Summary
As audiences await the next chapter of the show’s current era, a new piece ofDoctor Whoart is looking back on the Tenth Doctor and Rose Tyler’s emotional goodbye.Rose was the first companion of the series' revival, portrayed by Billie Piper and starring alongside both Christopher Eccleston’s Ninth Doctor and David Tennant’s Tenth Doctor in its first two seasons, before returning in season 4. The Tenth Doctor and Rose grew closer in season 2, leading to a heartbreaking farewell in the two-part season finale “Army of Ghosts/Doomsday”.
With nearly 20 years gone since audiences were first introduced to Rose Tyler whenDoctor Whoreturned to screens in 2004,@nipunidrawshas revisited her most tragic moment on Instagram in their latest pieces of artwork.
In the piece, Rose and the Tenth Doctor are stood on the sands of Bad Wolf Bay face-to-face, giving each other a somber look as they know the inevitable is coming. While the Doctor had already begun to fade away before he could tell Rose how he felt in the first piece, the second piece revisits their second farewell, when the Metacrisis Doctor is able to share how he feels.
The Tenth Doctor And Rose’s Relationship Is Still Close To Many Fans' Hearts
Rose isn’t the only companion to share a bond with the Doctor that veers into romance inDoctor Who’s revival, as with the lifting of classic era showrunner John Nathan Turner’s restrictions on TARDIS occupant relationships. With Rose’s departure and the Doctor grieving, he is oblivious to the affections of Martha Jones (Freema Agyeman) until she moves on from him, and Amy Pond (Karen Gillan) would have an unrequited crush on the Eleventh Doctor (Matt Smith). The revival would also introduceAlex Kingston’s River Song, the Time Lord’s wife.
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Despite this, the Doctor and Rose’s relationship stands out to most due to its bittersweet nature. While the pair weren’t the first Doctor and companion duo to share a kiss, Rose’s place as a generation’s first companion and having a two-season arc building to their eventual romance gave their bond an incredible amount of weight to their journey together, especially as later seasons depicted the Time Lord’s grief. Furthermore, audiences have never been treated to the final words that the Doctor spoke to Rose on both occasions, leaving it one mystery thatDoctor Whowill never reveal.
Rose’s death represents one of the Doctor’s greatest early failures of the revival, as the duo were forced to part ways and leave many things unsaid.
Even after five more incarnations have been witnessed since Tennant left the role of the Tenth Doctor,his farewell with Roseremains one ofDoctor Who’s strongest moments. Marking a major turning point for the series, Rose’s death represents one of the Doctor’s greatest early failures of the revival, as the duo were forced to part ways and leave many things unsaid. As such, the new illustration is a beautiful depiction of what remains a haunting moment to many fans.
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Doctor Who: Released on June 02, 2025, this series follows the Doctor and their companion as they journey across time and space, encountering a range of extraordinary friends and adversaries, expanding the universe of the long-running British science fiction series.
