I've said for years that Davies's favorite theme to play with in his fiction is unrequited love, and Moffat's favorite theme to play with is sex and sexual relationships. Which is why I always preferred Davies.
For all the Mary-Sue mooning over Ten, I always felt safe because I knew that, since Davies's favorite theme is unrequited love, nobody was ever going to wind up with the Doctor. EVER. The romantic stirrings were there only to rip it all away from the Doctor by the end of the episode, and was meant to highlight how Truly Alone the character really was. And since I love Lonely Doctor, it generally worked fine with me. (I never liked Moffat's episodes during the Who years, because he tended to tip the romance too far before giving me the unrequited pay-off, but overall it worked for me
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Oh, yeah, I definitely prefer the unrequited stuff...although I wish they didn't have to add in Mary Sue elements as well.* As for "Coupling"...I've seen commercials for it and had an instant "Ick. That is SO something I'm never gonna watch" reaction to it BUT, Anglophile that I am, I'm enough of an ignorant 'Mercan to where, as usual, I have never heard of ANYbody who has ANYthing to do with Doctor Who before they join Who. So
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For all the Mary-Sue mooning over Ten, I always felt safe because I knew that, since Davies's favorite theme is unrequited love, nobody was ever going to wind up with the Doctor. EVER. The romantic stirrings were there only to rip it all away from the Doctor by the end of the episode, and was meant to highlight how Truly Alone the character really was. And since I love Lonely Doctor, it generally worked fine with me. (I never liked Moffat's episodes during the Who years, because he tended to tip the romance too far before giving me the unrequited pay-off, but overall it worked for me ( ... )
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