10 Doctor Who Love Stories That Will Warm Your Heart(s)
Love is all Who needs.
When people think of the world's greatest sci-fi show, they usually think of the Daleks or the Cybermen, the thrill of traveling in time and space in a blue police box, or the charismatic Time Lord himself and whichever face he's currently wearing. Yet, along with adventure, danger and scares, Doctor Who is also a surprisingly romantic show.
Years before Paul McGann's Eighth Doctor started the trend of handsome Doctors kissing face, romance could be seen throughout the show from companions who fall in love and leave (sometimes with each other) to characters prepared to die in order to save their loved one.
The revived show has been more overt in this with a Doctor who hasn't properly been introduced to a new companion unless he's snogged him/her. Someone wanting to clone, a Doctor no longer needs a meta-crisis but merely to swab the mouth of whichever companion the Time Lord has just met. The Doctor has always loved tea but in his Tenth and Eleventh incarnations he could have done with a shot of bromide in it. The Doctor is now a man with beating hearts that can love and be loved in return.
With Valentine's Day just around the corner, let us celebrate the most powerful romances in Doctor Who history. Alas, though the Sixth Doctor's love for himself and the Doctor's affection for his ship could be seen as great loves, they have been omitted from the list, as has Peri and King Ycranos. Axons are red, the TARDIS is blue, here's the most romantic stories in Who...