#donna's charm was very similar but slightly to the left (if you'll pardon the hideous pun) | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

notcatherinemorland · 5 years ago

Text

i’m very exceptionally middle class (uk) so my thoughts on how fantastic rose tyler as a character is can only go so far . and this kind of meta is a bit heavier than i tend to spring for outside of very legitimate analysis/for fking tumblr . but when discussing 9′s run of doctor who - the elements of the uk class system and use of spoken accent both within the show’s story, and as meta, absolutely cannot be ignored, and is imperative to understanding rose tyler as a character - personally and mechanically. rose tyler is a fucking GIFT. as is jackie tyler, and mickey. and eccleston himself. rose tyler being 19 years old from a council estate with those clothes, her mum wearing those earrings, with that accent, with that job, eating chips on her lunch break. very, very deliberate choices and it is a far, far richer story for them.

#dr who wank for ts #this is arguably a long hand way for saying that a*y and r*ry had veyr little class definition/too blandly middle class and so did not have #a very grounded starting point #unlike martha and rose who very much had lives on earth to be ripped out from #donna's charm was very similar but slightly to the left (if you'll pardon the hideous pun)#but the 11's companions .. i need to watch it again to make a proper conclusion on it #because Rose and something to LOOSE and that was in part her community and her family .#and thats where i see a lot of the weight behind her character being

4 notes · View notes