Thanks. The Doctor needed to hear Jack say that, to know that Jack would have made the same choice.
I considered having Jack ask Rose to imagine herself faced with the same choice. Not because he wanted to hear her answer, but to make her understand the situation. "Okay, you can only save the Doctor or me. You need to make a decision in the next 90 seconds, or we're both dead." In the end, I decided against it, but I think she must have wrestled with that question in her mind.
Thankfully, it was a choice they all could actually *live* with.
That's the only kind of story I could write. The hurt has to be followed by comfort. I know that some writers could take the same basic premise, and write a story in which the only real choice was one that tore the survivors apart. In the right hands, it could be a brilliant, riveting story -- but probably not one that I could bear to read.
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Date: 2009-07-12 11:32 pm (UTC)I considered having Jack ask Rose to imagine herself faced with the same choice. Not because he wanted to hear her answer, but to make her understand the situation. "Okay, you can only save the Doctor or me. You need to make a decision in the next 90 seconds, or we're both dead." In the end, I decided against it, but I think she must have wrestled with that question in her mind.
Thankfully, it was a choice they all could actually *live* with.
That's the only kind of story I could write. The hurt has to be followed by comfort. I know that some writers could take the same basic premise, and write a story in which the only real choice was one that tore the survivors apart. In the right hands, it could be a brilliant, riveting story -- but probably not one that I could bear to read.