Your point seems to rest on Rose being the Doctor's One and Only True Love. Certainly, there's textual evidence that both Nine and Ten love Rose. One can argue if it's romantic or not.
My point about what I believe to be RTD's intentions with Martha's arc?
I hate to be rude, but did you actually read my post? I'll quote from it, since you seem to have skipped everything that wasn't the title.
But... as the show makes very, very clear -- Rose isn't special in the ultimate 'best person ever' way. She's special in the 'best person for this one specific character/relationship' way.
At no time do I attempt to argue that Rose is the better person because the Doctor loves her. Mostly because I don't believe that and partly because it's irrelevant to the question at hand, which was what I believed to be RTD's intentions with Martha's arc and whether or not Martha was necessary to accomplish the goals that RTD appears to have.
All relationships the Doctor has with humans are, by definition, transitory.
All relationships that humans have with humans are, by definition, transitory. All the relationships that the Doctor had with other Time Lords were transitory (though a large part of that was because he hated his people and spent as much time away from home as possible!).
Everything ends. Mortality isn't a special trait that only humans have. The Doctor doesn't live forever -- even he will die someday. Should someone dying from cancer be barred from falling in love with a healthy person? Sometimes, something is all the more precious because it is transitory. As the Doctor said, some people live more in twenty years than others do in eighty (paraphrased).
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My point about what I believe to be RTD's intentions with Martha's arc?
I hate to be rude, but did you actually read my post? I'll quote from it, since you seem to have skipped everything that wasn't the title.
But... as the show makes very, very clear -- Rose isn't special in the ultimate 'best person ever' way. She's special in the 'best person for this one specific character/relationship' way.
At no time do I attempt to argue that Rose is the better person because the Doctor loves her. Mostly because I don't believe that and partly because it's irrelevant to the question at hand, which was what I believed to be RTD's intentions with Martha's arc and whether or not Martha was necessary to accomplish the goals that RTD appears to have.
All relationships the Doctor has with humans are, by definition, transitory.
All relationships that humans have with humans are, by definition, transitory. All the relationships that the Doctor had with other Time Lords were transitory (though a large part of that was because he hated his people and spent as much time away from home as possible!).
Everything ends. Mortality isn't a special trait that only humans have. The Doctor doesn't live forever -- even he will die someday. Should someone dying from cancer be barred from falling in love with a healthy person? Sometimes, something is all the more precious because it is transitory. As the Doctor said, some people live more in twenty years than others do in eighty (paraphrased).