Friday, February 18, 2011

The Great 30-Day Who MEME!!!! - Day Two

Who is your favorite Companion?




 




 Do you really have to ask?

Who's your favorite Companion?

Tomorrow: Who is your favorite Villain/Monster/Alien/Baddie of the Week?

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8 replies · active 735 weeks ago
Okay I'm going to have to cheat ever so slightly: Amy and Rory.

I just CAN'T choose one of them, they're both awesome characters as individuals but as a pair they're so incredibly wonderful together.




5 replies · active 736 weeks ago
I'm with E.L.S.O.S. here. I LOVE Donna. She was the perfect companion for Ten, particularly at that time. He'd had two companions who worshiped him, and given the size of his ego, that maybe wasn't the best thing for him. He'd had no one to cut him down to size for quite some time, then here came Donna, who loved him but had few illusions about him. She took no shit and told him off when he needed it. He just wanted a mate, and that's what he got, the best mate he could have. She was loud and brash and brave and smart and compassionate.

She also got one of the most tragic ends to a companion to date, and I'm counting Adric in that statement. She was already pretty awesome before she met the Doctor, even if she didn't know that, but traveling with the Doctor made her into a truly amazing person. The Doctor mindwiping her was, in my opinion, the saddest thing the show has ever done. Yes, I cried.

In conclusion, Donna Noble wins my vote for Best Companion Ever. I also have immense love for Romana, Ace and Amy, but Donna has a special place.

DONNA GIFSPAM!







5 replies · active 369 weeks ago
Choosing a favourite companion is extremely difficult. There’s so many things I like about all of the ones I’ve seen. And of course you have the additional debate of who counts as a companion which makes this extra difficult.
Forcing myself to choose I’m going to go with Martha, although this is probably influenced by the fact we just rewatched her series so she is the freshest in my mind.
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Yes we have the whole crush situation which can get annoying but I love her for the fact that she realised that it was a bad situation for her and got out with self respect and dignity. Not only that but she didn’t completely cut herself off from the Doctor, she gave him a phone and became a friend. She can call on him for help and he can still invite her along for a trip without any problems. Equally the crush never really effected what she did. It might have annoyed the hell out of her to see John Smith fall in love with another woman but aside for her moment of woe is me, her main concern is that it would just lead to hurt for Joan in the long term and how to stop that from happening.
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I’ve mentioned it before but I love that when she initially gets to the past she’s very cautious and wonders about the effect it could have in case she changes the slightest thing because that, that right there would be me.
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I love her relationship with her family. In her family she’s that main person that everyone goes to with problems or to sort things out. She’s the diplomat and mediator. At the end of series 3 she could have gone off and had adventures with the Doctor, after all he could have her back so quickly it’d be like she never left, but she stayed to look after her family and help them through what happened. To be the doctor she wanted to be.
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I also love her easy friendship with people. I love that she and Donna get along great straight away despite the Doctor’s expectations and as someone mentioned here the other day I love her friendship with Jack. There’s teasing, affection, gossip and they clearly care for each other. Leading on from Jack, I loved her in Torchwood. Here we saw Martha as the BAMF she is but without the burden of her feelings for the Doctor. She’s smart, assured, knows what she’s doing and what she wants. She’s happy in who she is, what she does and in her relationship with Tom. (Who she obviously married and lived BAMFily ever after with.)
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But ignoring everything else, Martha walked the world for a year telling a story to save the universe. And not just any world, but one that was being horrifically destroyed while she was being hunted by the mad man who had control of the entire planet. She became a living legend, and did she take any glory or praise for herself? No, she did what she felt had to do.
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I love her for the Year That Never Was, for her relationships with her family and friends, for her intelligence and confidence, for her caring, for her self respect, for her wit, for her amazing faces, for reading the instruction manual and being a bit of a geek.
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But really I could write a love letter to every companion.
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Er...I am a sad noob, can't remember how to post gifs...help plz?
5 replies · active 736 weeks ago
Hmm, you know, when watching that video I'm surprised by just how much ADORATION seeing Peri brings out in me. I guess she somehow grew into one of my favorite companions without me noticing.
I'm adding this video because any discussion of companions must include the original Crowning Moment of Awesome.
Why the hell does my video have to be approved by the admin? I promise it's not porn. Oy.
5 replies · active 736 weeks ago
I really have to go with a tie here. What? I can't choose between them, don't make me!

