Doctor Who - thoughts on what the new season is bringing

[rumpelsnorcack]

I watched the footage of our team from Comic-con talking about Doctor Who and it hit me viscerally that Amy and Rory are going to leave.  I understand that that is fairly obvious and has been since the day they appeared on the show and that in many ways it's well overdue - they hung around longer than most other modern era companions.  Team Doctor kept stressing the message that this is how the show works and it's necessary and I agree with all that. What got me was realising for the first time that characters I'm totally attached to are going to leave.  I've been sad before, mourned other companions before (Donna, for example - her ending will never not hurt me) but it's always been with a sense of 'yay new companion, so excited' or 'Wheeee! New Doctor, it's about time' etc.  This time, while I'm curious about the new companion I know I'm going to be devastated when Amy and Rory leave.  I'm worried that I won't re-engage with the show again too.  I've always enjoyed it, looked forward to it, been excited to see what was coming but I've seen the way die-hard Rose fans have been about everything that happened since and I'm afraid the same will happen to me.  On the plus side, we still have Moffat running the show (yay!) and we still have Eleven (double yay) so I hope that's enough to push me past the loss of the Ponds.  There was a rumour back a while ago that Mat Smith would be leaving the show after this season and I remember getting quite upset at the idea.  Back then, while I was attached to Amy and Rory I was quite prepared for them to go (it was, I think, between the first two Eleven seasons) and I think it would have been easier if they had gone then ... or in the middle of last season as it appeared they had.  Now, because they've 'gone' and/or died and come back so many times, I think it's going to be harder.

Anyway, that's me - a bit of a maudlin thought on what this companion switch will mean to me.  Still, maybe once they've gone I can go back to not being completely stressed every time something happens in case it kills one of them. Here's hoping I recapture what I had in my teens when watching Four and Five or how I felt watching Nine and Ten. I doubt I'll love any future companions in the way I have loved Amy and Rory, but I can try to regain what I had before.  Besides, it was mostly (so far) season 5 that made me feel the way I do; season 6 has been hard in many ways so perhaps a new companion can wipe that slate clean a little and rekindle the happiness that was always hiding behind the stresses of season 5.  Season 6 in many ways was a little too dark for me, I think.

So, here's to knowing I'm going to cry like a baby when Amy and Rory leave but here's also to hoping for a fun rebooted future!

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[promethia_tenk]

I made a pact with myself long ago: When Moffat/Eleventy/River/whoever else leave do not turn into one of those Rusty stans, hanging about and whining. I pray that either I can enjoy what the show turns into for what it is, or that I can simply say that that was "my" show back then, but my show is not on anymore, and move on.

Heh. We'll see how that goes.

But if I turn into one of those Rusty stans: please shoot me. : P

I joke because I worry : ) I don't know that it will necessarily be the Ponds leaving for me (though I don't relish that). And I don't think it will be River. But somewhere it is going to happen and . . . /scared

*sends hugs for strength*

[rumpelsnorcack.livejournal.com]

*sends back hugs for strength*

Please shoot me too if I become one of them! I was always like you, I didn't relish the leavings but I wasn't so attached that I couldn't engage with whoever the new person was. Now, however, I worry. I've known and loved this show for over half my life but this is the first time I've engaged with it and its characters in quite this way and I'm nervous how going back to how it was will be.

So, yeah. Shoot me if I become bitter and twisted :D

[sea_thoughts]

Believe me, I understand. I just want them to be together and be happy, Moff. IS THAT SO MUCH TO ASK? IS IT?!! I am going to miss the Ponds so much, miss Arthur and Karen and Matt's beautiful chemistry together. We've never had a Team TARDIS quite like this. Watching the Nerd HQ panel on YT was beautiful, it was like Confidential all over again. That's what I'm really going to miss: their chemistry, their insane and amazing friendship.

Please do not let me turn into one of those people who can't get over the companions leaving, though. You have my permission to slap me hard if I do.

[rumpelsnorcack.livejournal.com]

That better not be too much to ask!!!!

I also hope River comes back a bit. She's not Rory and Amy but she's one of my Team Tardis and having her around will be a little bit of a salve :D

We shall make a pact to slap each other if we become one of those people who can't deal with the loss of our companions, okay? Okay!

[sea_thoughts]

Oh, I'm sure River will still be around. <3

We shall make a pact to slap each other if we become one of those people who can't deal with the loss of our companions, okay? Okay!

Done! :D (Well, we can mourn, just no bitching about how Clara is pathetic compared to Amy/Rory etc. etc.)