I just want a mate.
You just want to mate?!
I just want a mate.
The women of The Who universe
are all strong, opinionated,
and independent.
They're all different kinds of people.
Sometimes they're good guys,
sometimes they're bad guys,
sometimes they're companions.
They've been a friend, they've been an admirer --
You'd better come running, you got it? Got it.
They've been a lover -- Shut up.
They're well-rounded and they're loving and loyal.
There's always something
unique and special about each one of them.
They tend to be proper characters.
Pretty adventurous, pretty bold, pretty brave.
They're never drips.
That was two years ago!
Every woman who encounters the Doctor is
in love with him in a different way.
It's like there are as many
different types of love as there are
women who encounter the Doctor.
That is the one thing that the Doctor
never has control over, right? The ladies in his life.
I'll soon fix that.
♪ Dr. Who 7xSpecial ♪ The Women of Doctor Who Original Air Date on August 11, 2012
== sync, corrected by elderman ==
Back in the day, the "Doctor Who"
female person who was with him was called an "assistant."
These days, they're called a "companion."
I think they are different, I think they're much more
involved in the action.
All the companions get a sniff of what the Doctor's up to
and they're like "I'm in. Take me. Let's do this."
I think you've got to have some real gumption
to be a companion of the Doctor.
When the Doctor
was reinvented and rebranded for a new generation,
kind of the perfect casting choice.
She was gorgeous, smart,
funny, feisty.
She's, like, a working-class shopgirl.
She has a very average life
and then she meets the Doctor
and he sees something in her.
Rose is smarter than she gives herself credit for.
Wiser than, like, the neighborhood she comes from.
I thought it was a warning.
Maybe it's the opposite.
Maybe it's a message!
The same words written down now,
and 200,000 years in the future.
It's a link between me and the Doctor --
"Bad Wolf" here, "Bad Wolf" there.
Yeah, but if it's a message, what's it saying?
It's telling me I can get back!
I really thought she was just kind of this ditzy shopgirl,
you know, blonde, you know,
was hot in high school, then really didn't go on
to do anything much, after that
and then turns out to be one of the most badassed
"Who" girls of all time.
I'm not into blondes, either.
She's a wonderfully refreshing heroine
that sets the standard for heroines in other Sci-Fi series.
I think what she said and what she did
almost came second to the fact that
she was incredibly hot.
I dunno,
find a planet,
get a job, live a life --
same as the rest of the Universe.
Pfft, I'd have to settle down.
Get a house or something, a proper house --
She was an extraordinary,
open, receptive character.
I think she was in love with the Doctor
long before she ever realized
she had that affection for him.
No. Oh, yes.
I'm dying, that's it.
I am dying. It is all over.
What about me? I'd have to get one, too.
I don't know, it could...
Could be the same one, we could both --
I dunno...
share. Or not, you know, whatever.
I dunno, we'll sort something out. Anyway.
We'll see.
It was about the Doctor and Rose.
It wasn't ""Doctor Who," it was "the Doctor & Rose,"
like "Lois & Clark."
As a fan of the old show, I didn't like the idea
of him having a romance because
he doesn't see us in that way.
He's a different species.
But I guess we found out a little bit about him
when he started falling for Rose.
I think in spite of himself, too.
I don't think he wanted to.
Am I ever going to see you again?
You can't.
What are you going to do?
Oh, I've got the TARDIS.
Because I've watched "Doctor Who"
for almost 50 years,
I'm not used to
this raw,
human emotion that's coming out
in the modern versions of the drama.
I love you.
Quite right, too.
And I suppose...
If it's my last chance to say it...
Rose Tyler...
Come on!
Dog the Bounty Hunter would've sobbed.
He was going to say it. He was going to say it!
And then he lost the connection.
Like, that's the worst kind of dropped call, ever.
Poor Rose. I mean, he couldn't say it.
If he said it, it would've been too much.
I think that's the perfect way to end that episode.
The whole debate is was he going to say "I love you"
or was he going to say something clever?
He might've said "Rose Tyler...I love you."
He might've said, "Rose Tyler...
