#but not on rose Tyler’s watch

[bobcatblahs]

Did you mean: Emergency Programme One

My favourite trope has to be:

I sacrificed myself to save you. I didn't plan to survive. I burnt all the bridges. I intended to break your heart with my death, but that would be all right, because I wouldn't be around to see you. I pretended that you'll mourn me for a while and move on. I convinced myself I was going down in the blaze of glory. That my deed was appreciated. That everything was going to be all right afterwards, and I didn't need to be there to see it.

But I survived. And now I have to look you in the eye. I have to pick up the pieces of the life I shattered and figure out how to put it back together. If it can be done at all.

[zazrichor]

B A D W O L F

[theangelofbrahma]

[thelvadams]

DOCTOR WHO • 1.01 'Rose'

It's like when you're a kid. The first time they tell you that the world's turning and you just can't quite believe it, because everything looks like it's standing still.

[bloodyvampwings]

this was PEAK Doctor Who, no one can change my mind.

[doortotomorrow]

ninerose - date night

[nobleriver]

DOCTOR WHO | Rose & Jackie Tyler in Doomsday

[jessmalia]

JO AND MAL AES IN TV AND FILM: 80/? Doctor Who | Doomsday (2x13)

[grandadtwelve]

the journey of watching s1 of doctor who (2005) as told through my serializd reviews <3

[ideeylic]

she literally means the whole world to me

[tubesock86]

9🌹

gonna start drawing all the doctors and my fav companion of theirs ! weeeeeee

[oopsalldt]

Tooth and Claw

[sluttycinderella]

i know plenty of people have pointed this out before but it’s so heartbreaking to see just how self-destructive the doctor got immediately after losing rose. like he would always put his life on the line to save humanity but with rose around he tried to be more careful because he always wanted to come back to her. without rose he’s literally begging every episode for someone to kill him to save others.

[spritepespi]

bad wolf/the parting of the ways rose tyler my beloved

[transmasc-rose]

I'm thinking about the horror of the Doctor from the perspective of non-companions again, especially as it relates to people those companions know.

Rose? "Ran away" (not wrong) for "a year" (a week) with a "man" (alien) "twice her age" (approximately 50 times her age but yeah, he is Time Lord middle aged), and then gives absolutely no explanation for how or why that happened, except that she was "travelling".

Then when her mum does get an explanation (which, frankly, is only comforting because of the unfamiliarity of the alternative given. The devil you know.), Rose barely checks back in.

She almost dies for him. When she thinks he's dead, she's changed in a way her family doesn't know how to handle. Then she's gone for who knows how long and comes back with the Doctor wearing a new face.

When her original tenure as a companion ends, and Rose lives in Pete's World, she works for Torchwood/UNIT (they become the same organization). She volunteers for the Dimension Cannon. She explains to the alternate earth how to rig up a time machine.

She's changed in ways that no one else can really understand.

Amy? There's everything with River Song of course (though I'm still not there in my viewing), him running away with Amy the night before her and Rory's wedding, and also the connection between the Doctor and the Time Crack being the reason all of Amy's family's dead. Obvious stuff.

However he's also the strange man who broke into this child's house and made a mess of her life that she never got over, that promised to take her away from here, that she wrote about and drew and carved and made her friends dress up as.

And they sent her to psychiatrist after psychiatrist without any help. In their perspective, to work through what she imagined. In her perspective, to tell her that her reality wasn't real.

And then he comes back.

And to some extent, later, when he shows himself to everyone, isn't that more frightening? That the story your child told you, of the strange man she met as a child, of time travel, of nearly being stolen away, hadn't been a lie, or a misinterpretation, or an imagining?

And so he shows up at her wedding. And steals her away again.

Donna I feel like has the least horror until her final episode. I think exploring the in between section of her meeting the Doctor and finding him again would be interesting, but not exactly horror. More an exploration of how obsessive the companions can get about him, how it eats their whole lives with even one encounter, even as it makes them better people.

And then, obviously, the horror of having your mind altered and erased against your will by someone you trusted. For your own good, of course. Because he knows best. How could you know better than him? He's ancient. He's practically all knowing.

Shouldn't you be grateful?

(And he's forgiven.)

[thelesbianthespianposts]

happy 20 year anniversary to Rose Tyler seeing the doctor for the first time (and his last time seeing her)