taiey:
Doctor Who companions these days…they have no personality!
I know, right? I mean, heaven forbid we should look at women as individual characters with strengths, personalities, weaknesses and traits. Who can perform a variety of different jobs and roles.
Stip-o-gram turned model who married her childhood sweetheart and had a rather disturbed childhood because no one believed her about her imaginary friend or the voices coming from the crack in the wall. Braved torture, imprisonment, the loss of a child, also funny, witty, bold in the face of danger, quite a ruthless streak as was not above getting her own back. Driven by love to remain at her husbands side, showed vulnerability and the need to be rescued.
A weapon, a child stolen from her parents and raised to kill. Reckless, flirty, sassy and a little wild, convicted murderer, archaeologist, wife of the Doctor, child of the Tardis. The Doctor convinced her she could be so much more than she had been raised. Selfless in giving up remaining regenerations to fix her mistake, or at least the mistake by others. Died (or downloaded if you will) saving thousands of people from the CAL computer system.
A futuristic Queen of Britain who was lied to and deceived by her advisors who was forced to make a choice of letting her people die or torturing a poor defenceless creature. couldn’t make such a hard choice, was saved the agony of continuing her role in the system by Amy pond,
A Victoria match girl, who seems well versed on martial arts and not only thinks nothing or a relationship with a women but doesn’t care she is a green scaly lizard alien and smacks men in the face if they think they can take liberties with her. Ostracised by her family for her choice of companion, does not let it affect her compassion, beliefs, love or ability.
A seemingly immortal puzzle of a girl who turns up throughout history. Barmaid, governess, teacher, child minder. Extremely strong willed to reject Dalek mental conditioning in favour of keeping her humanity. Loved books and travel and to cook. Acted as a voice of reason and conscious in helping prevent extermination of the Time lords. She also acrificed herself to save the Doctor and didn’t turn out a mystery or ‘impossible’ at all. She was ordinary and performed and extra ordinary act. Can admit she can be bossy, eager to please her family.
Queen Elizabeth I of England. Not the historical version. For those Blackadder fans-I see a lot of Queenie love in there. Not the so called Virgin Queen people love labelling, was quite happy to explore her sexuality and engage in relations with exotic strangers. Quick to point out the male of the species sexism towards women. Can take out a Zygon with nothing but a dagger and can gather intelligence and work out alien plans before the smartest man in the room.
The female head of a vast religious order. Was willing to die defending the doctor, a planet and its people. Had the strength of will to overcome Dalek conditioning to help save the day. Refuses to grow old, desiring to keep her youthful appearance. was willing to destroy a planet to stop the time war regenerating. Changed the papal mainframes entire goal to silence.
I don’t really know why I bother watching, they are all the same character, their stories are all so similar…
I don’t even get what op was trying to accomplish. Did they just think “oh, I’m gonna post a bunch of pictures of Moffat era women and declare them to be the same person without anything even resembling support to my claim.”
Let’s break it down some more. Firstly, wow: what definition of companion are they using? You could argue for River and Jenny, but Tasha Lem? Liz X? Liz I? What’s a series 5 character doing in a list otherwise comprised of characters who appeared in series 7? Well, at least they didn’t include Reinette.
Next, the pictures they picked do not remotely aid their argument. We have two people firing guns but one of them is gleeful and the other distraught. Jenny looks hopeful, a little innocent; Tasha Lem proud, commanding, mature. Clara’s sad and Liz I’s worried, while Amy… I’m trying to approach these images as if I don’t know their context (I know the context of every single one) and I don’t know how to read it sans the confident bravado of its site. There’s a quiet power in her eyes. These characters do not look like the same person.
Finally, do not think this person is trying to launch a feminist critique.
Something tells me he wasn’t.