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On 2025-07-16 12:07:04 +0000, Blueshirt said:

> solar penguin wrote:
> 
>> Melissa Hollingsworth <thetruemelissa@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> I would have been fine with Amy if the Doctor had simply
>>> solved her mystery as an arc -- but no, the solution has to
>>> be that Amy is integral to the universe, has literally saved
>>> the Doctor's life on multiple occasions throughout the
>>> continuum, and is the one who originally inspired him to
>>> steal the TARDIS we know.
>> 
>> It was Clara who inspired him to steal that TARDIS. But apart
>> from that, I agree with everything you said about Amy.
> 
> They were both part of the new-Who syndrome of the companions
> being 'special'... and it all being about them. Which as it
> goes on just makes good companions become annoying and for me,
> devalues the role of the Doctor.
> 
> In "Doctor Who" a companion was [generally] there for the Doctor
> to explain his cleverness too, asking questions so explanations
> [for the viewer] were supplied ... and needing to be rescued by
> the hero of the show - The Doctor.
> 
> Clara's storyline - like Amy's - just got worse as it went on...

Before them was Donna Noble and Rose Tyler. One partial exception was 
Martha Jones, who although very clever, didn't have an 'super power' 
storyline (that I can recall).

Part of the reason is the usual "Politically Correct" silliness ... you 
can't have a dumb female companion any more nor a white male being 
intelligent, so the roles got somewhat reversed. Notice that when 
Doctress Who turned up, she instead had a dim male companion (played by 
Bradley Walsh).