about some stuff that was bugging me. Specifically how Jack's story gives me so much more hope for Rose.
Right, so Jack. Jack falls in love with the Doctor and when separated from him spends something like a hundred years obsessively focused on getting back to him, believing that being with the Doctor is the only way he can be really happy or improve his life, and he uses the technology and resources of Torchwood to pursue that goal above all else and promptly abandons everything and everyone around him the second he gets a chance to run after the Doctor. Sound familiar?
The big difference is that since we get to see a chunk of this period of his life, we also get to see that he is developing relationships and connections and a home and a life beyond the Doctor even if he doesn't quite realize it yet. You know that if he'd just look around for a second he'd realize it too. And then he does. But not until after he's reached his goal and got what he thought he wanted. Going back to the Doctor is what crashed this overly romanticized view of what 'being with the Doctor' means, and allowed him to look beyond fantasy to reality. At which point he goes home and really begins to embrace his own life.
We really don't know what else Rose was doing in her alt!verse other than trying to get back, but I think it's plausible to guess based on what Jack was up to that she may have been developing friendships and connections and a home without realizing it. That she does have an entire life to go back to, and now that the bubble has burst on the notion that 'getting back to him' is all she needed or that it would fix everything, she'll be able to really see it for the first time. I still wish we'd seen that on screen. That she'd made the same deliberate choice that Jack did, but I think she'll be okay.
If I wrote fic that is the story I think I'd write. After the beach, Rose returning to alt!Torchwood and seeing her team again and having it really hit her, Hey, I would've missed these people. A lot. And as she's showing Human!Ten the other projects she was working on, realizing that she really was interested in seeing how that one turned out. And going home and looking around at her stuff, and reminders on the calender like she was supposed to go to the movies with Tosh on Tuesday (yes, Tosh is alive there dammit), and her little brother's birthday party is coming up and she'd already picked out the perfect present. And then maybe she'd turn to Human!Ten and she'd be smiling this huge smile that is not about snogging him at all. And that night when she went to bed (with or without Human!Ten sexing) that night she'd be surprised that while she's got a lot of conflicting emotions and some anger, that above all she's relieved. Yes, that's how it happened.
Right, so Jack. Jack falls in love with the Doctor and when separated from him spends something like a hundred years obsessively focused on getting back to him, believing that being with the Doctor is the only way he can be really happy or improve his life, and he uses the technology and resources of Torchwood to pursue that goal above all else and promptly abandons everything and everyone around him the second he gets a chance to run after the Doctor. Sound familiar?
The big difference is that since we get to see a chunk of this period of his life, we also get to see that he is developing relationships and connections and a home and a life beyond the Doctor even if he doesn't quite realize it yet. You know that if he'd just look around for a second he'd realize it too. And then he does. But not until after he's reached his goal and got what he thought he wanted. Going back to the Doctor is what crashed this overly romanticized view of what 'being with the Doctor' means, and allowed him to look beyond fantasy to reality. At which point he goes home and really begins to embrace his own life.
We really don't know what else Rose was doing in her alt!verse other than trying to get back, but I think it's plausible to guess based on what Jack was up to that she may have been developing friendships and connections and a home without realizing it. That she does have an entire life to go back to, and now that the bubble has burst on the notion that 'getting back to him' is all she needed or that it would fix everything, she'll be able to really see it for the first time. I still wish we'd seen that on screen. That she'd made the same deliberate choice that Jack did, but I think she'll be okay.
If I wrote fic that is the story I think I'd write. After the beach, Rose returning to alt!Torchwood and seeing her team again and having it really hit her, Hey, I would've missed these people. A lot. And as she's showing Human!Ten the other projects she was working on, realizing that she really was interested in seeing how that one turned out. And going home and looking around at her stuff, and reminders on the calender like she was supposed to go to the movies with Tosh on Tuesday (yes, Tosh is alive there dammit), and her little brother's birthday party is coming up and she'd already picked out the perfect present. And then maybe she'd turn to Human!Ten and she'd be smiling this huge smile that is not about snogging him at all. And that night when she went to bed (with or without Human!Ten sexing) that night she'd be surprised that while she's got a lot of conflicting emotions and some anger, that above all she's relieved. Yes, that's how it happened.
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