10 Doctor Who Characters Who Don't Deserve The Hate
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- Опубликовано: 30 июл 2024
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I'm 100% Team Clara - always liked her!
Me too!
@@mikaelastefkova Clara was awesome donna was the worst
Idk why people hate on Clara so much. Look at all she did for the Doctor, from jumping into his timestream to save his life, risking her own in the process, and she’s the only reason he didn’t destroy his planet. Then she convinced Rassilon and the Time Lords to save his life by giving him more regenerations. Her life goes downhill after Danny died, but she always had the Doctor, and he also was willing to help bring him back even after she betrayed him. He also risked all of time and space in a desperate attempt to save her, ultimately giving her even more time before she inevitably died.
Same!!! Agreed! Donna was my second favorite!
@@jamesmatthew2236 I like Donna as well 🙈
I think people forget that when we were first introduced to Strax, he reveals that his being a "nurse" is a punishment he's serving, thus his frequent strangeness, to me, is his natural Sontaran character at war with the position he now holds ... it makes him an interesting dichotomy of a warrior forced into peaceful, not destructive, occupations.
Kind of a Whoniverse-appropriate version of Dr McNinja...
I especially liked that he said that to Rory, a fellow Nurse
Count me as another person who loved Clara. I've read what everyone says about her, but I didn't feel that way at all. She'll remain one of my favorites.
I absolutely adore Clara, if I was the doctor I’d have an unspoken love for her too
I loved her at first. The Impossible Girl thing I loved. But when she was just a teacher juggling her work and time travel I wasn’t a fan. The beginning of the Silver Fox Doct…I mean, 12th Doctor’s run I enjoyed her again pretty quickly, but then it started to get old again.
If she had been either 11’s mysterious Impossible Girl to track down and solve or 12’s bossy teacher that doesn’t let him get away with that s***, one or the other then I’d have loved her character all the way through.
However I do admit she doesn’t deserve the level of hatred she receives.
@@RunfromDangerMan Jenna Coleman was brilliant, Clara was meh. A bit like Nicola Bryant and Peri.
Malcolm Taylor being on this list is absolutely shocking.
Such a charming and fantastic performance all introduced and wrapped up in the very same episode.
Well played, Evans.
Yeah I was surprised too!! I love him
He's every Whovian ever, isn't he?
That bit where he hugs the Tenth Doctor and repeatedly says 'I love you' is from all of us.
Clara is my favorite companion. I loved her with 11 and loved her with 12. Her chemistry with the doctors was just perfect.
Yeah, her and Peter Capaldi were perfect together. That scene where the Doctor said he had a "duty of care," just wow.
Definitely one of the best companions of the modern era.
I agree !!
Clara is by far my favourite campanion. I cant really see why people hate her so much.. I think she should have had a better send off in my opinion.
I don't know. I feel like a death scene due to a moment of stupidity was unworthy of her. The idea that she's still out there somewhere and could play a cameo in the future works better.
It also seems a strange statement for you to both say she's your favourite and you get the hate. If she's your favourite then you clearly don't see a reason to "hate" her.
See my comment above her above. It had nothing to due to the character.
@@j800r_aswell Her death did a good job of showing consequences of her been so reckless and trying so hard to be like The Doctor
I agree. My favorite too. I could have done without Danny and the kids.
Same Clara is the best.
I love Craig! Especially his second episode; he becomes genuinely affectionate of 11 by the end. So many years later, I'm not sure James could portray that innocence still, especially without Matt. But those are two worthy episodes of NuWho.
I thought he was brilliant. Can't see what people have to complain about. Great acting and brought a realism to the role he portrayed. Would gladly see him back.
I adored Clara from start to finish. Though I feel she had almost no chemistry with 11. 12, however, their chemistry was incredible. Once they moved beyond the impossible girl arc, she came into her own. I love that she challenged the Doctor. I also like how her death was caused by her thinking she was his equal in terms of how the Doctor makes decisions and goes about things.
People say what the Doctor did undid the impact of her death and undid his arc in Heaven Sent, but I don’t see it that way. He was tortured for BILLIONS of years, then he gets out and immediately tried to save his best friend, ultimately going through all 5 stages of grief, and Clara gets even more time to live, giving a whole new meaning to “one second feels like eternity”
i don't think she was seeing herself as his equal. Due to Danny's death, she had a death wish. However, she didn't want to commit suicide. Instead, she wanted to die in a way that it would mean something as Danny's second death did. That way, in her mind, Danny would respect and forgive her when they reunited.
If you watch The Simpsons, Clara kind of is the Frank Grimes of Doctor Who. "I can play around with a tattoo that gets people killed by a mystical bird because I'm The Doc...." Seriously though Clara is one of the best and deserves no hate.
