I love that image you mentioned - the Doctor in the spike seat and Rose leaning on it. It's so relaxed, so casual, so natural!
It's just ... guh! I love it so.
"Doctor telling Rose that Adam was her boyfriend"
I actually rather liked it. I felt like the Doctor was saying it just to get a rise out of Rose. It was the same when the Doctor said he was sending Rose off on her first date with Adam, and Rose turned around with a laugh and a "You're gonna get a smack, you are!"
Right, that's what I meant in that it was gentle ribbing, playful jealousy and Rose was playing along.
It seemed to me such a comfort level between the Doctor and Rose - that Adam was so clearly NOT a threat they can joke about it. The Doctor's clearly possessive of Rose and gets jealous when her attention is elsewhere. He even seduces Rose away from her own mother and displays a bit of jealousy in "Boomtown" towards MICKEY as he watches Mickey and Rose outside the TARDIS. And, of course, there's Jack, who seems to throw the Doctor into a complete tizzy over Rose.
This complete lack of reaction from the Doctor here made me just think of Adam as, like, I don't know - a yappy little puppy Rose wanted to bring on board.
Yeah, that's what I saw too and why even though my normal emotional/irrational shipper side would come out, it just doesn't with Adam, because he's so not a threat. The Doctor (especially Nine) -- who gets possessively jealous over Rose quite easily -- not getting jealous over Adam really shows how much of a "threat" he was. I just have to stop reading any fic that actually references Rose sleeping with Adam. Puh-leeze!
"him waving "bye" to cathica as he and Rose headed up to level 500
I just love that scene. CE's roles are usually so intense and dark, and I love how "Doctor Who" brought out a comic side. That scene sticks in my head, as well as the one in "Rose" where he's in the apartment living room, "attempting" to play cards. The "luck be a lady" singing as the cards go flying...hehe.
Yes, I LOVE the dorky, goofy moments because it comes across as if THAT is who the personality of this Doctor truly is, but the horror of what happened to him has dimmed that, so when that comes out -- more and more, thanks to Rose, it just makes me grin.
"is how the Doctor simply leaves Adam in his current time of 2012 with that massive technology in his brain. ...the technology WOULD get out. And that is just sloppy and unlike the Doctor.
YES. That always bothered me. The Doctor sonics Adam's phone so he can't use the information, but Adam's got a huge hole in his head and the Doctor isn't worried?
I KNOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
wmr wrote a story called "The Best" which, I feel, dealt brilliantly with "Long Game"'s loose ends. Fantastic. I like to think of that as the real ending to "LG".
Yeah, I was actually thinking of that story when watching this and the end rolled around. How could the Doctor just leave Adam like that? Sloppy, sloppy, sloppy. Just NOT a strong Rusty episode.
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It's just ... guh! I love it so.
"Doctor telling Rose that Adam was her boyfriend"
I actually rather liked it. I felt like the Doctor was saying it just to get a rise out of Rose. It was the same when the Doctor said he was sending Rose off on her first date with Adam, and Rose turned around with a laugh and a "You're gonna get a smack, you are!"
Right, that's what I meant in that it was gentle ribbing, playful jealousy and Rose was playing along.
It seemed to me such a comfort level between the Doctor and Rose - that Adam was so clearly NOT a threat they can joke about it. The Doctor's clearly possessive of Rose and gets jealous when her attention is elsewhere. He even seduces Rose away from her own mother and displays a bit of jealousy in "Boomtown" towards MICKEY as he watches Mickey and Rose outside the TARDIS. And, of course, there's Jack, who seems to throw the Doctor into a complete tizzy over Rose.
This complete lack of reaction from the Doctor here made me just think of Adam as, like, I don't know - a yappy little puppy Rose wanted to bring on board.
Yeah, that's what I saw too and why even though my normal emotional/irrational shipper side would come out, it just doesn't with Adam, because he's so not a threat. The Doctor (especially Nine) -- who gets possessively jealous over Rose quite easily -- not getting jealous over Adam really shows how much of a "threat" he was. I just have to stop reading any fic that actually references Rose sleeping with Adam. Puh-leeze!
"him waving "bye" to cathica as he and Rose headed up to level 500
I just love that scene. CE's roles are usually so intense and dark, and I love how "Doctor Who" brought out a comic side. That scene sticks in my head, as well as the one in "Rose" where he's in the apartment living room, "attempting" to play cards. The "luck be a lady" singing as the cards go flying...hehe.
Yes, I LOVE the dorky, goofy moments because it comes across as if THAT is who the personality of this Doctor truly is, but the horror of what happened to him has dimmed that, so when that comes out -- more and more, thanks to Rose, it just makes me grin.
"is how the Doctor simply leaves Adam in his current time of 2012 with that massive technology in his brain. ...the technology WOULD get out. And that is just sloppy and unlike the Doctor.
YES. That always bothered me. The Doctor sonics Adam's phone so he can't use the information, but Adam's got a huge hole in his head and the Doctor isn't worried?
I KNOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
wmr wrote a story called "The Best" which, I feel, dealt brilliantly with "Long Game"'s loose ends. Fantastic. I like to think of that as the real ending to "LG".
Yeah, I was actually thinking of that story when watching this and the end rolled around. How could the Doctor just leave Adam like that? Sloppy, sloppy, sloppy. Just NOT a strong Rusty episode.