Conceptually, it's a nice gesture -- after all, the Doctor and the TARDIS have been together for hundreds of years, and it feels wrong to separate them. But the scene falls apart for me otherwise. (Beware, tl;dr follows.)
1) It includes one of Rusty's patented deus ex machina explanations; in this case, how a TARDIS could be grown practically overnight.
2) It creates a sentient creature with a lifespan easily as long as the Doctor's, that will be left on its own after its human/half-human inhabitants die in a comparatively short time period. As I said in an earlier comment, I think that's needlessly cruel ... not to mention, with the Doctor knowing he's the last Time Lord in the universe, and all the accompanying Lonely God angst, why would he want to subject the TARDIS, his oldest friend and "the last child of Gallifrey," to the same treatment?
3) The characterization is inconsistent. Assuming the deleted scene takes place when I think it does -- after the Handy/Rose kiss -- Rose seems awfully comfortable with the second Doctor, even though she's just said to the first one "the Doctor's still you." She's obviously accepted Handy enough to kiss him, but that look on her face when she sees the TARDIS leave, and the look she and Handy give each other immediately afterwards, don't feel to me like they're instantly going to settle down and have loads of babies. Rose needs time to fully accept the new guy, but the deleted scene glosses over that entirely.
4) And worst of all, there's this dialogue: "The Doctor. In the TARDIS. With Rose Tyler. Just as it should be." For a multishipper like me, those lines are not only incredibly stupid; they're practically offensive. The Doctor had a fulfilling life long before Rose and will have one long after her.
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on 2008-09-06 08:01 pm (UTC)1) It includes one of Rusty's patented deus ex machina explanations; in this case, how a TARDIS could be grown practically overnight.
2) It creates a sentient creature with a lifespan easily as long as the Doctor's, that will be left on its own after its human/half-human inhabitants die in a comparatively short time period. As I said in an earlier comment, I think that's needlessly cruel ... not to mention, with the Doctor knowing he's the last Time Lord in the universe, and all the accompanying Lonely God angst, why would he want to subject the TARDIS, his oldest friend and "the last child of Gallifrey," to the same treatment?
3) The characterization is inconsistent. Assuming the deleted scene takes place when I think it does -- after the Handy/Rose kiss -- Rose seems awfully comfortable with the second Doctor, even though she's just said to the first one "the Doctor's still you." She's obviously accepted Handy enough to kiss him, but that look on her face when she sees the TARDIS leave, and the look she and Handy give each other immediately afterwards, don't feel to me like they're instantly going to settle down and have loads of babies. Rose needs time to fully accept the new guy, but the deleted scene glosses over that entirely.
4) And worst of all, there's this dialogue: "The Doctor. In the TARDIS. With Rose Tyler. Just as it should be." For a multishipper like me, those lines are not only incredibly stupid; they're practically offensive. The Doctor had a fulfilling life long before Rose and will have one long after her.