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I sometimes wonder how much more/less people would like Donna if she weren't preceded by Rose and Martha.
On a related note Clara has been Killing It this season but I still have a lot of difficulty understanding how people don't think Amy and Rory are the best companions
Edit: To clarify, I was always sick of her crushing on Matt Smith's doctor, and acting like everything was all about her. Not a problem with the actress or anything, since she did a good job of portraying it. Just hated her storyline.
1) I really hated how much she tried to get in bed with the doctor.
2) I feel like, compared to Clara, Rory, and Donna, she rarely contributed to the success of an outing.
3) She often treats Rory like crap
She does a lot of cool things, to be sure, and has some great lines and chemistry. But those three things happen often enough to sour me on her character.
1) I really hated how much she tried to get in bed with the doctor.
2) I feel like, compared to Clara, Rory, and Donna, she rarely contributed to the success of an outing.
3) She often treats Rory like crap
She does a lot of cool things, to be sure, and has some great lines and chemistry. But those three things happen often enough to sour me on her character.
didn't the 'trying to get in bed with the doctor' thing get nipped after like her third episode though? i could be misremembering but i thought that was like a very early thing that was just panic before marrying rory
the second two i can definitely see though.
i marathoned most of matt smith's run in like a week or two when i was on sick leave from work, so a lot of 5 and 6 blur together for me. i guess most of my favorite moments are with her and rory as a unit
until the last episode where she's now keeping both Danny and the Doctor in the dark about the other, I mean come on. I'd like to think she's not that daft.
until the last episode where she's now keeping both Danny and the Doctor in the dark about the other, I mean come on. I'd like to think she's not that daft.
1) I really hated how much she tried to get in bed with the doctor.
2) I feel like, compared to Clara, Rory, and Donna, she rarely contributed to the success of an outing.
3) She often treats Rory like crap
She does a lot of cool things, to be sure, and has some great lines and chemistry. But those three things happen often enough to sour me on her character.
didn't the 'trying to get in bed with the doctor' thing get nipped after like her third episode though? i could be misremembering but i thought that was like a very early thing that was just panic before marrying rory
the second two i can definitely see though.
i marathoned most of matt smith's run in like a week or two when i was on sick leave from work, so a lot of 5 and 6 blur together for me. i guess most of my favorite moments are with her and rory as a unit
She was all "You can DEFINITELY kiss the bride" at her freaking wedding. They were a bit bipolar about her/Rory/Doc to the point where it got brought up in an episode.
And yeah, Clara is improving lately, but also being wrong. It's going to explode sooner or later.
If you think Amy was constantly trying to get into bed with the Doctor you watched that whole era waaaay differently than me.
Yeah. Whenever there was an actual "Doctor or Rory" choice, she went for the nurse, every time. But semi-flirting with the Doctor was a thing she did as a general "we're friends, and have been friends for a long time" semi-joke. I mean, even when she was making a move on him, it was shown as more "Amy is in a really bad place emotionally and is trying to figure out SOMETHING to deal with the trauma of seeing a lot of people die in front of me and nearly dying myself" instead of, you know, a crush.
I mean early on she did like, explicitly ask him to fuck her
This is the part I was referring to. I thought this was the episode where they they pan over to show her wedding dress, but maybe I'm mixing up the first two episode endings or something. I definitely remember that scene getting shut down in a 'you're being impulsive and these aren't your real feelings' kind of way though
So this was the best episode of the series so far for me. Genuinely creepy, but with some serious chuckles to balance it out.
That hand in the tunnels...dear lord I was almost headed behind the sofa again, it's been years since I was back there!
I've also noticed that they really seem to be pulling in will-they-won't-they companions each week now...which is kind of weird?
It feels to me like some kind of thing going on with Clara and staying when she shouldn't have or something, especially with the mystery other people and this last episode.
she called the Doctor on his bullshit and didn't fawn over him every second.
To tell the truth there isn't really a companion I didn't like.
she didn't "call" the doctor out. she screamed him out like a mad person who has serious issues
I get why people complain about her shouting, but come on, she had really good reasons to be upset. If I dematerialized and appeared on a spaceship an incomprehensible distance from earth, my fiancee was the pawn of a melodramatic spider monster, and they had the reception party without me, a mopey Scotsman would not be able to get me to calm down.
