Top 10 Favorite Rose Moments
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demeter918With the feeling of I Can't Believe It's Here, and with the looming promise of season finale of Doctor Who, I wanted to get into some of my own 'favorite' moments from the first three seasons. And since you-know-what is coming up, lets go with Rose.
10.
Miss the great honking obvious, Doctor. Rose sees things that the Doctor can't (or won't) and one of the best things about S1 was her willingness and ability to see beyond the surface of things. She might not be conventionally smart, but she's got brains in that head of hers and I dare anyone to say she's dumb.
9.
The tragedy of their separation tends to obscure the fact that Rose SAVED THE WORLD. AGAIN. She lets go of the clamp in order to pull the lever back up and I don't see it written about very often. She lets go of safety so that what needs to be done can be done. She's not in it for herself; the suction pulled in Daleks and Cybermen; one ordinary human didn't have much of a chance against it, but Rose let go. Not for herself, not for the Doctor, but for the rest of the world.
Seriously, how can you not love her for that?
8.
This is a weird moment, but this whole scene was hilarious; she's separated from the Doctor, she has water dumped on her, disinfection, it's something entirely new, and at the end, she's drying her hair with semi-nonchalant air around her. I know it doesn't make much sense with all the other moments, but I loved, loved this moment about her. I loved her wide-eyed wonder in S1, and that she still had it in S2. But in this particular scene, it was such an awesome way to combine her familiarity with her unfamiliarity. Which makes no sense. But hey, it makes sense in my head.
7.
You're being attacked by plastic dummies. You have a chance to run away. What do you do? Well, Rose goes and finds the logical chain to chop up so she can swing over a pit of lava-like substance to save the world. Again.
SERIOUSLY. HOW CAN YOU NOT LOVE THIS GIRL?
6.
Sarah Jane and Rose; this would have been an awesome show. This is the first case in New Who where an old Companion and a new one meet, snipe at each other, and end up laughing at the Doctor together. It set up the precedence for Donna and Martha and undoubtedly it'll set up Donna and Rose. Once, you know, the death-defying stuff is over.
5.
I obviously have a thing for Rose with axes. I will contrive to look into this 'thing' of mine. But seriously! The Doctor disappears, he's stuck in a painting, it's 2012, the TARDIS has disappeared too. What's a girl to do? Remember what the Doctor said, figure things out on her own, pick up an axe and beat the hell out of the ground so she can save the world. Again. There's a trend, you know.
4.
This is sometimes referred to as Rose's biggest mistake and her biggest show of compassion. If you can pity even a Dalek, what can you not pity? I love this scene, not because she pities the Dalek, but because she stops the Doctor from killing the Dalek. She knows that it would hurt more than heal; not because she's the Doctor's One True Love or because she has some sort of telepathy. It's because she's his friend.
3.
Raxacoricofallapotorius. Boomtown was about bringing up Bad Wolf into the forefront of the viewer's mind, but for me, it was also to show that Rose had become wholly enthused about visiting new worlds and seeing new things. But more than that! She was still enthused! She wasn't bored by it, she was excited about even the small things like pronouncing something right! She was excited about visiting the planet that had born the Slitheen family that'd try to kill her and her world, and she was excited about pronouncing it right. Gosh, Rose was like the Doctor, never getting tired of seeing new places. *glomps*
2.
Marbella, 1989. Rose could have asked. She could have and I almost think that the Doctor might have taken her, dropped her off, and then gone back. But she didn't. It didn't even occur to her to try save just herself. When he does send her away, all Rose feels isn't relief or even safety; she wants to go back, she wants the TARDIS to take her back and these two parts always, always make me cry. ;_;
1.
And my favorite part! In The Christmas Invasion, Rose thinks the Doctor is gone. Rose doesn't know what to do. Rose is feeling a bit inadequate and scared. So what does she do? Well, she challenges the Sycorax and tries her best to get rid of them by using every bit of information she's experienced in the past year. Now. She is not throwing her weight around. She isn't holding a gun. Rose is scared; her voice is trembling, she's shaking, everything about her screams 'human'. There's no way she can stand against hundreds upon hundreds of Sycorax warriors who seem to have a third of the Earth under their blood control.
