Companions shown starting at 3:18, 1. Rose 2. Sarah Jane 3. Not sure, but I think Romana I. 4. Liz Shaw (Not sure why she's on 5. here, as she was never actually a 6. Tardis inhabitant.) 7. Martha 8. No idea, as image is too low-res. 9. Rose again 10. Donna 11. Polly 12. Jo Grant 13. Romana I 14. Zoe 15. Victoria (Not 100% on this one) 16. Romana II 17. Leela 18. Barbara 19. Tegan 20. Peri Then at 3:30, Leela four times in a row.
I love how even here when the Doctor's seemingly opening up to his true reasons for bringing Amy with him, he's still hiding something. There's still one more layer even after all is supposedly revealed. Everything he said about his companions helping him see the wonder of the universe is true, but that's why he brought SOMEONE back onto the Tardis. But he never said why he chose Amy. He chose Amy because he was afraid she'd be consumed by the crack in time. He didn't know why the crack existed but he'd already figured out what it could do. That's why he was going to come back for Amy in 5 minutes and bring her onto the Tardis despite her being like 10 years old. Her parents were gone (erased from existence) and if he didn't find her aunt then she soon would be too, along with Amelia herself. That's why he was so terrified when Amy as an adult lied to him and said Amelia Pond hadn't lived in the house for a very long time. He was worried that the Tardis malfunction had caused him to arrive too late and Amelia Pond, an innocent child, had suffered a fate worse than death (and probably her aunt too). Luckily Amy and her aunt (who she mentions as an adult in the Eleventh Hour and therefore confirms she still exists) survived, likely because the crack was still mostly dormant. It wasn't until later that the cracks consistently erased anyone who came near them like with Rory. I get the feeling the Tardis knew Amy and her aunt would be fine if the Doctor came back in 12 years instead of 5 minutes. She doesn't seem to view time from a linear perspective and while she may have been malfunctioning, the Doctor was confident he'd be back in 5 minutes and he knows that control room inside out. The Tardis likely jumped forward to ensure Amy wasn't brought onto the Tardis as a child. The Doctor was only going to recruit a child as his companion as a desperate attempt to keep that child safe. He couldn't have known she'd be safe in 12 years but the Tardis could, so protected Amy by letting her have a childhood. I wish we'd gotten a full episode with Amy's parents after the Doctor rebooted the universe and her parents existed again. It would have been really heartbreaking seeing them come to terms with the fact that Amy had lived two lives, and in one of those lives, she'd been an orphan because they were erased. And seeing Amy reconcile with her parents since they'd never believed her about the Doctor until he appeared at her wedding.
One of the few things I hated about Russels writing was how he always had a romantic component between Doctor and companion. That’s probably what this scene was trying to clear up,
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Everyone's talking about her accent and her eyes but can we just take a moment to appreciate how downright terrifying this is? Honestly, who here can legitimately say that they would notice an extra door in their house?
I was so creeped out by Amy Pond that I barely connected with Matt Smith's Doctor because she was there in most of his run. I find her disgusting overall. Her sexually aggressive behaviour with The Doctor, disloyalty and mistreatment of Rory in the beginning and then later she just gets dead boring with the pregnancy, prisoner and mother arc. There are a few high points but they weren't so high they made me forget the nauseating behaviour. It is supposed to be a kid friendly show, what exactly are they telling kids? Women making non-consensual sexual advances are okay?
I would have much preferred this scene of Amy responding to what she perceives as mixed signals from Basil and calling him out on his propensity for only having young, attractive women comprising the majority of his friendships and a serious moment about the doctor's feelings of numbness and indifference towards the universe than the scene we got; Amy sexually assaulting the doctor.
Errrr Iain, Stephen, Ben, Jamie, Brigadier, Benton, Yates, Harry, errr … Adric, Turlough … Mickey? Jack … Wilf? … Yeah Amy is right, there is a gender imbalance in that Tardis. BUT tbf Susan - his first companion - is his granddaughter, so I don’t think he planned on travelling with a series of women, it just kinda happened 😅
Because I can't see it anymore... I'm 907. After a while you just can't see it anymore. Everything. I look at a star and it's just a big ball of burning gas, and I know how it began, I know how it ends... and I was probably there both times. You know, after a while, everything is just stuff. That's the problem. You make all of space and time your backyard what do you have? A backyard. But you can see it. And when you see it, I see it.
Its kinda tragic how the doctor describes how fantastical things are so mundane to him now, he can't see the spectacle anymore so he has to experience it through the companions eyes.
