rec: the real reason the doctor and rose tyler never had sex, by azriona

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Story: The Real Reason the Doctor and Rose Tyler Never Had Sex
Author: azriona
Rating: Teen
Word Count: 315
Author's Summary: Exactly what it says on the tin, kids. The reason that the Doctor and Rose didn’t have sex has NOTHING to do with the hour the show was aired.
Characters/Pairings: Tenth Doctor/Rose Tyler
Warnings: None
Recced because: It's hilarious, and like the best humor fics it needs no other excuse. But even better, the humor comes from a well-known fact about the Doctor that I'd never thought about in this context until I read this fic. The result is total win.

Comments

[sue-denimme.livejournal.com]

I remember that TV article too! It was right around the time that I first happened to discover the show (thanks to it being aired by a then-new local station, not PBS, surprisingly enough, but I digress). I believe that was also where I first heard about the 60 degrees thing.

Apparently it's just a little factoid that got stuck in someone's head somehow, and got entrenched enough that various audios and other non-TV stories mention it even no one can find the exact reference in the TV series itself.

[sue-denimme.livejournal.com]

That's "even though no one can find". Ugh.