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Personally, I had always believed in the OTP of Doctor Who. It was Endless! Eternal! Permanent like only Death and Texas have been before! (And yes, I did mean to say Texas. If you do not believe me, find your nearest Texan and ask. They will assure you that I speak only the truth.) While the Doctor may come to care about his Companions, and even love them, there was always the One who was most dear in his heart. While he could be distracted away from his One True Love by foxy Companions or sexy Dalek girls, he'd always return!
Look out Doctor! It's a trap!
I believed that he would always return back to his One True Love.... But then that belief was finally torn from me to reveal the truth. The Doctor is nothing more than a Fickle Player! One who would abandon his One True Love as soon as he found another pretty face! For shame, Doctor, for shame!
How could you? How could you do it after all these years? Abandoning the Tardis like that!? After all she's done for you!? While her tear ducts have long ago turned to wood, much like the rest of her you sick, Wood-loving freak, she still has feelings! If she could cry she would!
The years she wasted on you! And what did you abandon her for? A hat? A silly looking, roughly Cone-shaped Hat!? How could you leave her for that.... that....
Actually, that's a mighty attractive fez you have there.... I can totally see leaving the Tardis for that fez. In fact, I don't even have a significant other at this moment, but I'm going to go out and get one just so I can break up with him to date that fez.
Sadly, the epic romance of the Doctor and the Fez was not to be. After the Fez was blown up, in a fit of jealous rage by River Song, the Doctor came back to the Tardis, begging the old girl to take him back. And, since her love for him was True, she agreed. The Doctor and the Tardis are now expecting their first Horrific Offsping, the universe's first Box Lord. As for the Fez, well at the Museum it met a very nice Dalek and well...
And they all lived Happily Ever After.
So what about you? What is your favorite ship in the Whoverse?
Tomorrow: What is the prettiest scene?
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echinodermata 118p · 733 weeks ago
Anyway, what's sure to be a popular answer, but Amy/Rory! Mr. Pond! I love that their relationship isn't really very heteronormative, and that it represents a big character arc for both of them, and that they are gorgeous and fun together, and want to go adventuring through time and space together.
And I'm not sure how popular this opinion is gonna be, but I find BOTH Amy and Rory to be pretty flawed, at least at the beginning of the season. Amy has her trust and abandonment and commitment issues, and Rory has his insecurities and passive-agressiveness and actually starts off somewhat unlikeable to me for, I dunno, thinking he's entitled to Amy's desires or something.
So it really is a growth for both of them, and Rory getting along with the Doctor and not really trying to fight the "Mr. Pond" stuff at the end is really great for Rory. And Amy finally realizing how important Rory is to her in Amy's Choice, and then their wonderful reunion in the Big Bang, and then their wedding where they're so obviously in love with each other (even if Eleven might get an invitation to their bedroom or something).
Amy/Rory wasn't something I was sold on for most of the season, but Amy's Choice was kind of a game-changer, and I fell in love with the both of them together once they both started to get over themselves.
fantasylover12001 · 733 weeks ago
Kaybee42 91p · 733 weeks ago
But I have a few pairings that aren’t exactly canon… Jack/Everyone? Yup! Doctor/Tardis? Hell yeah! Two/Jamie- of course!
So I suppose my OTP in Doctor Who is Doctor/TARDIS…You gotta admit that she *is*the most faithful companion, she’s a total HBIC and he *adores* her. We all do, don’t we? Doctor/TARDIS FTW!
EDIT: The pairing I LOVE to see fanvids for?? MASTER/DOCTOR! I love it in a "good god the sexual tension is getting to *me*!" and in a "this will never happen and that is what makes me WANT IT TO HAPPEN EVEN MORE!" way. The Doctor and the Master really just need to get together, but the totally shouldn't cause then the joy of it is gone! So yeah, I don't want it to actually happen, but I loooove the fanvids and the fanfic and the speculation!
NB2000 115p · 733 weeks ago
It may have taken me a few days to realise that by "ship" they didn't mean "Favourite SPACEship seen in the series" (for the record, the TARDIS, duh, with Starship UK a close second for the crazy, cobbled together out of bits of whatever production design).
So ACTUAL answer: Doctor/TARDIS, again I say DUH. Companions come and go, the TARDIS is constantly by his side. As I mentioned in my favourite character post he (and the series as a whole) would be seriously lost without her. And you have to love that Eleven calls her "dear"
Runners up: Amy/Rory, because PONDS <3 , Eleven/River (Yeah it does conflict with my favourite ship but they're so much fun that I don't really care), Martha/Tom Milligan.
psycicflower 114p · 733 weeks ago
I'm also fascinated about whether or not that motivational poster will ever end.
flamingpie 89p · 733 weeks ago
Oh, wait. You mean that OTHER kind of ship. Well in that case...
Oh look, my ship has an official~ music video!
I love Rose and the Doctor and I will never not love them. They are my OTP, not just of this show, but of fandom in general. The OTP of OTPs. I'll talk about why I love them myself in a minute, but first, I'll let the production team talk for me and probably make my point a lot better than I can. Also, a warning... this is going to be kind of massive.
First we have Julie Gardner, executive producer and queen of the shippers:
"She's the one woman, the one human, that can make him better, that can make him a bigger character, a better man."
"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."
"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."
"You want Rose and the Doctor to be having a good time, going for a nice candlelit meal and, you know, maybe even the snog that we all know they really want."
