Who’s your favorite 10th Doctor companion? Note that this is from across all mediums and includes all TV companions and only multi-story companions from other mediums. Feel free to comment explanations for your choices, but you don’t have to. You can choose as many as you want.
I’d say “poor Mickey”, with as low as he’s getting on the poll, but I don’t like the actor who plays him, and the Mickey we got initially rather sucked. He got a bit better later, when he was traveling with the Doctor, but Ricky Smith was undoubtedly the superior version of the character, and he’ll be missed (by Jake, at the very least).
So, Donna and Wilf are the clear winners, Martha came in third, and an audio companion beat Rose. I would’ve thought Rose would’ve gotten more votes. I’m also not surprised that the more obscure EU companions didn’t get votes.
Martha could have been an interesting companion, and could do with an EU renaissance, but in the show most of her use was in pining after the Doctor. When she came back in Series 4 she was great as the pining was gone.
I like that people love her, but for me, she is the biggest reason that I don’t love series 3, only like it.
She really got the short straw coming straight after Rose.
It’s such a shame she couldn’t do Torchwood: Children of Earth (she was originally meant to, and was replaced by Cush Jumbo as Lois Habiba, although I do think she did an excellent job and the role was slightly different because she was new to it all).
Coming after Rose isn’t that much of an issue for me, it’s the pining. Having her flirt and be rebuffed after a couple of episodes would have been fine, but even in Utopia having her role her eyes and be pissed that Rose is mentioned makes me shout at the TV.
I kinda meant that because she came straight after Rose, The Doctor just keeps going on about Rose, which didn’t help.
Also if the Doctor wasn’t so distracted and heartbroken he could have paid Martha more attention.
I put the blame on him for the way she was behaving really, not her as much. She didn’t really behave any differently to Rose, except for Rose it was reciprocated.