Why Rose is of particular importance to the Doctor

[dreamer_easy]

Because she was his first companion post the destruction of his entire homeworld and family.

(I have a feeling this may be addressed next week.)

Discuss.

Damn, I was just about to post this in backinblue, then realised I'd be breaking my own mod rules. bleah

ETA: Beware SPOILERS in the comments.

Comments

Yes!

[waterfall8484]

This is exactly what I've been thinking too... of course he'll become especially attatched to her! And now she's also the first companion that he's lost after the destruction of Gallifrey, which must have stirred up a whole bunch of unplesant memories.

And, well, if he has to choose between mourning everything he's ever lost and one human girl/companion/whatever, he'll probably focus on the (contextually) smallest loss (i.e. Rose), because remembering and grieving for everything else would probably break him.

So we have him remembering and mourning Rose and not being ready to move on because then he'll once again have to focus on him having killed his planet. Someone mentioned Martha commenting on the Doctor's "rebound" in the next episode, and you're probably right (I hope) that the whole "Gallifrey go boom" will be mentioned then. And hopefully Martha will be there to help him like Rose was earlier.

Re: Yes!

[morgaine-nicely.livejournal.com]

yeah i really hope they finally deal with some of the Gallifrey stuf i like your thought :)