[ SECRET POST #2197 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2197 ⌋

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[(Anonymous)]

ayrt

I'd say season 3 had a point because the Doctor's extreme loneliness was on full display in season three, culminating with the arc with the Master, and his unconscious rejection of Martha kind of showed that his loneliness was so severe than a companion couldn't alleviate it. It didn't have massive changes, but it at least introduced big new themes and ideas (however, I kind of have problems with season 3 too because it didn't have a lot of follow up - the Doctor didn't really change his behavior due to his experience with Martha, which annoyed me).

Season 6, on the other hand, had no unique ideas or themes of the sort. One paragraph of dialogue -- River making the Doctor hear the trillions of people promising to help him in gratitude for what he's done -- was the summation of the season, which could have been done in a million other, far more meaningful stories. And season 5 ALRREADY established the Doctor's too-great reputation with the Alliance and the Pandorica and everything. Therefore, it should have been a no-brainer to, you know, actually follow up on that in season 6 instead of pulling a completely new (and preposterously convoluted) plot harping on the exact same themes out of nowhere. It would have made perfect sense (AND left more time for interesting new stories) for the Doctor to be shaken by getting locked in the Pandorica and take steps to reevaluate his methods right at the start of season 6, because it's something that has been cropping up since Ten's run.

And it's all a matter of how you do things: it didn't have to focus on Amy's ~feelings~ and be soap-opera-y and talk-y to deal with her character conflicts, there could have been, say, a recurring theme of her running away from her time and her planet and her normal life because her memories were too confusing for her to deal with.

Which could easily be shown through her actions rather than tedious talking. Like...I dunno, I'm just throwing out random possible examples here, but maybe by having an episode set on earth at her home in her time (like "The Power of Three", which despite having a heavily flawed plot, was more substantial, character- and relationship-wise, than the entirety of season 6), and culminating in a departure that made thematic sense for her character, like her deciding that she's ready to start a new stage of her life and to stop running away and metaphorically "grow up." Which would complete and connect to the sort of Peter Pan-ish fairytale/imaginary friend theme of her arc in season 5.

Season 6, instead, yanked Amy in a direction that was totally arbitrary and had nothing to do with her pre-established character -- that part of her story could have happened almost exactly the same way to almost any companion. It had nothing uniquely to do with Amy.

(sorry for the tl;dr. My massive issues with season 6 come from the fact that I love the characters to death and think they had so, so, so much glorious potential that was wasted).