I know its not temporally possible. But I'd pay good money to see her and Jack hook up.
And as for no mention of Rose, well, it's not RTD's show now, is it?![]()
No, but I still thought it would be cool to see Doc 11 at least acknowledge her in some way. Whether you liked that relationship or not, he WAS clearly hung up on her for a good long while. It seemed strange that after all that pining away... we suddenly don't even hear a peep about her.
I got the feeling from the way he reacted to her in that final episode of series four that he was a little embarrassed by their relationship. He certainly couldn't drop her and the human Doctor off and get the hell out of there fast enough.
Is that why he dropped everything in the middle of a Dalek invasion to run to her the instant he saw her on the streets of London? Or why he looked absolutely miserable as he left her with his metacrisis clone, recognizing that she would be far happier with a man who would age and die as he would not?
Of course in the real world, blame it all on Moffat. Who doesn't seem too keen on dwelling on the past four years.
I don't know it's even a matter of Moffat "not being keen on dwelling" on the past as it is a matter of, RTD had already brought to his era a sense of closure and ending and moving on. I mean, he said goodbye to all the major characters of his era -- twice, really.
It really wouldn't be a natural or intuitive storytelling choice to have the Doctor spending a lot of time or energy on his years in his ninth and tenth incarnations at this point.