"you are essentially an ant to me
"and I can't --
there's nothing that's going to happen here."
He didn't say it.
He had plenty of time to say it, if you remember,
but he didn't quite say it.
The next companion, after Rose, was Martha Jones
and Martha Jones
was confident and badass
and was studying to be a doctor.
She fancied the Doctor and was always trying
to turn him into some kind of boyfriend.
All on your own?
Well! Sometimes I have...guests.
I mean, some friends, traveling alongside.
I had -- it was recently --
a friend of mine.
Rose, her name was, Rose.
And...
we were together.
Anyway.
Where is she now?
With her family. Happy. She's fine.
She's -- not that you're replacing her.
It's pretty clear, like "I've just come
"out of a relationship and I'm really
not ready to see anyone right now."
That's not what he says, but that's
kind of what he's saying, which is smart.
I think, as fans, we would've been bummed
if it would've been that easy to be like
"Oh! Oh, who's the lady du jour today?"
And if you will wear a tight suit.
Now...don't.
And then travel all the way
across the universe just to ask me on a date.
Stop it.
For the record,
I'm not remotely interested.
I only go for humans.
Good.
Martha is the rebound companion
and I feel bad for Martha.
"The rebound companion," I love that.
Martha never really had a chance.
He was still all Rosed up.
Am I ever going to see you again?
Martha was cool.
Martha knew what she was getting into.
At first,
she's just kind of a big admirer of his
but, as time goes on and as she lives
the tough life of the TARDIS,
she gets stronger
and she gets more powerful
and she gets more and more of a badass.
I love the moment when Martha Jones
just turns to the Doctor and said,
"I'm not staying.
I'm not going to waste my time, waiting for a man."
So good on her! Girl power!
The thing is, it's like my friend Vicky,
she lived with this bloke -- student housing,
there were five of them, all packed in,
and this bloke was called Shaun --
and she loved him.
She did, she completely adored him,
spent all day long talking about him.
Is this going anywhere?
Yes!
Because he never looked at her twice.
I mean, he liked her,
but that was it.
And she wasted years pining after him,
years of her life, 'cause while he was around,
she never looked at anyone else.
And I told her, I always said to her,
time and time again, i said,
"get out."
So this is me, getting out.
Keep that.
Because I'm not having you disappear.
If that rings -- when that rings,
you'd better come running, you got it?
Got it.
She gives up
traveling the Universe because she wants
to save her heart, which is incredible!
I think Martha did the right thing, leaving,
because she was never going to get what she wanted from him.
And so, being the strong woman she was,
she said, "I can find better than you"
and she found Mickey.
Yvonne Hartman don't give a crap.
Exactly as the legends would have it.
River Song is basically the female Indiana Jones.
I'm your daughter.
It's very emotional.
Hello, Doctor.
I think all the women that are involved with the Doctor
have very strong personalities, I think.
None of them are pushovers.
I think they all represent quite modern aspects
of being a woman
and I think he likes a challenge.
One of the characters that absolutely stands out for me
in "Doctor Who," was in Russell's very brilliant
"Army of Ghosts" and "Doomsday," was Yvonne Hartman,
who, at that point, runs Torchwood.
Yvonne Hartman was a great character to play
because she was neither a victim nor a villain.
One isn't quite sure how to place her.
She's kind of
that businessminded lady of the 1980s,
where it's all about just, you know,
becoming the most powerful.
I always remember Russell T. Davies,
who wrote those episodes, calling me up and saying,
"When you're approaching Yvonne,
"I want you to think of a woman
"that has amazing interactive skills,
"she has charm,
"but she has absolute, steely determination
to get what she wants."
Welcome...
to Torchwood.
That's a Jathar Sunglider.
Came down to Earth
off the Shetland Islands 10 years ago.
What, did it crash? No, we shot it down.
It violated our airspace. Then we stripped it bare.
Yvonne had charm oozing out of every pore, but she
wouldn't hesitate to shoot you in the back of the neck
to get what she wanted in a heartbeat.
The Torchwood Institute has a motto --
"If it's alien, it's ours."
