Am rewatching the whole of Life On Mars, and it has occured to me that Sam/Gene has virtually the exact same appeal as Sparrington.
Hmmmm. (Am not much of a slasher- am not much of a shipper at all, really- but read it from time to time)
As for my Big TV Fandom, which I can’t seem to make a post without mentioning, it is a tad worrying that today I suddenly thought up an unfailable way to bring Rose back from the alt-verse, and now I feel almost compelled to write a fic about it. That, and I also have a Martha fic planned, and a Mickey/Jackie (ish) one. Oh, and
1) an essay (with pictures!) about the use of costumes in Doctor Who (that’s coming along quite nicely.)
2) a large multi-fandom icon post
3) updates to my big Spider-Man still-a-WIP fic
And, lastly, have made new icon. New default icon. That’d be a Beautiful South song on there.
Thank god it’s the summer holidays. I’ve got a lot that needs doing. *buggers off*
Rose: ‘Can I get you anything?’
Alt-Jackie: ‘Yeah…the last twenty years back.’
In Real-Jackie’s timeline, Pete has been dead for roughly twenty years, depending on how old Rose actually is now. But by the end of the show, she has Pete back (a version of him, anyway), her daughter back- everything she ever wanted.
Rose did give her the last twenty years of her life back!
I swear all these thoughts wil be put in coherent essay format soon.
Song: Don’t Fear The Reaper by Blue Oyster Cult
Characters: Rose, Nine, Ten, Jackie and Mickey
Ships: Ah, well, that’s the thing. It can be read as either pro Rose/Doctor or anti Rose/Doctor, depending on how you look at it.
Feedback: Yes please. This is my first vid. :)
Title: How Jackie Tyler Saved The Universe
Author: sarah531
Rating: G?
Summary: A missing scene from Doomsday.
A/N: This is the first draft of this. I reckon it’s not as good as it could be. It needs something more, but I’m not sure what.
You know…sometimes I get the feeling the series works better if you watch it from Jackie and Mickey’s POV rather than Rose’s. Overall, I mean. Because throughout both series, they change for the better and get a happy ending. Jackie’s husband comes back from the dead, almost, and saves her daughter- and then she gets a lovely house*, a complete family, and a new baby. Everything she’s ever wanted, just about. And Mickey gets to be a hero, and gains Jake and a gang of rebels, and his grandmother back and then Rose and Jackie too. Awesome for the both of them.
And then there’s Rose, and to be honest, I really don’t know what to make of her last scenes. About the ‘I’m never gonna leave you’ thing- yes, it was her decision, yes, she deserves to be able to make her own decisions- but Jackie would stay behind in Pete’s universe for her entire life and she’d never know if Rose was alive or dead or happy or what- her daughter would be as good as dead. She’d be unhappy for the rest of her life, and Rose could have prevented it- but she loves the Doctor and she wanted to stay with him, and she was right when she said everyone leaves home in the end. But…I don’t know. I really don’t know. And it would have been one seriously depressing tragedy if Rose had actually died.
Or, if she’d been able to carry on with the Doctor and eventually, say, he regenerated- but this time into someone she didn’t like. Or the Time Lords came back and he had to leave her for them, or something. Where we she go then? Nowhere, because she’d seperated herself from everybody. And she’d have had to leave the Doctor someday.
Everyone leaves home in the end.
So, the ending. I don’t know. What I really wanted was for her to realise that she had to grow up. Like Sarah Jane did, walking away. I wanted her to realise that the life she’s living is impossible, and that she can make a difference on Earth, or something- but she didn’t. There’s still hope that she’ll learn, on alt-earth, that she was lucky- but we’ll probably not see it. Unless she shows up again. Which I hope she does.
Sigh.
It depends which way you look at it?
Anyway. What do you think Jackie and Pete will call their new baby?
*I love the Tyler’s new house. I want to live there. Except not in the alt-verse (too many zeppelins).
When Rose was saved from the void by Pete, I applauded. Applauded madly and my hands still hurt. It felt so right, you know? So perfect.
I also cried, nearly, at the Last Goodbye scene. Honestly, I can’t find anything to say about that, because I know others will have done it better.
And I also admit that when Rose said ‘I’m never gonna leave you.’, even if it meant never seeing her mother again, I shouted ‘YOU IDIOT’ at the screen. Sigh. I also shouted ‘SHE HAS ABANDONED HER MOTHER TO A LIFE OF DESPAIR!’ which sounds hilarious, but there’s probably a grain of truth of it, because there would be a mother who could never see her daughter again…and if that’s not a tragedy, what is?
I grinned widly at pregnant!Jackie. Oh, I’m so so glad she didn’t die. She deserved her happy ending.
Also loved the Jackie/Pete reunion, and the way their hug mirrored the Rose/Doctor hug from The Satan Pit.
Mickey was awesome. Didn’t have much to do, but still was awesome. Leading on to…
The Doctor kissed him! Ha! I predict that will be on a thousand icons by the end of today, and possibly mine as well.
You know…I wonder what will become of Mickey and Rose’s relationship. I imagine it’ll settle into merely a good friendship, but…maybe it’ll evolve into something else, on the grounds that a) she’s already had a relationship with him and b) he’s a time traveller now, just like her.
One last thing? I loved that Rose was wearing a leather jacket at the end. Sigh.
I kind of do hope she comes back for one episode, somehow, in a few series’ time. Maybe the TARDIS does another crash-landing on alt-Earth, and the Doctor immediately goes to find Rose, causing much angst for Martha Jones.
Oh, there’s so much fanfic I want to write. I’ll see y’all later.
Thought I’d better post this before the chaos of tonight. ;) Anyway, here we have a Rose/Doctor fanmix with the focus mostly on Rose, although there’s a couple of Doctor songs in there too. It’s not exactly light and fluffy, I have to warn you- it’s for those, like me, who actually like the dark, screwed up, hubris-y side of their relationship. ;)
Been working on it for several weeks, am quite pleased with some of the songs. (Especially -‘Don’t Think You’re The First’ – the most perfect song for School Reunion I’ve ever seen). Mild spoilers/speculation for Doomsday ahead. :)
Personally, I liked her in Army Of Ghosts (I have no idea how on earth they’ll get it to work with that, though- is Martha the alt-verse Adi?) and I actually thought it was a pity she wasn’t going to show up again. And now she is. Yay. :D
Not sure I like the name Martha, though. But if that is indeed her name, I hope episode 1 of Series 3 is called Martha, just for balance. ;)
A disturbing thought: this means The Sun was right. :0
Y’know what just occured to me? In Doctor Who s2, we’ve had references to the-doctor-as-God all over the place, and obviously the Devil put in an appearance, but we’ve also had Preachers (and Mickey becomes one) and a Pope (Elton).
This isn’t going anywhere. Just thought I’d write it down before I forget it. ;)
In that same vein, I need to write down fanfiction stuff before I forget it, so consider this an up-and-coming for future DW fanfic:
-THE GINGERBREAD HOUSE: Mickey’s, er, adventures in alt-Earth. Will have some Mickey/Jake, because I have a feeling it’s inevitable (wonder how we’ll see their relationship in Doomsday?) and Mickey’s grandmother being not dead and all sorts of stuff.
-Some more Turn of the Earth stuff, because I want to see how Trisha and Shireen deal with the Cyberman-Dalek war…these things are coming into people houses, something’s gotta happen. (Oh, and Elton might be in it, too.)
-THE CHAIN- an AU for Parting of the Ways. Will probably never get written, but it’s fun to think about.
There might be other one-shots turning up, as well. ;)