I must say I was underwhelmed with her in 11's run- but she grew on me with 12. She and 12 have the kind of chemistry that is only matched by 10 and Donna, and a lot of her episodes are some of my all-time favourites of new Who.
It was a little weird the way Clara was put on a mythical pedestal, but she was perfectly good, and she had a great rapport with Eleven, and her parting from Twelve was heart wrenching
In his first appearance I neither liked nor hated Nardole
He was more just forgettable
But in the Return of Doctor Mysterio he started to shine
His heart and loyalty started showing
And in Season 10 it really developed
He was a fun character and I miss him.
One of my favourites
Strax was great
His backstory tells why is no longer your typical Sontaran
He doesn’t ruin other Sontarans when you account for those things
Probably best to appear with the rest of the Paternoster gang.
Who should have their own live action spin off
I would love to see Craig again, he was a breath of comedy we needed
Return Of Doctor Mysterio isn't much of a standout episode for me overall, but that scene at the end where Nardole speaks about how The Doctor is mourning the loss of River kind of sold me on him as a character.
@@thedoctor2099 i was big comic book reader and always liked superheroes, so the episode really appealed to me
And that was the moment I really took notice of Nardole
@@dw7704 my brother was into comics when we were growing up so I have a bit of a soft spot for them as well. I actually haven't gone back and watched that episode more than maybe once since it aired, so perhaps I should revisit it with fresh eyes. Capaldi has a pretty strong case for being one of my favorite Doctors so it's possible I'll end up enjoying it much more this time around
You must be a poo pusher
Nardole's bit in the Return of Dr Mysterio was poignant and affecting.
Loved his chemistry with Bill as well
i loved Clara! she was a great character with a really interesting arc. companions usually join the Doctor because they`re running away from their real lives, they need growth and maturity that comes with death defying TARDIS adventures, and they`re always more well rounded characters by the end. But Clara was all of that already when we met her. With her arc instead we see Clara rather take on the hubris, and numbness to the fear of death that the Doctor has taken on from too much time travel. It portrayed both how we are hardened by life experience and become less idealistic versions of ourselves and reflects how the Doctor became someone who shouldnt travel alone - "You were an exceptional Doctor, Clara. Goodness had nothing to do with it"
I never understood why Clara got so much hate. One of my favorite companions. Smart, strong and witty.
simple. her character doesn't make sense, she's shallow at first then change personality in every episode.
Moffat tries to make her perfect and she becomes extremely toxic and unlikable in series 8. Moffat refuse to let her go, and she overshadows the Doctor.
Clara alone made series 8 unwatchable for me. series 9 was better but she was still terrible.
Her death was good and fixed her somewhat for me, then Hell Bent..
Honestly I only liked her in series 7
I like Clara, but what I hear from people who don’t is that she was more a plot device than a character, at least at first
She was better with Twelve and did develop into a character
She was an insufferable girl boss whose ego was writing checks her body couldn't cash and it got her killed.
I believe Matt Smith left a season early. This kinda messed up the flow of Peter Capaldi's first season, and by extension Clara's arc.
@@SchultzDorindadisagree I think she shines in series 8 the most
Craig Owens was heart warming, & so funny, give, & take to Matt Smith's charming yet awkward cheekiness.
Same good comic timing, with Strax, & Doctor Eleven were comedy gold, in Snowman.
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people just need to separate the actor from the character. Craig was fine. James cordon is a cunt
I haven't watch the video yet, but my feeling is that Nardole was an amazing companion, I would happily take a second season of 12 and Nardole trying to "one-up" each other, Nardole was underused in my book
I agree. I found him a little odd with a splash of eccentric, to begin with, but would like to see him make an appearance again.
@@LRBerry "odd with a splash of eccentric" Who are you describing Nardole or 12? 😜😂 sorry, I'm only joshing with you. I think that's why I like Nardole, he was "Adric"-like in that he had the knowledge to challenge the Doctor, rather than the Doctor always being the cleverest person in the room
@@patrickhannon4217 Yeah, I should have said Nardole.
I loved Nardole!! I didn't know people hated him
It's nice to see a video like this when most people are so quick to be hateful, Clara has always been my favourite and I understand why people don't like her she's different and I can see the flaw in her impossible girl story arc in season 7 but she's literally doesn't deserve that much hate I feel really bad for Jenna tbh
Sarah Jane Smith for old school Who, and Clara for new Who. Come to think about it, they are almost mirror images of each other.