First up is Donna Noble. I think we all love her, and for the same reasons: she doesn't take any crap from the Doctor, and calls him out on his BS. She's very compassionate and kind, and cares strongly about people she barely knows. She even wanted to save the spider babies, and thought that the man who tried to feed her to the Racnoss Queen didn't deserve the awful fate he got. She's very funny, and smart, and incredibly brave too.

Donna was exactly the kind of friend Ten needed, because she kept him grounded and kept his ego in check. She was there to stop him when he needed someone to, and I think she brought out the best in him. They have a great dynamic and fantastic comedic chemistry. I'll always wish that she could meet Eleven, because I'd love to see how they'd get on.

Which brings us to my other favorite, Amy Pond. Haters gonna hate, but I LOVE Amy. For starters, she's absolutely adorable and I love watching her and Eleven interact. She's also funny, brave, smart, and resourceful - I love how she dealt with the Angel in the recording in Time of Angels, for example.

But most of all, I find her very interesting as a character. She's clearly been damaged, even by the time she's seven years old: just listen to the way she says "People always say that." to Eleven when he says he'll be back in five minutes. Seven years old, and she's already used to people leaving and not coming back, even when they say they will. With the crack there, it's not their fault, but she doesn't know that. She just knows that people disappear on her and don't keep their promises. The Doctor tries to assure her that he's not "people" and won't do that to her, but accidentally ends up doing it anyway, and comes twelve years too late. Twelve years and four psychiatrists. It's no wonder she tries to mess with him by pretending she's someone else, and doesn't entirely trust him for a while.

Trust issues are a major thing with Amy; people have complained about how she treats Rory, like not even calling him her boyfriend in Eleventh Hour. Thing is, she does truly love him. But she's afraid to admit that, even to herself, afraid to really let herself fully commit to this, because how does she know he won't up and leave like everyone else? She's terrified of being left all alone, so it's no surprise to me that she reacts the way she does in Amy's Choice after Rory's death. Being left behind again by someone she cares deeply for is more than she can bear.

We see further proof of her feelings for him after he dies for real at the end of Cold Blood. Even though she can't consciously remember his existence, part of her is in such great pain that she cries without knowing she is, and Vincent Van Gogh can sense her deep anguish. It's always so moving to me when she's talking to Centurion Auton Rory in Pandorica Opens and she starts crying because she's happy, and doesn't quite know why yet. Deep down inside, she's so overwhelmed with joy at seeing him again, and it manifests with tears she can't explain.

There's so much more I want to say about Amy, but I think I should save some of it for my series five reviews when Mark gets there, so I don't feel like I'm repeating myself. Suffice to say, I adore her, she is one of the best parts of series five for me.
6 replies · active 736 weeks ago
TEGAN JOVANKA!

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I've said briefly why I like her before but it's because she's realistic. I think there has to a a measure of suspension of disbelief with most of the companions, the fact that just about all of them go through these horrific, dangerous and deadly events but the next time you see the it's all "La-la-la next adventure" with a big grin on their faces. It's frightening more often then not and if it were me? I don't know if I would be so willing.

And that puts a spanner in the works. She gets labelled as whiny and mouthy, demanding to be where she wants to go and some people don't like it. But underneath all the bluster she's insecure, thus Five's trademark "Brave Heart Tegan."

Once she decided to adventure with the Doctor on her own terms she's more easy going but a spade is a spade and she's not afraid to tell the Doctor what she thinks and isn't all starry eyed about him. I like that despite the danger that travelling with the Doctor brings she was still willing to go, until it proved to much of course...

Donna basically had Tegan's whole arc in the Runaway Bride lol
3 replies · active 736 weeks ago
Tired of waiting for mod approval of my other post, so I'll try again and see if reducing the swearing helps, as well as reuploading my gif.

River Song in the house, y'all! I think I'll wait for her eps on Mark's blog to really get into why, but I loved her from the start. AND SHE IS SO A COMPANION, OKAY?

