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rozkVarious people are criticizing Rose Tyler for saying, in Journey's End that the day she lost contact with the Doctor was 'the worst day of my life'..
I really do not think that anyone figures out 'the worst day of their life' in rational terms - the worst day of my life was not 9/11, or the day the US failed to ratify Kyoto, or the day Martin Luther King was assassinated, sorrowful as I was on all those occasions and bad as the effects on the world were. Nor was it the deaths of various friends, various occasions when doctors seriously screwed up my body or the day I failed to get a first-class honours degree.
It was probably the day that the woman I was in love with at the time rang me up at the behest of her other lover and said that she was severing all ties - even though there was a lot more of that story and I got to be very horrible to that other lover in due course. Or the day that a close friend came round and told me what a total shit I was - even though I knew at the time that this was bullshit, and years later we totally got past it.
The worst day of your life is the one you felt worst about at the time, and where the memory of that pain still hurts. AND THAT IS NOT ACCESSIBLE TO FRAKKING REASON OR THE PHILOSOPHIC CALCULUS OF JEREMY FRAKKING BENTHAM.
Sometimes, eg now, I despair of fandom.
I really do not think that anyone figures out 'the worst day of their life' in rational terms - the worst day of my life was not 9/11, or the day the US failed to ratify Kyoto, or the day Martin Luther King was assassinated, sorrowful as I was on all those occasions and bad as the effects on the world were. Nor was it the deaths of various friends, various occasions when doctors seriously screwed up my body or the day I failed to get a first-class honours degree.
It was probably the day that the woman I was in love with at the time rang me up at the behest of her other lover and said that she was severing all ties - even though there was a lot more of that story and I got to be very horrible to that other lover in due course. Or the day that a close friend came round and told me what a total shit I was - even though I knew at the time that this was bullshit, and years later we totally got past it.
The worst day of your life is the one you felt worst about at the time, and where the memory of that pain still hurts. AND THAT IS NOT ACCESSIBLE TO FRAKKING REASON OR THE PHILOSOPHIC CALCULUS OF JEREMY FRAKKING BENTHAM.
Sometimes, eg now, I despair of fandom.
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Date: 2008-07-06 11:40 pm (UTC)re excessive adoration of Rose
Date: 2008-07-07 10:46 am (UTC)I think the problem is in the very nature of series drama. There's always another episode to get out and the main characters can't REALLY change it wouldn't be Dr Who anymore (if we ever meet at a convention ask me why I think that the last series of SHELLEY the Hwel Bennett TV comedy was crap because of breaking that rule)
Also there's the irritating distractions of Real Life Billy Piper had a life and career and didn't give a jar of warm piss that the screenwriters had a lot they wanted to say thru Rose yet.
BUFFY came close to squaring that circle (imutabel caracters locked into screen logic) but that's another can of worms.