i find it So strange that i cared so little for amy (and rory). i cared enough to be teary at that episode that she was left behind in that garden - that was powerful, especially the hard choices bit at the end (all choices are bad, but you still must choose). but for the rest. im like: that seems uh nice, at amvs about her. im just literally mentally shrugging??
i find it less strange that i cared so little for Clara...but i don’t know why either - i just couldn’t relate to an enigma? i couldn’t relate to somebody so ungrounded?
Rose was so extremely grounded - Jackie, Mickey and none of it went away - travelling with the Doctor had Serious Impact on those relationships. But she was also a mystery to me, intriguing, completely different from me. Bold and daring and bored with life.
and i very much think that this should come back! bring that groundedness back!!!
Donna had the same thing! she had people left behind. Wilf is so popular for a reason. Martha! less so, but also had a whole family she grappled with. and it was the turning point of her story. their connections made them human. HUMANS ARE HUMAN BECAUSE OF THEIR CONNECTIONS. yes, I want the narrative to focus on the Doctor and the companion - and THEIR relationship, but the whole point of travelling with the Doctor is that it’s INCREDIBLE. it’s fuckin magic! it’s insane! but only - only in contrast with the mundane.
like - i feel like maybe, the most important thing is that the mundane is in companion’s BONES, it’s rooted there, every aspect of them is informed by it. and all of that brushes up against the impossible. and they know to value it. so we - the audience - know to value it! WONDER! AND JOY!!!! awe and horror.