RULE 34 IS NOT CANON

[spatch]

DOCTOR WHO DOES NOT NEED LOVE INTERESTS, PEOPLE
HE IS A TIME LORD
HE IS IN LOVE WITH TIME
AND HE IS MARRIED TO THE TARDIS
HOW MANY TIMES MUST I SPELL THIS OUT FOR YOU
LEAVE THE ROMANCE TO THE FANFIC ROMANTICISTS
THAT'S WHAT THEY'RE HERE FOR
GRARAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGH

if this shit keeps up I don't know what I'm going to do

Comments

[violetisblue.livejournal.com]

Wait, what? More on-show romance? I THOUGHT WE WERE DONE WITH ALL THAT.

[spatch]

The semi-spoilery announcement of Eleven's New Companion pretty much all but guarantees it.

[violetisblue.livejournal.com]

Ah, I saw that and you're right, an announcement about "sparks flying" between them is just a matter of time. The only thing I thought when I saw her and mentally put her next to Matt Smith was that I'm now officially too damned old for Buffy in Space.

[tansu.livejournal.com]

A little bell goes *ding*!

[kalibex.livejournal.com]

Hey...maybe her character'll be gay.

Hey....it could happen.

[orionsmom.livejournal.com]

OH! I love the idea of a companion being gay!

[off_coloratura]

Ahem.
*points at icon*

[gnostalgia.livejournal.com]

Wasn't Adric implied to be gay?

[spatch]

I think that theory stems from the other kids who said "Badge of Mathematical Excellence? Dude, that is so gay"

[spatch]

I think honestly if there was to have been an open and out gay companion, Rusty would've done it. I guess the closest he got was Captain Jack, who I've had to mark down as "bisexual" only because I don't know how many other alien genders he's dallied with.

[joxn.livejournal.com]

Maybe the Doctor will be gay!

[phonemonkey.livejournal.com]

Huh.

[bkdelong.livejournal.com]

Dude...that's not Rule 34.....I'm pretty sure.

[spatch]

It's technically not Rule 34 because they'll have BEATEN THE INTERNET TO IT

[bkdelong.livejournal.com]

Nooo. Don't you get it? That's what Torchwood's for!

[bkdelong.livejournal.com]

Ooooh but she's ginger. And Scottish *dies* I mean....come on...how can he even resist? Time Lord or not?

[batyatoon]

We have already HAD a ginger Companion THANK YOU

*still mad about Donna*

[lillibet.livejournal.com]

All Who needs is love.

BA ba da da da!

[tansu.livejournal.com]

"A generation of little girls will want to be her. And a generation of little boys will want them to be her too." - Stephen Moffatt.

As a feminist, I would like to say that I want to set him on fucking fire right about now. Just fucking stop stop stop stop stop. Jesus FUCKING COCK!

[gwynethfar.livejournal.com]

I've wanted to set him on fire for a bit now. This just gives me a little more incentive to buy the gasoline.

[spatch]

I first read that as "A generation of little boys will want to be her too" and thought well hey, there was always one kid who, when we were playing Dukes of Hazzard, ended up having to play Daisy cause all the other guys took the other characters, and I think he wore cut-offs before the rest of us, so you never know honestly.

[mmcirvin.livejournal.com]

Me too, and then I thought, "Wait, that's more of a Russell T. Davies sentence." "When I was a little boy..."

[gwynethfar.livejournal.com]

I am loathe to point this out... but he has had several love interests. One must assume that, since he had a granddaughter, he had at least one child, which means at least some kind of non-platonic fling took place back on Gallifrey. Thought it wasn't explicit, I do feel some sort of romantic relationship with Romana was going on with Four. Eight was ten types of touchy-feely with Grace, and later admitted that he was in love with Charley Pollard before they parted ways. Nine/Ten WERE in love with Rose Tyler, so...

...I hope we can still be friends.

Seriously, though, I think the romantic element of the show has gotten out of hand. I liked that he rejected Martha, and I liked that Donna did not fall head over heels for him. The Rose Tyler thing was a beautiful fairytale, but I'm glad it's over.

[spatch]

Well, yes, the whole Susan thing does give away a bit about the fellow before the whole Tardis-stealin' adventure-havin' Doctor. I can give a pass to the other Time Lords. Sure, dude had a family life, ok, that's cool. And Romana was a Time Lord as well plus they were kinda school chums (and I admit it was cute watching Tom Baker and Lalla Ward flirt onscreen.)

