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Maybe I should refresh this blog finally, maybe make her more of an OC instead of a roleplay blog for a canon character with Elisabeth Sladen as the inspiration for her appearance while still rping Sarah on the side. Idk, I haven't completely decided what I'm doing yet.
So anyway hi, I'm back.
on the one hand obviously Liz Shaw being written out of the show was really shitty & sexist but on the OTHER hand looked at from an in-universe point of view, her being @ the doctor likeΒ βyouβre a dick and Iβm going back to my extremely prestigious university job, byeβ is probably like. the 2nd funniest way a companion has left.
1st funniest is of course DodoΒ βgot possessed by a robot, decided to go home, left a note for the Doctor bcos she couldnβt be bothered to say goodbye in personβ Chaplet
Classic Who companion departures are either bittersweet, tearful, the culmination of years of character development, or βwelp, that didnβt work ABORT ABORT ABORTβ there is no in between
β¦of course, companion departures in New Who tend to consist of being violently stripped of your humanity and/or agency, so thereβs that
classic whoβs general attitude was like,Β βafter a while the doctorβs companions feel the time has come to settle down, move on with their lives, & apply the life lessons they have learned from the doctor to something newβΒ
whereas new who is likeΒ βtravelling with the doctor is SO WONDERFUL and SO AMAZING that NO-ONE would ever want to stop unless they were idk trapped in an ALTERNATE REALITY or something!! the doctor is just that great!!β
this is why, in light of having watched all of dw, school reunionΒ has begun to rly bug me.
the difference between the way Classic Who handled companions and the way New Who handled companions is a whole thing that I haveβ¦a lot of opinions onβ¦but in particular a while back I was doing a lot of research into classic Who (long story) and once I actually had every classic companionβs reasons for joining and leaving written down it was very evident that School Reunionβs whole βyou leave people behind!!β βbutβ¦they get oldβ¦I canβt bear itβ¦β thing just. wasnβt a thing that happened. almost every classic Who companion leaves either because they want to, or because of circumstances out of everybodyβs control.
Sarah Janeβs case wasnβt the norm, it was an outlier, and even then Four had a perfectly clear stated reason why he had to drop her off (he had to go to Gallifrey and he couldnβt take a human there with him) and this was right after she had just been openly and emotionally talking about how much she wanted to leave, which may or may not have been totally sincere, but itβs not unreasonable for Four to have assumed that it was. yeah it was abrupt and sheβs totally got the right to feel a lot of complicated things about it, but the idea that it was part of some larger pattern of the Doctor leaving people behind just doesnβt have any actual basis. companions leave the Doctor behind far more often than the Doctor leaves them.
what the Doctor should have been called out on was their terrible habit of semi-accidentally-kidnapping people who just happened to wander into the TARDIS, because that did happen. a lot.
yeahh School Reunion contains one of 2 instances of RTD mis-representing a classic companionβs departure in order to big up new who and I canβt help but feel it has less to do with actually challenging doctor whoβs history of sexism & more to do with making new who look good.
also now that youβve said that I would love to see Ian or somebody come back into new who and the doctorβs companion is likeΒ βoh you used to travel with the Doctor, how did you guys meet?β
and Ian is likeΒ βoh thatβs an interesting story, me and my wife thought that he had abducted one of our students so we followed him into the TARDIS and then he kidnapped us so we couldnβt tell anyone he was a time traveller. we got off to a bit of a rough start but we became great friends!β
and the current companion is likeΒ βdoctorβ¦ doctor what the fuckβ¦ did you likeβ¦ make a habit of doing that??β
and the doctor is likeΒ βhaha no it was a one time thing I swearβ whilst in the background the TARDIS starts passively-aggressively flashing images of other people he kidnapped.
Seriously, Sarah Jane REAMING him out before she left was one of the prize rants of classic Who. So, much as I liked parts of School Reunion, that retcon bugged me. (And yes, itβs complicated.)
Iβm glad the Sarah Jane Adventures happened, but Iβm sorry it was at the expense of the Sarah Jane Smith audios, whose premise was, βThe Doctor is gallivanting off somewhere in the universe [as he did for most of classic Who with Leela onward] so itβs up to ME to put my investigative reporter and intergalactic explorer skills to work, uncover conspiracies and baddies right here on Earth and stop them myself.β She even assembled a team of adult companions to assist her. I thought the SJS audios epitomised the classic Who companion, treating their time with the Doctor as a βgap yearβ where they figured out who they were and found a life for themselves.