And then we got S5, and she was just magnificent.
I love her interactions with Eleven, and I am so glad they have a better relationship than her with Ten.

In conclusion, all she has to do is walk into a room and I will bow at her feet.


BUT, if I have to choose a "normal" companion, then I think Amy and Donna are both competing for second place. Look, EVERYONE'S AWESOME, OKAY?
18 replies · active 735 weeks ago
D: There are so many, how are we supposed to choose just one?!?!

Donna is obviously awesome. She's fairly "ordinary" like the other companions from NuWho, but she's different because even though the Doctor has vastly more knowledge and experience than her, she basically demands to be treated as an equal anyway. They probably have one of the most balanced power dynamics of a Tardis team this side of the TV Movie (only saying because I have seen comparably little Classic Who.) Like in Fires of Pompei -"Doctor, Timelord, yeah!" "Donna, human, NO!"

Amy rocks my socks, but I don't think I can explain why as eloquently as arctic_hare did, so I'm going to cheat and say refer to her post for my Amy love. I love Rory too- didn't like seeing the wimpy boyfriend archetype again in the Eleventh Hour, but the minute he stepped into the TARDIS and was deliberately unfazed by it being bigger on the inside, I knew I was going to grow to love him.

River is wonderful in her unconventional relationship with the Doctor. Whatever that turns out to be, specifically, it's been wonderful to see someone one step ahead of the Doctor, keeping him on his toes. Kudos to Moffat for giving us that.

Ace is ace (I'm seeing a pattern... someone likes her female companions assertive!), though I've only seen her in two serials, so most of my experience with her is in audio plays. Also from the audio plays, Lucie Miller (Eight's companion) and Evelyn Smythe (Six's companion). Evelyn- seriously, she's an old lady professor who is awesome at the same time as being compassionate and caring and having the feminine trait of basically (grand)mothering everyone without seeming like a conceptually sexist character.

Guys. How can you make me choose from companions like these. I just. Can't.
I'm following echinodermata's lead and just reposting this without the video I think is at fault. I can always replace it with a gif anyway. XD

I'm sure you all know my favorite companion is Donna. I've made that abundantly clear. I'm also sure there will be plenty of Donna love to go around though, so I'm going to devote this to my second favorite companion instead.



I really, really love Ace. When I first "met" her in Remembrance of the Daleks, I thought for a maybe a second or two that I would find her stereotypical eighties teen persona annoying. That misconception lasted about three minutes, and this serial was all it took for me to realize that to me, Ace is the single greatest classic Who companion, by leaps and bounds.

She is everything I love in a companion.

Badass: The famous baseball bat vs Dalek scene is far from the only good example of this.



How about the bit in the same serial where she literally blows the top off of one with a ROCKET LAUNCHER. Followed by the most priceless exchange in the history of ever.

The Doctor: You destroyed it!
Ace: I aimed for the eyepiece!

And again in the same serial, destroying a huge amount of chemistry equipment by jumping onto/over it rather than, you know, going around it and then almost immediately jumping through a window.

On top of badass, she is also entertaining as all hell. A wonderful, wonderful scene in the Happiness Patrol:

Susan Q: Do you know any jokes?
Ace: I always forget jokes.
Susan Q: How about songs?
Ace: Oh I know this great song about this bloke and his girlfriend. And she drops the ring he gives her on the railway track and when she goes back to get it she's killed by the train and he's really miserable for the rest of his life! Oh, it's fantastic!

That sounds like a WONDERFUL SONG, Ace! <3 <3 <3

Also her ridiculous habit of nicknaming people. At least the Professor for the Doctor sort of works, since, you know, he kind of plays that role in their relationship what with teaching her and trying to help her realize her potential. I still have no idea why she decided Mel needed to be called Doughnut though.

On the subject of Mel, Ace's first appearance is absolutely made of win. Just a few minutes into it, she DUMPS A MILKSHAKE OVER A CUSTOMERS HEAD because the customer claimed it wasn't adequately shaken. And then proceeds to pour another over her boss' head when he fires her. She's clearly batshit insane from the start.