But Rose Tyler isn't the sort to give up, so she tries her best.
ROSE TYLER, I LOVE YOU.
10.
Miss the great honking obvious, Doctor. Rose sees things that the Doctor can't (or won't) and one of the best things about S1 was her willingness and ability to see beyond the surface of things. She might not be conventionally smart, but she's got brains in that head of hers and I dare anyone to say she's dumb.
9.
The tragedy of their separation tends to obscure the fact that Rose SAVED THE WORLD. AGAIN. She lets go of the clamp in order to pull the lever back up and I don't see it written about very often. She lets go of safety so that what needs to be done can be done. She's not in it for herself; the suction pulled in Daleks and Cybermen; one ordinary human didn't have much of a chance against it, but Rose let go. Not for herself, not for the Doctor, but for the rest of the world.
Seriously, how can you not love her for that?
8.
This is a weird moment, but this whole scene was hilarious; she's separated from the Doctor, she has water dumped on her, disinfection, it's something entirely new, and at the end, she's drying her hair with semi-nonchalant air around her. I know it doesn't make much sense with all the other moments, but I loved, loved this moment about her. I loved her wide-eyed wonder in S1, and that she still had it in S2. But in this particular scene, it was such an awesome way to combine her familiarity with her unfamiliarity. Which makes no sense. But hey, it makes sense in my head.
7.
You're being attacked by plastic dummies. You have a chance to run away. What do you do? Well, Rose goes and finds the logical chain to chop up so she can swing over a pit of lava-like substance to save the world. Again.
SERIOUSLY. HOW CAN YOU NOT LOVE THIS GIRL?
6.
Sarah Jane and Rose; this would have been an awesome show. This is the first case in New Who where an old Companion and a new one meet, snipe at each other, and end up laughing at the Doctor together. It set up the precedence for Donna and Martha and undoubtedly it'll set up Donna and Rose. Once, you know, the death-defying stuff is over.
5.
I obviously have a thing for Rose with axes. I will contrive to look into this 'thing' of mine. But seriously! The Doctor disappears, he's stuck in a painting, it's 2012, the TARDIS has disappeared too. What's a girl to do? Remember what the Doctor said, figure things out on her own, pick up an axe and beat the hell out of the ground so she can save the world. Again. There's a trend, you know.
4.
This is sometimes referred to as Rose's biggest mistake and her biggest show of compassion. If you can pity even a Dalek, what can you not pity? I love this scene, not because she pities the Dalek, but because she stops the Doctor from killing the Dalek. She knows that it would hurt more than heal; not because she's the Doctor's One True Love or because she has some sort of telepathy. It's because she's his friend.
3.
Raxacoricofallapotorius. Boomtown was about bringing up Bad Wolf into the forefront of the viewer's mind, but for me, it was also to show that Rose had become wholly enthused about visiting new worlds and seeing new things. But more than that! She was still enthused! She wasn't bored by it, she was excited about even the small things like pronouncing something right! She was excited about visiting the planet that had born the Slitheen family that'd try to kill her and her world, and she was excited about pronouncing it right. Gosh, Rose was like the Doctor, never getting tired of seeing new places. *glomps*
2.
Marbella, 1989. Rose could have asked. She could have and I almost think that the Doctor might have taken her, dropped her off, and then gone back. But she didn't. It didn't even occur to her to try save just herself. When he does send her away, all Rose feels isn't relief or even safety; she wants to go back, she wants the TARDIS to take her back and these two parts always, always make me cry. ;_;
1.
And my favorite part! In The Christmas Invasion, Rose thinks the Doctor is gone. Rose doesn't know what to do. Rose is feeling a bit inadequate and scared. So what does she do? Well, she challenges the Sycorax and tries her best to get rid of them by using every bit of information she's experienced in the past year. Now. She is not throwing her weight around. She isn't holding a gun. Rose is scared; her voice is trembling, she's shaking, everything about her screams 'human'. There's no way she can stand against hundreds upon hundreds of Sycorax warriors who seem to have a third of the Earth under their blood control.
But Rose Tyler isn't the sort to give up, so she tries her best.
ROSE TYLER, I LOVE YOU.
