Since the very start of his run, I’ve been of the opinion that Moffat was revisiting aspects of the RTD era that created a problematic Doctor with troubling companion relationships– things like the lopsided love story; a companion abandoning her boyfriend; an antagonistic Doctor-boyfriend relationship; the Doctor as angry god; a companion memory wipe; a damaged, untrustworthy Doctor; a genocide that turned out to be pointless; etc. – and creating his own, in my opinion restorative, versions. I wonder if, in his last season, he’s going to tackle the biggest, most troubling one of all: RTD’s disturbing treatment of the companion of color, whose single most defining attribute was, “the companion the Doctor rejected.” At the time, I wrote, “For Martha to be the one not seen, not validated, not empowered with independent agency, is disturbing.” Not surprisingly, I’m really hoping Moffat does this one last thing before he goes.