I could probably carry on for hours listing her various moments of awesomeness, but I'll stop there for everyone's sake. I'll just say Ace is totally ACE and we need a companion that ~explosive in new Who. (bad pun is bad).

Oh, and the runner's up:



(I'm sorry I love them ALL don't ask me to pick because yes it's donna but she only wins by a smidgeon and I <3 Martha and Rose something fierce. TEN'S COMPANIONS=MUCH COOLER THAN HIM XD)
9 replies · active 735 weeks ago
And now for the first of many answers to this poll in which I can’t for the life of me just pick one. I am a big cheater so here are my three answers (I am most familiar with NuWho so that is limiting me to only three :P).

First answer: Amy & Rory
Amy, Rory and Eleven are my favorite Team TARDIS of all time. I explained yesterday all the ways in which Eleven was my favorite Doctor, and the relationships he has with Amy and Rory are definitely a part of that. They provide genuine friendship and companionship for him- through them, he can still see the wonders of the universe as if for the first time. Eleven and Amy have a very complicated relationship, and I love the issues of trust and memory that they were able to explore through this. She is wacky and damaged and strong and delicate and I just love her. Rory provides a balance to Amy’s crazy and a challenge to the Doctor’s pride. I really liked him from the Eleventh Hour, tbh. He figured out everything all on his own, and was basically just the kind of dorky guy I love. He is a necessary component to the success of this team and I am SO EXCITE that they’re continuing into the next series.


Second Answer: Donna
How could I not choose Donna? She was by far the best companion for Ten, IMO- acting as a best friend and a check for his arrogance. After several seasons of growing to dislike Ten, she made him fun again. The very fact that there was no romantic interest there was such a relief that I probably would have loved her, even if she hadn’t been a totally kick-ass lady all on her own. Awesomely for all the viewers she was a BAMF. Catherine Tate did such a wonderful job, not just with the funny, but also in the quiet moments. Donna grew so much as a character- into a woman who respected and loved herself- which just makes her ending all the more heartbreaking. It really is no wonder that Ten went off the deep end without her.
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Third Answer: Martha
I will be one of the first to admit that Martha did not work perfectly as a companion for the Doctor at that point in his life. She was simply too willing to put up with his crap, and didn’t know how to really reign him in. However, Martha is definitely the companion that I most enjoyed watching on her own. I want to be BFFs with Martha. She is brave and dorky and intelligent and adventurous. More than just a companion, she was the hero of the third Series and I love that she developed a confidence in herself that she carried into the next season and Torchwood.
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I love them all!
3 replies · active 736 weeks ago
Well, I am partial to my redheads.

I love Donna. I lvoe Donna because she is who she is, she's compassionate, she's trying to Be More, and I love that it isn't easy but it's possible, if that make sense. I love her enthusiasm- how excited she is to dress up in Roman clothes in Pompeii (not that her "Roman" clothes are anything even close to actual Roman clothes, but whatevs), how excited she is to try speaking Latin- to get beyond the "don't drink the water" thing she talks about in PiC. I love how, in Turn Left that she takes her chance to save the world and I love even more that she's scared about it. That's so real. I want Donna Noble to be my best friend.

I also have a great deal of love for Amy- I love how snarky she is ("Bow tie, GET RID), and she's the first to make me cry. (I knew, when little Amelia was packing her suitcase, that she wasn't gong anywhere. And she's so excited, and I'm crying and I never noticed the opening door until the THIRD REWATCH.) I love that she's 21 and still working out her identity and what she wants. I love her with Eleven and their odd little brother/sister weirdness ("Really, is it a cry for help?"). (I also love Karen and Matt together. Why are THEY not my friends?)

Also- River. Oh my GOD River. "And what sort of a time do you call this?" I cannot WAIT to see more of her story.

THis is not to say that I don't also love Martha and Rose, I just love the Ginger Twins more.
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I am sure this isn't surprising to any of you who may have noticed my squee-age yesterday, but DONNA FREAKING NOBLE IS MY FAVORITE COMPANION OF ALL TIME.
Do I really need to describe why she is so awesome? I feel like it is easily evident just watching her, but I will try anyway.

