THE DOCTOR AND ROSE TYLER, MY OTP I remember watching Billie Piper play Rose, and she’s my favorite companion because I thought she was really brilliant with Chris Eccleston, and the chemistry she had with David Tennant was brilliant. It just made me realize how important it is, in the show, that the chemistry between the Doctor and companion is at the heart of the show. -Karen Gillan (Amy Pond)“I think Rose was unique in the sense that she loved him and he loved her back and it was more than just a hint, it was deeply emotional.” -Freema Agyeman (Martha Jones)“What Rose brings to the Doctor’s life is completion, it’s completing a circle – he’s male, he’s alien, he’s a traveler. Between the two of them together they complement each other and discover each other. And are in love with each other, absolutely, unashamedly, unreservedly.” -Russell T. Davies “When he kisses her, it’s not only the thing that he’s wanted to do throughout the entire series, but it gives him peace because he’s letting go of the burden of the Time Lords being destroyed and he’s saving the one that he — he loved the Time Lords, they were his people — but he loves this girl.” -John Barrowman (Captain Jack Harkness), on 1x13 The Parting of the Ways“The Doctor and Rose is, at its heart, a love story without the shagging.” -David Tennant“The Doctor burns up a sun to say goodbye to Rose. I love this because it happens in the episode where the Daleks and Cybermen meet for the first time. The ultimate intergalactic smackdown — but the whole thing’s a romantic weepie in disguise! Ha ha! After we’d shot it, David and Billie had to go and have a good hug in the van. But I always knew I’d have to split up the Doctor and Rose — they were devoted to each other, there’s no way she’d go and marry King of the Zobulans, or stay at home with mum. So that huge, huge plot of parallel universes — Daleks one side, Cybermen the other, Earth in the middle and all that — only existed to put two characters on either side of a wall. You sort of work backwards, really.” -Russell T. Davies“Rose, of course, was suspicious, because she absolutely adored, loved Christopher Eccleston’s Doctor. So, she had to fall in love with him again, which was kind of, I guess, the experience for the audience.” -Julie Gardner on 2x01 The Christmas Invasion“It’s a love story.” -Christopher Eccleston“When he refers to his relationship with Rose [in The Satan Pit], that’s something very tangible, very real, and he absolutely will always believe in.” -David Tennant“I love the Doctor and Rose’s relationship in [Tooth and Claw] because they start to fall in love with each other again, as Rose begins to trust the new bloke, and I love the way that Russell pushes that so that they’re almost enjoying themselves too much.” - David Tennant“I think it was important that the Doctor was caught by Donna [in The Runaway Bride]. I think it was important that he saw he could lose control. That in this kind of post-Rose state, he’s perhaps not as balanced and in control as he would wish to normally be.” -David Tennant“A lot of people would choose the Bad Wolf Bay scene,” says Davies, “but for me it’s the scene in The Satan Pit where Rose thinks the Doctor is dead, ten miles below the planet’s surface, with no means of reaching him, and the whole planet is about to fall into a black hole, the murderous Ood are on the rampage… but still she won’t leave. The spaceship is about to depart, but she won’t abandon the Doctor. She’s both selfish and selfless in the same moment. It’s the most beautiful, heart-wrenching performance from Billie.” -Russell T. Davies on Rose’s defining scene“From first holding the Doctor’s hand to a farewell on a beach, Rose is the Doctor’s reason to fight, to endure, to ensure there’s light in the darkness. Together they can achieve anything. As Episode 9 describes it, they are the stuff of legends.” -Julie Gardner“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“To motivate the second half of this episode [The Idiot’s Lantern], everything the Doctor does now is absolutely- he’s not just saving the world, he’s saving Rose, which to him is almost more important. And that’s the kind of righteous indignation that powers him through the rest of the episode.” -David Tennant“As Rose learns about the universe, the Doctor learns about a different sort of universe from Rose.” -Russell T. Davies“Obviously and quite overtly, really, the subtext of this show is that the Doctor is hopelessly in love with Rose.” -Steven Moffat“If Rose is there and she’s all you want in the universe, you’re desperate to get to her, you wanna run flat out, don’t you?” -David Tennant