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The Tenth Doctor and Rose’s emotional farewell in Bad Wolf Bay resonates with fans even after nearly 20 years, as shown in a beautiful new piece from Doctor Who Art.
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Their bittersweet relationship stood due to their deep bond and unresolved emotions, making it a memorable moment in the long-running sci-fi show.
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Rose’s departure was one of the doctor’s early failures in the series, highlighting the complexities of their relationship.
As audiences await the next chapter of the show’s current era, a new piece of Doctor Who Art looks back at the Tenth Doctor and Rose Taylor’s emotional farewell. Rose was the first companion of the revival series, portrayed by Billie Piper and starring alongside both Christopher Eccleston’s Ninth Doctor and David Tennant’s Tenth Doctor in its first two seasons, before returning in season 4. The Tenth Doctor and Rose grew closer in season 2, leading to a heartbreaking farewell in the two-part season finale “Army of Ghosts/Doomsday”.
With nearly 20 years gone since audiences were first introduced to Rose Taylor when Doctor Who Back to screens in 2004, @nipunidraws Has revisited her most tragic moment on Instagram in her latest work of art.
In the piece, Rose and the Tenth Doctor stood on the sands of Bad Wolf face-to-face, giving each other a thunderous look as if they knew the inevitable was coming. While the Doctor has already started to fade away before he can tell Rose how he felt in the first piece, the second piece revisits their second farewell, when the Metacrisis Doctor is able to share how he feels.
The relationship between the Tenth Doctor and Rose is still close to many fans’ hearts
The Doctor and the Rose have one of the strongest bonds between a companion and a Time Lord.
Rose isn’t the only companion to share a bond with the Doctor that turns into romance Doctor Whos revival, as with classic era showrunner John Nathan Turner’s lifting of restrictions on TARDIS occupant relations. With Rose’s departure and the Doctor grieving, he is oblivious to the love of Martha Jones (Freema Agyeman) until she walks out on him, and Amy Pond (Karen Gillan) would have an unrequited crush on the Eleventh Doctor (Matt Smith). The revival would also introduce Alex Kingston’s River Song, The Time Lord’s Wife.
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Despite this, the relationship of the doctor and Rose stands out to most due to its bittersweet nature. While the pair aren’t the first Doctor and companion duo to share a kiss, Rose’s place as a generation’s first companion and with a two-season arc building to their eventual romance has given their bond incredible weight from their journey together, especially How later seasons depicted the Time Lord’s grief. Moreover, the audience have never been treated to the last words that the Doctor spoke to Rose on both occasions, leaving it one mystery that Doctor Who Will never reveal.
Rose’s death represents one of the Doctor’s biggest early failures of the revival, as the duo were forced to part ways and leave many things unsaid.
Even after five incarnations have been witnessed since Tennant left the role of the Tenth Doctor, his farewell to Rose remains one of Doctor Whos strongest moments. A major turning point for the series, Rose’s death represents one of the Doctor’s biggest early failings of the revival, as the duo was forced to part and left many things unsaid. As such, the new painting is a beautiful depiction of what remains a haunting moment for many fans.
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