To this day, Rose Tyler retains her place as one of the most revered characters in the history of Doctor Who, but the show owes a great deal of that love to Billie Piper, whose performance as a companion to both the Ninth and Tenth Doctors forever etched her in the memory of Whovians.
When Christopher Eccleston’s Last of the Time Lords met Rose in London, he was a damaged soul barely out of the horror of the Last Great Time War, where he supposedly destroyed both the Time Lords and Daleks. In those early days, especially when you consider that the show had just come back after its cancellation in 1989, Billie Piper’s Rose Tyler was pivotal in shaping the character of the Doctor once again. The 50th Anniversary episode “The Day of the Doctor” may have retconned this development and revealed that the Lonely God managed to save Gallifrey after all,...
When Christopher Eccleston’s Last of the Time Lords met Rose in London, he was a damaged soul barely out of the horror of the Last Great Time War, where he supposedly destroyed both the Time Lords and Daleks. In those early days, especially when you consider that the show had just come back after its cancellation in 1989, Billie Piper’s Rose Tyler was pivotal in shaping the character of the Doctor once again. The 50th Anniversary episode “The Day of the Doctor” may have retconned this development and revealed that the Lonely God managed to save Gallifrey after all,...
- 8/28/2020
- by Jonathan Wright
- We Got This Covered
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