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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
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,
it was "Well, who's
going to be the companion?"
I think Rose Tyler was
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.
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!
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 clich, 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.
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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!
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.