To borrow a metaphor from another fandom: Classic Who companions were mostly like Samwise Gamgee. They went there and back again, returning more experienced, more confident, and able to be leading figures in their communities/careers if they so chose. Whereas New Who companions tend to be like Frodo. They go on amazing heroβs journeys but often wind up wounded, sacrificing the life they wouldβve had otherwise. (Come to think of it, Martha realizes she doesnβt want to be a TARDIS martyr and chooses to go back home; sheβd rather be Sam.)
I love School Reunion (even now that Lie of the Land has put me off Toby Whitaker till the end of time) but thereβs no way Sarah Jane thought the Doctor was coming back for her after they told each other, βDonβt forget me.β And thereβs no way Sarah Jane spent the intervening decades pining passively for the Doctor and then got back into the paranormal journalism game just when sheβd coincidentally bump into him again at Deffrey Vale, instead of having been active at it all the time.
β¦β¦.In the limited time we have between our births and our deaths, we live life with everything weβve got.
Umineko quotes I canβt stop thinking about lately (the darkness will be rewritten into a work of fiction, youβll see)
βKeep calm, Sarah.β
The Brain of Morbius - season 13 - 1976
When your girl is calmer than you when facing an alien monstrosity.
thatβs my emotional support entity of questionable moral standing
πππππππππ / Β ππππππππ πππππππ.
ππ‘ππ¬π π¦ππ² π‘ππ―π ππππ§ πππ’πππ ππ¨π« ππ₯ππ«π’ππ² π¨π« π₯ππ§π ππ‘ π¨π« ππ¨ ππππππ« ππ©π©π₯π² ππ¨π« π«π¨π₯ππ©π₯ππ²π’π§π .
β What happened? β
β How are your injuries? β
β Just promise me youβll stay here. β
β You canβt blame yourself. β
β You know Iβm here for you, right? β
β Iβve never seen you like this before. β
β When I wake up, you wonβt be there. β
β Okay. You get to leave now. β
β No. I donβt believe you. β
β Just.. put down the very sharp knifeβ¦ β
β It wasnβt your fault. It hurts. β
β This isnβt you. β
β Stop it. β
β You should be resting. β
β Are you okay? Did they hurt you? β
β How can you act like that? β
β Then why are you still here? β
β Are you okay? β
β You canβt live in the past. You gotta move on. Let it go. β
β And when were you planning on telling me? β
β What are you, trying to give me a heart attack? β
β Whatβs wrong? What happened? β
β I thought we agreed that secrets are bad! β
β Sorry. Didnβt want to push any sore spots. β
β Everything okay? β
β Do you even know where youβre headed? β
β I canβt help you unless you talk to me. β
β Promise me youβre not gonna over-react. β
β Itβs okay, itβs gonna be okay. β
β Whoa, what are you doing? β
β Why do you run from me? β
β Youβre changing the subject. β
β Itβs four o'clock in the morning, what are you doing? β
β Youβre bleeding. β
β You gotta be more careful. β
β I meantβ¦ How are you holding up? β
β Youβre avoiding my question. β
β I think the worst of itβs over now. β
β Donβt let fear keep you quiet. You have a voice so use it. β
It took me five minutes of FINALLY listening to this audio to have more material lol ;; //
βYou canβt do that!β They exclaimed.
βFucking watch me,β The other hissed and did exactly what they were told not to do.
AU where Muse A is Muse Bβs boss at an office space job and Muse A is the only one Muse B can see from their head office. They continue to make eye contact on some days and one day Muse A recieves an email from their boss, telling them to come to their office. Instead of assigning something to them, Muse B simply wants to ask them out for lunch.
Reblog if your muse has gone through some sort of traumatic experience!
Have people send asks trying to guess what happened!
sb: hey i ship our muses!
me:
Apparently, I can only draw Sarah Jane Smith as cute and moe, I am so sorry please forgive me for my sins.
Even my icon...moe. ; n ; //
i had a thought: instead of sarah telling off 10 for leaving her in aberdeen, what if 4 actually went back to 1978 LIKE HE WAS SUPPOSED TO to surprise sarah and give her k-9 π€