1. She doesn't put up with Ten's shit. THIS IS IMPORTANT. It is just what he needed. I listed Ten as my favorite Doctor yesterday, and the majority of my love for him comes from series 4, and the majority of the awesomeness of series 4 is because of DONNA. They make each other better.

2. She is REALLY REALLY funny. She's hilarious, but other than making fun of Ten, she doesn't use her humor maliciously. I don't recall her ever making anyone except Ten the butt of a joke.
3. She's kind. Just look at her sympathy for the Ood, her welcoming of Martha and later Rose, and her treatment of Jenny. I am SO GLAD that it was Donna that was around when the Jenny situation happened.
4. SHE'S LOUD. I grew up around "loud" women. I am a loud woman. I am glad she wasn't quiet. I am glad she just didn't let things happen to her. In the words of Rose Tyler, she stood up, she made a stand. Maybe that comes off as "annoying" to some people, I don't know. To me, it is awesome, especially when you realize that underneath that loudness, she has a heart of gold.

5. Everyone thinks she is the Doctor's wife.
6. Uh, Wilf is her gramps. Does this even need an explanation?
7. She's brave. I was going to type all about her RISKING everything in a universe where she hasn't even met the Doctor and then I realized that she did it TWICE. Granted, her life in the library world was better than her life in the Turn Left-verse, but she still gets back to the Doctor both times. In Turn Left it was really a huge risk that she took by DYING on the off chance that Rose was right, and that Donna really did die. And now I've just rewatched Fires of Pompeii and realized that she was ready to die there too!
8. Without her, the Doctor would be dead. I am sure the same could be said for most of the companions, but seeing it on screen just makes it more real to me. Without Donna, the world would be a mess, Jack would be off getting continuously killed by the Sontarans, Martha, the Torchwood team, and Sarah Jane and the kids would be DEAD. Okay, Torchwood is pretty much dead now anyway, but still.
9. After the metacrisis, she could OUT-DOCTOR THE DOCTOR. Seriously, I know it was brief, but she was going to fix the Chameleon Circuit. They were going to go on awesome adventures and the Doctor wasn't going to be alone anymore, ever. Sigh, what could have been. This is not to say I preferred the DoctorDonna, because HumanDonna was more than awesome enough for me.

10. She is the best friend ever. The Doctor asked for a mate, and he got Donna, and they were the best pair on this show because they just GOT each other. Like the Ood said, series four was the Song of DoctorDonna, and I never wanted it to end. I love the moment in Midnight when she knows he isn't alright, and she calls him on it. So many people, including me, would have just let him lie. They would have rather continued on without bringing discomfort to the situation. Not Donna, because she has the guts to say what she is thinking, and what she is thinking is usually awesome. That moment in Fires of Pompeii when she helps him push the lever will always stay with me. She could have just let him do it. What's 20,000 more when he already has millions on his conscience? Instead, she helps him do it. She shares the burden.

I think Catherine Tate surprised everyone by not just being a comedic foil for Tennant. Donna had more depth than I ever would have thought possible.
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Okay, so I have a real soft spot for male companions. Not because I’m a horny teenage girl or anything, but because it’s a dynamic we don’t often see. Jamie and the second Doctor played off each other so well. Patrick and Frazer were BFFs in real life, and that chemistry really translated to screen incredibly well.

This might be a bit of a stretch, but I think Donna’s a modern (female) take on Jamie. They will tease each other mercilessly, but they have a camraderie pretty much unmatched by any other TARDIS duo. Also, considering Donna and Jamie’s eventual fates... guys, the end of “The War Games” is just as heart-breaking as “Journey’s End” in my opinion.



And who doesn’t love the constant clinging? <3

(Ace is totally the runner-up.)
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Eager Ears · 736 weeks ago

Amy and River are pretty much tied as my favorite companions, but other people have been so eloquent about the overall characters of both of them that I'll just say some details:

1. I love the way Amy and River relate to each other. As I recall, Amy doesn't act at all threatened by River -- she isn't jealous of River's relationship with the Doctor, but instead is intrigued and curious, asking lots of questions, teasing the Doctor about "sonicing" River, ganging up on him with River on the subject of Fezzes. And River takes on a sort of mentoring role, praising Amy for defeating the recording of the Weeping Angel when the Doctor is too irritated/busy to say anything positive. I'm SO glad the screenwriters didn't have them get into a competition over the Doctor!

