I understand why people hate Rose. I just don't understand how they can.
She's my second favorite companion, right after Donna. Then it's Amy, then it's Martha. Waaay, WAAAAAAAAY down at the bottom. Martha seems like such an obvious replacement for Rose it becomes a
minor plot point.TLK wrote:
MOAR ADVENTURES WITH AMY POND AND HER SUPER AWESOME BESTEST FIRENDZ N SHIT. OH YA THE DOCTOR LOVES RIVER SONG TEN MOAR TIEMS 2.
Moffat needs to not be in charge of all the episodes, he's not subtle at all, and all of them end up amounting to a disappointing mind clusterfuck with Eleven acting silly.
He has the head and writing skill for a few episodes a series at most. Blink was AMAZING. Series six, not so much.
He has the subtlety of a massive golden bear singing showtunes while throwing ice cream sandwiches out of its vagina. Series one had Bad Wolf, mentioned in passing once, but all adding up to a major plot point. Series two had Torchwood, admittedly mentioned more, but it wasn't a thing that could be written, really. Series three had those drums, four had the disappearance of various things mentioned in passing.
Series five had "OH LOOK GAIEZ ITS A CRACK SEE IT SEE IT SEE IT I HOPE YOU SEE IT BECAUSE I'M GONNA FOCUS ON IT FOR 30 SECONDS ALSO HERE RE 6 EPISODES ENTIRELY ABOUT IT"
Six was slightly better, but still "LOOK AT THIS EYEPATCH CHICK, WOW, SO MYSTERIOUS ALSO THESE SLENDERMEN AND OH YEAH REMEMBER THE DOCTOR DIED AT THAT ONE POINT? REMEMBER? 'MEMBER? YOU 'MEMBER!"
And because Amy and Rory's time clusterfuck of a plotline still isn't wrapped up entirely, they're gonna have to be back AGAIN as his companions, for the third year in a row! In a show where even the title character rarely lasts more than 4!
Despite all this ranting, I do love this show to death.