#a shortsightedness on donna’s part really

[caitlynmeow]

Donna: Would you rather stab Heisenberg or...

Alcina: I'd stab him.

Donna: But you don't know the other option.

Alcina: It doesn't matter.

Honestly Donna should have started with the other option first I have no idea what she was thinking going with stabbing Heisenberg as her first option 😭😭

[ssaalexblake]

that said, Martha was Trying to approach her relationship with ten from a healthy angle, but she got pulled into the master’s bullshit And had to deal with ten’s Awful behaviour. But Martha also had good prospects on earth, she has a family whom she loves and that love her, she has a damn good job,a nice flat all to herself in London, she’s a doctor! Martha went looking for a bit of fun, an adventure with a guy she thought was cute and it snowballed. The companions shortsightedness often plays a part in the unhealthy thing they have going on with the doctor, but Martha not so much. 

But juxtapose this with Donna, middle aged woman, poor, loves her grandad but her mum is Cruel to her, was used mercilessly by a man she loved. She was very purposefully running away to a life that actually offered her something instead of scorn and lack of opportunities because she was poor. Add Rose into this, poor girl from the council estate, not really having any prospects beyond her retail job in her small corner of London. 

The socio-economic level of the doctor’s companions really Does play a part in their want to travel with the doctor, and how die hard they are about staying. Martha, from a family whom must have had a fair amount of disposable income to live how they did in London has much less need or urge to stay with the doctor to live an interesting and varying life. Rose and Donna would like... Rather die than be sent back. 

I have Many issues with the way Donna’s family was portrayed because rtd era dw only respected women under the age of 25, and usually still only if they were blonde, but the emotional thrashing Donna got from her mother because she wanted to and could Not escape the trap of being poor, basically, seriously contributed to her want to run off into the universe with the Doctor. Rose straight up Says it’s a better life running with the doctor than the mundane life  of the estate (again, issues here b/c the Mickey stuff was Very Shitty but still). 

Wealth, imo, plays an actual large part in companions inclination to run off to the stars. The ones who have always been poor or have no prospects of stable and decent future income are less likely to want to leave the doctor. 

This is a far more vivid theme in rtd era who, but honestly it for the most part tracks with the rest of the show, if maybe accidentally.