Well, I don't know if my fanwanking/rationalizing/whathaveyou will work for you or not - this seems to be one of those cases that we're just watching different shows (I still haven't figured this out, but it's happened with me with fen friends several times before, that we'll watch the same show or movie and see something entirely different...of course this being me, half the time I'm seeing slash where no one else notices it, and the other half I'm oblivious to the most obvious subtext ever, so...yep, I'm weird!)
The Doctor's not going to be moving past Martha entirely no matter what; she's coming back for half the season! Don't know about Jack yet...am crossing fingers that he'll return, though I don't know if the odds are good. Still - fingers crossed! John Barrowman & David Tennant have such exquisite chemistry, want more! Thrilled to pieces about Martha either way. And am very, very curious about how Donna's gonna work out...
Hmmm, I wonder if it's possible for the Doctor to really have a steady group. Jack, maybe, is permanent enough to manage it. Everyone else...the problem is the vagaries of the timestream; I don't understand how the timeline works in Who but he's not allowed/not able to cross over himself too many times...the trouble is, if he meets someone, and then he goes to the future and meets them when they're 70 and they say, "Oh, Doctor, I thought I'd never see you again!" - then that's the last time he sees them! He can't go back in the intervening years without causing possibly universe-ending paradox, same as how when he brought Rose a year in the future they couldn't just pop back. --it's a good thing he was more careful with Martha! I think this is why he avoids getting too close to the people he's not traveling with. The Time Lords were a different case, obviously, but now they're gone... (it's weird, I love team/friendship stories, and I've always had a thing for true love/soulmates forever (in the friendship way as much as the pairing way) and yet I'm entranced by the Doctor's singularly isolated existence. There's something about his ability to love so deeply even while being so aware of the transience of relationships that touches me...)
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The Doctor's not going to be moving past Martha entirely no matter what; she's coming back for half the season! Don't know about Jack yet...am crossing fingers that he'll return, though I don't know if the odds are good. Still - fingers crossed! John Barrowman & David Tennant have such exquisite chemistry, want more! Thrilled to pieces about Martha either way. And am very, very curious about how Donna's gonna work out...
Hmmm, I wonder if it's possible for the Doctor to really have a steady group. Jack, maybe, is permanent enough to manage it. Everyone else...the problem is the vagaries of the timestream; I don't understand how the timeline works in Who but he's not allowed/not able to cross over himself too many times...the trouble is, if he meets someone, and then he goes to the future and meets them when they're 70 and they say, "Oh, Doctor, I thought I'd never see you again!" - then that's the last time he sees them! He can't go back in the intervening years without causing possibly universe-ending paradox, same as how when he brought Rose a year in the future they couldn't just pop back. --it's a good thing he was more careful with Martha! I think this is why he avoids getting too close to the people he's not traveling with. The Time Lords were a different case, obviously, but now they're gone...
(it's weird, I love team/friendship stories, and I've always had a thing for true love/soulmates forever (in the friendship way as much as the pairing way) and yet I'm entranced by the Doctor's singularly isolated existence. There's something about his ability to love so deeply even while being so aware of the transience of relationships that touches me...)