I gotta say, this episode might stand as my platonic ideal of the show. Crazy sci-fi concept that didn't strain credulity (within the confines of the show, at any rate), perfect amount of horror elements. The "villains" feel like something that could have come out of the early years of the show (in a good way). The companion was useful and competent (Clara did make an excellent Doctor). It was serious when it needed to be, funny when it was appropriate, with just a hint of drama in the right places. The Doctor had the perfect blend of arrogance, cleverness, whimsy, and heroism (maybe I was just caught up in it all, but that Tennant-esque speech at the end felt like just the right amount of grandeur, especially since we haven't usually gotten that sort of thing from Capeldi).
Next week's episode looks kind of dull by comparison.
I know my opinion is never shared by anyone else, but I liked Rose.
Yes she was needy and annoying, but Billie Piper was easy on the eyes.
I'm right there with you: Rose #1 Companion. And not just because of the easy on the eyes bit, she just was the glue that held the Doctors and other Companions together for me.
And I echo all the positive comments about the episode. More of this please. Clara doctoring it up, less ranting at the wrong people.
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I gotta say, this episode might stand as my platonic ideal of the show. Crazy sci-fi concept that didn't strain credulity (within the confines of the show, at any rate), perfect amount of horror elements. The "villains" feel like something that could have come out of the early years of the show (in a good way). The companion was useful and competent (Clara did make an excellent Doctor). It was serious when it needed to be, funny when it was appropriate, with just a hint of drama in the right places. The Doctor had the perfect blend of arrogance, cleverness, whimsy, and heroism (maybe I was just caught up in it all, but that Tennant-esque speech at the end felt like just the right amount of grandeur, especially since we haven't usually gotten that sort of thing from Capeldi).
Next week's episode looks kind of dull by comparison.
Couldn't agree more. Definitely want to see more episodes from this writer. You can see in the Extra interviews that he just 'gets' what the show is.
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she called the Doctor on his bullshit and didn't fawn over him every second.
To tell the truth there isn't really a companion I didn't like.
Another time I'm glad to not watch enough british tv to know anything about most of the actors on the show.
This could be true for me, I just have a hard time imagining it.
On a related note Clara has been Killing It this season but I still have a lot of difficulty understanding how people don't think Amy and Rory are the best companions
Edit: To clarify, I was always sick of her crushing on Matt Smith's doctor, and acting like everything was all about her. Not a problem with the actress or anything, since she did a good job of portraying it. Just hated her storyline.
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2) I feel like, compared to Clara, Rory, and Donna, she rarely contributed to the success of an outing.
3) She often treats Rory like crap
She does a lot of cool things, to be sure, and has some great lines and chemistry. But those three things happen often enough to sour me on her character.
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The pinnacle of this for me was
the second two i can definitely see though.
i marathoned most of matt smith's run in like a week or two when i was on sick leave from work, so a lot of 5 and 6 blur together for me. i guess most of my favorite moments are with her and rory as a unit
Addiction is a hell of a thing
I'm willing to see where this goes
She was all "You can DEFINITELY kiss the bride" at her freaking wedding. They were a bit bipolar about her/Rory/Doc to the point where it got brought up in an episode.
And yeah, Clara is improving lately, but also being wrong. It's going to explode sooner or later.
Yeah. Whenever there was an actual "Doctor or Rory" choice, she went for the nurse, every time. But semi-flirting with the Doctor was a thing she did as a general "we're friends, and have been friends for a long time" semi-joke. I mean, even when she was making a move on him, it was shown as more "Amy is in a really bad place emotionally and is trying to figure out SOMETHING to deal with the trauma of seeing a lot of people die in front of me and nearly dying myself" instead of, you know, a crush.
Why I fear the ocean.
I've also noticed that they really seem to be pulling in will-they-won't-they companions each week now...which is kind of weird?
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So you're just saying you didn't like that she was Scottish?
'cism.
Maybe it's one of those selective memory things where those moments just stand out more? I dunno.
Yes she was needy and annoying, but Billie Piper was easy on the eyes.
When she comes back she's basically a different character.
Which is surprising since I have a real lizard-brain attraction to red-heads.
But Christ they both just grated my last nerve.
who cares about anything she says when we don't get context for it until the last episode
Next week's episode looks kind of dull by comparison.
I'm right there with you: Rose #1 Companion. And not just because of the easy on the eyes bit, she just was the glue that held the Doctors and other Companions together for me.
And I echo all the positive comments about the episode. More of this please. Clara doctoring it up, less ranting at the wrong people.