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Jacob Elordi with his dog on the set of Guillermo del Toro’s FRANKENSTEIN
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Still tired of people saying companions during RTD1 having relatives showed they have life beyond the Doctor. Rose didn't have a life beyond the Doctor. She had a life before the Doctor and Jackie was living proof of that and it is even brought up that once Jackie is gone Rose would have no reason to ever come home again.
Amy, Rory, Clara, and Bill all had actively come lives, they had jobs, hung out with friends, went on dates, Bill even had to put her foot down once to tell the Doctor when he was being too clingy that there were parts of her life he just wasn't involved in. We might not have seen their relatives regularly, but we regularly saw them living lives away from the Doctor and often how difficult it could be to live such lives while knowing the Doctor (like how you can't go on a date without the risk of the Pope or UN Secretary General showing up).
So much here to here that is just plain wrong. Not surprised they end it by recommending a YouTube vid, all the worst DW takes come from YouTube vids, and so much of this reads like second hand opinions from someone unwilling to look at the text in full, but select the bits that support their argument and fill-in the blanks with biased headcanons.
We'll start with Clara. No, she doesn't just get a motivation towards the end of her run, her life doesn't revolve around the Doctor, and she certainly doesn't hate him. I have not idea where that "I can never go back" thing comes from since a huge part of Clara's story is that she does indeed go back and it creates problems, so many problems. Clara's whole deal is she wants to have it all and she wants to be in control. She doesn't drop everything and run off with the Doctor because then she's letting him decides things for her. They don't have adventures when he wants, they have adventures when she wants. She had plans for her life before meeting the Doctor (travel the world, become a teacher, etc) and tries to balance that with being an adventurer in time and space.
As much as Clara and Twelve have a rocky relationship during their first season together as they struggle to figure each other out, there is still a lot of love an affection there. She doesn't blame him for ruining her life or hold him responsible and demand she be treated as an equal or else. This is just a terrible reading of Clara that bares almost no resemblance to the character of the events of the show.
Now Amy, and oh boy, where to start with Amy because there is just so much nonsense said here. I'll start with the claim that she was a stripper because that is just a complete falsehood. Amy was never a stripper. Labelling her so just tells me you're unwilling to engage with text in good faith and just want to see the worst possible angle to support your own bias. Nor was she ever a housewife, the only time we saw her as anything even close to that was in a dream sequence created by an evil being to mess with her.
Amy was a kiss-a-gram, a dumb job she had that she clearly hated and was embarrassed by, but would defend with her last breath if anyone judged her for it. Amy was aggressively defensive because of all the shit she endured growing up (also Scottish). Her homelife wasn't disjointed, she was simply a restless personality, never settled into anything, drifting from different jobs until she found something she liked, which ended up being writing. Unlike Clara, Amy didn't have her life all worked out. Her restlessness and lack of commitment can be attributed to her crippling abandonment issues, caused by the loss of her parents, her aunt neglecting her, and the being Doctor exceptionally tardy. She puts on a tough exterior to hide how venerable she (also because she's Scottish). She's afraid of being left along or those she cares for turning on her.
What is her motivation? She was made to move away from home when she was a kid, she's the only Scottish kid in the English village. She hated it and wanted to get away. She really has this love-hate relationship with Leadworth. For much of her life it was her prison, one she wanted to escape from, but it is also where she met the love of her life and her best friend. She was given the chance to finally escape and was denied it, and that made her feel like more of an outsider. She told everyone about the Doctor and they all thought she was crazy and sent her to the psychiatrist (who she kept biting).
I could really go on and on, but I'll sum up instead by saying that Amy (as well as Clara) is a fascinating and complex character, but so much that is great about her gets dismissed, too much focus is put on trivial things like what her mother's name is (it's Tabitha btw), and she is often held to a much higher standard than other companions, things that they let slide with others suddenly become major issues with Amy, because some are determined to make her the poster girl of the badly written companion. As I said at the start, it's all just a lot of bad faith arguments and criticism via biased YouTube vids.
Oh yeah, we never got any scenes of characters just hanging out, chatting and having fun and laughing together post-RTD1.
Not a single one.
#doctor who#dw#eleventh doctor#twelfth doctor#amy pond#rory williams#clara oswald#bill potts#the blind nostalgia for the rtd1 is how we ended up where we now are#it really wasn't this gold standard that every since has failed to lived up to#and much of what it did was just standard stuff the show has kept doing
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Star Trek: The Next Generation // S05E08: Unification II
Still tired of people saying companions during RTD1 having relatives showed they have life beyond the Doctor. Rose didn't have a life beyond the Doctor. She had a life before the Doctor and Jackie was living proof of that and it is even brought up that once Jackie is gone Rose would have no reason to ever come home again.
Amy, Rory, Clara, and Bill all had actively come lives, they had jobs, hung out with friends, went on dates, Bill even had to put her foot down once to tell the Doctor when he was being too clingy that there were parts of her life he just wasn't involved in. We might not have seen their relatives regularly, but we regularly saw them living lives away from the Doctor and often how difficult it could be to live such lives while knowing the Doctor (like how you can't go on a date without the risk of the Pope or UN Secretary General showing up).