It's hard to remember that far back, when I actually liked Rose and didn't think she & Tennant were insufferably smug together.
More recently, I tried to get some of my friends to watch the new series, starting with "Rose." But once they hit "Doomsday," it was like pulling teeth getting them to continue. It's not that they were so attached to Rose. It's just that the way that she left was so sad that they had a hard time continuing. In the end, I got them to muddle through Season 3 but they pretty much quit for good after Astrid died in "Voyage of the Damned." Later, I managed to get them to watch "Silence in the Library," "Forest of the Dead," the first half of "Midnight," a bunch of the Matt Smith shorts, and some of the funnier bits from "Deep Breath" but that's it.