"Of course he's saying 'I love you.' Of course he is."
And you can't go unquoted, David!!:
"... [The Runaway Bride] picked up seconds after we left him, saying goodbye to the love of his life. It would be rather callous if that wasn't recognised."
"When he refers to his relationship with Rose, that's something very tangible, very real, and something that he absolutely will always believe in."
"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."
"The Doctor and Rose is, at its heart, a love story without the shagging."
"If Rose is over there, and she's all you want in the universe, you're desperate to get to her, you'd want to be able to run flat out, don't you?"
And the rest:
“[Rose] and the Doctor's relationship was brilliant. I thought it was really truthful, and you really got the sense that these were two best mates. That's when I think it works at its best: when you see these people having fun together and showing how much they care about each other. Or at least, that’s the way I like it. They were in love, but what I liked most about their relationship was the fun they had. You really wanted to be there with them."-Karen Gillan (ILY Karen)
"What Rose brings to the Doctor’s life is completion, it’s completing a circle – he’s male, he’s alien, he’s a traveller. 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
"Obviously and quite overtly, really, the subtext of this show is that the Doctor is hopelessly in love with Rose."-Steven Moffat
"I think she's quite in love with him."-Billie Piper
"It's a love story."-Christopher Eccleston
(Cutting it off here so it isn't all one HUGE chunk)
Medli 141p · 733 weeks ago
leighzzz31 89p · 733 weeks ago
Amy/Mr Pond is adorable in every way. They complement each other and the relationship grows enormously throughout series 5. I mean, she chooses to die in one 'reality' because she refuses to believe he's dead and he waits patiently 2000 years just to protect her. How can I NOT ship it?
And then, Rose/Doctor. I didn't watch Doctor Who in the right order until fairly recently, so I knew OF the pairing before I actually saw it for myself. So I started Christopher Eccleston's run with a sense of reservation when it came to their relationship. But soon enough I found myself loving Rose and the way she and the Doctor interacted. Bad Wolf was basically me realising I shipped them. Then Ten came and I was really apprehensive and I then I figured I shouldn't be because that was when the Rose/Doctor ship really shone. They never do more than hold hands and yet you can tell they're never 'just friends'. Journey's End broke my heart on their account. I'm still not sure how I feel about the end of Rose's story. Though, for me at least, their greatest moment may be the scene in The End of Time. I just love that scene to death. Perfect way to send both of them off.
PeterRabid 81p · 733 weeks ago
One I haven't seen yet, Four/Romana. Or any Doctor/Romana, really. That one's so canon Lalla Ward and Tom Baker got married. She's quote as saying, "I think it’s an actor’s problem actually - you can quite often see cases where an actor will marry another actor partly because the character they’re playing is marrying the character the other person is playing. It’s very easy to confuse that and think that you’re Romana marrying the Doctor, and not Lalla marrying Tom." SO. CANON.
And of course, I don't mind a Doctor/Master fanvid every now and again.
Hypatia_ 99p · 733 weeks ago
Actual, canon ship: Amy/Rory. They are adorable. Amy is utterly awesome, I have a massive crush on Rory and I LOVE them together.
Slash...
Well, top of my list has to be Nine/Jack. They were totally into each other, don't try to tell me otherwise. They were having a clandestine affair. This is my headcanon and I'm sticking to it.
Runners up are:
Two/Jamie
Four/Romana (it's practically canon!)
Doctor/Master (in a creepy kind of way, but it's funny to me)
Doctor/TARDIS isn't really a ship in my head. I mean...she's a spaceship/time machine. The normal kind of relationship is going to be real awkward, unless he can get that chameleon circuit fixed. However, I definitely think she's his closest companion and best friend in many ways.
deleted2468050 90p · 733 weeks ago
Spaceship: (too easy)
Relationship: (just another excuse for me to show more River love)
I seriously NEED series 6 now. As soon as I hear "Hello Sweetie" I can start loving life again!
Dragon Elexus 124p · 733 weeks ago
But, er, yeah. Even so, TARDIS/Doctor is totally an awesome ship! And Amy Rory, as I've said above. Pretty much everything's been said at this point, though.
mkjcaylor 87p · 733 weeks ago
Doctor Who and Me History Time:
I started watching Netflix Doctor Who S1 and got through Dalek, maybe, and I quit. I quit because for some reason I was bored and slightly put off by the severe science fiction in the show. Weeks went past and I kept thinking, "I should maybe watch more episodes of that, I know so many people who like it, but. I just really was not interested."
Then I spoke to the friend who was mostly responsible for me starting to watch the series on Netflix. I told her, "Well, I watched a few episodes. It was VERY scifi and I was sort of put off by that. Although, is there something going on between the Doctor and Rose? He's so OLD and she's not, and that kinda squicks me a bit." Friend told me: KEEP WATCHING. There is so much more to Doctor/Rose."
So I finally, after a few weeks or a month or I'm not sure sat down and prepared to suffer through something I wasn't sure I was really going to like just to see the outcome of Doctor/Rose and to placate my friend, who insisted.
By the end of S1 I was :O.
I had known David Tennant was going to be the next one, and I also knew that all the people I knew who liked Doctor Who liked it for David Tennant. So, again in the interest of Finally Finding Out What They Were Talking About, I started S2.
LOVE. LOVELOVELOVELOVELOVE. It is a slashy story of love between me and Ten and Rose.
Anyway. Ten is why I love Doctor Who and Doctor/Rose is why I kept watching.