Billie: “It’s time to move on”
January 15th, 2010
In a new interview with The Independent, actress Billie Piper has revealed that she’s doubtful she’ll ever be back in Doctor Who as Rose Tyler.
“It’s a healthy time to leave. Our period on Doctor Who is over now really, isn’t it?” she told the website. ”It’s shifted. The writers are different, the production team are different, and the Doctor is different.”
She added: “I can’t keep reappearing. It would just become sad. If I were still reappearing when I was 50, people would say, ‘Oh no, not you again!’”
Catherine Tate has also previously confirmed that there are no plans for Donna Noble to make a comeback in the future.
I rather think it’s sad now, after all she cannot even manage to get Rose’s accent right any longer, does anyone know if the lisp is medical or what as I noticed she doesn’t seem to have it when she isn’t playing Rose…
@Merry
The lisp, as far as I can hear it, was just in Turn Left.
It’s nice to know that Billie feels the same way as a lot of people regarding Rose returning.
I hope she stays true to her word. It’s all very well saying this while her career is busy and on the up (thanks in no small way to DW) but actors tend to change their minds when the roles dry up.
I think it is sad to think we are never going to see these characters again because they were all brilliant in their own way! But fair enough really, bringing them back would almost ruin them really, they all belonged to the RTD era and they should stay there really. Without Ten it wouldnt be right seeing the characters
We will all miss them and hopefully grow attatched to some new ones (Although I cant see myself loving River Song any time soon) 
The only one I think should or may make an appearance without much issue would be Captain Jack since Torchwood continues. Not sure about Sarah Jane/Luke but that may work as well since that series continues.
Good to see she has realised Rose Tylers characters story has finished. She should finish it before her story dries up.
@Katie
I wouldn’t say we’ll never see them all again: Martha/Mickey - they’re still on Earth, but they’re now happily married and freelance Earth defenders so it’s unlikely, but…
Jack - always a chance that Boe could return what with the fact that he’s travelling around space (although, by the time Jack returns, he’ll probably be back with Gwen in Cardiff).
Sarah Jane - always a possibility Lis will return and I’m optimistic that she shall.
Erm….what about all the other companions that are on Earth? Ian, Barbara (Unfortunately the wonderful Jackie Hill has passed away), Polly, Ben, (Unfortunately the wonderful Michael Craze has passed away), Dodo, Victoria, Liz Shaw, Jo Grant, Harry Sullivan ((Unfortunately Ian Mater has passed away), Tegan Jovanka and indeed all the other companions who are out and about in the universe! We have never seen those come back on TV, Other than flashbacks during regeneration or celebration stories, the Doctor never went around to have tea with his companions once they left. Why should Rose, Martha, Donna or even Jack come back. The series needs to move on, not get bogged down. As for Sarah, she has her own series and well deserved it is to.
I’d like to see some sort of continuity, but I do think Rose has had her day. And then the next day. She’s had so many end points, whereas Sarah Jane was just dumped in Aberdeen, and never got her conclusion. That was why it was right to bring her back in series 2. She was an unresolved character, whereas Rose is… is ‘overresolved’ a word?
Jack’s still unresolved as of yet, so I wouldn’t mind seeing him back, but not too much. I don’t know anything about classic companions, but I did love Sarah Jane’s appearance because there was very little explanation required, so if there’s anyone else for whom that would work just as easily, then I’m all for it!
Following on from this, shouldn’t Dodo have some kind of resolution after being “dumped” in London with no Conclusion? What about Liz Shaw who just disappeared. How about Peri or Ace? All of these were dumped one way or another. Rose, although a great character during her time, has become a repeating pain. Why is Rose so much more important than the rest of the Doctor’s companions. At the end of The Green Death, you can see the pain in the Doctor’s face as he leaves but did we have Katy Manning back in nearly every series for the next 4 years? No, the Doctor has to move on, it is part of who the Doctor is, not a sad sap that needs to hold on his companions
I think Rose’s plot demands that she not return. Rose was built up into the Doctor’s love, and he’d keep traveling with her until she either dies or otherwise is out of his reach (or he decides she needs to be dumped for her own protection). Bringing Rose back the first time was already tough, how do you keep her from staying with the Doctor so you can have new companions? It’s just story mechanics: Every time you bring rose back and then lock her away again takes away from the greatness of the character.
Martha, Mickey, Jack and all the others, OTOH, are not as close friends, so they can come by for a visit and leave again. Sarah Jane was a very popular companion of two very popular doctors, and similarly built up as a love interest (as much as they could do it back then), so there was great potential in bringing her back, sort of as Rose’s future.
That said, I’d love to see us revisit Jo, Ace, Tegan and all the others, they’re lovely actors and characters. But it all becomes a bit of stunt casting (just like doing a “Four Doctors” with McGann, Eccleston and Tennant, or whatever…), and there have been so many of them. And we already did the story of the dumped companion with SJ. She’s representative of all the times he has done this. If you did it again, you’d have to find a different angle or it wouldn’t be doing the next companion to return justice.