Jenna did have great chemistry with both Matt and Peter. As mentioned in other comments, not quite a Sarah Jane (my Sarah Jane...) Yet in way Jenna helped to Doctor stay grounded and at times was a good foil for either Matt, Peter, even for ( a cup of tea) Missy.
I really dislike Love and monsters but Elton isn't a bad character at all tbh! I quote him fairly often saying “When you’re a kid, they tell you it’s all: grow up, get a job, get married, get a house, have a kid, and that’s it. But the truth is, the world is so much stranger than that. It’s so much darker. And so much madder. And so much better.” And I like everyone else in this video too, but especially Clara 🙈 She's one of my favourites 💗
I enjoyed the episode, although I think the ending was to reaching.
I enjoyed it as a farce; Elton was fine - sweet and kind. But I really disliked the monster.
@@Josser1955 Same 🙈
@@ReckshawScaleModels I'm glad you had more fun than me haha
LOVE Strax! He'd been separated from his peers for a long time, so it makes sense that his interactions with humans would be... awkward.
In December of 2015 i went to the Doctor Who Experience, and they took us on a tour of the Tardis set afterwards. The Rigsy -painted Tardis was on display , and all of us started tearing up. Theres a lot of love for Clara out there. ☺️
I liked Clara. She's strong, clever and brave. I didn't want to like her at first because I missed Amy and Rory, but I did grow to like her.
Also Jenna Coleman comes from my hometown.
So did you bump in to her at times in the streets,, at all. ?????👍👍👍👍👍👍
@@JOHNSMITH-vx5yz No, never, she went to the same school as my partner though not at the same time, he'd left way before she attended.
A reason I really like Clara is that ’Blink’ and ’Turn Left’proved you could have great Dr Who story without the Doctor being the hero from time to time and she allows that, plus she’s funny.
Turn left though was a Donna story.
Martha was way better at being an individual character tbf
@@teamicecream9015 Martha was certainly smart and level headed. She had a habit of getting into situations, but similar to Emma Peel she sometimes could work her way out of them.
@@williammitchell4417 probably one of her better performances I would say. Although the Doctor Donna episode was fantastic episode. I found the character a bit whinny, but the performance was always 100%.
I feel like Clara was meant to stay with Smith for at least a season but bc he wanted to leave, she ended up being with him for half a season and then stayed with Capaldi. The problem with that was that there wasn't enough time to build a relationship between her and 11 and so the whole "I don't think I know who the doctor is anymore" story falls flat on its face bc Clara literally didn't know who he was anyway. After that, it felt like the writer's had no idea what to do with her and slowly the "Doctor Clara" plot line developed, leading to her downfall which was interesting I guess. It felt somewhat reminiscent to Rose and how she slowly started to mimic the Doctor's confidence. For what it's worth, I didn't hate her but she stayed for wayy too long for, what I felt, was an incredibly underdeveloped and boring companion. Although, Jenna Coleman's acting skills are phenomenal and her performance in DW was crazy good. That's just my opinion though. I can see why people like her but I preferred Bill for Capaldi and Amy for Smith infinitely.
How the hell can anyone hate Craig Owens WTH!!! He is the definition of couple goals with Eleven :) I love Craig so bloody much!!! LOL XD 💕
the best part was Matt Smith (sorry...the Doctor) trying to "play" soccer (football).
That one has more to do with who plays the character than the character itself I think
People actually hate Strax and Nardo?
Who doesn't like Nardole? And Clara? I have trouble getting past how adorable she is. Sure, the Impossible Girl idea is convoluted, but what in Dr. Who isn't.
As the Soufle girl, and the Nanny she is outstanding, but when she became just another companion Clara starts to fall flat.
also she is a liar. always. she opens her mouth means she lies. hate her. dont see anyone else hateable in the list. the rest are fine. but this pretty barbie doll... sorry, no.
Me. I don't like Nardol, mostly because I could never get a handle on the character or what he was meant to be. Do I hate him? Most definitely not, and have nothing horrible to say other than I didn't understand the character. There were some I didn't like at all Ace, Teagan, but none other than Whittaker I can say I truly hated.
Pretty much all these characters don't deserve all this hate, but Clara more than anyone. She was a BRILLIANT companion and my favorite after Donna. Along with Capaldi they were the perfect Doctor/companion pair. They loved and respected each other and challenged each other and Clara grew into a brave woman because of him. It drives me crazy that people hate her so much for no really good reason.
No there is a reason. I loved Donna as a companion because even when she stood up to him, she showed respect and never belittled him. Clara was rude and emotional and would belittle the doctor. It felt like Clara’s show and the Doctor was her sidekick. She spoke down to him. It wasn’t as bad with Smith but was horrible with Capaldi. It made the Doctor seem weak.
