1) Possibly fandom is so used to knowing that Rusty did that second coming of Christ thing that we're overeager to compare his work on Who to it (along with QaF and Casanova) and extrapolate themes that maybe aren't there? Because yeah, I'd like to believe that Ten is still being written as Loki and it's just our Christian-imagery saturation that has more people thinking about resurrection than about avatars of truth and chaos.
2) See, that's kind of a catch-22 there, because the romantic narrative structure specifies that women people prove how all-important Teh Love is by prioritizing it and the other party over everything their lives touch upon. :Suppressing memories of plotline in FF2 that annoyed me so fucking much where wedding > alien invasion for superhero main characters: Doing the right thing for herself/the world would have "proved" that she didn't really love him if he didn't want her to do it (like, say, the assumed fannish reaction had Rose voluntarily left the Doctor), but doing the right thing that he also wanted her to do doesn't mean she did the right thing because it was all for love/him. (I'm getting kind of distracted here because I'm remembering one of the bits from A Knight's Tale that I liked where the female love interest tells Heath Ledger that she's absolutely unimpressed by men claiming they win tournaments for her love because she knows they're doing it for themselves and just trying to score cheap points with her as a side benefit. If I thought about it more I might chase down a valid point, but this comment is long enough for mere thinking-as-I-type.)
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Date: 2007-08-24 06:48 pm (UTC)2) See, that's kind of a catch-22 there, because the romantic narrative structure specifies that
womenpeople prove how all-important Teh Love is by prioritizing it and the other party over everything their lives touch upon. :Suppressing memories of plotline in FF2 that annoyed me so fucking much where wedding > alien invasion for superhero main characters: Doing the right thing for herself/the world would have "proved" that she didn't really love him if he didn't want her to do it (like, say, the assumed fannish reaction had Rose voluntarily left the Doctor), but doing the right thing that he also wanted her to do doesn't mean she did the right thing because it was all for love/him. (I'm getting kind of distracted here because I'm remembering one of the bits from A Knight's Tale that I liked where the female love interest tells Heath Ledger that she's absolutely unimpressed by men claiming they win tournaments for her love because she knows they're doing it for themselves and just trying to score cheap points with her as a side benefit. If I thought about it more I might chase down a valid point, but this comment is long enough for mere thinking-as-I-type.)