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As a rule, a busy TARDIS is a better TARDIS, at least for me, as there're more relationships going on and everyone finding their place within a group that's living as closely together and in such frequent danger as the TARDIS crew makes for more complex and more interesting interpersonal drama than that darn myth that began with Jo Grant that the Doctor/Companion (singular) interaction is best. (And then, hurrah, we got the less than successful Tegan/Nyssa/Adric busy!TARDIS of the eighties just to hammer that idea home.)
Anyway, Rose/One (or Rose&One, like most 'pairings', I'm not that concerned about whether the relationship is romantic or not, rather I enjoy the characters and the way they interact, filthy gen writer that I am) has some fantastic potential that hasn't even been touched on in fic. Much as I'm not a fan of season two Rose, she's the one I'd want to see go back and meet up with the first Doctor. Preferably just after the Unearthly Child/Daleks/Edge of Destruction pseudo-trilogy. Cause that's the point where the tension between the original TARDIS crew has just begun to dissolve, and they're heading into Marco Polo where they're pretty much united against the fairly hostile world they're forced to inhabit for months.
Now, Rose arrives. Liken magick. And throws a whole fascinating new layer into an already complex web of relationships. She's got two additional authority figures in the TARDIS who, unlike her, don't exactly have complete faith in the Doctor, don't particularly want to travel even though they've started to enjoy bits of it and have every intention of heading home first chance they get. While Babs and Ian are confronted with a young woman from forty years in their future, from a time that they could conceivably still be alive in, who confronts the dangers that terrify them with a worrying overconfidence. (Really, think about the way Rose behaves in Tooth and Claw and then try sticking her in front of the Khan. They would all be so very, very dead.)
And the Doctor himself is suddenly hundreds of years younger, but looks and acts like a cantankerous old man (though, this being after the opening trilogy, he's definitely started to soften) and he is, in no way possible, ever going to contemplate anything remotely domestic. He's more likely to treat her as he does Susan or Vicki than Sara or Barbara, but he's still the man that Rose loves and a younger, less haunted one at that.
But if Rose wants to pursue the same sort of relationship with him that she had with his future incarnations, she'd have more obstacles here than with any other incarnation. She's prepared to stay with the Doctor no matter what, but his other human companions were kidnapped because the Doctor was more than a bit paranoid and mistrusting of humans. She shares his omnipresent love of the new and unexplored, but this Doctor is prepared to put his companions in mortal danger to satisfy his own curiosity. There's the whole shallowness thing that he's now got the body of an old man. And he's slower, even infirm at times; no running gleefully over the fields of New Earth here. And One's a bit of a snob, while Rose is friend o the underclasses.
Then you've got Susan, actual family of the Doctor's, and a girl only a handful of years younger than Rose herself. Rose wouldn't even follow-up the Doctor's mention of him being a dad once, and she was jealous of Sarah Jane's past relationship with the Doctor, and here she'd have to confront the issues she has there since she'd be living with his granddaughter.
So, more than any other time in the series' history, that is where I'd be fascinated to see Rose. There's so much territory to explore for drama and conflict and doing some marvellous character stuff that I am all of a woe that nowhere in fandom has it really been even touched upon. (Oh, it's a bit obscure, I know, but at least I'm not obsessing over chucking Rose in with Steven and Dodo.)
And that, folks, is why when I mention the good ship One/Rose, I am, in fact, perfectly serious.
Anyway, Rose/One (or Rose&One, like most 'pairings', I'm not that concerned about whether the relationship is romantic or not, rather I enjoy the characters and the way they interact, filthy gen writer that I am) has some fantastic potential that hasn't even been touched on in fic. Much as I'm not a fan of season two Rose, she's the one I'd want to see go back and meet up with the first Doctor. Preferably just after the Unearthly Child/Daleks/Edge of Destruction pseudo-trilogy. Cause that's the point where the tension between the original TARDIS crew has just begun to dissolve, and they're heading into Marco Polo where they're pretty much united against the fairly hostile world they're forced to inhabit for months.
Now, Rose arrives. Liken magick. And throws a whole fascinating new layer into an already complex web of relationships. She's got two additional authority figures in the TARDIS who, unlike her, don't exactly have complete faith in the Doctor, don't particularly want to travel even though they've started to enjoy bits of it and have every intention of heading home first chance they get. While Babs and Ian are confronted with a young woman from forty years in their future, from a time that they could conceivably still be alive in, who confronts the dangers that terrify them with a worrying overconfidence. (Really, think about the way Rose behaves in Tooth and Claw and then try sticking her in front of the Khan. They would all be so very, very dead.)
And the Doctor himself is suddenly hundreds of years younger, but looks and acts like a cantankerous old man (though, this being after the opening trilogy, he's definitely started to soften) and he is, in no way possible, ever going to contemplate anything remotely domestic. He's more likely to treat her as he does Susan or Vicki than Sara or Barbara, but he's still the man that Rose loves and a younger, less haunted one at that.
But if Rose wants to pursue the same sort of relationship with him that she had with his future incarnations, she'd have more obstacles here than with any other incarnation. She's prepared to stay with the Doctor no matter what, but his other human companions were kidnapped because the Doctor was more than a bit paranoid and mistrusting of humans. She shares his omnipresent love of the new and unexplored, but this Doctor is prepared to put his companions in mortal danger to satisfy his own curiosity. There's the whole shallowness thing that he's now got the body of an old man. And he's slower, even infirm at times; no running gleefully over the fields of New Earth here. And One's a bit of a snob, while Rose is friend o the underclasses.
Then you've got Susan, actual family of the Doctor's, and a girl only a handful of years younger than Rose herself. Rose wouldn't even follow-up the Doctor's mention of him being a dad once, and she was jealous of Sarah Jane's past relationship with the Doctor, and here she'd have to confront the issues she has there since she'd be living with his granddaughter.
So, more than any other time in the series' history, that is where I'd be fascinated to see Rose. There's so much territory to explore for drama and conflict and doing some marvellous character stuff that I am all of a woe that nowhere in fandom has it really been even touched upon. (Oh, it's a bit obscure, I know, but at least I'm not obsessing over chucking Rose in with Steven and Dodo.)
And that, folks, is why when I mention the good ship One/Rose, I am, in fact, perfectly serious.
