Oooooh
1) Amy
2) Martha (but she is very, very close to #1)
3) Mickey
4) Rory
5) Jackie
6) Clara….wait, I have a feeling Clara should be higher than number 6? But who do I take out? Arrgh!
7) Danny
8) IT’S DIFFICULT NOW ARRGHHH Jack?
9) Eleven
10) Rose or Donna maybe?
Lis Sladen (1946- 2011)
Elisabeth Sladen was an English actress, most famous for her role as Sarah Jane Smith in Doctor Who, often described as the most popular companion ever, her character was the first proper feminist companion on the show and also the longest serving (1973-76) she returned for the 20th anniversary special (1983) and for an episode with David Tennant in 2005, before she was given her own spin-off show on CBBC (The Sarah Jane Adventures, 2007-2011)
Lis Sladen passed away exactly 4 years ago today (19th April) at the age of 65 and I just wanted to take a moment to say how much she meant to people, not just to me but to every child who watched her alongside the Doctor or in Bannerman road and she is so, so missed. Thank you for lighting up my TV screen Lis :)
“Except, of course, she was everything I could hope she would be. Charming, diffident, conscientious, giggly, determined, straightforward, a little crazy and enormously warm.” – David Tennant
“Tom campaigning for no new companion, ‘because no one could replace Sarah’,” – Elisabeth Sladen (The Autobiography)
“There she was on the TV screen, smiling and laughing and looking beautiful. How could she be gone?” – Brian + Sadie Miller
“Her doctor said, ‘We can’t cure it, but we’re going to throw everything we can at you to fight it as long as possible’ That fight lasted no more than two months. Lis died at the Meadow House Hospice in the early hours of Tuesday, 19 April 2011. She was 65 years old.” – Brian + Sadie Miller
Doctor Who is my favourite show, so yeah, I do take offense when people criticise it to that extent that it ruins my experience here on tumblr, but honestly, I’ve got so many more issues with that part of the fandom, beyond “you’re talking really bad stuff about my favourite thing!!111!!”
- It bugs me when “fans” will literally make up stories and quotes to validate their opinions about Moffat. I hate it when the fans uncritically will reblog those quotes and fact as truth. This goes mostly for that made up quote from Christopher Eccleston about the 50th, and those rumors about Peter Capaldi arguing about scripts with Moffat.I have also seen people do the same to other actors, like Billie Piper, Matt smith, and Paul McGann
I’ve seen posts about this with 100k+ notes. It doesn’t matter in what context, putting words into actors mouth is a really shitty thing to do.- People were super eager to reblog that ask from Neil Gaiman where he talked about the lack of female writers in the series, which is always an important issue, yes, but no one seemed to care about the post he made afterwards, where he explained that it wasn’t an attack on any of the writers of the show, and that he was aware that Moffat has put a lot of effort into trying to persuade female writers to write for the show. As of series 9, the Moffat era has had the same amount of female writers, and more female directors than the RTD era.
- Neil Gaiman also explained a few months ago that he got such a backlash for his opinion about the possibility of female Doctor(as far as I’m concerned, he was open to it) , that he got reluctant to even discuss the show in general.
- Neil Gaiman is not the only one who’s gotten bad treatment from the fandom: Amanda Abbington also received death treats on Twitter for being supporting of Moffat.
- I’ve seen fans undermine almost every female cast member for their positive opinions about Moffat – Louise Brealey, Alex kingston, Karen Gillan etc – I’ve seen fans accuse them of internalised misogyny.
That of course has never stopped the fandom using Christopher Ecclestons opinion about feminism (which, has never in any way, been related to Moffat) as a point against Moffat.
The fandom uncritically validates the male actors opinion, if they think that it in some way fit their own views, while underdemining the female actors opinions if it doesn’t.- Remember when someone made a huge study on sexism in Doctor Who, but deliberately altered the data in favour of her own personal opinion, and the fandom reblogged it uncritically, and made it go viral? it was debunked no more than three times by three different people.
All very good points, and regarding the last one-
– I did my own, extensive, study of sexism (well, the Bechdel Test) in Doctor Who purely because the piss-poor standards of the last one annoyed me so much. Make that one go viral instead!
After a long line of supposedly subservient female companions, Sarah Jane Smith was intended as the show’s nod towards the nascent Women’s Lib movement. I didn’t want to make a big thing of this, though, assuming the Doctor to be a more liberal thinker than 1970s Britons. As the only girl running around UNIT’s military set-up, Sarah Jane needed to make herself heard, but I figured this could be achieved simply by making her a strong character. Of course the writers occasionally had other ideas. In ‘Monster of Peladon,’ for example, the Doctor actually orders Sarah Jane to give the Queen the full ‘Women’s Lib’ lecture, no punches pulled. The irony of male writers getting a male character to ‘order’ a woman to talk about feminism wasn’t lost on me.
#Martha has literally been running from this man for a YEAR #she watched him firebomb Japan off the map #she has been hounded and hunted and lived in a postapocalyptic wasteland #and look at her expression when she comes face to face with this monster who has ruined her planet #look at how strong she is #MARTHA JONES (gallifreyburning)
#thank you for the taaaaags#because it is too easy to forget#what martha went through#when we’re used to time loops solving everything#but martha and her family went through the Year That Never Was#and were horribly affected by it#changed by it#and martha fucking saved the world#and set herself on her own course (valueturtle)
