Doctor Who poll!

[such_heights]

I think we can sum up my state of mind over the last two days (namely feverish and furious refreshing of flist and Twitter) by saying that I just popped over to who_anon for kicks. Um. Anyway, they were talking about the companion in the latest episode, and blah blah blah -- my favourite was the cries of 'elitism!', what? -- but I got to wondering about the most popular one-off companions (for a generous value of companion that includes Elton and Sally), and companions generally. Thus: poll! I'd imagine we can assume spoilers for 'Planet of the Dead' in the comments.


[Poll #1382954]

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This post on Dreamwidth. Fyi: you can vote over there with OpenID if you so wish, and I'll be interested to see how the results turn out!

Comments

[such_heights]

Ahaha, it's just that we're awesome.

I think I'm a little unusual in Who fandom though because neither Sally or Astrid actually worked for me.

That is unusual! (Sally especially.) You know, it occurs me there really are very few characters I don't like on Who. I'm so easy.

[lorannah.livejournal.com]

Indeed we are.

It's not that I really disliked them (although Astrid did annoy me), they're both likable, I was just extremely disinterested in both of them, nothing about their story dragged me in. Of course, that would probably have been different if they'd been intended as long term companions.

I think I've seen in interviews that both characters were written as 'ideal' companions - which is particularly obvious with Astrid, to the extent that she has nothing to tie her to home or anything - but it's the complications that interest me and the ways characters change and develop.

So with Rose it was all about her empowerment (particularly in the first season) and with Martha I think it was about fulfilling her curiosity and with Donna it was about showing her her own awesome (grrr at finale). But Astrid and Sally were already there, and to me they didn't seem to really grow in their episodes.

But yep probably would have been different if they were on for longer. With Christina I really, really wanted to know how she would have developed.

Err... sorry that was rambly.