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

[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...