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I’ve been trying to put my finger on why I like RTD-era Doctor Who better than Moffat’s, and I think it’s this – it’s the companions. Ten and Eleven break my heart in equal measure but I have never, ever liked Amy Pond as much as Rose or Donna or even Martha. My main reason (and I think the reason that the most people have an issue with her) is plot-wise, she’s extremely passive.

Let me demonstrate by looking at season finales. These are, arguably, the most critical moments in the show – the moments when things really happen, when plot arcs are finished (or started), when the most is revealed about the characters. So does each companion do in those last critical moments?

• Season 1: Bad Wolf/The Parting of Ways: Rose Tyler, after being deposited back on Earth by the Doctor, breaks into the TARDIS, looks into its soul, and proceeds to rescue the Doctor, bring Jack Harkness back to life, and destroy the entire Dalek fleet.

• Season 2: Army of Ghosts/Doomsday: Having once again been told to stay put and stay safe by the Doctor, Rose jumps back into his world and helps him close the portal, and would have died if her father hadn’t jumped across to save her.

• Season 3: The Sound of Drums/The Last of the Time Lords: Martha Jones spends an entire year traveling a world under military rule, creating a telepathic field that restores the Doctor from his powerless state.

• Season 4: The Stolen Earth/Journey’s End: Donna Noble gets blasted with regeneration energy, becoming part Time Lord, destroying the Daleks and saving the Earth and 26 other planets.

• Season 5: The Pandorica Opens/The Big Bang: Amy Pond’s child self goes to the museum per the Doctor’s instructions and opens the Pandorica; after the Doctor flies it into the exploding TARDIS it is her memories that restore him to the universe.

• Season 6: The Wedding of River Song: Kills Madame Kovarian and lets the Doctor marry River.

And because this is about Amy Pond, let’s look at all of Season 7, Part 1, which should in theory be the Ponds’ shining moments.

• Asylum of the Daleks: Gets back together with Rory. Yes, that’s all she does the entire episode.

(in fact, I really hate that scene because the way she treats Rory is just appalling. She makes a big show out of having “given Rory up” like she was doing him a favor, when in fact she never asked him what he wanted or what he would prefer. She would at least owe him the honesty to tell him why she divorced him, but clearly she didn’t even do that.)

• Dinosaurs on a Spaceship: Opens up a computer and stuns some Velociraptors. Even Nefertiti had more plot significance than her.

• A Town Called Mercy: Convinces the Doctor not to kill Kahler Jex, who dies later anyway.

• The Power of Three: Accompanies the Doctor onto the Shakri spaceship and helps Rory wheel Brian to safety.

• The Angels Take Manhattan: Jumps off a building with Rory, then lets a Weeping Angel zap her back to him.

Do you see my point? After Season 5, Amy loses almost any agency she has when it comes to affecting plots and the Doctor. She’s an accessory – it is the Doctor who saves the day, and she was just along for the ride. Rose was Bad Wolf, Martha Jones saved the world, Donna was the most important woman in the universe, but Amy Pond was the Girl who Waited – the girl who waited to be saved, usually by the Doctor but sometimes by Rory (who was helped by the Doctor). Donna had an entire episode dedicated to her and how the universe and the Doctor would die if she had never met him (and can we talk about that, because “Turn Left” was the episode where I fell in love with Donna Noble, because she gave her life to save the universe without ever knowing exactly what she was doing, or why, and despite believing she was unable to help at all). Rose traveled across a parallel universe to find the Doctor and to help save the world.  But Amy gave birth to River Song, and, well, that’s about it.

And this brings the show down because that’s what made it good – the fact that the Doctor, despite his Time Lord brain and all his knowledge and quick thinking – was absolutely nothing without his frail, ordinary, human companions. In “The Next Doctor” Jackson makes a point of asking the Doctor, where are your companions? The Doctor needs his companions. But then Eleven goes and has adventures on his own for centuries and returns much the same. And yes, maybe it’s part of his whole “not liking endings” deal, to delay the farewell, pretend he’s always coming back one more time, but it’s a far cry from the Doctor of seasons 1-4 who needed his companions as much as (or even more) than they needed him.

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