You know it was totally because of Barbara! And maybe Susan, if the whole Time Lords/humans thing is true... ;D
The more I think of it, the more I like the idea of an AU Romana who stays with the Doctor, or indeed a Romana who only stayed in E-Space for a bit, before continuing her life of adventure and still occasionally meeting/teaming up with the Doctor from time to time. And if she wasn't President, and indeed the Time War was clearly lost and Gallifrey had been taken over by Bond and his fellow crazed megalomaniacs, then I think she could have fobwatched herself with a clear conscience. And being Romana, she's left some clue out there so that the Doctor can find her again; he's just too thick to work it out yet! ;D
I think River is very much the Doctor's "type" - brainy, experienced sort of woman who'll talk back to him. So, just like Romana, then! He only _thinks_ women like Rose are his "type" because he's going through a midlife crisis... lost_spook wrote really good fic along these lines a while ago.
I'm just glad RTD managed to get through Pt 2 of End of Tim without coming out and directly mentioning Romana at all. Maybe she was the woman in white, maybe not - who knows? But at least he didn't do anything to wreck the character. She might still be out there...
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Date: 2010-01-03 12:15 am (UTC)The more I think of it, the more I like the idea of an AU Romana who stays with the Doctor, or indeed a Romana who only stayed in E-Space for a bit, before continuing her life of adventure and still occasionally meeting/teaming up with the Doctor from time to time. And if she wasn't President, and indeed the Time War was clearly lost and Gallifrey had been taken over by Bond and his fellow crazed megalomaniacs, then I think she could have fobwatched herself with a clear conscience. And being Romana, she's left some clue out there so that the Doctor can find her again; he's just too thick to work it out yet! ;D
I think River is very much the Doctor's "type" - brainy, experienced sort of woman who'll talk back to him. So, just like Romana, then! He only _thinks_ women like Rose are his "type" because he's going through a midlife crisis... lost_spook wrote really good fic along these lines a while ago.
I'm just glad RTD managed to get through Pt 2 of End of Tim without coming out and directly mentioning Romana at all. Maybe she was the woman in white, maybe not - who knows? But at least he didn't do anything to wreck the character. She might still be out there...