{"id":273287,"date":"2013-06-13T20:28:50","date_gmt":"2013-06-13T20:28:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2013\/06\/13\/rose-is-open-honest-heartfelt-to-the-point-of\/"},"modified":"2013-06-13T20:28:50","modified_gmt":"2013-06-13T20:28:50","slug":"rose-is-open-honest-heartfelt-to-the-point-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2013\/06\/13\/rose-is-open-honest-heartfelt-to-the-point-of\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>Rose is open, honest, heartfelt, to the point of being selfish, wonderfully selfish. Martha is clever, calm, but rarely says what she\u2019s really thinking. Donna is blunt, precise, unfiltered, but with a big heart beneath all the banter. <\/p>\n<p>But we come back to what I was saying ages ago about turning characters. <\/p>\n<p>If Rose can be selfish, then her finest moments will come when she\u2019s selfless. If Martha keeps quiet, then her moments of revelation &#8211; like her goodbye to the Doctor in Last of the Time Lords, or stuck with Milo and Cheen in Gridlock &#8211; make her fly. Donna is magnificently self-centered &#8211; not selfish, but she pivots everything around herself, as we all do &#8211; so when she opens up and hears the Ood song, or begs for Caecilius\u2019 family to be saved, then she\u2019s wonderful.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'>\n<p>Russell T. Davies <em>(<\/em><em>The Writer\u2019s Tale)<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>#remember when Doctor Who was about character development? #I&rsquo;ll never stop loving this quote #HE GETS IT<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rose is open, honest, heartfelt, to the point of being selfish, wonderfully selfish. Martha is clever, calm, but rarely says what she\u2019s really thinking. Donna is blunt, precise, unfiltered, but with a big heart beneath all the banter. But we come back to what I was saying ages ago about turning characters. If Rose can &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2013\/06\/13\/rose-is-open-honest-heartfelt-to-the-point-of\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[13],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273287"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273287\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}