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Ehh, I reckon there's a lot more to the Doctor's friendship with Donna and Amy than 'they didn't want to jump his bones' (or didn't eventually). And of course he had a very sweet friendship IMO with someone who did...
But back to Sarah Jane!
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Ehh, I reckon there's a lot more to the Doctor's friendship with Donna and Amy than 'they didn't want to jump his bones' (or didn't eventually).
Fans have their own POV, and I would hope it is true, but that statement was a cryptic aside to NuWho writers. Russell Davies, in discussing the ease with which Donna and Ten bond, Noted that Donna did not represent the tragedy of Rose, and Complication of Martha, and then we have this conversation:
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Yeah, in that moment the Doctor needs to clear that issue with Donna because after what he experienced with Rose, Martha and Astrid he's not ready to go through that again (he would anyway, and indeed it did him in), but I think his and Donna's friendship goes way beyond 'lack of romantic complications'. It's already there in The Runaway Bride when Donna's heartbroken after discovering Lance's betrayal, and he is still raw from losing Rose, but they both forget that in the moment when he has the joy of showing her the formation of the Earth, she's awed by the new perspective this gives her, she makes a joke about the Isle of Wight, and they both laugh. It's also there in the times she's told him off, supported him, been his voice of conscience, and all the times he trusts her, praises her, and continues to expand her horizons. And all the laughter they share all throughout.
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Doctor needs to clear that issue with Donna because after what he experienced with Rose, Martha and Astrid I'm not a fan of NuWho tendancy making the Doctor's emotional issues front and center as somehow the "Fault" or "responsibility" of the Companion, which is why the Sarah Jane/Three and Four is so precious to me. But as you say, back to Sarah.
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That's a brilliant interview, thanks for sharing!
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Yeah I loved that interview. There is an audio version of much longer interview (Featured in the Doctor Who Magazine Tribute edition) with Lis from the 1990s where she makes that tripping on twigs remark, describing her purpose. But Sarah Jane did much more than that.
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