The conclusion of this series has left me seriously contemplating giving the Who mythos its proverbial records and sweater back, and finally answering the calls that the boxed set of Weeds DVDs has been making, patiently, this last year.
The conclusion of the Rose subplot was as unsatisfactory as the rest of it.(Not that I am paid to seed the internet with defenses of RTD... but we can now seriously talk in terms of plots, subplots and even - if we insist - *gag* arcs, and who's introduced that? Rusty).
But I felt more cheated on Rose's behalf than anything else... She didn't have all that much to do, in the end, and we don't know that 10.1 is all that different from 10. He's got more of a gob on him, and the Tommy Steel thing going on... that's all we know. So maybe she has got to start all over again.
Casting about trying to find something to captivate me, having waited all day nursing my foreboding and dread, I was struck by how Tantric Dr Who's getting. It's only ever been overtly alluded to in Planet of the Spiders.
Lamas and gurus don't just reincarnate, they also emanate (there are, at least, 3 Panchen Lamas... "worthy to be" Panchen Lama lives in ireland last I heard of him). The vociferous protectiveness of Rose as an idea on the part of some fans is like the devotion students develop towards female protector deities, investing their own feelings and thought processes in both the depiction and narrative about the Goddess. (And RTD turned Rose into one, overtly).
As the mythos extends maybe it is mirroring more aspects of Tantra and Tantric Buddhism especially, because both fit with the pattern that is dormant in our minds: that we don't want surrogate or real parent figures, or attractive love interests, to leave us.
Perhaps RTD and Billie Piper have achieved something very significant in creating a point of view character companion that young female fans strongly identify with, even when all they have to scrap over in the final denouement is something as thin as that ending was.
You are right, of course, about the nature of trauma and memory, but then most fans online seem quite young. Coping isn't the same thing as getting over something.
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Date: 2008-07-06 04:02 pm (UTC)The conclusion of the Rose subplot was as unsatisfactory as the rest of it.(Not that I am paid to seed the internet with defenses of RTD... but we can now seriously talk in terms of plots, subplots and even - if we insist - *gag* arcs, and who's introduced that? Rusty).
But I felt more cheated on Rose's behalf than anything else... She didn't have all that much to do, in the end, and we don't know that 10.1 is all that different from 10. He's got more of a gob on him, and the Tommy Steel thing going on... that's all we know. So maybe she has got to start all over again.
Casting about trying to find something to captivate me, having waited all day nursing my foreboding and dread, I was struck by how Tantric Dr Who's getting. It's only ever been overtly alluded to in Planet of the Spiders.
Lamas and gurus don't just reincarnate, they also emanate (there are, at least, 3 Panchen Lamas... "worthy to be" Panchen Lama lives in ireland last I heard of him). The vociferous protectiveness of Rose as an idea on the part of some fans is like the devotion students develop towards female protector deities, investing their own feelings and thought processes in both the depiction and narrative about the Goddess. (And RTD turned Rose into one, overtly).
As the mythos extends maybe it is mirroring more aspects of Tantra and Tantric Buddhism especially, because both fit with the pattern that is dormant in our minds: that we don't want surrogate or real parent figures, or attractive love interests, to leave us.
Perhaps RTD and Billie Piper have achieved something very significant in creating a point of view character companion that young female fans strongly identify with, even when all they have to scrap over in the final denouement is something as thin as that ending was.
You are right, of course, about the nature of trauma and memory, but then most fans online seem quite young. Coping isn't the same thing as getting over something.