Anything that comes from the sky,
we strip it down and we use it
for the good of the British Empire.
For the good of the what?
The British Empire.
There isn't a British Empire.
Not yet.
She's so focused on being the most powerful nation
that she forgets that it's actually going to
mess things up for all of humanity.
Yvonne Heartman don't give a crap, you know?
She just knows what she wants,
she knows what she thinks is right,
she's going to freaking do it.
Cancel it.
I don't think so.
I'm warning you, cancel it.
Oh, exactly as the legends would have it.
The Doctor, lording it over us,
assuming alien authority over the rights of man.
She seems to think that she knows more
than the Doctor and this eventually leads
to a void opening and the Earth
being attacked simultaneously by Cybermen and Daleks.
You just kind of want to shake her around the shoulders
and be like "listen to the Doctor!
He makes everything okay. Just listen to him."
And she refuses.
And then she becomes a Cyberman.
Just one.
We will retreat through the breach,
regain the homeworld.
You will not pass.
What is the meaning of this?
She becomes a Cyberman
and then realizes what she's done
and starts taking out all the other Cybermen
while crying those black tears,
like she's a goth girl.
I did my duty for Queen and country.
She acts autonomously and independently
and manages to save the entire world
and has one oily tear that runs down her face.
I think it's very funny,
but sad and beautiful.
And she's just crying oily tears of, like,
"I did this for my country."
That is how much she loves planet Earth.
Somehow, her best self comes out
when her soul's been taken away.
That says a lot about her.
I still get young children on the street, actually,
asking me how I managed to overturn my cybertraining.
Idris is one of my favorite ladies
that crosses the Doctor's path
because she's never been a person before.
She's always just been the soul of the TARDIS.
Now, you'd think the TARDIS,
which is 700 years old,
if it was to become flesh, it would actually be
a bloke, a man, in a boiler suit,
covered in tar, covered in kind of
the muck of machinery, but, no.
Basically, the personality of the TARDIS got transferred
into a kind of hot, scruffy,
Helena-Bonham-Carter- type woman.
I'm alive.
I was very happy when the TARDIS turned out to have
such an elegant, demure voice and personality,
you know, how the TARDIS, you know,
sounded like a London taxi driver --
"I'm not going to metebelis, no,
and I'm not going there at that time."
He really realized how alive the TARDIS is.
Because he always goes like "she's alive,"
but when you see a person be alive,
it's easier to understand, than, like,
a telephone booth with infinite rooms.
You never read the instructions.
I always read the instructions!
There's a sign on my front door. You have been walking
past it for 700 years -- what does it say?
That's not instructions!
The relationship between the Doctor
and Idris, who was the TARDIS,
is kind of interesting
because it is a love story,
but it goes past anything
sort of physical, it's a love story
that is like just
they're bonded throughout time.
You are not my mother.
And you are not my child.
You know, since we're talking, with mouths --
not really an opportunity that comes along very often --
I just want to say, you know, you
have never been very reliable.
And you have?
You didn't always take me where I wanted to go.
No, but I always took you
where you needed to go.
You did. Look at us, talking!
Wouldn't it be amazing, if we could always talk,
even when you're stuck inside the box?
You know I'm not constructed that way.
I exist across all space and time
and you talk and run around
and bring home strays.
I do really feel like they're soulmates.
They're best friends, they're siblings,
they're family.
They can't live without each other.
You can't have one without the other.
In the top 3 saddest moments of "Doctor Who"
was when the TARDIS had to go back to being a TARDIS.
She just wanted to say
"Hello."
I'm alive.
"Alive" isn't sad.
It's sad when it's over.
I'll always be here,
but this is when we talked
and, now, even that has come to an end.
There's something
I didn't get to say to you.
Goodbye.
No.
I just wanted to say
hello.
Hello, Doctor.
Doctor.
It's so very, very nice
to meet you.
Please,
I don't want you to.
Please.
It's very emotional when she says
"There's something I --"
Oh, God, I can't even say it.
"There's something I've always wanted to say to you."
And he assumes it's goodbye
and it's the opposite.
They've spent so many years together.
