This. Ask yourself “what did the Doctor do for River to prove his love?”
Nothing. He left her to the weeping angels.
But Rose. He BURNED UP A SUN JUST TO SAY GOODBYE. Did he have to do that? Absolutely not. She was in the parallel universe; he could have just moved on. But he couldn’t. He HAD to see her, even if one last time.
(And let’s not forget that he literally gave her a piece of himself too)
And had Rose asked him to get her; had she admitted SHE was the pregnant one, he would have stopped at nothing to get her back.
Don’t come at me with the River shit. She isn’t the Doctor’s OTP. Rose is. Actions speak louder than words. And burning up a sun is screaming. ☀️
The Doctor never loved anyone as much as Clara. He trapped himself in a loop for four and a half BILLION years just for the most remote chance of being able to save her life. This is by far the biggest gesture he has ever done for a companion he loved, if we’re going by that logic.
Truly, Clara is the Doctor’s OTP, the only one who has ever matched him. No other relationship ever comes close to that
Yes, Clara mattered deeply to the Doctor. FAR more than River. But Rose never died and he was still willing to destroy an entire potential solar system just to say goodbye to her. Breaking time for her would have risked her life and she was already alive with her parents alive. Rose Tyler’s dad died and the Doctor was willing to die to try to keep him alive. I can see someone who doesn’t like Rose feeling that in TV canon they’re the correct ones choosing Clara but then there’s EU where the Doctor sculpts Rose from memory and admits to himself in private how much he loves Rose. Where he is also willing to break time for her if she were to actually die. Etc. etc. The confession dial is a great act of care but far from something that can prove anything against a companion that was lost while alive.
he was in orbit around a supernova. it was a star that was already dead
because… he didn’t need to? no other companion was trapped in a parallel universe that required him to use a supernova to communicate with them 😭😭
of course he didn’t have to but he did it because rose meant a lot to him. i am not denying that. the doctor loved rose!
what i don’t get is the implication he wouldn’t have done it for anyone else
he didn’t do it to amy and rory because for whatever reason moffat decided to write it so that the doctor could never talk to them again without destroying the entire universe for reasons that don’t entirely make sense, but whatever
moffat seemed to buy into the idea that it was impossible to change your own history more than RTD, but this all seems to be down to different writer philosophies. like river song’s death was a fixed event in the doctor’s history that he couldn’t reverse. maybe RTD would have written a way out of it, but moffat chose not to
but he did have the future doctor devise a way to save river’s life via the data ghost. he didn’t need to do that either, but clearly she meant enough to the future doctor that he could not bear to have her no longer exist, even only in digital form
of course the doctor loved rose. it’s canon! but thasmin, 11river and 12river and even 12clara are all canon too. and i think it’s silly to try and objectively rate which relationship meant the most when i’m sure the writers themselves wouldn’t agree on things