So I’d rather they wait until the right story comes along. Also remember the show is for kids, for many of whom Matt Smith will be their first Doctor. A nod to continuity, a guest character for one episode in one season can work, but if you overdo it, it’ll become an impenetrable mess of continuity references and fan-wank. Dr. Who deserves better.
I’m willing to see some new characters now. I think that, if the older companions constantly keep returning, it spoils them and they just become a little irritating. And I agree with what’s been said here: it might not feel right with the other companions being with the 11th Doctor.
I’m looking forward to some new characters and monsters - it’s about time
And, random addition here, I got my Specials Boxset today… it’s amazing 
Why is Rose the Doctor’a love any more than Jo, Tegan, Sarah or any number of others? If you watch all of Sarah’s adventures, she would have kept traveling until she died or had to be force out like Susan. How about Ace,as far as we know, she did stay with the Doctor until she was killed or died etc.
Martha, Mickey, Jack and all the others, OTOH, are not as close friends, so they can come by for a visit and leave again. Sarah Jane was a very popular companion of two very popular doctors, and similarly built up as a love interest (as much as they could do it back then), so there was great potential in bringing her back, sort of as Rose’s future.
Why is Martha, Mickey, Romana, Polly Ben etc ‘not as close friends’ as Rose then?
Following on from some peoples train of thought, does it make Rose a whore? Sleeping with the 9th, 10th and the alternative cop-out. How about Mickey?
I am glad to see the back of her and RTD. If he stayed on we would have Rose infinity!
Off her time, Rose was great but time moves on and so should the program.
@TE
I know most of them could return, I’m just saying it’s best if they didn’t. They have all had great storylines in the show but I think they need to end with Ten because they were introduced with Ten (except Rose)
Of course SJ and Jack are returning for their spin offs but apart from that I think all the characters are being left alone so that new ones can be created
It’s better to leave the Tenth Doctor era companions behind. It’ll be just boring if they keep on returning. :S
@Katie Jack was introduced with Nine not Ten.
I love a bit of fan-wank as much as the next whovian but I do hope they save it up for the fiftieth, THEN mayhap we can have an ending to Ace, a multi-doc piece, and all of that, but if they just keep popping in and out of regular storylines it DOES make it lose its luster, doesn’t it?
As for why Rose is treated differently than say Sarah Jane or Jo Grant, I reckon it’s because RTD wrote her treated differently (now come on he really did) so whether classic fans accept it or not Rose being somewhat special really IS canon (in so much as we have canon). I’m making no value-judgment here, personally I preferred the old days when love was the way three looked as he left the party at the end of Green Death, but as we are all saying about Rose, times move on.
Topic discussion: what role do we really think Rose played in the Doctor’s life?
IMO, she was never more than a best friend. And the line that clinched that for me was the one which made a lot of people decide otherwise: “You’re not?” on Bad Wolf Bay. Because had that potentially been the Doctor’s child, I reckon his reaction would have been far more dramatic. The only reason Rose was apparently ‘better’ than Martha was the timing - Rose was (as far as we know) the Doctor’s first companion since the Time War. She was the first person to hold his hand, to use that most hackneyed of images. She was no different to Sarah Jane or any of the others, but the Doctor /was/ different.
Of course, this is only the musings of an odd little teenaged mind. What does everyone else think?
@TSG
I’m not quite sure why you’re placing the emphasis on the pregnancy line; the Doctor very obviously never slept with Rose, but it is obvious that he loved her.
Rose represented the Doctor’s return to humanity; with Eccleston, the episode “Dalek” shows the depths that the Doctor had fallen to, laughing and reveling in the pain he could cause the Dalek after the events of the Time War. When she stops him from killing the Dalek, she forces him to examine just how bitter and angry he has become. The rest of the season sees a mellowing (and the increasing presence of a romance, though 9th Doctor has no problem patronizing Rose.)
When 10th Doctor took over, the Rose romance came to the front, with numerous allusions to the “I love you” phrase (most notably in The Satan Pit and Doomsday,) but also in just an overall sense of “puppy love;” here was a Doctor that had just destroyed his entire race of people, learning to have fun again.
Martha was obviously the rebound candidate, but her character’s role was closer to that of a responsibility; she rarely had the resolve that Rose had, so she relied more on the Doctor to get her out of problems. Her story arc was one of personal growth, where the adventures with the Doctor helped her see how strong she was, and in the end she realized she didn’t need him, though she still loved him.
While many were sickened by the amount of romance with Rose, I think that it highlights what RTD does best; the human angle, the character development. Maybe some of the science fiction was weak at times, but you couldn’t help but absolutely love the characters.
I think she’s right Doctor Who has moved on and so has Rose Tyler.If she comes back i think it should be with David Tennant if they do a reunion like the Two Doctors. Otherwise if they do a spin off about Rose Tyler and the human Doctor on the other world together. I honestly think none of the Tenth Doctor’s companion’s should return,but if one does it most likely be Captain Jack Harkness!