She never just got to say hello.
But, you know,
they're still going to be together throughout time.
I was worried, when I heard
about what the episode was going to be,
that it would get it wrong and that would annoy me
because that's not the way I would envision such a thing.
And it's not what I would envision, it's better.
It was like a buddy-cop movie across the Universe.
You're just a long streak of nothing.
Amy Pond is a groupie.
But you're human!
The Doctor has very firm views
on who can go onboard the TARDIS
and it's pretty clear, what they have to be.
They have to be -- obviously, brave
and they have to be clever -- he's bored by stupid people
and a coward would last two minutes in there.
I hated Donna Noble when I first met her.
This obnoxious redheaded woman,
and Donna turned out to be one of the best companions,
if not the best companion of the reboot.
She won't take any of his usual schtick
and she can give as good as he can get,
so the relationship's more fun to watch.
It was like a buddy-cop movie like
where they're going across, you know, the Universe.
It was different from the other companions.
And you get this scene
where they're both kind of stuck.
She's great at vaudeville
and that's what this moment is,
it's classic comedy.
They both have such strong
comedy backgrounds.
I think the chemistry between those two
was probably my favorite.
Are we interrupting you?
I love the way that, you know, Donna
would always go like that and shake her fist.
She was more challenging, I think,
for the Doctor and that was a great opportunity
to write some very sparkling
and very, very funny stuff.
The scene where they have the confusion about,
you know, "I want to mate"/ "I want a mate" is fantastic.
I just want a mate.
You just want to mate?!
I just want a mate.
You're not mating with me, sunshine!
A mate, I want a mate.
Well, just as well,
because I'm not having any of that nonsense.
I mean, you're just a long streak of nothing,
you know, alien nothing.
There we are, then. Okay.
I think the pair of them together
were pretty amazing.
It proves that you don't need to have
romantic tension to have
a male and a female character
with a dynamic
relationship.
Oh, ha ha! That's just --
car keys. What?
I've still got my mum's car keys.
I won't be a minute.
Donna's end, as a companion, broke my house.
My wife and I were just inconsolable.
She basically becomes a Time Lord herself,
but, because she's physically human,
she can't handle it and her brain's going to burn
and the Doctor has to wipe her memory
of everything they've done together.
Don't make me go back.
Doctor, please,
please, don't make me go back!
Donna.
Oh, Donna Noble, I am so sorry.
But we had the best of times.
The best.
Goodbye.
No, no, no, please.
Please, no, no. No!
She was a receptionist.
All she ever wanted was to have adventures
and have an interesting life
and she got that and she'll never know.
On many occasions, he says, you know,
"I've ruined people's lives." He does.
He takes them on these amazing journeys, but
they always suffer, they always pay the price, at the end.
She does get a lottery ticket, in the end,
which I guess is cool, but can it buy,
you know, a trip to, you know,
some distant world? No.
The episode where Sarah Jane came back into "Doctor Who"
was a very emotional moment for me
because I remember Sarah so well.
She was part of "Doctor Who" legend.
I think it was around about her time
when you heard less of the term "assistant"
and it went more to "companion."
She was really a different kind of companion.
She was a reporter, she was hardnosed,
she actually, you know, she could do stuff.
She and the Doctor had a chemistry in the '70s
that the show had not seen before, or since.
I mean, she's generally though of
as the best companion, ever.
When Sarah Jane Smith came back,
I think, for me, that was probably the most emotional
"Doctor Who" moment that I have ever seen.
Hello, Sarah Jane.
It's you.
Oh. Doctor.
Oh, my God, it's you, it's -- it's --
you've regenerated.
Yeah, half a dozen times, since we last met.
You look...
Incredible.
So do you.
Hmm. I got old.
That moment when she sees
David's door
and recognizes him and knows him
for who he is, with all those years
of history between them
was a pretty amazing bit of television history.
I thought you'd died -- I waited for you,
you didn't come back, and I thought you must've died.
I lived.
Everyone else died.
What do you mean?
Everyone died, Sarah.
I can't believe it's you.
I thought it was brilliantly done,
brilliantly made, brilliantly written.
