I loved the episode, I thought that the characterisation was great, as opposed to last week's episode. The writing/production team have more or less said that last week's was written as 'filler' material between 'School Reunion' and this two-parter (hence some large inconsistencies in terms of characteristion this week and last).
I didn't see a problem in Rose wanting to go to find her dad...She's only really got to know him reasonably recently, and she never had him in her life for any considerable length of time. Mickey, on the other hand, grew up with his mum, dad, and gran (albeit for differing lengths of time) and lost them all at least 5 years ago, and has had time to get used to all of that loss, so it's probably more upsetting for Rose to see images of her dad, because it's 'rawer' for her emotionally.
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Date: 2006-05-15 12:12 am (UTC)I didn't see a problem in Rose wanting to go to find her dad...She's only really got to know him reasonably recently, and she never had him in her life for any considerable length of time. Mickey, on the other hand, grew up with his mum, dad, and gran (albeit for differing lengths of time) and lost them all at least 5 years ago, and has had time to get used to all of that loss, so it's probably more upsetting for Rose to see images of her dad, because it's 'rawer' for her emotionally.
Mickey does look great sans shirt, though :)