IMO the funniest explanation for Donna's kid being named Rose is happenstance, total coincidence. It's a pretty name, not extremely uncommon but not overused, why not.
Then the meta reason is the writers wanted to fuckin jumpscare the Doctor with her name lol.
People who say The Avengers: Infinity Wars/End Game was the most epic crossover ever attempted has clearly never watched Doctor Who: The Stolen Earth/Journey's End.
A post about Ianto's s2 wardrobe reminded me of these wardrobe breakdowns from Torchwood Magazine. I can't recall if they ever did a more detailed look at wardrobe, I'll have to have another flick through my magazines.
Back in the day I used to contribute to a blog that tracked down where individual items were purchased from, it was such good fun.
Doctor who is literally just a story about grief. About the stages beyond the normal five. About hope and reaching and living hard and fast and passionately bc we're all going to die. About outlasting those you love most and being forced to keep on living. About celebrating the dead and the dying bc they were once alive and will forever be alive in your memories. About learning how to move on despite knowing some part of you never will. About running as fast as you can while clinging to the small bits of love and happiness you can scrape for yourself along the way. About outliving and outlasting everyone and everything you've ever put you faith in until all you have left is the faith itself. About always being dead and alive at once, carrying everyone you've ever lost and every version of yourself you've ever been on your shoulders bc you are too kind and too selfish and too full of grief to do anything else.
Doctor who is about grief. It is about life and death and hope and fear and ecstasy and bravery and melancholy and the constant balance between optimism and weight that living brings.
Doctor who is about grief. It is about how life is only precious bc everything has its time, and everything ends.
I actually don't think I'll ever get over the parallel between Ianto Jones dying because of an alien virus and then the Face of Boe saving a whole world from suffering the same fate.
Because Jack never did forget Ianto. He kept his promise. And his love for him helped him to save thousands of lives. One last time.