I was like "how incredible is this!"
Because she has a completely different regeneration
of the Doctor, first off, but she still knew it was him.
And what is lovely about that bond --
it's not a kind of sexual magnetism,
it's a genuine,
eternal, loving bond.
Sarah Jane and Rose come face-to-face
and Rose realizes that Sarah Jane
was kind of one of his first companions
and Rose is just one in a long line.
I always sort of wanted, you know,
Sarah Jane and Rose to sort of be friends instantly, you know,
but of course not.
Rose, can I give you a bit of advice?
I've got a feeling you're about to.
I know how intense
a relationship with the Doctor can be,
and I don't want you to feel I'm intruding --
I don't feel threatened by you, if that's what you mean.
Right, good,
because I'm not interested
in picking up where we left off.
No?
With the big sad eyes and the robot dog --
what else were you doing last night?
I was just saying how hard it was --
We got the older, smart woman
and we got the younger, like, superhot
kind of -- also smart woman
facing off against each other.
There was definitely some tension.
I had no problem with space stuff.
I saw things you wouldn't believe.
Try me.
Mummies. I've met ghosts.
Robots. Lots of robots.
Slitheen. In Downing Street.
Daleks! Met the emperor.
Antimatter monsters. Gasmasked zombies.
Real living dinosaurs! Real living werewolf!
The Loch Ness monster!
Seriously?
Oh!
Listen to us.
It's like me and my mate Shareen.
The only time we fell out
was over a man, and --
we're arguing over the Doctor.
It was great because you would imagine that would happen,
of who's seen the most, who's done the most,
who's been there the most, and i.e. who was
more important to the Doctor.
There's this moment where they realize
they're united in how special they are,
for having had those experiences
and they start laughing quite madly.
Once they're past that territorial stage,
they do then become great friends
and I thought "all right, that's good.
"That's how I wanted it to be!
Good! Glad we got there."
River Song is better
at operating the TARDIS than the Doctor is.
I just landed her. She's unpredictable.
Moisturize me.
I think that "Doctor Who's" one of the very few programs
that writes brilliantly, gives excellent parts
for female characters.
They're not just screaming women,
they're not just like they used to be,
it's not a cliché, it's not sexist anymore, at all.
In fact, the parts for women
are better than the parts for men, a lot of the time.
River Song is
beautiful, glamorous.
I think she's unpredictable
and you don't know what she's going to do next
and the fact she's a murderer
and the fact she's good, but bad.
You always -- I like a character like that.
River Song is basically the female Indiana Jones.
She is so awesome and badass.
She's smart; She's human,
but not quite.
And she doesn't let him get away with anything.
She was his wife when he met her.
They're the blue stabilizers.
Ugh!
See?
Yeah, well, it's just boring now, isn't it?
They're boringers. They're blue...Boringers.
Doctor, how come she can fly the TARDIS?
You call that flying the TARDIS? Ha!
River Song is better at operating the TARDIS
than the Doctor is
and, for the first time,
you see the Doctor actually being
quite put out by that.
Charted the ship to its destination
and...
Parked us right alongside.
"Parked" us? You haven't landed.
Of course we've landed. I just landed her.
But...It didn't make the noise.
What noise?
You know, the --
It's not supposed to make that noise --
you leave the brakes on.
Yeah, well, it's a brilliant noise.
I love that noise.
I like that the classic noise that we all associate
with the TARDIS, the fact that my ringtone is that noise,
turns out that it's a mistake.
I imagine that that was just a nice little Steven Moffat gem
for people who have watched the show for so long.
[ Wheeze
What's great about river is
that she's this mysterious character and, generally,
when the mystery is taken away from a character,
they become less interesting.
River becomes more interesting.
A lovely twist is when River Song
is about to be shot by Amy Pond
and, suddenly, River Song says,
"I'm doing this because
I am your daughter"
and there's this wonderful moment of recognition.
No, I still can't read it.
It's because it's Gallifreyan
and doesn't translate.
But this will.
It's your daughter's name,
in the language of the forest.
I know my daughter's name.
