I should be used to this by now

[mercy_angel_09]

I'm fairly used to weird dreams. By all accounts they usually make sense shortly after I wake up. It's after a couple of hours that it strikes just how genuinely WEIRD they are.

So my husband and I have gotten series 5 of the new Doctor Who from Netflix and have been gleefully working our way though the episodes. Matt Smith is a adorkable, and

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[mercy_angel_09]

What I love is that at some point the companion is the one with the skills that will ultimately save the day - be it because they have the means of finding the crucial information necessary or because they are determinators to the extreme - but as I said about Amy, they give her the ability to save the day in right off the bat in season 5, where Rose, Martha and Donna all had a few episodes where they got into the groove of being a companion and working on their own. (I love that Martha kicks ass and takes names during the Family of Blood arc. She's stuck in the past, with a human Doctor, and she's the one who has to keep everything from falling apart, which she does but you can see that it's emotionally taxing for her.)

The thing about series one Rose is that she does screw up, and in a very big way. Then she learns from it and does what she can to try and make things better and be as useful as she can be - at least until series two in which case they want to make her something that I felt she wasn't. She had some good moments - I do like her talking to Madam de Pompadour in "The Girl in the Fireplace" because she's doing her damnedest to try and help a woman you can tell she doesn't particularly care for because she's captured the Doctor's attention, but she can't not help because she doesn't want to disappoint the Doctor - but for the most part it seemed like the writers, and RTD especially, were trying to make her the super companion who had no flaws and was perfect.

I feel that Steven Moffett is doing that with Amy. Perhaps she'll get better and have her huge moment of screw up where she learns that sometimes there is nothing that you can do and ultimately trying to help makes things worse. I suppose it's possible that they can make it work, but I'm skeptical at the moment. I won't get the next two discs until Monday at the absolute earliest, so it's not like I can just plug on through to see what happens next (beyond more Weeping Angels, that is).

I want to like Amy. I really do. I think she has the potential to be a fantastic companion for the Doctor but I don't feel like they've really developed the character at this point. True, I'm only four episodes in, but I'd like to think that she'll come into her own as a companion here before too much longer.