zippyzoo77 wrote:I'm a bit wierd in that I don't really hate things that easily. I like Amy, Rory, Donna, Martha, 10, 11, and all the other regenerations I've seen enough of to really say much about. ((The exception being most of the ninth doctor, which I really didn't like that much. The only 9 episodes I liked were The Empty Child and the Doctor Dances. And the last few minutes of The Parting Of The Ways, which I loved because my least favorite doctor regeneration regenerated into my favorite doctor regeneration.)) Other than the ninth regeneration of the Doctor and Mickey, I haven't disliked a main character on Doctor Who.
On another side of things, did anyone else really dislike Cassandra? I couldn't stand her, but if you count her as a main character ((which I don't.)), I also hated her too. So I suppose it actually just goes with the rest but still.
Donna was probably one of my favorite characters on Doctor Who, definetly ties for best companion. ((Unless you don't count River, then she would be the best. But she ties with River whenever you put them in the same group. They are closely followed by Rory and Jack, who also tie.))
On Cassandra, while I really disliked her as a person (up until her end), she was kind of hilarious to watch as a character. Seriously, she had some of the best lines. "It's like living in a Bouncy Castle." "Oh, baby, I'm beating out a samba!" "Goodness me, I'm a man. Yum! So many parts... and hardly used." "You still have a bit of a chin left." She was a selfish spoiled socialite who took 'two-dimensional' to whole new levels and had a serious lack of morals, but it seemed like that was more due to her never having tried to understand others - she was very affected by the loneliness of the Flesh after she merged with one of them, and at the party when 'Chip' spoke with her, Cassandra was the only person who showed compassion for him. There are only a few scenes of Doctor Who that get me every time, but Cassandra holding Chip and comforting him as he's dying... that's one of them. That one, "I will always be your mummy" and the end of Father's Day are the main ones I can think of off the bat.
Donna is still my favourite companion, I think - Rory is definitely right up there with her, too, though I like him more as a person than a character. Jack is also one of my favourites (and on the Torchwood side, Ianto and Captain John are great favourites as well, even though I don't think they'd
ever be able to have Captain John on Doctor Who and preserve their family-friendly rating). Amy I'm more ambivalent about, and River I tend to not feel much for. I'm not sure why, but her character just doesn't interest me much, possibly
because they try so hard to make her interesting and mysterious. X3 She has good moments for me, but mostly I'm just 'meh' about River. I found Rose rather annoying for the most part, but she defeinitely had her moments, too. Martha was good, but her story arc was so frustrating because it was all her moping over the Doctor and being 'not as good as Rose', and then getting over him right at the end before leaving. I liked her in 'The Doctor's Daughter' though, and in 'Smith and Jones' while she was still fairly unimpressed with him.
Speaking of Martha, I wonder if she's meant as a redo of 'Amazing Grace' Holloway. An intelligent independent female doctor who runs into the Doctor in the hospital while he's being treated as a patient, discovers he has two hearts (and then mostly dismisses it), ends up having to save the world with him, all while refusing to believe he's really an alien, developing a crush on the Doctor and getting snogged by him, the bit with the shoes (in the movie, Eight has no shoes; Ten throws away his shoes), an alien that's able to appear human by absorbing others (Florence absorbed blood, the Master absorbed the entire body), and the Doctor 'dying' but recovering/regenerating later. It could be that's just the character/storyline that gets gravitated toward whenever they have the Doctor picking up a companion in a hospital, but it did seem like Martha and Grace have a fair number of similarities. And of course, Martha was the first companion of the new series to combat the Master, who was also the villain in the movie's storyline.