Except, they don't have a word for "Pond,"
because the only water in the forest is the river.
The Doctor will find your daughter
and he will care for her, whatever it takes,
and I know that.
It's me.
I'm Melody.
I'm your daughter.
That reveal
was another Moffat moment
that I got at the exact instant he wanted.
Holy crap. This whole time, really?
The whole time.
Once you see it, you're like "of course!
Like Melody, Song; Pond, River"
and you feel like such an idiot.
It was a good little surprise, there,
Steven Moffat.
It makes perfect sense now.
Makes perfect sense.
The Lady Cassandra is the last human, self-described.
At this point, she doesn't look
anything like a human.
She's had so many plastic surgeries
that she's literally just a sheet of skin,
with eyes and a mouth and nose holes.
Because she had her chin removed
because she said it made her look fat.
She's not unlike women I've met.
I lived in Hollywood for eight years.
There's this wonderful scene where all these dignitaries
from around the Universe are coming together,
they're converging to see the death of planet Earth.
And then, they wheel out a tarp of skin
named Lady Cassandra, the last human to ever be alive.
The Lady Cassandra O'Brien.Delta17.
Oh, now, don't stare.
I know, I know, it's shocking, isn't it?
I've had my chin completely taken away,
and look at the difference.
Look how thin I am.
Thin and dainty.
I don't look a day over 2000.
Moisturize me, moisturize me.
Truly,
I am the last human.
My father was a Texan. My mother was from --
She has been stretched so far
that she is literally like a pinned
piece of leather, drying out.
You know what? They sometimes bring up
the concept "if you were the last woman on Earth."
Even if she was the last human on Earth,
I don't know what I would be able to do with her.
No tears.
I'm sorry.
And she arrives with all these medical staff
who have to spray her and keep her moist.
If someone's not there to spray water on her,
she dries up and cracks and explodes into, like,
dust particles, which is disgusting.
Moisturize me.
She's really, really proud of being the last human
and sort of raises all these issues
about what it actually means, to be human.
There is something, a good science fiction quirk
of like, you know, the last human in the Universe
and she's just not human anymore, right?
And she's rendered inhuman
physically, but also because
she's a villain, she's a horrible thing.
Lady Cassandra tries to basically
destroy the platform and all the inhabitants in it
and, because of her bad move,
the Doctor just lets her dry out --
no Dove moisturizer for her --
and then she starts drying out so much
that she just explodes.
Pretty gruesomely, too.
People have died, Cassandra. You murdered them.
It depends on your definition of "people,"
and that's enough of a technicality
to keep your lawyers dizzy for centuries.
Take me to court, then, Doctor,
and watch me smile and cry and flutter.
And creak?
And what?
"Creak." You're creaking.
What?
Ah! I-I'm drying out.
Oh, sweet heavens. Moisturize me!
Where are my surgeons?
My lovely boys! It's too hot!
You raised the temperature.
Have pity.
Moisturize me!
Oh, oh, Doctor!
Help her.
Everything has its time and everything dies.
I'm...too...
young.
And I love
how the Doctor's so callous with her.
Like when Rose is like "Aren't you going to save her?"
And he's just like "Everything has an end."
Poof! "Aah!" Bits of liver flying out.
Eccleston, as the Doctor,
just kills her, you know?
Like, he doesn't have any problem
with saying this is justice --
she has to die for being bad guy.
The way that he deals with her, versus the way that
the tenth Doctor will later deal with her
really kind of speaks volumes
about the difference between the two of them.
They just create fully grown human beings
out of tissue samples.
Hello, Dad.
You just get the sense that you shouldn't mess with her.
That was two years ago!
The thing that I think is great about "Doctor Who" is
that, over the years, the women
have always been really smart, you know?
They've never been
horrible depictions
of femininity,
they've always been really strong.
In this 2-part episode,
"Human Nature" and "The Family of Blood,"
the Doctor has to take on human form
and not realize that he's the Doctor
and, of course, he falls in love with this incredible woman
called Joan Redfern.
Joan, lovely Joan.
What I like about her -- she's just a very normal lady
and someone who's quite sensitive.
