[ SECRET POST #2301 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2301 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Notes:

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Eh, his companions have been a guiding influence on his behavior for the whole show, usually by holding his actions up to scrutiny and complaining when he did questionable things.

Ian and Barbara got him to be kinder and confronted him over douchey amoral behavior or for treating them badly. Liz left him because she was tired of just being his assistant. Romana argued with him and kept his ego in check all the time. Tegan constantly called him out for his excuses when bad things happened and left him when the adventures became horrible soul-crushing conflicts, which gave him a bit of a wakeup call and made him resolve to change. And Ace made it clear she expected him to do good things all the time and sometimes yelled at him for manipulating her and thinking he could get away with it.

You can debate the fairness of all of those things just as much as with nu!Who. And he had issues with guilt over the horrible things that he was unable to prevent in much of the classic series too. Not nearly as many issues as in the new series, but then again, he hadn't yet been forced to genocide his whole species back then.

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Tegan [...] left him when the adventures became horrible soul-crushing conflicts

Sarah Jane left for some of the same reasons. She was a lot more low-key about it, but there was definitely an element of that in her little speech when she was telling the Doctor she wanted to leave.

[(Anonymous)]

I don't think Sarah Jane was really intending to leave then, though. She was fed up with it at the moment and then started bluffing at him because she was pissed that he was ignoring her, but she changed her mind and didn't want to leave when the Doctor said she had to.

I got the impression the writers put in her complaints to soften her departure -- to show that she was starting to get tired of it anyway and therefore it wasn't all that bad for her that the Doctor had to leave her on Earth.