@@occheermommy they were equals. It didn't make the Doctor look weak and if you believe that Capaldi's Doctor could ever be weak then you don't know the Doctor. As for the way she spoke, it's called humor.
@@occheermommy Actually some characters even encouraged her. Like Madame Vastra, if you remember: "Clara, give him hell, he needs it". Those are her words towards 12th Doctor in Deep Breath. So yea, it's not like she's mean to the Doctor for no reason, she's challenging him, she's supporting him, she's pushing him further. It's a good thing. They aren't a love couple (anymore), like she thought with 11th. She's now the Doctor's true friend, not his girlfriend.
Also people sometimes do that to friends, never heard a small group of people talking shit to each other and finding out, that they are actually friends? Modern world works like that.
I loved clara, specially with the twelfth doctor, who is also my favourite 😅
The thing with Clara for me has nothing to do with Jenna Coleman. IMO they completely fumbled her introduction as "the impossible girl" by not allowing the arc to progress past the Doctor occasionally turning around and declaring her impossible. It made for a very awkward start for me.
Agreed. Her early episodes were a case of telling but not showing. Isn't she pretty? Isn't she clever? The Doctor is fascinated by her and you should be too! She was nothing but a plot device up until Capaldi's time, when she actually did become a character.
My problem with Clara is the show became about her. The Doctor was her companion
her humble servant even
I'm so sad that Dan didn't get more episodes. He was such an entertaining character (if not the most detailed, granted) and John Bishop's performance was just brilliant.
Also want to add my voice among the many saying that Clara is my absolute favourite companion and I didn't even know she was hated
Ok there is a lot to be said about some of these characters but I loved Strax, a comedy potato 🥔 and I didn't love Clara but she was OK (Jenna Colman shone in Sandman and she needs her own series of that character) and Nardol is a bit like wine, at first left a bad taste in the mouth but given time and after a recent rewatch has gotten a lot more palatable with time (12, Bill, Missy and Nardol a wonderful crew). Personally my pet peeve character was Micky ... he just felt like a 3rd wheel on a bicycle.
Agree about Mickey in the beginning. But, I really liked the way they developed his character as time went on.
I dunno, I don't have much hate for these characters. Clara's one of my favs. And those 2 episodes with Craig are two of my favs... mind you I think most episodes are amongst my favs. He's a natural. Strax is funny. Dan is naturally adorable in just about every way.
I can agree with everything except Clara. Just couldnt stand her.
Also liked the dynamic of Vastra, Strax and Jenny.
@@andrewmurray1550 OH yes, I did too. Very much.
Not the Impossible Girl as number 1! She was awesome as a companion.
I always thought Adric was overheated. I loved his actor’s acting, and his character sacrificing himself to save others in the end, was truly heroic.
Adric was good with the Fourth and Romana. I think he should’ve left around when Tom Baker did because his writing got worse… until they could kill the character off in Earthshock.
Adric was a child, and I think the magic of the character was that he was a teenage boy, an orphan, too smart for his own good trying to make a place for himself. The Fourth Doctor was a father figure to him, but the Fifth was more like a big brother who both resented his presence but still loved him dearly. I think people just resent that he wasn't a girl.
I never liked Adric during his (living) appearances on the show. But it's hard not to admit that Earthshock etched his one last heroic act into the show forever, it's even still always remembered by the Doctor in nuWho times whenever he his thinking about important moments in his past.
I don't hate any of the characters on this list - in fact I really like many of them, particularly Nardole who I thought was a really good companion, because he was so different from what we are used to. Sort of a reluctant hero. I am not too happy about Clara, for the exact reason as was said in the video: She thought she was un-touchable, and Doctor Who became sort of 'the Clara Show' instead. I don't like the idea of a modern companion being the reason for things that happened in the classic era, as Clara became when she jumped into the Doctor's time stream on Trenzalore.
Definitely a Clara defender, though I'll freely admit she really hits her stride during Capaldi's era. Her story being defined by her fall into becoming the Doctor was FASCINATING to me. So many companions say they want to be like the Doctor, and he always implies they really...don't. Clara is the one who truly becomes the Doctor, and learns that lesson the hard way. Her eventual death is the final note in that symphony - she's cocky, she thinks she can think herself out of any situation, just like him...and its her doom. And while I think that ending is perfect for her, I also don't hate her getting her own TARDIS at the end either. She IS another Doctor.