2. Another example of River joking about how heteronormative she and the the Doctor aren't: when she's about to sacrifice herself in Season 4, and the Doctor says, "You can't do that! That's MY job!" and she responds with, "Oh, and I'm not allowed to have a career, I suppose!" She's about to die, and she is still in control enough to make a really fun feminist joke.

3. The first time I watched Flesh and Stone, when River is trying to fix the teleportation device and the Doctor says that she'll never be able to do it in time, I took him at his word. After all, he's the Doctor -- he's usually best at everything (especially technological things), right? And then River went and saved the day when the Doctor couldn't, and flirted with him too, and it was delightful.

4. From a storytelling perspective, I love Amy's arc over the season, and I have sometimes wondered if it was Moffat's response to the terrible fate of Donna. If nothing else, it certainly shows a different approach to the theme of memory. ("If it can be remembered, it can come back.") Instead of having her memories wiped to save her life, Amy gets all her lost memories restored, brings back lost pieces of the world with the power of memory, and then her memories save the Doctor, too! And when the Doctor tells her right before he drives the Pandorica into the explosion that she won't need her silly old Doctor anymore because she'll have her parents, her complete normal life back, she clearly does not accept this -- and then the story doesn't accept it either!

Also, I love the way both of them dress -- especially River's double belts with the white jacket, and Amy's vivid colors and short skirts that somehow don't seem restrict her movement as she adventures.
I'm late to this party, but idec. I'm bored and it's a Saturday afternoon and I really don't want to go to the library. So here is my answer: ROSE.

ROSE ROSE ROSE ROSE ROSE.

lol. Rose is my favorite of the New Who companions for a lot of reason. Part of it is because she was my first companion, and I grew incredibly attached to her. Because honestly, I love Donna a lot too, and I think that if Donna were my first companion, she would be my favorite. But as it is, Rose holds a lot of sentiment for me. Another reason that I love her is because so many people hate her, so I feel the need to love her and stan for her more fiercely to defend her and make up for all the hate.

But on her own merits, I think that Rose is wonderful. I was the same age as Rose is when I first started to watch the show. I was 19 years old and I felt like I didn't know what I wanted from life. But to see Rose, a character my own age, be so awesome and do such great thing with her life was incredibly empowering. LOVE HER.

I stan Rose something fierce. Yes, I am a shipper, but I adore Rose as an individual too. I think she had a wonderful character arc. In series 1, Rose is really learning about how to live life. It didn't seem like she had much a a future. She didn't have any A-levels, and she was looking at a future of jobs like serving in the hospital canteen. But then she met the Doctor and her eyes were opened. She traveled the universe and saw that there was more to life than just dead end jobs.

Rose : But what do I do every day, Mum? Get up. Go to work. Catch the bus. Eat chips. And go to bed.
Mickey: It’s what the rest of us do.
Rose: But I can’t!
Mickey: Because you’re better than us?
Rose: No! I didn’t mean that. But it was. It was a better life. I don’t mean all the traveling and seeing aliens and spaceships and things. That don’t matter. The Doctor showed me a better way of living your life. You know, he showed you too. You don’t just give up. You don’t just let things happen. You make a stand. You say “no”! You have the guts to do what’s right when everyone else just runs away!

Then in series 2, Rose grows and becomes a hero in her own right. She starts out so unsure of herself in "The Christmas Invasion", wanting to run from the Sycorax and then when forced to confront them, stumbling over her clumsy words. But throughout series 2, we see Rose become more confident and independent. She insists on going after alt!Jackie in the Cybermen two-parter. She notices something is up with the TVs in "The Idiot's Lantern" and goes off to investigate Magpie. She takes a leadership role in "The Satan Pit", rallying the troops. And then in "Fear Her", she has to be the one to figure things out and save the day when the Doctor isn't there.

