Fantasy archetype...

[fajrdrako]

I'm not sure how predictable it was, but this result for this quiz seems to list many of my favourite heroes:

What Fantasy Archetype Are you?
The Seasoned Veteran Friend You are the Seasoned Veteran Friend! You resemble Aragorn (Lord of The Rings), Merlin (Arthurian Legend), Han Solo (Star Wars), The Marquis (Neverwhere), Sirius Black (Harry Potter) and Chase (Wizard's First Rule). You are exceedingly loyal, tricky and hardy. You regularly pull the Unlikely Hero, Mentor and Pillor-of-Strength Love Interest out of trouble and into safety. Beware The Traitor, who will make your job intensely difficult. And don't coddle the Unlikely Hero too much, he has to learn how to fend for himself. Anyway, everyone admires you and your resourcefullness / reliability - good going!
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Comments

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

what would "Bad Wolf" in the Ritz graffiti (In "Captain Jack Harkness") mean? Rose coming back?

My interpretation is that back in series 1, Rose's "Bad Wolf" went through all of space and time, which includes 2007 or 2008 (or whenever the Torchwood characters are now) as much as 2005 or 2006 or the century the game station was in, so that it's permeated all of our universe, and this is just an irrelevant manifestation appearing - especially at a place where the links between past and future are weak because of the rift and because of the meddling of Bilis and Abaddon.

So it isn't a reference to any new manifestation of Rose, but of the manifestation we already saw in "Parting of the Ways", no longer in our future, but chronologically in the future time of the Torchwood characters - not personally but conceptually.

Irrelevant to the plot except as a brief reminder or tie-in to the scenes where Jack last saw Rose and the Doctor. And not incidentally, a reminder to the viewer of the connection between Jack and the Doctor Who storyline, so soon to be picked up again.

By which I mean the ending of "End of Days" came soon enough, but what comes next feels like an eon away.

[kikibug13.livejournal.com]

Makes sense. Although if she scattered the words _as a reminder to herself_...
Gah. I think I'm trying to make too much of this. Or perhaps this could work as a plot bunny in times of silence.
I have to finish DW season two first, though.

BTW, have you noticed a similarity in the ways (not colors, just clothes styles) that Gwen and Rose dress?
And even some mannerisms (like turning around without moving their feet, twinging their legs as a result)? Rose does this in Christmas Invasion when Mikey asks "You really love him, don't you?", and Gwen is I think (have to re-watch to be sure) in a similar position in the end of Cyberwoman...

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Or perhaps this could work as a plot bunny in times of silence.

Good idea! Don't let it slip away.

I have to finish DW season two first, though.

Pleasures still to come.

have you noticed a similarity in the ways (not colors, just clothes styles) that Gwen and Rose dress?

Uh, no... I think of Gwen as wearing short-sleeves shirts while Rose wears hoodies and T-shirts. But I'm not very good at remembering (or even noticing) things visually. I love it, totally love it, that Nine, Ten, and Captain Jack dress pretty much the same all the time.

even some mannerisms (like turning around without moving their feet, twinging their legs as a result)?

Neat. I must look for this.

I confess, I sometimes wonder why people see Gwen as being a sort of Rose-substitute when I don't see all that much resemblance.