Clara's issue doesn't really lie with Clara. It's the introduction of Danny Pink. The only characterisation of his was ... PTSD, that he was a soldier and killed someone, who wasn't a soldier (later revealed to be a kid). That's what you build a character on? And this otherwise bland, boring character acts as a love interest for Clara? And she loves him so much, that she's even willing to stop traveling, adventuring with the Doctor, the Timelord she knew far more, than Danny? She did stupid things based on her relationship with Danny. She lied to both of the men, she even went as far as betraying the Doctor just for Danny. She really was a great character overall, but sometimes, in some episodes, she did horribly stupid stuff, just because her love for Danny. At those times, she really was quite unlikable. Not entirely her fault, otherwise an amazingly written character, but not in those episodes. And Jenna is a great actor, so again it's not even her fault, it's the scripts in some episodes, that simply make Clara look stupid.
Never had a problem with Clara. She's a perfectly fine companion -- maybe not my absolute favourite, but one I still liked.
And I like the sort of character arcs that she explored, with stuff like "what if a companion was unhealthily dependent the Doctor" or "what if a companion tried to *be* the Doctor" -- it gave her and Twelve an interesting dynamic especially in Series 9 and kept things surprising.
Face the Raven should have been her last episode, though. It was the logical way to end her final arc and a really good emotional conclusion to the character that only gets cheapened when Hell Bent tries to undo it.
I like Strax because he shows that Sontarans don't have to be inherently evil just because they happen to be soldiers whose commanders are willing to go to extreme lengths to defeat an enemy which, if you've watched the one classic story where it appears, you know it's much worse than they are.
Thank you so much I always loved Clara and craig
I didn't need to see the thumbnail to this video to know who was going to be number 1 on this list! I'm glad Clara's there because it shows that she really doesn't deserve all the hate she gets from some fans. Everyone has their favorite Companion, so of course not everyone was going to like Clara, and that's fine, but the pure bile that's thrown her way is really uncalled for. She was one of the most important Companions to ever travel with the Doctor, and that's part of the reason why some fans dislike her so much. They thought she became too important, too much like the Doctor, as if she was on equal footing with him. And that WAS the entire point that Moffat was making with her arc, that she thought she could become like the Doctor, and that's what got her killed in the end. Then she got resurrected from the dead by 12 and went off in her own TARDIS and that's when all those who didn't like her went over the edge and said they would swear off the show after that.
Clara is my favorite Comapnion, and I like her dynamic with both 11 and 12. Her and 11 were a little too flirty, but her and 12 were perfect! They were meant to be together. And like you stated at the end of the video, it was the mourning of 12 for Clara that we got the masterpiece that was Heaven Sent. He suffered being stuck in his confession dial for 4 and a half billion years after having lost her, not Amy, not River, HER. If you can't stand her blame Moffat for writing her that way, not the character herself, and certainly not Jenna Coleman. I dread to see the reaction if she were ever to return one day in the future. I would be seriously happy to see her again though, even if it's one last time meeting the Doctor to know that he does remember her again. Then she could have peace of mind before she has to go back and face the Raven as she is fated to do. Long live the Impossible Girl!
1:06 Strax is a perfect example of 'Nature vs Nurture'. The Sontaran Soldiers are infants bred to kill, but Strax shows that time and care can move people in a positive direction.
I love Nardole. He was the most original modern companion. Not human, knows the doctor already when we meet him, and also is tasked with keeping the doctor watching the vault. From the get go they’ve got a different relationship to any other companion, and I really love Matt Lucas’s silly humour!
OmG the episodes "Heaven Sent" and "Hell Bent" were/are so especially unique that they had to make new words in the English language to attempt to describe the warp in space and time that was made in the industry and in the living rooms and screens of everyplace this amazing miracle of art and emotion and life and... love🥲🥰😊☺Thank you so much Doctor Who and Clara and Fam😂...for everything.
I loved Nardol. His humor was refreshing.
I think Clara was more a Marmite character. However, as with all characters, not necessarily in a "you love them or you hate them" way. More a case of "the writing/direction/production for them in story A is brilliant and the writing etc in story B is awful."
Like all the characters, even the Doctor, they stand and fall due to a few specific reasons, only one of which is their ability to act. And to be fair, I think that all the actors did the jobs they were given really well. Unfortunately, some of those jobs weren't good.
Then we have those elements of why someone's popular or not which are outside their control. Writing, direction and interference from the show runner, the last of whom could be doing either or both of the other parts - not sure if that did happen but there's no reason why they _couldn't._ There are plenty of reasons why a writer _should_ never direct, or vice versa, and the show runner should never interfere unless it's to prevent disaster!
I didn't automatically like Nardole, it was like he was meant for comic relief. But after his first time standing up to The Doctor, I was sold on him. He's honest, honourable, brave and true, and as loyal - if not more so - than any other character since... Pick your own companion, I can think of a few close to him, but not many.