Something that I love about Rose is that she doesn't let other people make decisions for her. She wants to live her life on her terms. Yes, that seems selfish at times. But it's Rose's life and she's going to live it how she wants to, even if her mum would rather she settle down. Nine tries to send her away, but Rose fights her way back. And then when Ten tries to send her into Pete's World, she stands up to him. She made her choice, and her choice is him. Traveling with the Doctor is what she wants for her life and she's going to get it, no matter what any one else says.

Rose fights for what she wants, and I love her for it.

She's not perfect. She has a tendency towards jealousy (but then, so does the Doctor) and can be oblivious to Mickey's feelings, but her emotions are all very real and believable and understandable.
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I hope no one minds me catching up on the 30-day great who memes so late, but I'll keep it short.

1) RIVER RIVER RIVER A THOUSAND TIMES RIVER. It's at a stage now where I even prefer her to The Doctor, slightly. She's just so gutsy, and knows exactly how The Doctor works. Truly Moffat's greatest creation, a 'companion' who both the audience and The Doctor are meeting backwards. We know so very little, and I wouldn't have it any other way.

2) I must stress this is an extremely close second: Donna. Like many, I was very hesitant to see Catherine Tate in the Tardis, fearing that she was too funny. But boy, can she do serious. They had so much fun, and it was just what the Doctor had ordered. A mate. Yes, Rose was brilliant, but there was no room in the Tardis for love without heartbreak. Unfortunately for Donna, and us, there was no room for friendship without it either. The memory wiping scene was such an emotional piece of television to watch, but it was Catherine's performance here that cemented Donna's place among the greatest companions for me.

3) Amelia Pond. What's not to love about a girl whose life makes no sense? I think the fact that an entire series story arc revolved around her helped a great deal, but Karen Gillan plays Amy so brilliantly. I'd say she's probably the cheekiest companion there's been aboard, but the on screen chemistry between her and Matt Smith is just fantastic, and very reminiscent of Ten and Donna.
I was going to do what I did with the Doctors and just write about why I loved each one and then decide, but I already know this time. And I'm glad to see that I'm not alone in my choice.

River Song. I loved her the minute I saw her. She knew things that the Doctor didn't and she'd tease him about (which I know some people hated, but IDC!) and I loved how she says "Spoilers". I wish I could mimic it without sounding silly, but at least it plays properly in my head. I've decided to be her to Halloween. I think the reason I loved her from the start was because there's something about her that I see in myself. Something smart and mysterious, but confident and strong. I said this in the first one, but I'll say it again. I didn't think she fit with Ten, but she definitely fits with Eleven. I was glad to see her come back in Series 5, even if it was out of order again. And I can't wait for Series 6 to see more of her. I want an actual copy of her Tardis book with all it's stories. I'd read it over and over again. I also want her Sonic Screwdriver because it's beautiful in it's sort of grubbiness.
I love how she is with Amy. Amy is my second favourite (first if I can't count River, but I'm gonna so there... :p ). I call them Team Awesome, mostly because as much as I loved the Fez, it was awesome to see Amy grab it and toss it and River blast it into pieces. And (SPOILERS) the promo for Series 6 where she shoots of the Doctor's Stetson. XD (END SPOILERS) I do worry about what she says, that everything will change. I worry that I won't love her as much once I know who she really is and it scares. Which I know is weird, since she's a fictional character, but as I said, there's that part of her I see in me and I guess I worry that that tiny little part will be apart of what I end up not liking about her, so there'll be apart of me that I won't like. Hopefully that won't happen.

As I said, Amy is second. I think it's because of how she takes charge with the Doctor and that she's a bit damaged. This past year I became a bit damaged, so I guess it's the same thing as with River. I see apart of Amy in me (or me in Amy, however it is) so maybe that makes me biased. I love her relationship with Rory. Yes, it's not perfect, but it's still wonderful in the end. And her awesomeness at her own wedding, telling the Doctor he's late for her wedding. That episode makes me, if I ever decide to get married, have a Doctor Who themed Wedding just so I can have a Tardis (if not lifesized replica of the outside at least, then a keychain sized version) to be my something old, something new, something borrowed, and something blue. Yes, I am a big geeky, nerdy, dork of person, and I'm okay with that.

TBC...
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