But I draw the line, the LINE, DAMMIT at this whole "Earth Girls are Easy" schtick they've been fooling around with. Because it means that every female companion the Doctor has had since Eight has become romantically involved with him in one capacity or another with the exception of Donna, but even she had to suffer the "Oh, we're not married, no" gag a few too many times.

And they've all been human. The fellow's from Gallifrey, fer crying out loud. HE GOTS MORE HEARTS THAN THEM! WE HEARD EM! Sure, he's pining over the fact that he's (sometimes/maybe/often/kinda) the Last of his Kind, but that Rebound Mushy Stuff has to subside sometime and he's had two regenerations to polish off the emo juice.

This new companion all but screams "I'm here for the hot couple factor and the romantic tension!" especially when paired with Young Cutie Doctor. But she looks like a better fit for Torchwood, honestly.

I dunno. Maybe I should just stick to my Tom Baker and Sylvester McCoy.

[gwynethfar.livejournal.com]

I have said for a while (although no one listens to me) that if they want to pull this romance thing, they need to wrap up the whole "River Song" bit before they're at 13 and have no more regenerations to play around with. And if River Song would end up not being human, that would be super, too.

[mmcirvin.livejournal.com]

Besides, normal sexual beings in our world don't necessarily have massive romantic tension and puppy-dog eyes with everyone they associate with on a regular basis.

[dskasak.livejournal.com]

You gotta admit that "I'm the last of my kind" can be a devastatingly effective pick-up line on the right person. I don't know if there's a holodeck equivalent of 10-Forward somewhere in the bowels of the TARDIS, but I'll bet some bars of gold-pressed latinum that the Doctor has been practicing his lines in there before he picks up an easy Earth woman.

[spatch]

"Hey, baby, is this guy boring you? Come talk to me! I'm from another planet! And I'm the last of my kind!"

It is pretty powerful pickup rhetoric once you think about it...

[gwynethfar.livejournal.com]

With filming due to begin this summer, Gillan beat off dozens of hopefuls to land one of television's most coveted roles.

LOL forever.

[redtheblue.livejournal.com]

So all the rumors about the BBC are true.

[loree-borealis.livejournal.com]

But we have to have women on this here television show, and what other role would a woman play if not the hero's GIRLFRIEND?

...


rage.

[spatch]

Why, the Damsel in Distress, of course!


DOCTOR! HELP!!

[redtheblue.livejournal.com]

When I saw the new Doctor I thought they were tapping into a sort of Jonas Brothers vibe with their choice, so maybe he'll wear a purity ring and nothing will happen.

[spatch]

"This white foam! It's the Cybermen's new weakness! C'mon, help me hook a hose up to this gigantic vat! Allons-y!"

[redtheblue.livejournal.com]

You have discovered a frightening new subbasement in the slashfic dungeon.

[spatch]

OH GOD WHAT MONSTER HAVE I UNLEASHED

QUICK PUT THAT GODDAMN GENIE BACK IN ITS BOTTLE

[sargent.livejournal.com]

YOU HAVE NAMED IT.

NOW IT EXISTS.

[greenlily.livejournal.com]

Doctor/Tardis would be my OTP, except that I keep getting swayed in the direction of Doctor/Angst. (Which is mostly Five's fault, really.)

[mybadhairlife.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry to laugh at your pain, but I can't help it.

You rock. That is all.

[joenotcharles.livejournal.com]

The only thing is, I REALLY want to see the plot where the hot young Doctor and his companion fall in love with each other, and then he regenerates into someone old and crusty and doesn't see why anything should change.

[hermitgeecko.livejournal.com]

I read this originally as meaning something like "The doctor does not need love interests or people...."

When you put DOCTOR WHO in all caps, it makes the grammar look funky.

[zyrya]

Amen.

[sanspoof.livejournal.com]

I was just discussing how it would be much less demeaning to women to have a more Batman & Robin (not the movie, the concept. The platonic concept too, in both senses of the term) -style dynamic, as it places the companion in less of an 'opposite and foil' role and more of an apprentice one. It seems that with a lady companion, writers just fall into the whole "she's everything the doctor's not! Stupid, ruled by emotion, slow to react! Ha-haa!" trap far too often. I guess Martha's the closest to a real apprentice-style companion that there's been, which is cool at least, but... must it be so rare?