So Close and Yet So Far

From the itinerary of the San Diego Comic-Con:

12:00-1:00 Doctor Who— Writer Russell T Davies (Doctor Who), executive producer Julie Gardner (Torchwood), and writer Steven Moffat (Doctor Who) discuss their creative process and experience working on the BBC’s Doctor Who—Britain’s most successful sci-fi franchise—with exclusive clips and a Q&A session. Ballroom 20

1:00-2:00 Torchwood— Writer Russell T Davies (Doctor Who), executive producer Julie Gardner (Torchwood), writer Steven Moffat (Doctor Who), and actors John Barrowman, Gareth David-Lloyd, Naoko Mori and Burn Gorman discuss their creative process and experience on working on BBC America’s highest-rated show ever—Torchwood— followed by a Q&A session. Ballroom 20

So, the one time in likely a long while that anyone from the new Doctor Who will be anywhere near me, and I can't go. First of all, registration is closed. Secondly, it's an 8-hour drive from here and I don't have the cash to pay for airfare and car rental and hotel and tickets to get in and food and knick knacks.

Well, if you're going, do me a favor and tell RTD and Steven Moffat that a wannabe writer in Northern California sends her admiration and wishes she could worship them in person, but will have to continue to do so from afar. *le sigh*

When Eight regenerated into Nine possibly explained

So, here's my theory, based on things Brown Suit Doctor said about Blue Suit Doctor, and the ways he compared him to his Ninth incarnation:

The original Doctor explains to his other self that he was "born in battle - full of blood and anger and revenge," then looks to Rose and explains that, "That's me. When we first met."

This makes me think that it means that the event that caused Eight to die and regenerate into Nine was during the Time War, either before he did what he had to do to end it, or as a result of whatever he did to burn up both the Daleks and Gallifrey. That would explain why he said that the person he was when he and Rose first met (ie, Nine at the beginning of his incarnation. If you remember he hadn't even seen himself in a mirror yet before he entered Rose's flat) was like the new Doctor.

Well, it made sense in my head.

Think, people!

Okay, the question has been asked over and over again:

"Why didn't the Doctor stay in the parallel world with Rose?"

The answer is simple and not nearly as psychologically convoluted as people are making it out to be. And the answer is: He couldn't. He literally could not stay there. They only had a few minutes to get Rose back to her world and leave again before the walls between realities closed up again forever, AND he had to get Donna back home. He had to get Donna back to her home, so she could live her life after he wiped her memory.

Exactly how was he going to manage to do all that while fulfilling his fantasy of being with Rose again? It would have been a horribly selfish move to leave Donna's head burning up from the inside out while he went gallivanting around with Rose. He also couldn't wipe her mind and leave her all on her own in the parallel world either because she'd be left with nobody and no memories of what happened to her, and it's not like the Doctor could stay around her, because the memories would come back and she'd burn.

So, really, the answer is simple. He didn't because he couldn't. He has a greater responsibility to others than to his manly urges.

Wow...

I am without words. Well, except for these three statements.

1. Boy was I wrong in my theory, and yet...not wrong. While Donna didn't die literally, who she had become did die. I'm going to miss you so much, Donna.
   
2. RTD is a horrible, naughty cheater and tease. He gave me the "I love you" I was looking for, and managed to do it without letting us actually hear it. Thankfully, I could tell from the movement of his jaw and cheek that it was exactly what he was saying, and it was confirmed by Julie Gardner that the Doctor whispered "I love you" in Rose's ear.
3. I think I will remember the moment with all the Doctor's loved ones around the TARIS console, flying Earth home for the rest of my life.

Oh, and to cheat, here's one more. I can guarantee that you'll see a huge wave of Blue Suit Doctor and Rose fanfics, but that's nothing new. Fanfic writers have been writing stories of the Doctor and Rose reuniting and having a life together ever since they split two years ago. I'm afraid that, as a wannabe writer myself, I just can't resist the siren call of writing how the other Doctor and Rose manage a life together with him with a normal lifespan and the inability to regenerate and Rose having to fix this Doctor like she did the original one. It's just too good a situation to resist writing about. I almost feel like RTD was giving this to fanfic writers. Well, then, thanks Russell!

*twitch*

You know I love spoilers. And so, you also probably know that the BBC not revealing so much as a blip of spoilerific goodness is TORTURE! AUGH! We're being given tiny little crumbs of info, though, so I suppose it's better than nothing. However, it's far, far less than what we've been given before. No Fear Forcast, a nearly useless script exerpt in the jigsaw puzzle, and only a 30 second trailer. Understandable, yes. Still torture? Ohhh, you betcha.

So far, this is all we know:

• The TARDIS will be on fire again, with exploding roundels and poor Donna stuck in the middle of it.
• Jackie, Mickey, Sarah Jane and whoever else will get captured by the Daleks and taken to one of their ships.
• Martha will use the Project Indigo device again (according to the script exerpt).
• One of the companions will die, but we've known that. Actually, that's not new info at all, scratch that.
  
• Oh, and Davros will rant. Yeah, no surprise there.

That's...about all we got so far. I'll check in with all the Doctor Who info people when I wake up. It's already 4:30 am. I should be in bed, but this torture is effecting my sleep, since I keep digging and digging for info.