I think "second best" came from the Daily Mail though? What RTS seemed to have been quoted as saying was that they were careful to not introduce Martha as a new Rose, which I can understand. I would have had a hard time taking the Doctor seriously as a character if he had parted from Rose in the way that he did in Doomsday, and then immediately after bonded with another young girl from London in a similar way. It would have made him look about as shallow as a puddle
We all know the Doctor would have wanted Rose there but to say he'd have perferred Rose over Martha is just so... Wrong. Saying one person is better than the other for whatever reason is just... infuriating to me.
I think that, for the Doctor, he wouldn't necessarily say that Rose was the better person in objective terms. Or to quote Good Will Hunting hee, it's not about the other person being perfect, it's whether you feel that they are perfect for you. And in their time together in seasons 1 and 2, I get the sense of some major bonding going on
I said this in a discusion with someone yesterday actually, but is it really true when fandom gets all serious and insists that he loves them all, and it's wrong to talk of preferences. He was certaintly thrilled at Sarah Jane's return, and there were other characters such as Jamie and Jo that he bonded with big-time, and was sad to part from. And he wouldn't have been hit so hard by the loss of Dodo say or Turlough. In that sense, like any viewer, the Doctor has always had its perferences, so isn't it new Who only being more overt with the Doctor's emotions, rather than reinventing how the show works? The Doctor has always had favourites, he's just never been allowed to grief for them before quite so consistently, before DW became more character-centric with its return
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Date: 2007-12-16 07:39 pm (UTC)We all know the Doctor would have wanted Rose there but to say he'd have perferred Rose over Martha is just so... Wrong. Saying one person is better than the other for whatever reason is just... infuriating to me.
I think that, for the Doctor, he wouldn't necessarily say that Rose was the better person in objective terms. Or to quote Good Will Hunting hee, it's not about the other person being perfect, it's whether you feel that they are perfect for you. And in their time together in seasons 1 and 2, I get the sense of some major bonding going on
I said this in a discusion with someone yesterday actually, but is it really true when fandom gets all serious and insists that he loves them all, and it's wrong to talk of preferences. He was certaintly thrilled at Sarah Jane's return, and there were other characters such as Jamie and Jo that he bonded with big-time, and was sad to part from. And he wouldn't have been hit so hard by the loss of Dodo say or Turlough. In that sense, like any viewer, the Doctor has always had its perferences, so isn't it new Who only being more overt with the Doctor's emotions, rather than reinventing how the show works? The Doctor has always had favourites, he's just never been allowed to grief for them before quite so consistently, before DW became more character-centric with its return