There's a bunch of first principle arguments people give against the Doctor having romantic entanglements, but I think it's fair to say views are also influenced by just how
terrible RTD and Moffat's attempts to do so have been. First Rose who it's really hard to see what the appeal would be. She's not intellectually on his level, she isn't especially interesting and looks, well, I'll leave them as a debatable. She's also honestly not that nice a person. The reason for Rose being RTD's romantic self-insert is both because she's probably a gay man's idea of attractive woman and more definitely a BBC elite's idea of a working class girl. They love to play up her council estate background, that she's a shopgirl, her mum's crassness. You can practically hear the writers slapping themselves on the back on appealing to "the working class".
Then there's River Song who I don't know about the rest of you but I find her distinctly unappealing. There's a very natural reaction when you see a friend date someone you don't like, and I think a lot of people felt that with River Song. Especially given she's bigged up as not some fling but his actual wife. I don't find her very physically appealing - she's quite old, she's not imo pretty of the face and I mostly dislike her style which is a kind of faux-glamour that makes her look fake. But then you come to her personality and wow - what a turn-off. Smug, entitled, condescending, presuming and - of particular relevance to pairing with the Doctor - psychopathic who multiple times is shown enjoying shooting people. This is a guy who is nearly Batman on his "no guns" philosophy. She's just terrible.
So I get all the stated reasons people don't want romantic entanglements for the Doctor, but the real nail in the coffin that makes people recoil in such numbers from the idea is that when they've done it in NuWho it's just so
bad.
Further illustration: Romana I and Four had good chemistry and so long as largely kept as sub-text and off-screen, I imagine many would be reasonably okay with that. There's also the Time Lord aspect. More controversially here I imagine, Clara Oswald. Not the character she ended up as by the end of Twelve, but as she started off in Asylum of the Daleks and in The Snowmen. She was sparky, smart, fun and had phenomenal chemistry with Smith. She also wasn't some perfect person like they tried to make out Rose was. She was prickly, had a need to dominate and you could see despite her brains and looks, a whole string of disastrous relationships, probably. The whole arc with that guy she was supposed to date was incredibly forced. Part of what made it work with the Doctor was that he was one of those guys who could deal with her compulsive picking at things. She's the sort of girl who will keep introducing tension and arguments and snark and he's the guy who can laugh and out-snark and out-argue her. Which is exactly what that sort of self-destructive girl needs. In any case, I don't expect to convince many here, but she was one of the rare cases where I was okay with some sexual tension between the Doctor and a companion. The other being Romana I. I've seen Classic and NuWho (up until end of Twelve - I stopped watching then). And there are companions I've found very agreeable myself - Perri, Liz Shaw, Martha Jones, Victoria being the highlights in terms of attractiveness - but Romana I and Clara are the only two that I feel I'd have actually enjoyed seeing the relationship become explicit.
(Urgh - when I say explicit I mean as in written clearly as romantic as opposed to implied, not... I'm not asking for explicit Doctor Who footage).
Aragorn is a Numenor. They live over 200 years (he dies at 210) and he was raised by Elves since he was 2 years old. He's such a bad example of immortal-mortal romance stories because he's a super natural creature himself. He's a super human and his people were Tolkien's version of Atlantis. And the Elven woman he took for a bride gave up her Elven immortality to become mortal with him. He was as close to an equal as she could get other than another elf and she sacrificed immortality to be his bride.
No, the real big issue with Arwen and Aragorn is that Eowyn is
right there! Aragorn, my dude, what are you thinking?
Also, while I'm here. What do you guys think of this Dalek redesign? They're supposed to be more classic-inspired.
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Are those real and confirmed? I like them aesthetically. Though I hope they're not too small. One of the things I liked about the New Paradigm daleks was how imposing they were.
That said, the Supreme Dalek is supposed to be white. Isn't that traditional? Though I think we've had a red one a couple of times.
The only Dr Who property I even remember that actually attempted to use the NPD designs as the new design was the Dr Who point and click telltale-esque adventure game.
Yeah - you actually had whole swarming ranks of the red drone ones which worked really well, I thought. I agree with your points about them - I think the BBC should have stuck it out instead of doing what they usually do and changing direction the moment there's a hint of negative response. Well, on anything other than they're ideological agenda which they double down on the moment someone questions it.
I guess I'll be pity dating Clara too, then. Such is life.
