rionaleonhart | Flinging The Lives Of Your Companions Around For Fun And Profit.

So. 'The Girl in the Fireplace'. Definitely not one of my favourite episodes, mostly because the ending infuriated me.

I was kind of hoping that someone would mention Captain Jack, seeing as they were in his home century, but no. Alas.

"It's a temporal hyperlink!"
"What's that?"
"No idea. Just made it up. I didn't want to say 'magic door'."
Hee!

...so, er, did the Doctor and Madame de Pompadour dance?

"Why can't we use the TARDIS?"
"We're part of events now! The TARDIS won't help us!"
THAT IS THE LAZIEST REASONING THAT I HAVE EVER SEEN. SOMETHING THAT MAKES SOME DEGREE OF SENSE PLEASE.

I'm glad Madame de Pompadour didn't become a companion. I mean, I know, very sad and all that, but, er, I found her rather irritating.

You know, it's kind of interesting that there was a huge suspenseful tragic love story on Madame de Pompadour's side, lasting for most of her life, but from the Doctor's point of view he knew her for less than a day.

I still love Mickey. Awww. ("You're not keeping the horse." "I let you keep Mickey!" Hee!)

And now for the main focus of this post: that 'OH I WILL GO OFF TO SAVE MY NEW LOVE WITH NO WAY OF RETURNING AND LEAVE MY COMPANIONS BEHIND' bit. Oh yes. A lot of people seem to have been expressing their anger about this and saying 'HE WOULDN'T LEAVE ROSE THERE HE IS IN LOVE WITH HER'. I have to say that my view is 'HE WOULDN'T LEAVE ROSE AND MICKEY THERE HE IS A HALFWAY DECENT BEING'. Love has nothing to do with it.

Okay, Doctor, I am so not happy with you right now. Seriously, you didn't know about the Deus Ex Fireplace. How, exactly, did you think you were going to get back to that spaceship? What if you didn't manage to survive another three thousand years? Even if you did, how would you have got up there? Did you think about any of these things?

As far as I can tell, you just abandoned Mickey and Rose on a fifty-first-century derelict spaceship. In jumping through that time window, you destroyed all the other exits into a remotely habitable world. Neither of them could fly the TARDIS. You knew this.

From the finale of the previous series, it seems that you are capable of operating the TARDIS remotely via sonic screwdriver. You could have sent Rose and Mickey back to Earth, so that they, y'know, wouldn't starve to death on an abandoned spaceship. If you were being really sensible, you could have sent them back to a year or so after the point you were heading to, met them and carried on with your time-travelling life. You did neither of these things.

Okay, perhaps you can't operate the TARDIS remotely - perhaps you could only activate the pre-programmed emergency protocol, which you have now disabled because you thought 'oh, well, I am sure that I will never need this program for sending Rose back to her own timeline again'. This would be a stupid thing to do, but let's say you did it.

You still don't abandon your companions. That is just Not On. Starving to death on an empty spaceship doesn't sound like fun to me. You should at the very least have sent them through one of the working Time Windows before you destroyed them all. Maybe they wouldn't be able to get back to their regular lives, but they'd have more of a life in eighteenth-century France than on that ship. Or you could have figured out a way of bringing them through the Time Window with you. Maybe you could have all managed to fit on the horse, if you sat very close. You could have done something, not just left them there, you git.

You know, I just think you get some sadistic pleasure out of dumping your companions on abandoned space stations. Jack, Rose, Mickey - do you just have something against all of my favourite characters?

Seriously. RAGE. The fact that they are not actually stuck there forever in no way makes him any less stupid.

Flinging The Lives Of Your Companions Around For Fun And Profit.

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