Thank you so much for such a thoughtful and thorough response! I really appreciate it.
And Rosita would have made a kick-butt companion!
Rosita was very awesome. And resourceful, using that axe to save the two 'Doctor's at the beginning. If the Doctor were in a more welcoming mood, she probably would have gotten an invite.
Voyage of the Damned starts off with a bang and never lets up! Once again, the Doctor inserts himself into a situation fraught with potential trouble, and finds a way to save the day, and a cute possible new companion in the process. However, the Doctor's authority does get questioned (and does so again in Midnight), a realistic thing to see that probably ought to happen more often, and the possible companion who wants to have an exciting life instead sacrifices herself to save a planet and a people she barely knows anything about. Lovely but so sad.
Someone else who doesn't hate VotD! Yay!
Rose and Martha loved him too much to disagree, perhaps
I think that they both disagreed with him when they felt in necessary -- Rose confronts the Doctor in TUD, "Dalek" and they have a huge blow-out in "Father's Day" -- they didn't really need to hash all that much out in S2 because they'd already argued about the things they disagreed about in S1 (though we still get a couple of confrontations -- Rose in SR about past companions in particular). Rose doesn't have all that much that she needs to disagree with him about in S2.
And Martha is a bit more blinded by the Doctor's image, but she still stands up against him when her family gets put in danger.
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Date: 2008-12-29 05:54 am (UTC)And Rosita would have made a kick-butt companion!
Rosita was very awesome. And resourceful, using that axe to save the two 'Doctor's at the beginning. If the Doctor were in a more welcoming mood, she probably would have gotten an invite.
Voyage of the Damned starts off with a bang and never lets up! Once again, the Doctor inserts himself into a situation fraught with potential trouble, and finds a way to save the day, and a cute possible new companion in the process. However, the Doctor's authority does get questioned (and does so again in Midnight), a realistic thing to see that probably ought to happen more often, and the possible companion who wants to have an exciting life instead sacrifices herself to save a planet and a people she barely knows anything about. Lovely but so sad.
Someone else who doesn't hate VotD! Yay!
Rose and Martha loved him too much to disagree, perhaps
I think that they both disagreed with him when they felt in necessary -- Rose confronts the Doctor in TUD, "Dalek" and they have a huge blow-out in "Father's Day" -- they didn't really need to hash all that much out in S2 because they'd already argued about the things they disagreed about in S1 (though we still get a couple of confrontations -- Rose in SR about past companions in particular). Rose doesn't have all that much that she needs to disagree with him about in S2.
And Martha is a bit more blinded by the Doctor's image, but she still stands up against him when her family gets put in danger.