I think, fundamentally, that this is the difference between us -- you see Doctor Who as having a premise that is incompatible with a romantic relationship and I don't. My premise for Doctor Who is -- "hey, there's this alien who travels through time and space, often with companions of various sorts and always getting into trouble." And that premise has absolutely no conflict with the notion that the Doctor can fall in love. If your premise differs from mine, perhaps yours has a clause that does exclude romantic love, but it has nothing to do with the premise that I've picked up from the show.
There are places where they seem to be "very much in love," and places where they seem to be "very much screwed up." Which is perhaps RTD's point -- though he doesn't seem to be able to make up his own mind, either.
But that's life. Love doesn't... fix everything. The Doctor still has issues. Rose still has issues. They still have places where they need to work the kinks out. If they didn't have the occasional fight or the places where they didn't quite fit, then I probably wouldn't ship them because they would strike me as a highly unrealistic relationship. No relationship is perfect and without flaw or dissent.
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I think, fundamentally, that this is the difference between us -- you see Doctor Who as having a premise that is incompatible with a romantic relationship and I don't. My premise for Doctor Who is -- "hey, there's this alien who travels through time and space, often with companions of various sorts and always getting into trouble." And that premise has absolutely no conflict with the notion that the Doctor can fall in love. If your premise differs from mine, perhaps yours has a clause that does exclude romantic love, but it has nothing to do with the premise that I've picked up from the show.
There are places where they seem to be "very much in love," and places where they seem to be "very much screwed up." Which is perhaps RTD's point -- though he doesn't seem to be able to make up his own mind, either.
But that's life. Love doesn't... fix everything. The Doctor still has issues. Rose still has issues. They still have places where they need to work the kinks out. If they didn't have the occasional fight or the places where they didn't quite fit, then I probably wouldn't ship them because they would strike me as a highly unrealistic relationship. No relationship is perfect and without flaw or dissent.