Talk:Tenth Doctor

Doctor Loved Rose?
Nowhere on screen does the Doctor ever admit to being in love with Rose. This needs to come out of the article. Someone please fix it? 214.27.58.2talk to me 15:31, January 3, 2013 (UTC)
 * I agree that their so-called love is debatable. Given The Doctor's mindset after the Time War, I don't believe he was in love with Rose. 75.141.226.87talk to me 21:24, January 3, 2013 (UTC)

The Tenth had gotten over that to a point, and he attempts to admit it in Journey's End, but is interrupted. Cult Of Skaro ☎  21:28, January 3, 2013 (UTC)

Er...Does someone need to get up to date on their Who? Cult Of Skaro ☎  17:38, January 3, 2013 (UTC)

He NEVER admitted it on screen...it is still fan speculation. Frankly, that belongs on the forums, not on the encylopedic page. On the pages, we need to stick with what has actually happened, not what some fans desire to happen. 214.27.58.2talk to me 07:50, January 5, 2013 (UTC)

No, it is NOT speculation. Unless passionate kissing and pining after her after she leaves and trying to say it in Doomsday doesn't count. Cult Of Skaro ☎  15:01, January 5, 2013 (UTC)

The only time Ten and Rose kissed was when Cassandra kissed him. The "passionate kiss" you are likely referring to was between the meta-crisis creation, which was established on screen as not being exactly like Ten, either physically or emotionally. 180.94.85.2talk to me 02:16, January 6, 2013 (UTC)

Sorry, but Cult of Skaro is absolutely right, Ten attempts to say it at the end of Doomsday, but the TARDIS' cross-universal thingy cuts out so he fails, and Meta-Crisis Ten, who has the same memoires of the real Ten, completes the sentence in Journey's End and that is why Rosee and Meta-Crisis Ten kiss. MrSiriusBlack ☎  21:07, January 12, 2013 (UTC)

Exactly...what Ten attempts to say is cut off...and not heard. He does not say anything on screen. Therefore, it is speculation by fans. Also, 180 above was me, just not logged in. Whosethebestwho ☎  02:03, January 18, 2013 (UTC)

Okay...so just because he doesn't explicitly say right out, "I love you" but tries to, kisses her, even makes it clear that it's three words he wanted to say, even though there's no one with any DOUBT even that those words were "I love you," we can't include it because he doesn't say it right out. Right. Speculation. Ahem. Cult Of Skaro ☎  02:15, January 18, 2013 (UTC)

Fact: Ten does not try to kiss Rose. Fact: Ten does not state that he loves Rose. Any deviation from those facts is speculation. You may believe, in the bottom of your heart that they had passionate relationship...you may desire above all else for that to be true. But it is speculation, pure and simple. Whosethebestwho ☎  02:25, January 18, 2013 (UTC)

He attempts to say it. It's clearly implied that he's trying to say it. Or do you have some secret theory on what he actually tried to say? Cult Of Skaro ☎  02:30, January 18, 2013 (UTC)
 * How do you know he's trying to say it though? I could say that his leaving Rose behind twice and his relationship with Reneitte shows that he didn't love Rose. As long as it's open for speculation, it's not allowed on in-universe pages. Shambala108 ☎  03:57, January 18, 2013 (UTC)

Wow. I can;'t believe I manbaged yto kjeep cool after reading the thickness above. No, The Doctor didn't have feelings at all for Reinette, she loved him. It is too darn obvious that The Doctor loved Rose and that was what he was trying to say, so keep it in the article. MrSiriusBlack ☎  21:05, January 21, 2013 (UTC)


 * Not sure which posts you're replying to, but speculation is not allowed on this wiki (see Forum:Hypothesis and speculation and Forum:Speculation - What is and what isn't?). If you don't have an in-universe source for the information, it can't be added. You might also want to check out Tardis:No personal attacks as well. Shambala108 ☎  02:13, January 22, 2013 (UTC)

You utter IDIOT! Want a valid source? WATCH Doomsday (TV story)DOOMSDAY]] AND JOURNEY'S END! THIS IS A VALID POINT, LISTEN TO THIS LOWLY ANON USER, PLEASE!!! Apologies for the insult and no offence, but really, I PROTEST against this STUPIDITY! Get up to date on your who or leave Tardis Data Core, Shambala! 94.9.1.78talk to me 21:31, January 23, 2013 (UTC)


 * I'll reiterate what Shambala said to MrSiriusBlack: "speculation is not allowed on this wiki (see Forum:Hypothesis and speculation and Forum:Speculation - What is and what isn't?). If you don't have an in-universe source for the information, it can't be added." While it may appear to you that it's obvious, according to the rules of this wiki, it's speculation. Yes, I will agree, it is implied, and according to my own opinion, he did love her but couldn't quite express it, but it is never explicitly stated so we can't include it. Unless the Doctor ever talks specifically about how he loved Rose (which is unlikely at this point, but not impossible), any information on his emotions and feelings for Rose is purely speculative. I'd recommend you base your argument on policy, as apposed to your own personal opinions. And also as Shambala stated: You might want to check out Tardis:No personal attacks as well. SmallerOnTheOutside  ☎  00:13, January 24, 2013 (UTC)


 * Incivility will not be allowed on our talk pages. Attack the point, not the person.  94.9.1.78 has just earned a permanent ban.  MrSiriusBlack: you are right on the edge of being blocked for your comments, and have escaped merely because your phrasing can be construed as an attack on the point.  Nevertheless, no one likes to have their opinions described as "thick".  The English language has a huge vocabulary.  Please use other words to describe displeasure.


 * All participants to this conversation should read and abide by Tardis:No personal attacks. Now.


