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Imagine if Donna's mind did not have to be erased and she stayed the Doctor's companion over the time. Imagine how incredible scenes we would get.

Like 11th Doctor regenerates and they crash into Amy's backyard and Amy finds them as they are shouting at each other I'M GOING TO KILL YOU - IT'S NOT MY FAULT I REGENERATED - YOU HAD TO REGENARATE INTO THE TARDIS DIDN'T YOU

11th Doctor freaking out after the 'are you married River?' scene to Donna:

Donna: You totally asked her to marry you OH MY GOD

Doctor: BUT WHAT DID SHE JUST MEAN , IS SHE SAYING SHE IS MARRIED OR DID SHE JUST ACCEPT MY PROPOSAL WHAT WAS SHE SAYING YES TO OH MY GOD AM I ENGAGED

Donna: *patting his back while laughing and not helping at all*

Vastra: Ask yourself this one question: what is his name?

Donna: ..Bitch I don't care. Whatever his name is, I will just keep on calling him Brainbox or Spaceboy.

Vastra: Alright...

River: Oh I love her so much.

When he regenerates and gets temporary amnesia:

12th Doctor: I know you. You are Handles!

Donna: Oh for heaven's sake... *Slaps him hard*

12th Doctor: *remembers absolutely everything* Oh. Hi, Donna.

12th Doctor: I know who frowned me this face! It's supposed... Hang on. You know whose face this is, why didn't you say something?!

Donna: Honestly,I was kinda wondering how long it would take you to get it...

Missy: So, you see that couple over there? You are the pu...

Donna:

Missy: You see, at this point honestly I think the Doctor's the puppy in the relationship, and you are the one holding his neck collar, okay I accept that. I am his tagalong puppy friend.

Missy: Happy Birthday!

Donna: Hold on.

Donna: HE IS A SCORPIO? THAT EXPLAINS SO MUCH YOU CANNOT BELIEVE-

12th Doctor: OH MY GOD DONNA NOT NOW

Missy: *whispers* His rising is a libra

Donna: *adopts Bill at First glance*

Donna: If you do not do as I say I will snatch Nardole on how you are having Thai nights with Missy on the vault secretly.

12th Doctor: *horrified gasp* that's extortion. You join us sometimes too!

12th Doctor: *rants about how he will not regenerate and it is in his right*

Donna: Listen to me you big space dumbo. If you do not renegerate I will knock you off and kill you in your sleep So you will have to regenerate by reflex. And I would totally do that, you know So regenerate!

12th Doctor: *traumatised and flabbergasted*

Donna: Also please regenerate outside of TARDIS, she is tired of exploding by your regeneration energy.

13th Doctor: So I am appearently the timeless child and kind of created the time lords.

Donna: And you still are not ginger. Sucks to be you.

13th Doctor: I feel like we forgot something...

Donna: Oh, you forgot to give Dan a house but I am sure he will be fine.

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Just imagine the beauty of the 12th Doctor and Donna being companions. Not just the incredible comedic potential of the Show but also how the Doctor would feel So comfortable about his regeneration if Donna was there. He was stressing so much trying to convince Clara he was still the same, but he would not have to feel that with Donna. He would not feel insecure about his face being old because Donna would know why. She would feel delighted it was thanks to her he got that face. They have such a deep bond that he would not have to test her like he did to Clara (which was fucked up) because he would know Donna by heart. She would always knock some sense into him and he would not go crazy like he did in his second season. And even though Donna sincerely loves to help people, she knows the limits very well so she would not get over confident and switch the places for the raven hence she would most probably survive that episode. And when he gets in the confession dial, he would actually keep on living for Donna, because he cares so much about her and she gives to the Doctor the will to love and live the best. The Doctor and his Donna. on the Time and Space. The twelfth doctor would need Donna a lot. Most of his sufferings during the 12th Doctor Era would have been quickly avoided if he had Donna as his companion and of course the comedy would be off the charts too.

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If Donna stayed as the Doctor's companion Part 4 you guys!:

Donna: calling the Doctor your majesty for so long after what happened with Queen Elizabeth he is tempted to jump out of TARDIS*

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Clara: I was told that this line was the best helpline in the universe

Doctor: *holds out TARDIS phone* Donna the phone is for you

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Doctor: This is my last regeneration

Clara: Help him...

meanwhile Donna would be:

Donna: *pulls a chair to sit and stares at the Doctor intensely*

Donna: regenerate. *walks away*

Doctor: ok. *Regenerates*

Clara: what the h..

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Clara: You have to kill Missy now or all this would be on you Doctor

Donna: Clara You can't just ask him to kill his situationship like that!

Donna: He turned emo last time he did that

Donna: I don't want the crossbrows moping on my floor while eating muffins

Donna: seriously just think of me before you say things like that

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Doctor: *plays Killer Queen while looking at Donna at the old arena*

Donna: hey missy want a friend to travel with

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River: *loves taking the TARDIS off when the Doctor is not inside but while Donna is so they can have escapades as she adores Donna*

Doctor throws a rant to Donna when he finds that out

Doctor: YOU WERE THERE WHEN SHE WED THE HYDROFLAX

Donna: Alright, listen she kinda wed to the diamond..

