What Happens Next: A Gallimaufry

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myvintagelove:
“ ghost-of-algren:
“ namayo-archive:
“ BUT MOFFAT IS SUCH A GoOD WRITER GUISE.
”
I mean, how many companions can really pass this test?
Name one thing about Rose’s that doesn’t involve the Doctor, her mom, her dad Mickey, or her job...

myvintagelove:

ghost-of-algren:

namayo-archive:

BUT MOFFAT IS SUCH A GoOD WRITER GUISE.

I mean, how many companions can really pass this test?

Name one thing about Rose’s that doesn’t involve the Doctor, her mom, her dad Mickey, or her job when she met the Doctor. I’m drawing a blank.

When she was sixteen she dropped school and moved out because she was in love with Jimmy Stone, which resulted in her never getting her A-levels. He later broke her heart and she returned to live with Jackie.

Is that enough?

RTD may have his flaws when it comes to writing (nobody’s perfect anyway) but at least he made the effort to give us glimpses of the life the companions had before meeting the Doctor. Moffat doesn’t care because that’s obviously not that important.

I don’t think it’s reasonable to exclude Rose’s parents as talking points about her background, because Amy, by contrast, doesn’t actually have a family - not in any meaningful sense. Jackie was a character in her own right; so was Pete. Martha had siblings, parents and a full extended family who actually featured in the show, while Donna had her mother and Wilf, who went on to become a companion in his own right, albeit briefly. The point with Amy is that, beyond the two men she cares about and her job as a kissogram, she literally has no life - nothing that anchors her to Earth, no history to complicate or enrich her adventures, no backstory beyond the Doctor.

RTD’s companions had families; they all had multiple love interests; they had ties to the world beyond saving it. Sure, he had a thing for writing overprotective mothers who clashed with the Doctor - three of them, in fact - but Amy’s potential and her family are almost totally erased; they don’t really influence her at all. (And don’t get me started on how stupid the kissogram job is: I mean, she lives in a tiny fucking village with an approximate population of three - how the hell does she get by as a kissogram? Answer: she doesn’t. The job is deliberately shitty and implausible so that nobody questions her desire to leave it, with the bonus! implication of sexualisation.)

Point being: all the companions are fixated on the Doctor, but of all of them, Amy far and away has the least external development.

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