What Rose brings to the Doctorโs life is completion. Itโs completing a circle โ heโs male, heโs alien, heโs a traveler. Between the two of them together they complement each other and discover each other. And are in love with each other โ absolutely, unashamedly, unreservedly.
Russell T Davies...The very word 'fiction' implies another world, literally a different place, whereas no one claims that a dedicated sportsman is escaping his life, or a chef or a nurse. But the poor writer - the sci-fi one especially - is seen as running away. Bollocks. This is real, for me, and it's tough, it's fun, it's practical, and it's very, very important.
Russell T DaviesDrama's not safe and it's not pretty and it's not kind. People expect the basic template of television drama where there might be naughty villains, but everyone ends up having a nice cup of tea. You've got to do big moral choices and show the terrible things people do in terrible situations. Drama is failing if it doesn't do that.
Russell T DaviesRose Tyler: Can't you come through properly? The Doctor: Then the whole thing would fracture. The two universes would collapse. Rose Tyler: So?
Russell T DaviesIn the end I sort of though we created a companion who was so alive and dynamic and so wedded to the doctor that youโd 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 Davies