A well written and explained point of veiw.
I loved Clara, I didn't know people hated her.
I began to hate Clara by Series 9 (aka during Season 8). Because her arc was finished a Season before that she got a feeling of a character that overstayed her welcome. Oh, and "hate" is a bit strong word, I mostly got bored of her as a character, but I enjoyed her interactions with 12th, as she was sort of guide for him to be more human and not a cynical alien who basically knows that most of people before him won't achieve anything great and doesnt get attached to them beyond general love for Humans of Earth and a living beings that deserve their place in the galaxy.
And I was surprised to see Strax and Nardol here. I quite enjoyed their characters.
Clara was ready (in her mind) to kill The Doctor by throwing away the keys to The Tardis whilst he was stranded in a Volcano because The Doctor wouldn’t go back in time to stop his death. It’s hard to argue w/ someone who has her as worst companion
I love Strax. He's hilarious.
Malcolm was great, too. A bit of an oddball, but the man just genuinely wants to help.
I knew it was Ellie when I looked at the thumbnail 😂
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After a hiatus from Doctor Who without the influence of the fandom, playing catch-up, and checking out other Doctor Who channels on RUclips with their thoughts and breakdowns, I really appreciated Clara and Nardole as companions even more. Clara bumped up to my 2nd favorite modern companion with Nardole as a chad in my eyes, and seen the faults and down parts of the companions everyone loves in a bias way like Rose and Amy.
Craig, Nardole and Clara are among my favourite characters. Strax is No. 1 on that list, however.
Sontarans are literally bred for war, so it make sense that one who has been turned away from that would develop some... personality quirks. "And then we will NOT melt him in acid. Sorry. Old habits."
Clara is one of the BEST companions! She just got stuck trying to replace Amy and Rory.
I never realised people don’t like strax. He’s hilarious and one of my absolute favourite characters
Clara is my Dad’s favourite companion, he has her tied with Sarah Jane. I never understood the hate, my friends and I all think she’s brilliant.
Clara Oswald was brilliant in her original stories, she lacked the stories with her rest of the time with 11, but then she came into her own with 12 and resulted in some great stories ❤❤
Clara was one of my favorite companies. I miss her and hope she will return one day.
I genuinely enjoyed Bill and Nardole as a companion duo so much. The scene where Bill realizes Nardole has been lying to her and wants to pummel him is so funny, and you really get the sense that they were friends who cared about the Doctor very much. They were funny, but there was a little bit more to them and I really like them.
But I say that as a person who likes the Return of Doctor Mysterio x-mas special (sue me, I like Superman) so I don't know how much that's worth :-D lol
I'm old enough to remember the first Dr who in 1963. I put Clara / Jenna Colman in the Top 3 Dr Who companions. Behind Sarah Jane Smith, and Leela.🙋
A weirdly balanced and even-handed list. With reasonable even-handed reasoning.
I like it.
I'm so happy that Clara is finally getting love from the fandom, I loved her from the start, her character was different from any other companion and I loved it instantly, it's nice to see that hindsight is doing it's thing and fans are finally realising how good she was... She was never the damsel in distress, she was never in awe of The Doctor, they fought frequently, she made big mistakes, she made bad decisions, AKA she was the most realistic companion in all of NewWho. Clara was introduced as an opinionated human who very often let her emotions get the better of her, as she developed she didn't find her own personality but instead started to emulate The Doctor, which in the middle of her run saw her become a super competent companion who could handle situations on her own but in the end, it lead her to lack apathy, detach herself from normal human emotions and eventually lead to her death.
Clara's run as the longest serving companion in Doctor Who was incredible, you just need to look back on it to see that.
Wait, who could hate strax and nardole? They are both some of my favorite characters!
I'll die on the Clara hill, she was great
I had no idea that people didn’t like Nardole granted he was occasionally irritating but he had charm and he was wonderfully bizarre when he needed to be
i fell in love with clara in her second incarnation (during the snowmen problem) but i always loved how she challenged the doctor. clara is my favorite, fight me.
I love Clara so much. I really don't understand why so many people dislike her. Clara and 12 is the best duo along with Donna and 10
LOVED CLARA! Never understood the hate towards that character! She is my favorite companion. Was from the start. Held her own with the Doctor. The ONLY thing I hated about her character was her death.
