Am I the only lunatic who loves this story like crazy but is very reluctant to think about it turning AU? I was relieved when the "forever" discussion became the "all the forever we have, that is" discussion, and they both acknowledged that the Doctor was going to outlive her. No matter when it happens, he's going to have to deal with her loss, now or in eighty years, and that's at the heart of the emotional journey here. He's had to deal with the loss of his people, with the Time War -- loss is part of his existence, and there's no getting around the fact that it will happen again. Some of the poignancy in the relationship comes from the fact that a storm is coming. (Besides, you'd have to retitle the story if there were no storm. Ow! Don't smack me.) We all hate to think of Doomsday looming over them, but they've already lived more in this fic than I'd have expected back when we were perpetually one chapter from the ending ;).
My problem with most Doomsday fixeruppers is the removal of consequences, the wish-fulfillment, which doesn't always feel... truthful, somehow. This hasn't been a story about the Doctor and Rose being happy forever; it's been a sweet and beautiful interlude, all the more precious for the fact that it must end. If Rose's loss crushes the Doctor back into what he was after the Time War, he hasn't matured as much as I'm inclined to give him credit for. I think he'll do exactly as he promised -- try to move on and keep living. And talk to Jacob, who I hope would still be around, and break all of our hearts, but find some breath of hope in the end.
Then again, that's just the general sort of ending that would make Calm, in and of itself, feel like an organic whole to me. Any sequels in which significant time has passed and they unexpectedly find themselves able to be together again, needing to deal with all the issues that would bring up... would actually be fascinating. I just feel like an imminent fixerupper ending would unbalance this story.
Though, needless to say, I trust you and am along for the ride no matter where you go with it. (You did say somewhere that you weren't going to unambiguously indicate that Rose might be pregnant, right? I'm not sure I could handle that one ;).)
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Date: 2007-03-04 09:31 pm (UTC)Am I the only lunatic who loves this story like crazy but is very reluctant to think about it turning AU? I was relieved when the "forever" discussion became the "all the forever we have, that is" discussion, and they both acknowledged that the Doctor was going to outlive her. No matter when it happens, he's going to have to deal with her loss, now or in eighty years, and that's at the heart of the emotional journey here. He's had to deal with the loss of his people, with the Time War -- loss is part of his existence, and there's no getting around the fact that it will happen again. Some of the poignancy in the relationship comes from the fact that a storm is coming. (Besides, you'd have to retitle the story if there were no storm. Ow! Don't smack me.) We all hate to think of Doomsday looming over them, but they've already lived more in this fic than I'd have expected back when we were perpetually one chapter from the ending ;).
My problem with most Doomsday fixeruppers is the removal of consequences, the wish-fulfillment, which doesn't always feel... truthful, somehow. This hasn't been a story about the Doctor and Rose being happy forever; it's been a sweet and beautiful interlude, all the more precious for the fact that it must end. If Rose's loss crushes the Doctor back into what he was after the Time War, he hasn't matured as much as I'm inclined to give him credit for. I think he'll do exactly as he promised -- try to move on and keep living. And talk to Jacob, who I hope would still be around, and break all of our hearts, but find some breath of hope in the end.
Then again, that's just the general sort of ending that would make Calm, in and of itself, feel like an organic whole to me. Any sequels in which significant time has passed and they unexpectedly find themselves able to be together again, needing to deal with all the issues that would bring up... would actually be fascinating. I just feel like an imminent fixerupper ending would unbalance this story.
Though, needless to say, I trust you and am along for the ride no matter where you go with it. (You did say somewhere that you weren't going to unambiguously indicate that Rose might be pregnant, right? I'm not sure I could handle that one ;).)