"Joan." Joan?
That's my name. Well, obviously.
Everything has to be done in the right way.
She doesn't want to be seen to be being unseemly.
I thinks he's so sympathetic and she's so beautiful,
like, there's so much humanity to that portrayal.
Joan is a perfect woman for him,
if he's not a Time Lord.
Unfortunately, he is.
Truth be told, when it's just you and me,
I'd much rather you called me "Nurse Redfern."
"Matron" sounds rather, well, matronly.
Ah -- ah, "Nurse Redfern" it is, then.
Though, we've known each other all of two months,
you could even say "Joan."
Joan?
That's my name. Well, obviously.
The cool thing about when the Doctor was with Joan is
that he was just completely human
and we finally get to see
what the Doctor would be like,
if he wasn't a charming,
all-knowing,
all-adventure-all- the-time kind of guy.
And, it turns out, he's just a bumbling nerd.
Well,
I should imagine that you'd be, um --
I mean, I never thought you'd be one for --
I mean, there's no reason why you shouldn't.
If you do -- you may not --
I -- I probably won't.
But even if I did, then I couldn't --
um, I mean, I wouldn't want to -- The stairs.
What about the stairs? They're right behind you.
Ooh!
Without the Time Lord knowledge,
our Doctor is very insecure
and Joan Redfern
kind of coaxes it out of him.
And you can see that, for the first time,
the Doctor is falling in love
as a human being
and he falls in love with her.
But when the Doctor became the Doctor again,
Joan was like "I don't want any of that"
because it wasn't the same person.
I can't.
Please come with me. I can't.
Why not?
John Smith is dead, and you look like him.
But he's here,
inside,
if you look in my eyes.
Answer me this --
just one question,
that's all --
if the Doctor had never visited us, if he'd
never chosen this place, on a whim...
would anyone here have died?
Why can't she come with him?
Well, because she doesn't want
to marry an alien being, she wants this nice teacher guy.
All right. Yeah, he can't have everything.
Sorry, Mr. Magic.
She decides not to go with him
because she liked the man who he was before.
She says no. She's like "because you're not
"the guy I fell in love with.
"You are someone who selfishly landed here
"and got people killed
and that is not the man I fell in love with."
So, once again, we have
a woman refusing the Doctor, which is very rare.
"The Doctor's Daughter" is Jenny
and she pops up almost literally out of nowhere.
The Doctor shows up on this planet
and they take a tissue sample
and, suddenly, there she is, full-grown.
- What's going on? - Leave him alone!
They stick his hand in this weird --
I don't know, contraption
and, while he's going through it,
he's explaining to us that, like,
"oh! It's taking a tissue sample."
Ow! And extrapolated it.
Some kind of accelerator?
Agh!
Are you all right?
I don't know.
That's just --
and then, all of a sudden,
this, like, gorgeous 16-year-old girl
walks out of this
unit and he's like
"Oh! That's my daughter."
Arm yourself.
Where did she come from?
From me.
From you?
How?
Who is she?
Well, she's --
well...
She's my daughter.
Hello, Dad.
They just create fully grown human beings
out of tissue samples from other people,
which is weird.
Now he's a father, which is a great way
to have a kid.
All those years, he didn't have to not sleep
because the kid was up, crying,
or having to go to school because of chickenpox.
Hello, Dad.
In the same way that Jenny came out of nowhere,
at the end of the episode,
she kind of awesomely goes into nowhere.
It's very sad. The Doctor gets a clone
and so then there's another Time Lord
and you think about the potential for adventures
and everything that he could've taught her and shown her
and then it's snatched away so quickly.
Jenny, be strong, now.
You need to hold on. Do you hear me?
We've got things to do, you and me, eh?
Eh?
We can go anywhere.
Everywhere. You choose.
That sounds good.
In kind of a real-life "Doctor Who" episode,
Georgia Moffett, who plays Jenny,
is the daughter of Peter Davison,
who's the fifth Doctor;
and she's the wife of David Tennant,
who is the tenth Doctor.
So it's this kind of amazing meeting of real life
and the fiction of "Doctor Who."
