Doctor Who: 8 Reasons Why The Tenth Doctor And Rose Suck
8. They Set An Unnecessary Precedent
Amid Dalek invasions, cracks in the universe erasing people from existence and carnivorous snowmen flurrying throughout Victorian London, the Doctor manages to pucker up for a few snogs. Its practically become a requirement (at least for the younger-appearing Doctors) to snog their companions (or, in most cases, be snogged by them without complaining). During these episodes, love was pungently in the air. Take, for instance, New Earth, where Cassandra possessed Rose's body, using it to shoot calculated seductive looks at our innocent Time Lord while parading an unorthodox amount of exposed cleavage. Perhaps it was only Cassandra oggling the Doctor's newly-regenerated body, but fans all know Rose was looking, and she liked it. Neither can anybody forget Amy's startling flirtatiousness at the conclusion of Flesh and Stone. Sure, she had a tendency to corner the Doctor and flaunt the occasional suggestive eyebrow, but her allusions to that - *ahem* - "one simple word" were beyond reckoning. Oh, and then there's Clara. Let's just call her Nanny Clara at this point in her impossibly complicated impossible girl timeline. Midway through The Snowmen, Nanny Clara impulsively pursues the Doctor down the dimmed hall of a massive Victorian mansion, snatching him into a hand-flapping snog. Then there's the scene in which Nanny Clara trips and topples onto the Doctor after stuffing her gown's massive bustle through the window, and the Doctor demands that she "take those clothes off." You know what he meant. Or do you? Come to think of it, virtually every NuWho companion fancied the Doctor. And Rose thought she was the only one. Pfft. You may argue that the Doctors now mainstream, romantic affiliations with his female companions were first introduced in the 1996 film when the Eighth Doctor and Grace Holloway locked in a controversial, groundbreaking kiss. Although this is true, the Doctor and Rose's relationship reinforced this precedent, making romance a commonplace and less of a scandalous rarity within the Doctor Who canon. Thank goodness the Twelfth Doctors fear-invoking eyebrows effectively avert any unwanted attention from the average female Earthling.
Anna is an aspiring writer who has an incurable obsession with Doctor Who. When she is not writing about Doctor Who, she's watching favorite episodes and contemplating what to write next. When she's writing about Doctor Who, she anticipates her reward: watching yet another Doctor Who episode. She also manages to read science fiction (especially Ray Bradbury), recite lines from Shakespeare's Macbeth, and make terrible puns in her free time (she likes to imagine she has great puntential, though)
