Hee, well, yeah, I was talking about shippers. I'm a H/W shipper, simply because I never really watched the show for anything else. I decided that the rest didn't interest me enough to get excited about it. It doesn't have to be like that though. You can ship a ship and still enjoy the rest of the show. It's simply about how you decide to watch a show.
beyond that I think he's pretty celibate Hmm. I think the Doctor is terrified of getting close to anybody, because he's so extremely different. Not only the mortal/not mortal thing - that's a big issue already; imagining having a life span of more than 1000 years and having to lose one "soul mate" after the other - but also the whole Time Lord thing. The Doctor knows and sees the whole universe. He's such a force of nature. A human mind would have a hard time grasping that concept, let alone understand it. Relationships depend on one partner understanding the other.
I think that's the thing with the Doctor and Martha - Martha might think she loves him, but he's just so much more than what she sees that he couldn't have a relationship with her without sort of patronizing her, if you know what I mean. Rose was different, she understood him better. In that case, I think the Doctor did not get into a non-platonic relationship with her because he knew he was going to lose her sooner rather than later. That might not have bothered him too much in one of his previous lives, but he's lost so much already, I think he was trying to protect himself.
The only ship where I can actually see non-platonic potential is Doctor/Jack. Jack is not mortal, at least not in the ways average humans are, and he has gathered enough life experience to have a chance to grasp what the Doctor actually is. The Doctor might see hope that this relationship wouldn't end with him heart-broken and still having to live through another however many life times.
He just can't commit like someone (Rose, Martha) would want him to I think he could, he just decides not to. Hahaha, this loops back to my original entry! Yay! ;D I think he decided that he needs to widen his perspective as far as possible. If he concentrated on one relationship only, he'd miss out on all the (platonic) love he could get otherwise. Girl In The Fireplace is a good example for that. There he is, with Rose, who is someone very close to him, and then he goes and builds that connection with Reinette, because he thinks he can't afford to miss out on that contact.
I guess in my post, I was more or less talking about ships not necessarily as romantic relationships, but as 'I want the Doctor to be with her/him, and ONLY with her/him' attitudes. That's the sort of thing that caused all the Martha hate, and I just don't think it has to be in Doctor Who.
Hee, Doctor/Master is fun ;). Evil ex-BFs are always fun. But as I said, I do like fluff and nice things, so I couldn't focus on Doctor/Master entirely. Too dark omg!
And Star Trek wins. At everything ;).
Sorry for the long ramble! Doctor Who does that to me, lol ;)
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beyond that I think he's pretty celibate
Hmm. I think the Doctor is terrified of getting close to anybody, because he's so extremely different. Not only the mortal/not mortal thing - that's a big issue already; imagining having a life span of more than 1000 years and having to lose one "soul mate" after the other - but also the whole Time Lord thing. The Doctor knows and sees the whole universe. He's such a force of nature. A human mind would have a hard time grasping that concept, let alone understand it. Relationships depend on one partner understanding the other.
I think that's the thing with the Doctor and Martha - Martha might think she loves him, but he's just so much more than what she sees that he couldn't have a relationship with her without sort of patronizing her, if you know what I mean. Rose was different, she understood him better. In that case, I think the Doctor did not get into a non-platonic relationship with her because he knew he was going to lose her sooner rather than later. That might not have bothered him too much in one of his previous lives, but he's lost so much already, I think he was trying to protect himself.
The only ship where I can actually see non-platonic potential is Doctor/Jack. Jack is not mortal, at least not in the ways average humans are, and he has gathered enough life experience to have a chance to grasp what the Doctor actually is. The Doctor might see hope that this relationship wouldn't end with him heart-broken and still having to live through another however many life times.
He just can't commit like someone (Rose, Martha) would want him to
I think he could, he just decides not to. Hahaha, this loops back to my original entry! Yay! ;D I think he decided that he needs to widen his perspective as far as possible. If he concentrated on one relationship only, he'd miss out on all the (platonic) love he could get otherwise. Girl In The Fireplace is a good example for that. There he is, with Rose, who is someone very close to him, and then he goes and builds that connection with Reinette, because he thinks he can't afford to miss out on that contact.
I guess in my post, I was more or less talking about ships not necessarily as romantic relationships, but as 'I want the Doctor to be with her/him, and ONLY with her/him' attitudes. That's the sort of thing that caused all the Martha hate, and I just don't think it has to be in Doctor Who.
Hee, Doctor/Master is fun ;). Evil ex-BFs are always fun. But as I said, I do like fluff and nice things, so I couldn't focus on Doctor/Master entirely. Too dark omg!
And Star Trek wins. At everything ;).
Sorry for the long ramble! Doctor Who does that to me, lol ;)