Exactly. It bothered me far more when SR and GITR had a total lack of emotional continuity in regards to Rose's response to Mickey joining them. Regardless of how things used to, the ending of Doomsday clearly spelled out that this was a different type of DW, so I'd have expected nothing less than for it to be followed up on the following year. You cannot part the main character from someone in that way, and then not have it affect him strongly the following year. I mean maybe it's after sitting through countless episodes of Clana angst, but geez I don't even feel that the show hammered D/R home that strongly in season 3, and IMO it's fandom that blew it out of proportion more than anything
S&J had the Doctor say that he travelled with someone called Rose
TSC in the bedroom scene, and then later on saying the name keps him fighting (that was one episode where I think the Rose references were overegged, but perhaps because of it being early on in the season, RTD thought it was necessary?)
Gridlock with Martha asking if he had taken Rose there before
The Evolution of the Daleks has Martha tell Tallulah that she feels the Doctor is still hung up on another companion when he looks at her, although Rose's name doesn't actually come up there
The diary in HN with John Smith
Utopia has Jack bring up Rose to ask what happenned with her, and the discussion with the Doctor
The Last of the Time Lords had The Master attempt to use Rose's memory to belittle Martha and fail
And umm that's it. A lot of those references were like one sentence mentions as well, so hardly overwhelmed the season
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Date: 2007-12-16 07:25 pm (UTC)S&J had the Doctor say that he travelled with someone called Rose
TSC in the bedroom scene, and then later on saying the name keps him fighting (that was one episode where I think the Rose references were overegged, but perhaps because of it being early on in the season, RTD thought it was necessary?)
Gridlock with Martha asking if he had taken Rose there before
The Evolution of the Daleks has Martha tell Tallulah that she feels the Doctor is still hung up on another companion when he looks at her, although Rose's name doesn't actually come up there
The diary in HN with John Smith
Utopia has Jack bring up Rose to ask what happenned with her, and the discussion with the Doctor
The Last of the Time Lords had The Master attempt to use Rose's memory to belittle Martha and fail
And umm that's it. A lot of those references were like one sentence mentions as well, so hardly overwhelmed the season