Two good posts.

[elisi]

From Steven Moffat Appreciation on Tumblr: Some Random Amateur’s Guide to Overthinking Doctor Who. (Thoughts on how to get the most out of Moffat Who.)

And such_heights wrote this very interesting thing:

One Of My Hobbies: companions and life outside the Doctor.
('So there's an interesting post on tumblr from taiey pointing out just how many of Clara's episodes feature her home/work life as well as her adventures with the Doctor - she tallies it as 75% up to last week's episode. That seems pretty high! And then I was curious what it looked like for other companions, as well as the time periods spent travelling full time in the TARDIS versus coming along for visits etc.)

Comments

[rustydragonfly.livejournal.com]

NO I WILL STAY HERE AND BE INDEPENDENT. Bah. Give me the time travelling alien please.

But even so, I love running from their lives type characters and it's why I get mad at people who crit Amy because she's "not relatable" - to me she is the most relatable companion so far. Sure I didn't grow up with cracks in time in my walls, but I was still the weird kid who never fit in and kept wishing for an imaginary friend to take me away on adventures. If people say we shouldn't have characters like Amy, what I hear is "you can't have characters who are like you" and that? NOT COOL.

I mean hell I like the other companions too, but they always seemed better able to fit into the real world around them before the Doctor came along, even if they weren't totally happy. Seeing a character who so obviously does not means a lot to me. Even wrote one of my favourite OCs as a tribute to her.

And really if all the complainers can't handle characters having fantastical things happen to them, you have to ask why they're bothering to watch a sci-fi show rather than say, a soap.

[kita0610.livejournal.com]

I want to have a super intelligent reply to this comment, but all my brain keeps chanting is THIS SO MUCH THIS.

I am still not over losing Amy Pond as a Companion. I loved how imperfect she was, how she started out so obviously faking all that confidence and then grew into her own over the course of her arc. I love how she owned her sexuality and her choices, and I love that she let herself be vulnerable even when SHE was the hero. I think her and Buffy would have gotten on famously.

And so much yes to your last bit there- complaining about the fantastic in a show like Doctor Who is like saying you couldn't enjoy Downton Abbey because there aren't enough car chases.