Doctor Who

[meganlynn09]

Warning!:  Doctor Who post up ahead.  OPINIONS ARE ALL MY OWN.

Okay, I only started to watch the show in March of this year.  It started on SciFi, and I saw commercials for it while watching the new Battlestar Galactica.  This British hit was going to start when BSG's run was over, so I thought I would check it out.

I was in love within 2 episodes.

Comments

[neohippie]

That's a really good post. You expressed really well what I also think about the chemistry between the Ninth Doctor and Rose compared to the Tenth Doctor and Rose. She was really a character made for Nine, and then when Ten came along, it just didn't feel as right. I'm looking forward to seeing how the Tenth Doctor gets along with the new companion.

So I don't really have much to add except what you said at the end about Sarah Jane. The Fourth Doctor to me is like the Fifth to you, I bet, the main old Doctor I've seen a lot of (although I think he might be my favorite by now). You should see some of his episodes with Sarah Jane. They were very nice together.

I'm not sure how much of the leaving scene was on YouTube, but she ends up throwing a fit about how much she hates this life and threatens to leave. But then when the Doctor finds out he HAS TO leave her for her own good, she has second thoughts now that she doesn't have a choice (I think she really says "I was only joking" or something). You could tell Sarah mostly liked being with the Doctor, but it wasn't anything like Rose's "I'm never going to leave you ever" attitude. In fact, throughout her run, Sarah asked several times to go home, and the Doctor always manipulated her into staying some way (a lot like how Nine did with Rose at the end of WWIII, actually). She waffled about that a lot.

Well, I'm digressing. The point is, I liked "School Reunion" because I liked seeing Sarah back, but the parallels people draw between Sarah and Rose and their relationships with the Doctor seem to be mostly from people who don't know Sarah that well.

[meganlynn09]

Thank you very much!

And actually, the clip on YouTube showed all that, and she did say she was joking. It did seem that when the choice to leave was taken away by the Doctor, she faced up the fact that she didn't want to leave. But it's the fact that it didn't really seem like he ditched her and then "School Reunion" seemed like he did. And I can understand why some people didn't like that.

Thank you again for your comment!

[leoff]

I think you're mis-interpreting a lot of fans anger over the episode "School Reunion".

The fact is, the Doctor did "ditch" Sarah. Only one other companion was really "kicked out" of the TARDIS against their will, and that was Susan.

The problem is the word "Ditch." It may be too rough a word to use in the situation. Whether to protect her or for some other reason, the Doctor did basically tell Sarah that she couldn't come with him and, at the time, it was saddening for her but not so much that she would see the long term sadness at that moment for her. It happened so fast that, like most people, it probably wouldn't have really hit her until she realized he was really gone.

What a lot of people had a problem with concerning the eopisode is Sarah's speech about how the Doctor has seemingly left a trail of broken hearts behind him, as if he casts off all his companions. Looking at the companion list, though, it is soon seen that over half of them voluntarily leave, and most of the others are separated from him somehow beyond his control (Peri, Jamie and Zoe, etc). Again, aside from Susan and Sarah Jane, no other companions were abandoned or "ditched" by the Doctor at all.

THAT is what people have criticized the episode for, Sarah Jane's false impression given that the Doctor has left a trail of heart-broken companions in his wake when he really hasn't/

[meganlynn09]

Thanks! I thought there was something I was missing. Knowing that, and what little I know about the older series, it makes a lot more sense why this episode wasn't as well received as I thought it should have been. Thanks again for pointing this out!

[mitchellxl5]

So the Doctor's two closest companions end up being dumped . . . interesting. In many ways, Rose seemed dumped, too . . . though technically it was all beyond the Dr's control, it really felt a bit like Susan to me when all is said and done - he didn't try very hard. He walked away because he had to. In fact, the whole Rose cycle reminds me very much of the Susan cycle and it's certainly no mistake that Susan was referenced in "Fear Her."