I just started watching Doctor Who

I started with the most recent season. I'm five episodes in. Can someone tell me, are all the girls he chooses as traveling companions annoying bitches?

• Donna Noble is the best companion. She made a guest appearance in the Christmas special at the end of Season 2. And then she came back for Season 4.

• Op, start with eccleston. Jesus.

• Pretty much. Donna was great. Martha was pretty cool too when she wasn't lovesick. Rose is an intolerable skank.

• No. Of the recent companions only Rose was really. But you should start at the beginning - or at the very leas go back to the third Doctor (Jon Pertwee) to see how the role of companion has changed.

• The companion's role is to ask any of the pesky questions the audience may have regarding the plot. They move things along. Please remember that the target audience is made up of teen boys and the companions are designed to reflect what teen boys see.

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• The companions in the original series were the best.

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• That's funny, because I stopped watching with this new Doctor and showrunner Moffet. Blech.

• There is a Christmas special called "The Snowmen" on for Christmas Day on the SPACE Network.

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  I like "Fred"...

• You want TO mate? Not with me sunshine!

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• Donna is far and away the best of the recent companions

• I heard from a decent source that the next Dr will have "homosexual leanings" and they will bring back Captain Jack. I sure hope so.

• The new companion Clara Oswin Oswald seems as if she's going to be just as "special" as we were always told Amy Pond was. We'll get to spend the rest of the season finding out how/why she reincarnates. I prefer when the companions were just normal.

• I love the Victorian lesbian lizard lady and her human wife. Hope to see more of them.

• Rose was great! What the hell was bitchy about her character? Donna was ok but a bit of a fishwife.

• I loved the Martha Jones story arc, but my favorite was Donna Noble. Like Jack, she is "a Fact in Time" and made me laugh. I stopped watching the latest incarnation mostly because of Amy. I think I'm one of the few, though.

• Donna was the character who evolved the most, especially since her first appearance, and was also the most empathic. It was moving when, during the destruction of Vesuvius, she pleaded with the Doctor, "Save someone, just one person". It was also nice that she was among the few companions who didn't fall in love with the Doctor, as it seems all female companions are wont to do now.

• Some good 'Doctor Who' companions from the original series: 1. William Russell - Ian (Hartnell) 2. Jacqueline Hill - Barbara (Hartnell) 3. Caroline John - Liz Shaw (Pertwee) 4. Elisabeth Sladen - Sarah Jane Smith (Pertwee, T. Baker etc.) 5. Mary Tamm - Romana (T. Baker)

• I finally enjoyed a DW christmas special again. The last two were unwatchable. This one was quite entertaining from beginning to end. I think it helps the story when the Doctor deals with a more permanent character. Like the new companion too. Although it looks a bit fake, I like her perkiness.

• Is there some reason he has a companion and is it a sexual relationship or what? Some other scifi show had "companions" that were elite, trained courtesans.

• R20, no, Doctor Who is basically asexual and has never been involved with any of his companions.

• ...except River Song.

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• R22, but The Doctor and River Song haven't really been romantically involved from what I can tell, other than some platonic teasing. They had the opportunity to have her turn out to be The Doctor's wife or something and they turned around and did something ridiculous like make her Amy & Rory's daughter.

• [quote]Donna was the character who evolved the most, especially since her first appearance, and was also the most empathic Empathetic. She's not empathic. For some reason people get these mixed up on DL.

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