I could never hate Clara. Dark hair, dark eyes, just over 5 feet. That's my wife. 😀
It would be hard to hate someone who looks so much like my wife when I met her. 🤩
And 35 year old who looks 25, is also my wife when I met her. Yup. I was really lucky to marry such a cutie.🥰
I don't think, that looks is the issue with the Clara hate. And I hope your wife doesn't sport Clara's personality, at least not from those episodes, where she did some really stupid stuff just because of the love for Danny Pink. Like forcing the Doctor to bring Danny back from the dead by throwing TARDIS keys into lava. You know, such stupid stuff. I hope your wife doesn't throw your house keys into lava, if she does, best time to divorce her. XD
Mostly I don't like what happened to Clara's character during series 8. She threatened the doctor, used him, betrayed him, overpowered him. And what did the doctor do? He let it go. Not to mention that Clara basically tried (poorly) to become a version of the Doctor because she felt that she was untouchable. In general, I like her as a character, was okay as a companion, but she could have been better written without overshadowing or mistreating the doctor.
The Doctor manipulated and betrayed Clara in both Deep Breath and Kill The Moon for far less justifiable reasons. Plus, Capaldi was stomping all over the "never cruel or cowardly" rule throughout his first season. When Clara betrayed him in Dark Water, she was giving him a taste of his own medicine. Furthermore, she actually had an understandable reason outside of being pissed off with Capaldi's behaviour because Danny had just died.
Capaldi's "You let me down!" speech was the most self-righteous and hypocritical moment I've ever seen from the Doctor. Instead of softening me towards him, it cemented his staggering lack of self-awareness, especially when he rubbed salt in the wound by complaining that Clara was whining after she took full responsibility and turned to leave for good without protest or complaint. Capaldi himself was the one whining in that scene but, as usual, he was projecting his own issues onto Clara. He was also constantly doing that with his insecurities about his age and appearance and it made him look spiteful and petty.
If I were in Clara's place, I would have snapped too after putting up with Capaldi for an entire season. I might not have even needed to lose a loved one to trigger it because he was so insufferable. I never wanted to spin the jaw of a Doctor hard enough to trigger a regeneration until he came along.
Also, Clara was a better Doctor when she played him for fun than Capaldi was for at least half of his era. Capaldi always gave the impression that he was trying too hard. Asking the uptight old git to relax is like asking a dolphin to walk on land. Even John Hurt and Christopher Ecclestone, fresh out of the most traumatic event of the Doctor's entire life, knew how to chill out. Plus, unless he's allowed to do his Malcolm Tucker swearing, Capaldi's comedic delivery sucked. He just came across as mean spirited whenever he tried to deliver a joke.
In Flatline, Clara had the easygoing demeanour of the Doctor when he knows he's the one in charge but also knew when to be serious without overcompensating. She had the right balance between relaxed and serious that Capaldi lacked. This was also shown when she effortlessly listed parts of the Doctor's history, including 4 marriages and Jenny's existence, to the Cybermen as if she wasn't in mortal danger and had just spoken to her dead boyfriend. Compare that to when Capaldi looked terrified of the Mummy in Murder on the Orient Express, despite the Doctor facing far more powerful creatures like Sutekh and Satan without flinching. Clara also had a far better grasp of humour and could tell a joke without sounding like an arse.
Malcolm is the GOAT. Lee Evans in anything is one of the biggest blessings something could have. Doctor Who is very lucky to have had him just before he retired.
UNIT needs characters that add something unique, the Brig was one, Sargent Benton was one and Malcolm was one, all for different brilliant reasons.
Clara and Strax are brill!
I honestly believe that 12th and Clara was the best Doctor/Companion dynamic in the reboot. It felt the most genuine and you could see the influence they had on each other without the horrendous amounts of melodrama rife with the other companions (not saying this combo didn't have any but it was a lot less than the others).
How could anyone hate Clara? The amount of tissues I’ve expended over her……..I mean tears shed 😢
I'm suppressed Clara made the list. She is one of my favourite companies. I agree she works best with 12 but I also believe it works so well because of the time she spent with 11.
Also was a big fan of Malcolm I'm actually disappointed we never got small cameos from him over the years I think that would have been great.
I liked a majority of these characters, especially Malcolm, might be Bias as I'm a big Lee Evans fan, but I found his scenes in Planet of the Dead to be some of the best and funniest bits of the episode.
Clara and Donna are by far my favorite companions. I literally don't know why people seem to hate her. I loved her from the first time we see her as Oswin. I was incredibly bummed and saddened that she died in that one because I knew she would be such a good companion. Little did I know at the time haha.
Re Elton Pope - Peter Kay's character was designed by an entrant in a Blue Peter competition if memory serves.
Clara is by far my favourite New Who companion. I especially loved her dynamic with the 12th Doctor. I don't understand why she gets hate.
I loved Craig! Those particular episodes were moreso camp than brainburners or profound, but they didn't need to be either of those things...they were just funny and fluffy and lovely
Positive thoughts? It's almost like someone's actually paying attention to my comments.
