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May. 16th, 2010
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lj user="neadods"> with a href="http://neadods.livejournal.com/974575.html">Mickey, Rory, and the Message that DOES belong in Who"> (spoilers for Vampires in Venice and Amy's Choice)
Aside from the skeevy racial issues, the thing that always drove me crazy about how Mickey was portrayed in Who was that ( for all the Doctor's enthusiasm for the average human being, once he had ahold of one, he treated him like dirt. )
But in RTD's world, there was always something fundamentally wrong with anyone who didn't want to racket around time and space with an alien in a malfunctioning time machine. Over and over, we saw people who refused, or who tried to keep their friends and relatives from going out of worry for them, punished in one way or another. And so Mickey was introduced as a coward and nonentity, pretty much there for comic relief. Over time, it was even implied that his love for Rose wasn't the love of a man for an interesting woman, but that he had impressed on her like some sort of duckling.
And then Mickey finally sees the error of his ways and joins Team TARDIS.
When Donna got on the TARDIS, she went from shrill and self-centered to the most important woman in the universe.
What Mickey didn't even get the dignity of his own name. From Rose begging the Doctor not to take him, through the Doctor ever-so-NOT-cutely either misnaming or insulting him, to the two of them treating him as invisible while he stands 3 feet away... well, it's no wonder he was willing to live in another universe to be finally shut of them both.
And now we have Rory. ( Rory, the guy I can't discuss without Eleventh Hour, Vampires in Venice, and Amy's Choice spoilers )
It's years overdue but at long last, but at last the message is out: normal guy doesn't equal total loser in the Whoniverse.
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lj user="neadods"> with a href="http://neadods.livejournal.com/974575.html">Mickey, Rory, and the Message that DOES belong in Who"> (spoilers for Vampires in Venice and Amy's Choice)
Aside from the skeevy racial issues, the thing that always drove me crazy about how Mickey was portrayed in Who was that ( for all the Doctor's enthusiasm for the average human being, once he had ahold of one, he treated him like dirt. )
But in RTD's world, there was always something fundamentally wrong with anyone who didn't want to racket around time and space with an alien in a malfunctioning time machine. Over and over, we saw people who refused, or who tried to keep their friends and relatives from going out of worry for them, punished in one way or another. And so Mickey was introduced as a coward and nonentity, pretty much there for comic relief. Over time, it was even implied that his love for Rose wasn't the love of a man for an interesting woman, but that he had impressed on her like some sort of duckling.
And then Mickey finally sees the error of his ways and joins Team TARDIS.
When Donna got on the TARDIS, she went from shrill and self-centered to the most important woman in the universe.
What Mickey didn't even get the dignity of his own name. From Rose begging the Doctor not to take him, through the Doctor ever-so-NOT-cutely either misnaming or insulting him, to the two of them treating him as invisible while he stands 3 feet away... well, it's no wonder he was willing to live in another universe to be finally shut of them both.
And now we have Rory. ( Rory, the guy I can't discuss without Eleventh Hour, Vampires in Venice, and Amy's Choice spoilers )
It's years overdue but at long last, but at last the message is out: normal guy doesn't equal total loser in the Whoniverse.
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