One Does Not Simply Question Their Love Story

I don’t think they really ever question it, they just get on with it but there’s this kinda suggestion, you know, that there may be some romance. I think she’s quiet in love with him.  – Billie Piper

 

You’d Wanna be Able to Run Flat Out

Just in terms of acting a scene like that, if Rose is over there, and she’s all you want in the universe, and you’re desperate to get to her, you’d wanna be able to run flat out, don’t ya. – David Tennant

 

Another Heartbreak, Another Tragedy

There’s a part of her that feels very comfortable and very attracted to this new doctor because he is the same guy, but clearly he’s not and clearly she’s saying goodbye to this other man that she’s been in love with. For the doctor himself there’s just another heartbreak and another tragedy and he’s back on bad wolf bay were he last experienced this, he’s saying goodbye again and bidding farewell again and this time it’s closing forever and there’s no going back. And in gifting her this other doctor he’s not really allowing himself to go back either. - David Tennant 

 

It Goes Against all the Laws of Space and Time, and Yet…

“The whole thing has been building up to them meeting each other. You couldn’t bring rose back and deny her a meeting with the doctor.” - David Tennant

He knows that rose mustn’t come back and that it goes against all the laws of space and time, and yet the chance to get to see her again is clearly something that he’s very excited about and delighted by. - David Tennant

 

It Was Decided for Her

Having experienced this crazy supernatural stuff, it’s just heartbreaking; the thought of never having to do that again with the man that she loves. In the end it’s not really her choice it’s been decided for her. - Billie Piper

 

Inseparable

When the doctor met rose, that was a very different doctor, that was a lonely, damaged man; his entire planet had been wiped out. Rose helped him move on from his terrible grief he’s been dealing with. She knocks off the time lord edges and humanizes him just as he time lords her. They were what the other was lacking, they are inseparable. - Russell T Davis

 

She’s the One Human that Can Make Him a Better Man

“She’s the one woman, the one human, that can make him better, that can make him a bigger character, a better man”. - Julie Gardner

 

And as in all Great Love Stories…

Finally they get to this wrecked, deserted, night-time, battered, Dalek-invaded street – civilization gone. Across the greatest possible distance, there they are, her with a great big gun, him with the Tardis, and they run toward each other like the biggest romance you’ve ever seen in your life…And, as in all great love stories, he’s cut down by a Dalek. I think that’s what should happen in most films, really. Gone With The Wind, Four Weddings and a Funeral, Notting hill – they all should have had the hero cut down by a Dalek, and they would have been vastly improved. - Russel T. Davies

 

And Then a Younger Better Looking Guy Shows Up..

Obviously and quite overtly, really, the subtext of this show is that the Doctor is hopelessly in love with Rose and trying to impress her. And then a younger better looking guy with the better gun turns up and he’s so annoyed. – Steven Moffat

 

 

Parallel World: Otherwise She Would Have Stayed With Him Forever

In the end I sort of though we created a companion who was so alive and dynamic and so wedded to the doctor that you’d need a whole universe to contain her in. The only way to get rid of her is to send her into a parallel world from which she can never return; otherwise she would stay with the doctor forever. - Russell T Davis