Doctor: OH BECAUSE THAT MAKES THINGS A LOT BETTER

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Doctor: *gives the confession dial to sisterhood* you know who to give it to

Sisterhood of Karn has to do a mass voting to decide if he meant his platonic soulmate Donna or frenemy soulmate Missy because he does not clarify

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Kathleen Kennedy is fine it’s Leslyse Headland that I think missed that part.

To be fair in Star Wars The Old Republic RPG there are certain sith lords including the sith player who have iconoclast morality views that make them sympathetic anti villains even going so far as to ally with the republic and the jedi if the player chooses in that games latest expansions. There is a darker reason Darth Bane decided to make the sith into embracing more heinous urges in order to keep the sith legacy in their minds strong and pure hence why the rule of two. The problem is Leslye Headland and Kathleen Kennedy do not know how to properly write Osha, Mae, and Qimir into proper iconoclast morally aligned sympathetic sith and not making such charismatic intrigues promising in front of the audience. The real problem is The Acolyte show is dehumanizing The Jedi's philosophy nature that is also partly derived from The Art of Peace literature. Asians and their philosophy are being dehumanized in this shows portrayal of them and their culture.

I don't entirely agree with SWTOR's portrayal of certain characters as 'anti-villains'. I'm talking about Lana "Likable Fascist is still a Fascist" Beniko. I am aware I'm stepping on a mine.

Don't get me wrong, she's a fun character with some great ideas behind her but like... She's still a fascist. She's still an "Ends Justify The Means" moral relativist, and while she puts a nice spin onto it her Ends are still the forceful subjugation of everyone who opposes her chosen side's will. The way she gets portrayed as "Not So Bad" in both canon and fanon is kind of concerning in my opinion?

As for The Acolyte, eehhhh? In the interviews I've seen Leslye Headland has made it pretty clear she thinks Mae and Qimir are in the right, even as they murder a bunch of people. I'd say that she properly wrote these characters as intended.

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"I'm right here, standing in front of you. Please, just, just see me."

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"split into pairs" and shenanigans happen

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Clara Oswald's guide to the Twelfth Doctor,

From the Companion's Companion, a book written by Clara to inform the next companions, with information from her, and previous companions.

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Holy crap I didn’t realize that my post about how the Force works in Star Wars would blow up so much. All I did was just post something that I had noticed and evidently a lot of people liked it so thanks guys and thanks for sharing it around. I love the Jedi and I like their teachings. It helps me with my faith journey, looking at that fictional religion and applying into my real life application of my faith. May the Force be with you guys all and may you live virtuously.

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I don’t know if I’ve said this before and stop me if you heard this before. But I ran into the BBC Sherlock disc course and well yikes for the pro and the anti-side. As flawed as it is and how much it pisses off Arthur Doyle fans it did do something for me. It actually got me interested in the character and I actually read the hound of Baskerville’s because of that show. Is show perfect? No course it’s not. But seasons one and two are probably my favorite seasons cause they were fun to me and got me again interested in the source material. Season three is where it started to get a bit offkilter for me and the Christmas special was kind of weird but OK I didn’t bother with season four because then I heard it went off the rails completely. So what I’m trying to say is even if it’s a bad adaptation and it’s filled with little writing quirks and some people don’t like say what well it managed to get me interested which in all honesty is what an adaptation should do. It makes you interested enough to check out the original and then you realize that “maybe this adaptation was not good but it got me interested in the original so that’s something.”

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all me whotuals are chibnall/moffat era fans.

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Like I literally don’t get it. How are the companions y’all hate any more “special” than the ones you don’t?

Is it the way they’re introduced?

Because Amy wasn’t special. She was just a mentally ill kid using faked overconfidence to survive. Yes there were aliens/the crack in her house but Rose was attacked by aliens in her place of work, Martha’s hospital was teleported to the moon and Donna literally got teleported into the TARDIS

Clara wasn’t special. She was literally just an orphan who chose to take care of kids. Yes she had the internet upload thing that made her supersmart with computers for a hot minute but Micky “the idiot” hacked into the fuckin government to launch a missile and that was without alien interference

Ruby isn’t special (well, she might be an alien or someshit, but if THAT makes her “too special” then fuck a bunch of classic companions ig shdhdhd), she’s just a foundling living in a flat with her adoptive family. Yeah there’s the goblin stuff but that’s literally explained IN THE EPISODE to be a coincidence

It can’t be their story arcs because

Rose was the Bad Wolf and even after that literally built a DIMENSION JUMPING MACHINE to cross universes. She was so “special” the Doctor literally fell in love with her and hers was the form The Moment took

Martha literally walked across an apocalyptic Earth as some kind of Dr Whomst Prophet, spreading the word of his existence and literally getting the world to pray for the Doctor, single handedly saving the world

Donna literally got teleported into the TARDIS, was called the “most important woman in all of creation” TWICE, then LITERALLY BECAME HALF DOCTOR. “Destiny” is used to describe her relation to the Doctor multiple times. She literally is so Important that the Doctor splits in two just so one of him can retire at her side.

