Also: I have a lot of trouble sometimes with the 'true love' aspect, because I've always thought of the Doctor as something of a serial pet-adopter. He takes them in, they hang out with him, sometimes they go their separate ways and sometimes they die. And he loves them all. (And there's room there for a 'rebound' pet; if you've gone a long time without one, you might very well be extremely attached to the next.)
With respect to physical love, who knows what cats and dogs are feeling when we pet them and interact with them on their own terms, using their own body language? A kiss is true love to Rose; to the Doctor, it's just being affectionate with humans in a way they understand.
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Date: 2007-05-08 02:21 pm (UTC)With respect to physical love, who knows what cats and dogs are feeling when we pet them and interact with them on their own terms, using their own body language? A kiss is true love to Rose; to the Doctor, it's just being affectionate with humans in a way they understand.