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Who misses Rose?
RandomPeter94
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I know Donna is the most popular companion on here. I really really miss Rose though! It's a shame she can't come back, although it is best if she dosen't anyway so the show moves on. I'm annoyed how she went with the human doctor.
I miss her
Do you miss Rose? Billie Piper's acting was fab.
I miss her
Do you miss Rose? Billie Piper's acting was fab. 0
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Like a hole in the head.
I think for now, it's best left where it is. Unless a one off special like the earth defence thing happened.
But my aim is improving, so fingers crossed...
I was being a bit facetious with my previous reply, but I think you've hit the nail perfectly on the head here. I did actually like her a lot in series 1, but she became thoroughly smug and dislikeable in Series 2.
I was initially pleased to see Rose back at the one his of series 4, but then RTD went and made one of his, admittedly rare mistakes (Donna being the other one), and just brought her back to waste her for three episodes, and then undo one of the best endings ever with some ludicrous clone/replacement-boyfriend tosh.
Yeah. I actually thought Rose worked best with
Eccles' Doctor rather than Tennant's -there was
some tension there, and they did argue, but they
also had a friendship. Ten and Rose's relationship just seemed very lovey-dovey and smug, which was a shame as
otherwise I liked Season 2.
I agree with you, other than that I'm honestly not that fond of series 2 as a whole - a few gems aside. It's a shame because the character worked so well initally, and I think Billie really proved a few people wrong who wrote her off before the series started. I understand the intent was, I think, to demonstrate a 'pride goes before a fall' kind of story arch, but it didn't really work for me, in so much as I didn't really care about Rose leaving period by the end of series 2 and I'm sure that wasn't the intent. Ironically enough, the scene with Rose and Ten in EOT was the only time I actually felt they worked well together on screen...
However, I did like her in The End of Time. Her character was reset, so to speak, and I remembered what it was I liked about her back in 2005.
Then they brought her back in Series 4 and gave her a crap and meaningless ending that destroyed the point of the great ending in Doomsday :mad:
I miss her in a sense, but that doesn't mean I want to see her again. Let's move on; there's a new companion waiting to charm us and take her own place in Who history, hopefully without any past companions coming back to steal her limelight.
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I don't miss her at all.
I think it depends really when you first came to the Who fandom. I grew up with it (Five was my first Doctor) and so I expected a regular turnover of companions - while I was affected by Doomsday's ending I didn't expect the Doctor to mope about losing Rose for any great extended period of time, and I didn't miss her when she left. Frankly got a bit annoyed when the Doctor consequently wouldn't shut up about her ... way to make your next companion feel completely undervalued (and don't even get me started on making unrequited love a plot device ... that sucks badly enough IRL without including it in programmes you watch for entertainment!!). But yeah, for those people whose first experience of Who was the new series, I guess it might have proved harder to let Rose go than I found it.
I've liked every companion so far, aside from annoyance at the show for refusing to let Rose go - she's just another companion! - but am looking forward to seeing how Amy and Eleven click. :-)
She was the best and got two awesome endings...they finished her storyarc well!
Doomsday was just immence!
I think her role in Turn Left was great. And really, the only problem with her in Stolen Earth was the necessity of writing her out again without a good reason. Russell learned from that I think, and didn't give Donna her memory back because once she had it back, she'd go back to the Doctor. It's easy to bring back companions who left willingly like Martha, Jack (second time) and Sarah Jane (after school reunion). But if they're forced to leave the Doctor you can't bring them back unless they get over him in the interim.
Probably should have left her in Turn Left. She does her part to repair things and leaves, without ever seeing the Doctor again.