I think RTD's companion defining moments were character/relationship specific--each trial reflecting the Companion's life with the Doctor.
The Doctor sent Rose home and the TARDIS off to die. He's never done that before, that I can recall. He's sacrificed himself--look at a Five and Peri, but he knew he would regenerate when he died from radiation poison.
He certainly was not motivated to go that far to protect a companion from danger again. He barely knew Martha when they encountered the Daleks in New York. He was in a situtation where he should have sent Martha home--especially as he was so wlling to give himself up to die. Instead he sent her to fight, knowing she might die.
The Doctor's need to protect Rose,was unique, so off hand I would say no, Bad Wolf is a Rose specific situation because the Doctor wouldn't have sent anyone away as he did with Rose.
Rose did not "choose" to become the Bad Wolf, she was possessed. However, I don't know if any other Companion's Mum, as Jackie did, after seeing that her Daughter was determined to be with the Doctor, would have went out and got a big yellow truck (When Mickey's car didn't work, Rose had given up. Mickey wouldn't let her give up and then Jackie showed up with the Truck) And I certainly don't know of any ex-boyfriends who would helped out as Mickey did. What happened to Rose was a much as part of the determination of her Mother and Friend Mickey as it was her own will.
But none of them had any idea what would happen--just that they had to try something to get the TARDIS to listen and that is very much what each and every Companion to some point has done.
Donna also had no choice in becoming the Doctor Donna. It happened and she handled it well, until she realized it wasn't meant to be, and that everything was lost. I imagine anyone who as in the range of the metacrisis at that moment would have become the Doctor/Whomever, and no one but River, Jenny (the Doctor's daughter), or another Time Lord could have endured the meld.
Martha didn't have much choice, but she did have to choose to obey the Doctor. Jack gave her the means to escape. She could have taken the Vortex manipulator and went anywhere in time, or just laid low until someone else came up with a way to defeat the Master, or everything went to crap. And in 365 days, we don't know if--upon meeting up with the resistance-- she didn't once or twice think the resistance plans were better because, this" Clap if you believe in Fairies" solution. She choose to take up the task, even though it meant she was on her own, she had to trust people who probably just saw love ones slaughtered, or who were cold, hungry, starving, terroized, so I imagine she was given more than once. She was used to working on her own though, and didn't depend on the Doctor. According to novel version, she was thrown in a prison camp, although she led an escape.
The Doctor sent Rose home and the TARDIS off to die. He's never done that before, that I can recall. He's sacrificed himself--look at a Five and Peri, but he knew he would regenerate when he died from radiation poison.
He certainly was not motivated to go that far to protect a companion from danger again. He barely knew Martha when they encountered the Daleks in New York. He was in a situtation where he should have sent Martha home--especially as he was so wlling to give himself up to die. Instead he sent her to fight, knowing she might die.
The Doctor's need to protect Rose,was unique, so off hand I would say no, Bad Wolf is a Rose specific situation because the Doctor wouldn't have sent anyone away as he did with Rose.
Rose did not "choose" to become the Bad Wolf, she was possessed. However, I don't know if any other Companion's Mum, as Jackie did, after seeing that her Daughter was determined to be with the Doctor, would have went out and got a big yellow truck (When Mickey's car didn't work, Rose had given up. Mickey wouldn't let her give up and then Jackie showed up with the Truck) And I certainly don't know of any ex-boyfriends who would helped out as Mickey did. What happened to Rose was a much as part of the determination of her Mother and Friend Mickey as it was her own will.
But none of them had any idea what would happen--just that they had to try something to get the TARDIS to listen and that is very much what each and every Companion to some point has done.
Donna also had no choice in becoming the Doctor Donna. It happened and she handled it well, until she realized it wasn't meant to be, and that everything was lost.
I imagine anyone who as in the range of the metacrisis at that moment would have become the Doctor/Whomever, and no one but River, Jenny (the Doctor's daughter), or another Time Lord could have endured the meld.
Martha didn't have much choice, but she did have to choose to obey the Doctor. Jack gave her the means to escape. She could have taken the Vortex manipulator and went anywhere in time, or just laid low until someone else came up with a way to defeat the Master, or everything went to crap. And in 365 days, we don't know if--upon meeting up with the resistance-- she didn't once or twice think the resistance plans were better because, this" Clap if you believe in Fairies" solution. She choose to take up the task, even though it meant she was on her own, she had to trust people who probably just saw love ones slaughtered, or who were cold, hungry, starving, terroized, so I imagine she was given more than once. She was used to working on her own though, and didn't depend on the Doctor. According to novel version, she was thrown in a prison camp, although she led an escape.
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