The Human characters that just made bad decisions are completely understandable. Without them, there's not a lot of story. And who among us can't say we don't know one of them? Not the character, but someone exactly like them.
I don't know Dan. Haven't watched his episodes. Probably going to go back, because if I'm going to hate something, I want to hate with authority. Learn to hate responsibly. Also, I might not hate it.
I like Clara (you can't see it, but I'm sticking my tongue out, making raspberry noises). So there.
Who doesn't like Nardole??? We may have to fight. I think of him as sort of an extension of the Doctor, there to say the things the Doctor can't say. Also, I think he's funny.
Good video. Very positive. Much appreciate.
I love the Malcolm character. He was clever, smart, and funny. Would love to see him return in a future episode. I also loved The Wire because that whole episode had a Classic Who feel to it. Her "Hungry" cry reminds me of Little Shop of Horrors, Feed Me!
I agree, I found Malcolm to be hilarious!!
Clara is one of my favourite she's really a great character so much so I didn't want her to leave doctor who. Why did she even get the hate in the first place she never deserved it.
Who can hate Oswald? 😢
Many people, including myself.
They are videos on RUclips that explains why, you should take a look if you're curious
@@SchultzDorinda Just tell us why :D
Jenna's many versions of Clara Oswald were magnificent. I fell in love with her from the first moment I saw her as Oswin Oswald. And her death( with Peter Capaldi's Doctor simply watching) was one of the most heart-breaking things I have ever seen.
Strax is one of my favourite Alien characters, it was nice to see a companion style character who wasn’t just a human female. That’s also why I love Nardole!
Impossible to bring out any hate when you've got The Electric Light Orchestra.
The Peter Kay episode was the first ever doctor who episode I watched when I was growing up. As much as that episode gets hate it was a good introduction to the series with a mystery of who is the doctor. Not everyone agrees with how I see it but when you have never seen the show before but always hearing about the doctor made me love it more
I gotta love how often love & monsters shows up in these videos
Clara is one of my all time favorite companions!! I do not understand why people hate her so much!!
It's not like she is donna, there was the worst companion of all time!
Honestly I'm surprised I don't dislike anyone on this list. I was not aware of the hate lol 😅
I always liked Clara. Never understood the hate. I thought Corden played a very likeable character, regardless of his behavior off screen.
I loved loved Clara so much and didn’t really understand why people didn’t like her. While she’s not my favorite companion, she’s definitely top 3 for me really added so much in her time with both doctors.
Clara is my fav companion so I'm glad to see some love for her! Also I was shocked to see certain people on this list especially Nardole I didn't realize people hated him, personally i thought he was great!
Nardole being a companion that isn’t a 21st century 18-30 year old woman is one of the reasons that he’s the most unique new who companion.
How can anyone dislike Clara? She wasn't the best companion, that goes to Donna, but she was Amazing, very strong and perfect. Her character was very beautiful in personality.
my favorite Clara scene is "Smaller on the outside" I mean you just KNOW that version of her had an inkling of what was going on, even if that version didn't remember any of it.
I don't want to start a war in the comment section, so if, for any reason, you don't like James Corden, just don't mind me.
With that dealt with, I have to say, that I've always been a big fan of James Corden. His Late Late Show was brilliant, every role he played in any movie or TV series was amazing. I don't know why, but he always manages to make me laugh. Seeing him on Doctor Who, my favorite show, was a great surprise. His character was well written and James performed perfectly. Honestly, I don't know why anyone would dislike that character, aside from the weird James Corden haters.
Yes, I agree with this list. Well done. I don't think there are any characters I hate in New Who. Now I don't have to hide behind the sofa with my fingers in my ears (70's Sea Devils) I'm free to enjoy it all.
Clara is possibly my favourite who character ever! I always joke that she's my favourite Doctor. I think River is the only character that rivals Clara for me!
I like Mat Smith and Claria I don't think she should have been named as one of the most Hated, and like you pointed out in the video, she came in just as Amy was leaving, hardly enough time to morn the Pounds, and get use to Claria.
Doctor Who had been recommended by RUclips, but ignored it until The Bells of St. John.
Bells hooked me on Doctor Who. I really enjoyed Clara as a companion, and I always thought many people unfairly hated her.
I agree with the list, and in fact I love several of these, such as Nardole and Strax. As for Clara, I certainly don't hate her, but I remember at the time of her introduction being disappointed in yet another modern companion after first seeing the much more interesting and fun Victorian version of her.
clara is one of my favourite companions she gets way too much hate, she had flaws obviously but she's overhated