Shipping is interesting to observe, isn't it? I'm not in HP fandom and, given what I hear of it, I stay well away ;) DW has been my first experience of a 'to ship or not to ship; and if you ship who to ship' fandom.
This Nine/Rose versus Ten/Rose thing leaves me a little... well, not baffled, because it's perfectly natural to be attracted to one and not to/less to the other. But perhaps slightly confused as to where I stand and where others think I stand.
Watching the episodes, I think it's maybe easier to see the romance with Ten/Rose - they're much more openly affectionate with each other, he doesn't hide his longing looks the way Nine used to and it's clear that the only thing stopping him from telling her that he loves her is that he doesn't do that. Nine loves her, but it's a different sort of love, I think, something between wanting-to-shag-her love and needing-to-protect-her love and needing-her-to-make-him-feel-better love. Something that could have become co-dependent if he'd lived.
Yet I write Nine/Rose far more than Ten/Rose. I know that's in large part because I just find Ten bloody difficult to write, but that's not all; it's also partly that I was unsatisfied with elements of S2 - their over-the-top silliness at times, for example. A little bit of Rose not seeming to learn lessons. Unresolved plot issues from S1, which somehow seem to have been resolved 9in part) without any of us seeing the resolution. And, of course, Ten/Rose inexorably leads to Doomsday ;)
But I also ship Jack in various ways and combinations, which I suppose makes me a multishipper.
Will I ship Martha? Impossible to say without seeing her. Right now I don't want to; I'm still attached to Rose. But come next year I could easily change my mind. Time will tell.
As for the T&C shippers, once we have a new season and a new companion it's entirely possible it will have a marked slowdown, as either people shift to Martha or give up altogether as half of their ship seems to have forgotten about the other half. Time will tell.
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Date: 2006-11-06 03:40 pm (UTC)This Nine/Rose versus Ten/Rose thing leaves me a little... well, not baffled, because it's perfectly natural to be attracted to one and not to/less to the other. But perhaps slightly confused as to where I stand and where others think I stand.
Watching the episodes, I think it's maybe easier to see the romance with Ten/Rose - they're much more openly affectionate with each other, he doesn't hide his longing looks the way Nine used to and it's clear that the only thing stopping him from telling her that he loves her is that he doesn't do that. Nine loves her, but it's a different sort of love, I think, something between wanting-to-shag-her love and needing-to-protect-her love and needing-her-to-make-him-feel-better love. Something that could have become co-dependent if he'd lived.
Yet I write Nine/Rose far more than Ten/Rose. I know that's in large part because I just find Ten bloody difficult to write, but that's not all; it's also partly that I was unsatisfied with elements of S2 - their over-the-top silliness at times, for example. A little bit of Rose not seeming to learn lessons. Unresolved plot issues from S1, which somehow seem to have been resolved 9in part) without any of us seeing the resolution. And, of course, Ten/Rose inexorably leads to Doomsday ;)
But I also ship Jack in various ways and combinations, which I suppose makes me a multishipper.
Will I ship Martha? Impossible to say without seeing her. Right now I don't want to; I'm still attached to Rose. But come next year I could easily change my mind. Time will tell.
As for the T&C shippers, once we have a new season and a new companion it's entirely possible it will have a marked slowdown, as either people shift to Martha or give up altogether as half of their ship seems to have forgotten about the other half. Time will tell.