The last timelord

from "Elementary Obfucational Equations (nth edition)"  

Of course the idea that the Doctor is the last of his kind is patently absurd.   Temporal terminology is only meaningful within the confines of a single time stream.   So what if all the Gallifreyans were destroyed in war?  They are TimeLords.   They are still out there, all flying through every point of space-time imaginable.   There are just as many TimeLords enjoying Foie Gras at the Restaurant at the End of the Universe as there are TimeLords gnoshing on Chicken Nuggets at the Big Bang Burger King.

“The last Gallifreyan” would only have meaning within the context of Tardic Time, as in the phrase “I’m the last surviving time lord in THIS Tardis.”   But that has only limited applicability, as the same thing could be said about any Gallifreyan in any tardis.   One could not say that the Doctor is the last Gallifreyan in any tardis because the time stream of each tardis is orthogonal to the time stream of every other tardis, just as they are all orthogonal to the multiverse they travel through. The very meaning of "orthogonality" implies that direct comparison is meaningless.

Personally, I think this whole "Oo, poor me. I'm the last of my kind" shtick was the Doctor trying to get some sympathy out of Rose Tyler. He knew perfectly well he was speaking rubbish and was just trying to get a "Oh, you poor thing!" out of her just before he dug his head crying into her boobs.