 * Furthermore, users are advised to use italics or bolding or both to indicate emphasis. Please do not use ALL CAPS, as this is generally construed as shouting.  01:22: Thu 24 Jan 2013

Now that we've had that little commercial interruption, we can get back on point. And I think it's clear that we need to come up with language that admits of both possibilities here. A common sense reading of the end of Journey's End is that Rose, at least, believed the Doomsday sentence was going to end with words that expressed the sentiment of "I love you". We don't actually need to be told what was said to conclude that Rose was romantically attracted to Ten, and that a part of Ten that was passed on to the Meta-Crisis Ten was reciprocally attracted. The last shot we have of them is of the M-C Ten grabbing her hand romantically, not the other way around.

A lot of people misinterpret this wiki's admonition against speculation to mean that a thing must be said in dialogue to be non-speculative. That's not true. Doctor Who is a visual and auditory experience. We can see things that aren't spoken of, and hear things that are never named. We don't need to be told that Tito is singing "La donna è mobile" in The Tenth Planet to know that he is doing so. We can assert that Brightwell & Hyman are a firm that makes matches because of what we see in The Angels Take Manhattan — not because of what we hear in dialogue.

And so it is with the Rose/Ten stuff. He obviously acts differently towards her than Martha or Donna. Both of the later companions acknowledge that. He runs toward Rose in The Stolen Earth in a way that he does not when reunited with Donna in Partners in Crime or Martha in The Poison Sky. He teases Rose about the way she tried to get in touch with him after the faux regeneration passes. Rose clearly believes he meant to say he loved her or she wouldn't have asked that question in quite the way she did.

Do we say that he romantically loved her? I'm with Shambala that we can't go that far. But do we ignore the other, sometimes non-verbal cues that are there? I don't see how we do that, either. The key is to report what we see, all of what we see, and only what we see.

It is undoubtable that Martha believes Ten was in a romantic relationship with Rose. It's clear that she considered herself the "rebound" chick, which only connotes a romantic relationship with Rose. Martha leaves him because she is not Rose and therefore does not command his romantic attention. It is extraordinarily clear that he did pine for her at many points from The Runaway Bride onward. It is also clear that he did not pine for Martha in the same way — nor that the Doctor pined for anyone in quite that same way.

We may not be able to say that he ever said he loved her. But we must say that his relationship with Rose was extraordinary, and demonstrably romantic. 01:59: Thu 24 Jan 2013


 * ROSE: "I love you!"
 * TEN: "Quite right too. And, if it's my last chance to say it, Rose Tyler -" [Tardis thingy cut out].

There's the evidence, from Doomsday.

Meanwhile, at Journey's End, Meta-Crisis Ten whispers the end of real ten's sentence from Doomsday, and she kisses Meta Crisis.

Isn't that, Shambala and CzechOut and other disagree-ers above, a valid point? MrSiriusBlack ☎  15:54, January 24, 2013 (UTC)
 * Sure it's a valid point. So is Ten's relationship with Reinette and his dumping of Rose back in Pete's World in Journey's End when he could have kept her with him forever. Shambala108 ☎  19:01, January 24, 2013 (UTC)

One, Reinette's love for The Doctor was NOT reciprocated, and two he had to return Rose there because she had broken through the universe and in order to seal the hole again the Doctor hsd to return her. Plus Meta-Crisis had committed genocide so The Doctor didn't want him as a companion, but he could live a normal life on the Paralell Earth with Rose. MrSiriusBlack ☎  19:58, January 24, 2013 (UTC)

MrSiriusBlack is right, Shambala108. Go watch Army of Ghosts, Doomsday, The Stolen Earth and Journey's End and then tell us that Ten did not love Rose. 94.2.69.0talk to me 20:11, January 24, 2013 (UTC)
 * ROSE: "I love you!"
 * TEN: "Quite right too. And, if it's my last chance to say it, Rose Tyler -" [Tardis thingy cut out].
 * There's the evidence, from Doomsday.

Yes, but of what is it the evidence? It's evidence that he did not say he loved her. It's evidence that there was a missed opportunity for one last moment of connection between them, and that this failure made her bawl and him let loose a tear.

It's carefully written to make you think that he was about to say he loved her. The complementary moment in Journey's End seems to reinforce this. We can easily believe that Rose cares so much about the issue in Journey's End because she's convinced he was going to say "I love you". She needs to know what he was going to say, and it's not likely she would care were it not that she suspected he was going to make some sort of romantic declaration in her direction. But we cannot say in the article that he loved her because we never hear it from Ten or Handy. Whatever it was, she responded in a physically intimate way when Handy whispers in her ear.

But it could have been just him admitting that she thought she was hot.

Handy needn't have said "I love you" to get her to kiss him. Let's face it, there are tons of things a guy can say to a girl to get her to kiss him. Especially if that guy looks like David Tennant, and the girl in question is the sure-Mickey-I've-screwed-with-your-emotions-but-I'll-spend-the-night-with-you-in-a-Cardiff-hotel Rose Tyler. We'd like to think it's "true love", because that would be a noble end to the Rose story. But there's enough in her character to let us know it doesn't have to be. After all, Ten gets her to blush awkwardly just by saying the word sexy in The Christmas Invasion.

This article, this wiki, cannot say that Ten (or Handy) loved Rose. It can and should come very close to that. But it can't go, um, all the way. 22:57: Fri 25 Jan 2013

He tried to say he loved her, and bloody hell is it obvious that he loved her. and 'Handy', The Meta-Crisis Doctor, obviously had the same feelings for her because they went off to grow old together on Pete's World. And the "Quite right too" bit in Ten's speech at the end of Doomsday also pointed in the he-loves-her direction. MrSiriusBlack ☎  15:19, January 27, 2013 (UTC)