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So, is it just me, or does The Doctor in Dr. Who (9th, cause that's the only one I know), remind anyone of a much older, much wiser, much more experienced, and somewhat more bitter...

...Vash The Stampede?


You know, with the pacifism, the giddy joy of life, the wanderlust and the I'm-older-than-I-look-even-though-I-can-tell-you-forget-it-sometimes angst.


Nah. Nevermind. The real miracle would be if there's anyone on my flist who actually knows who BOTH those characters are.


WARNING: COMMENTS NOW CONTAIN SPOILERS FOR END OF TRIGUN.

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Re: Trigun/Vash essay?

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See, I think it's a rewriting of canon to say previous Doctors loved their companions the way Nine/Ten loves Rose. They didn't.
It's actually kind of painful to watch some episodes during the Fourth/Sara Jane era. Because she so obviously loves him, and he so obviously just isn't that into her. I'd go so far as to say that I don't think he would have even considered, or been capable of being that into a human back when he had other Gallifreyans to choose from.

It might be. From the impression I'd gotten from fandom, I was surprised by Ten's conversation with Sarah Jane at the end of this episode where he asked her if she'd met anybody. I was with it all the way up to there, going with the reading that she loved him but he loved her only as a friend/companion, like all his companions, and not like Rose. So when he asked her about other guys I thought it was weird, and not what I was expecting. I shrugged it off though. And then when I saw the clip of him leaving her, I was even more baffled. He *did* dump her like she was nothing special. I can't at all imagine him doing that to Rose, even without hearing him say he wouldn't. --That, btw, I think was the marked difference between Rose and Sarah Jane. Rose isn't his only companion or the only companion to love him, but she is special, in the sense that he does love her like he didn't love the others. Maybe she needed to hear "No, not to you" from his mouth to believe it, but I think it was apparent to the audience without that admission (the benefit of audience omniscience and all.)

Would Four or the others have done just left Rose? I don't know. Would Ten have done it to Rose if he'd never met her as Nine? Again, I don't know. Just going by Ten's less needy/obsessive personality I might say it's possible he might not have become so deeply attached to her so quickly, but it's hard to separate Ten from Nine when it comes to Rose because the Doctor's tenth incarnation was literally born from the Doctor's act of giving his life away out of love for Rose. Ten didn't have to fall in love with Rose-- he's still in love with her from when he was Nine. That part didn't change at all, and possibly even got stronger if he is able to offer her something as big as "the rest of your life"...even if that's just a measely 40-50 years for a Time Lord, it's still significant.