And that’s not even scratching the surface of all the “special” shit some classic companions were and could do. Literally just say you don’t personally like the characters’ arcs and move on, you love “special” companions you just don’t like when they act like sci-fi characters (which they are) or when they’re too mentally ill for you to relate to them

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Small problem with that. Amy Pond wasn’t special. She only had a crack in her home which made her special but she herself wasn’t special. Clara was literally touted as you know seemingly normal and just ordinary. Bill was also ordinary. Rose? Let’s see she is the bad wolf and literally a goddess. Donna is called the most important woman in all of creation. I don’t even get me started about Martha. Martha was abused by the writing staff, and it did not help the fact that they just didn’t seem to know what to do with a person of color. And it made the Doctor look like an insufferable jerk.

Yeah, Moffat does a better job at showing companions that are pretty normal. Save for some that have mental problems. Russell is better at drama, which is fine although I do think the sometimes leans up a little bit too hard into the drama. It becomes soap opera mill dramatic, which annoys me. Let’s just say I’m not a fan of that. I like him when they remember that this is a sci-fi show that can go anywhere in any win. I do not need the drama of. He said she said and love triangles. I don’t care if I wanna watch that I’ll watch a supernatural thing with a local vampire or something like Buffy.

I say this as someone who stopped watching after Capaldi so I can't say anything about after that but the reason why I prefer the RTD seasons to the Moffat seasons btw is that Moffat is incapable of writing a main companion who wasn't special - everyone had to have something particular or unusual about them, Amy was the girl who waited for the Doctor, Rory was the closest we got to this but he was literally plastic, don't get me started on River Song, and Clara was the impossible girl from the start. I've seen people (beloved mutuals but I can't quite remember which ones so if you're reading this ily I'm not vagueposting on purpose) say that Moffat valued mundanity more than RTD but his companion backstories refute that. Whereas Rose, Martha (Martha especially my darling Martha she didn't get any magic or space science she was just so incredibly brave and clever and kind, Martha who was mistreated by the writers and yet still is this stunning representation of look this is what ordinary people can do! This is how good they can be!), Donna, they're extraordinary in their ordinariness, and that's really emphasised and I like it so much more. I prefer how Moffat handled the doctor himself (but to a large part that might be I prefer how 12 was handled overall), but in terms of companions the first four seasons were the best to me because they really dug into how companions aren't special, they're people like you.

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anyway i'm just gonna drop this here and continue my block-on-sight spree, I've said what I need to.

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Imo the timeless child doesn't ruin The Doctor because if being the timeless child is apparently meant to be what makes The Doctor special then the episode did a terrible job at conveying that.

All regeneration did was just bring her pain, it only lead to her being experimented on and abused as a kid. The Time-Lords, HER PEOPLE, the people who he spent hundreds of years grieving and then gave it all to save them, they made her go through hell only to throw her under the rug like nothing.

The Doctor is the founder of time-lord society not because she blessed them with her amazing powers, but because the entire society is founded on her abuse. A cowardly corrupt group of people lustful for complete power and control over everything, it can all be traced back not to regeneration but to how they exploited her and the whole mentality behind it.

All of this doesn't make me think the timeless child makes The Doctor awesome and special, it just makes me want to give her a hug.

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Steven Moffat

Gives Ten an equally important role to Eleven in his anniversary special, Makes RTD's Time War central to the episode's storyline, and resolves it in a way that doesn't undermine Nine and Ten's character arcs, gives Billie Piper a major role without infringing on Rose's storyline, gives Paul McGann the regeneration story he deserves, gets Tom Baker back on the show one last time, and gives us one very brief, tantalising tease of the next Doctor. And all this was while having no actors under contract, and BBC executives constantly interfering.

Chris Chibnall

Used his final story to bring back two beloved companions from the classic era, and gives them closure with their respective Doctors. Brings back several Classic Doctors and the Fugitive Doctor to aid Thirteen in her final battle, and revealed that companions from throughout the Doctor's life have been getting together and supporting each other, as they will now do for Yaz. And this was in the aftermath of the pandemic, and at a point when a new showrunner couldn't be found, with no idea what future the show had.

Russell T Davies

After getting near complete creative control of the show in time for the 60th anniversary, burns the Thirteenth Doctor's outfit away, immediately pivots back to his Doctor and his companion, with just some old villains to represent the other 55 years of the show. Doesn't bring back any other elements from the show's history until the third episode, and even then, has Mel and Kate play second fiddle to his characters. Doubles down on the self-indulgence of The End of Time by refusing to have Tennant regenerate at all, uses the Fifteenth Doctor's introduction to give Ten a happy ending rather than letting Ncuti Gatwa define his character on his own terms as every one of his predecessors has done. And writes the Nobles (his characters once again) as the one true found family the Doctor needs, as though the Ponds and River and Clara and the Fam were just passing acquaintances.

Two of these are constantly accused of trying to undermine the show and making it all about themselves. I'll let you decide which one it isn't.