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Reading Dr. Who essays
Jan. 6th, 2012 10:06 am*bemused*
But Companions don't need to prove their worth by saving the Doctor at their first serial's climactic moment. I mean, they might do so, but saving the Doctor's butt in their first outing is not the only indicator of a character's worth.
*gestures at Zoe, who works as part of a team to save herself and her colleagues and then goes after the Doctor and Jamie as part of her plan to further her emotional self-actualization, and at Ben and Polly, who certainly take plenty of names but don't rescue the Doctor as if he were a damsel in distress!*
*...just as examples*
On the other hand, this person thinks that companions pre-Sarah Jane were regulate to the role of "magician's assistant" and never actually got to do anything, which is.
Wrong.
But Companions don't need to prove their worth by saving the Doctor at their first serial's climactic moment. I mean, they might do so, but saving the Doctor's butt in their first outing is not the only indicator of a character's worth.
*gestures at Zoe, who works as part of a team to save herself and her colleagues and then goes after the Doctor and Jamie as part of her plan to further her emotional self-actualization, and at Ben and Polly, who certainly take plenty of names but don't rescue the Doctor as if he were a damsel in distress!*
*...just as examples*
On the other hand, this person thinks that companions pre-Sarah Jane were regulate to the role of "magician's assistant" and never actually got to do anything, which is.
Wrong.
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