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[doyle]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/news/cult/news/drwho/2006/06/15/32946.shtml

So Rose is gone at the end of the season. My immediate reaction was "dammit, didn't I make a bet with nos at some point that she'd be there till about episode 3 of season 3? I hope I didn't promise pr0n."

People who really adore Rose and the ship: I'm sorry, I know you must be upset and irked at people celebrating, but I do think this'll be good for the show. I'm Rose and ship-neutral - there are episodes where I love her/the ship madly and episodes where I cringe - but I've been really looking forward to seeing Ten with a new companion. One who's all his own and didn't travel with Nine first would be good, but I'm dying to have Jack back full time too. Two of them, please, Rusty? A boy'n'girl TARDIS team? Because going on past evidence - Ian & Barbara & interchangeable girl, Ben & Polly, Jamie & Victoria, Jamie & Zoe, Harry & Sarah, Tegan & Turlough, Fitz & Anji/Compassion/Trix - I like that setup very much indeed.

Or, indeed, two girls a la Tegan and Nyssa. Then there could be femslash? *hopes*

I doubt Rose will be killed off, whatever The Sun says. It seems too brutal for the kids - and yes, they did it with Adric, but he was one of three, not the sole companion/kiddie identification figure, and when they tried it with Peri they were forced into a crappy retcon. I'm guessing some sort of fake-out where she seems to be dead. But then, I'm in the minority that wants her to go home to her mum and realise her life is what she makes it, that she doesn't need the magic timeship to do something worthwhile in the world. Plus that makes the Rose/Sarah so much easier.

ETA: my housemate Kevin sez "if I had to guess, I would say the new companion will be played by... CHRISTOPHER ECCLESTON."

I would *never stop laughing.*

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I'm in the minority that wants her to go home to her mum and realise her life is what she makes it, that she doesn't need the magic timeship to do something worthwhile in the world.

Totally with you on that. That's what would make her arc work: POTW makes sense in its context, but does pretty much suggest that she can't have any purpose whatsoever as just some ordinary human on Earth, which is a depressing prospect for, well, all of us. Whereas Rose who has travelled and then learned stuff and then can use that to be a useful and valuable and productive individual, for herself, not just for him, and do Good Things at home? That's the ending she should have. I want her to take charge of her own destiny, too: not for it to be 'does the Doctor choose the Universe over her?' but 'what does Rose choose for herself?' Empowerment for the kidz and that.

I do wonder a bit at why they are telling us. I mean, they seem to be handling it in a slightly more thought-out PR way than the Eccles disaster, but they'd done a bang up job of just saying nothin' when the rumours bounced round over contracts and pay and then again at the start of this season. I liked that strategy.

I want Jackie to be the new companion. :P