"The Next Doctor" companion comparison thing

[dreamer_easy]

"They leave, because they should, or they find someone else, and some of them... some of them... forget me."

The Doctor's referring to his most recent run of companions, of course, but I thought it'd be interesting to see which earlier companions also fit those categories:

Because they should (in the Doctor's opinion, at least)
Susan
Rose

They find someone else
Vicki
Jo
Leela
Peri
Martha

They forget me
Jamie
Zoe
Donna

Interesting to contemplate how many old series companions don't fit into the list - who were dumped, or died, or made it home again, or who'd had enough, or who found a calling, or even turned down a berth in the TARDIS. There's quite a variety of reasons companions leave.

Comments

[kateorman.livejournal.com]

Oh yah - for a lot of companions, travelling with the Doctor is a sort of apprenticeship, during which they discover and/or refine their heroism. :) But I could only think of two companions who the Doctor actually kicked out for their own good. In Rose's case, three times!

omg, Donna is "dead", isn't she? Just as Dalek Caan predicted. The Doctor can't bring himself to use the word.