There's so much weird sort of "Doctor Who" looping
going on with that that it's --
he married his own daughter...
He married his own daughter.
But I'm fine with it.
It is all wrapped up in timey-wimey in real life.
Yeah, I --
it's a conundrum.
Amy Pond was
supersexy
and feisty.
She states what she wants and goes for it.
I really wasn't suggesting anything
quite so... long-term.
I think what the show does a really great job of is
not having the women just sort of be
these passive accessories
to the male lead of the show.
They're always very strong women, in their own way.
Amy Pond was the first companion since Rose
to just be like supersexy
and hot
and feisty and crazy.
I love the fact that she's got this edge to her
that's really, like, kickarse, like, she's really --
like, you just get the sense
that you shouldn't mess with her.
Amy's interesting because she's the first companion
we meet as a child.
He showed up when she was a kid,
said, "Oh, come with me,"
she said okay, and then he ditched her for 12 years
And then ditched her again for 2 years.
All that stuff that happened --
the hospital, the spaceships,
Prisoner Zero -- Oh, don't worry,
that's just the beginning, there's loads more.
Yeah, but those things, those amazing things,
all that stuff.
That was two years ago!
Ohh...Oops. Yeah.
So that's -- 14 years!
14 years since fish custard.
Amy Pond, the girl who waited,
you've waited long enough.
When I was a kid,
you said there was a swimming pool.
She's been waiting all her life for him
and so, when,
finally, the opportunity
comes up, she jumps at it.
And then waits another two years
and jumps at it again.
There's something weird about her,
that she wants to stick with that guy.
The previous companions for the Doctor
have been a lover, they've been a friend,
they've been an admirer, and Amy Pond is
a groupie,
she's a fan.
She's been a fan of the Doctor since she was a kid.
And people thought she was crazy for her whole adult life
because she keeps talking about this guy
who's clearly a made-up, imaginary, friend.
That's the most interesting setup for a companion
that they've ever had, I think,
having her have an imaginary friend all her life
who then comes to life, essentially.
That's the magic of that show.
Amy's one of those great, great characters
whereby she doesn't need to be rescued
by the Doctor all the time.
Amy Pond is nothing, if not strong-willed
and willing to make her own choices,
regardless of what anyone else says.
She just states what she wants and goes for it.
So when she wants to be with the Doctor,
she hits on him.
She tries to get the Doctor.
And not even in, like, an "I love you, Doctor,
let's get married," just in a "come on,
I got one night left, let's do it."
About who... I want.
Oh, right, yeah.
No, still not getting it.
Doctor, in a word, in one, very simple word
even you can understand --
No!
You're getting married in the morning!
Well, the morning's a long time away.
What are we going to do about that?
Amy, listen to me -- i am 907 years old.
Do you understand what that means?
It's been a while?
Yeah. No, no, no! I'm 907, and look at me!
I don't get older, I just change.
You get older, I don't,
and this can't ever work.
Oh! Aw, you are sweet, Doctor,
but I really wasn't suggesting anything
quite so... long-term.
But you're human! You're Amy!
You're getting married in the morning!
In the morning. Doctor?
She is getting married to one of the sweetest, nicest guys
in the world the next day and she's coming on to an alien.
That's not cool. That's not cool at all.
I was very excited about that scene,
just because why not get a jump on the Doctor,
see what that's like, before you get married?
Although the Doctor is always very sexy,
you kind of never really think of him that way,
so when Amy actually jumped him,
I was like "this is inappropriate, Amy.
"What are you doing?
It's the Doctor," you know?
Of course, the other half of my brain was
extremely jealous.
In the modern era, "Doctor Who" has been
an interesting show for female characters.
I'm your daughter.
These people end up solving things
and outsmarting the Doctor
and helping the Doctor.
But I always took you where you needed to go.
They have their vulnerabilities.
I love you.
And, perhaps, it's because of those vulnerabilities
that Doctor Who
can experience
human emotions a bit more.
Oh, Donna Noble, I am so sorry.
I think it's a really good thing
this show has done throughout time,
for female characters on TV.
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