Remember when… Rose got a whole new world?
Over the weekend it was six years since the Tenth Doctor and Rose Tyler parted ways in Doomsday.
To mark the anniversary of what is undoubtedly one of the show’s most heartbreaking moments to date, for this week’s Remember when… we are reliving Series 2’s bittersweet finale, specifically THAT beach scene. It saw David Tennant and Billie Piper’s characters cruelly ripped apart forever (or so they thought!) following the tragic events of the Battle of Canary Wharf. And there wasn’t a dry eye in the house!
Stuck on parallel worlds, Rose’s time in the TARDIS was cut all too short, but the Doctor managed to say one final goodbye to her, burning up a sun to lead her to Bad Wolf Bay.
Above – The end of an era as the Doctor and Rose say goodbye in Doomsday.
Of course you won’t need reminding of the excruciatingly heart-wrenching moment when Rose confessed her true feelings and the Doctor ran out of time as he was went to reply. Once again he had to say goodbye to a best friend, and we said goodbye to Rose Tyler.
What are your memories of watching the Doctor and Rose’s tearful farewell? Did you get through a whole box of Kleenex? You voted it as your second favourite Russell T Davies moment, but do you still well up when you watch it? Let us know in the comments below.
Still makes me cry after six years! I dont think there has been such a heartbreaking moment since!
To be brutally honest – I wasn’t so upset. Of course it was a really sad scene, but I didn’t cry like I did while watching Donna’s finale, for example. I know a lot of people love Rose, but I just thought she was alright, nothing more, nothing less.
I was sort of smug that it took place in Norway (even though it was filmed in Wales), though!
Tear Jerkers? there’s been a few, but it was the end of the one about Vincent that got me going.
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‘Vincent and the Doctor’ makes me sob like a child. Such a sad episode!
the only other most heart breaking moment for me is one of 2 astrid peths death scene slow motion fall in the cherry picker to her death into the heart of the titanic and donna nobles mind being wiped was a heartbreaking scene for me the donna noble one upset me most as shes my all time fave compainion the doctor has ever had in the new reboot series
@Wolfie Rankin Vincent and the Doctor’s ending with the Doctor killing the creature is really sad as they go the Doctor’s character wrong! The new series has got a lot of work to do to catch up with the 4th Doctor/Sarah parting. That was heart breaking!
It was sad back in 2006, but now not so much. Looking back at it all feels way too drawn-out for its own good and also Rose’s return in Series Four pretty much killed all the emotion from this scene.
I’ve always felt Rose was great in the beginning, but then she became arrogant thinking she was ’special’ and at the end of the day she’s not at all. It just doesn’t do it for me, especially when Rose isn’t the ‘perfect’ companion that most New Series fans think.
For me Donna was a far, far better companion for David Tennant and Rose was just very ‘meh’.
I think that’s what defines Rose Tyler for me. At the start, she was almost a therapy for the 9th Doctor, she gave him something else to focus on, and made him see the universe through the eyes of a human again after the hell of the Time War.
I have to wonder what would have happened had the 9th Doctor not found Rose. I mean, he wasn’t exactly in The Master’s territory, but I think if he’d been alone for too long, the Time War and being completely alone would have meant he wasn’t the man he is today.
I think that’s why she meant so much to the 10th Doctor too and her loss meant he didn’t recognise Martha Jones’ feelings for him because he just wanted a friend to travel with.
By the time he got to Donna, he had recovered and she was exactly the friend he wanted.
I think it’s only natural Rose’s end in Season 2 has stagnated over the years. There have been four seasons since, we haven’t seen her in two seasons and it’s only natural it won’t have the same impact it once did.
In its time though, I think Rose Tyler’s departure was sad.
Surprisingly, coming from me, I too prefer the end of Vincent and The Doctor as it’s fresher in the memory. For whatever faults that episode may have had, Van Gogh getting to see how celebrated he’d be in the future, combined with the words of Bill Nighy and the music, it was a great ending to the episode and especially poignant when Amy realises that Van Gogh still commited suicide.
As I say though, in it’s time, it was an interesting end to her time on Doctor Who. Another blow out with the Daleks and the Cybermen, something Moffat is to attempt to follow with Amy and Rory’s departure.
Definitely a very sad ending. A great pity RTD went and spoiled it slightly by bringing her back, even if it was quite exciting when she appeared, and we got a few good stories out of it. (And the less said about her living happily ever after with the clone ‘human’ Doctor the better!)
I cried, it was so very sad to see them having to part ways like that, but a least the doctor knew she was safe and her family was whole again. She wasn’t whole without him but in the end Rose Tyler got the sweetest goodbye!
I cried the first two times I saw this episode! Rose was one of my favorite companions. She, Donna, and Sarah Jane Smith, were three of the most beloved for me! I’ll never forget them!
Sheesh! That was six years ago!? The first time I saw Doomsday I was utterly inconsolable. (Okay, that was a bit of an exaggeration but I was pretty sad I can tell you!) And six years on it still manages to draw a tear from my eye.
To me, another of the saddest moments of Tennant’s reign was its heartbreaking finale. I know it was way too dramatic, and the gun thing was kind of annoying but it still makes me cry every time I watch it. :’)