The Women of Doctor Who Page #3

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it's goodbye

and it's the opposite.

They've spent

so many years together.

She never just

got to say hello.

But, you know,

they're still going to be

together throughout time.

I was worried,

when I heard

about what the episode

was going to be,

that it would get it wrong

and that would annoy me

because that's not the way

I would envision such a thing.

And it's not what I would

envision, it's better.

It was like a buddy-cop movie

across the Universe.

You're just a long

streak of nothing.

Amy Pond is a groupie.

But you're human!

The Doctor

has very firm views

on who can go

onboard the TARDIS

and it's pretty clear,

what they have to be.

They have to be --

obviously, brave

and they have to be clever --

he's bored by stupid people

and a coward would last

two minutes in there.

I hated Donna Noble

when I first met her.

This obnoxious

redheaded woman,

and Donna turned out to be

one of the best companions,

if not the best companion

of the reboot.

She won't take any

of his usual schtick

and she can give

as good as he can get,

so the relationship's

more fun to watch.

It was like a buddy-cop

movie like

where they're going across,

you know, the Universe.

It was different

from the other companions.

And you get

this scene

where they're both

kind of stuck.

She's great

at vaudeville

and that's what

this moment is,

it's classic

comedy.

They both have

such strong

comedy

backgrounds.

I think the chemistry

between those two

was probably

my favorite.

Are we

interrupting you?

I love the way that,

you know, Donna

would always go like that

and shake her fist.

She was more

challenging, I think,

for the Doctor and that was

a great opportunity

to write

some very sparkling

and very,

very funny stuff.

The scene where they have

the confusion about,

you know, "I want to mate"/

"I want a mate" is fantastic.

I just want

a mate.

You just want

to mate?!

I just want

a mate.

You're not mating

with me, sunshine!

A mate,

I want a mate.

Well,

just as well,

because I'm not having

any of that nonsense.

I mean, you're just

a long streak of nothing,

you know,

alien nothing.

There we are, then.

Okay.

I think

the pair of them together

were pretty amazing.

It proves that you

don't need to have

romantic tension

to have

a male and a female

character

with a dynamic

relationship.

Oh, ha ha!

That's just --

car keys.

What?

I've still got

my mum's car keys.

I won't be a minute.

Donna's end, as a companion,

broke my house.

My wife and I were just

inconsolable.

She basically becomes

a Time Lord herself,

but, because she's

physically human,

she can't handle it and her

brain's going to burn

and the Doctor has to

wipe her memory

of everything

they've done together.

Don't make me

go back.

Doctor, please,

please, don't make me

go back!

Donna.

Oh, Donna Noble,

I am so sorry.

But we had

the best of times.

The best.

Goodbye.

No, no, no,

please.

Please, no, no.

No!

No!

She was

a receptionist.

All she ever wanted was

to have adventures

and have

an interesting life

and she got that

and she'll never know.

On many occasions,

he says, you know,

"I've ruined people's lives."

He does.

He takes them on these

amazing journeys, but

they always suffer, they always

pay the price, at the end.

She does get a lottery

ticket, in the end,

which I guess is cool,

but can it buy,

you know, a trip to,

you know,

some distant world?

No.

The episode where Sarah Jane

came back into "Doctor Who"

was a very emotional

moment for me

because I remember

Sarah so well.

She was part of

"Doctor Who" legend.

I think it was

around about her time

when you heard less

of the term "assistant"

and it went more

to "companion."

She was really

a different kind of companion.

She was a reporter,

she was hardnosed,

she actually, you know,

she could do stuff.

She and the Doctor had

a chemistry in the '70s

that the show had not seen

before, or since.

I mean, she's generally

though of

as the best

companion, ever.

When

Sarah Jane Smith came back,

I think, for me, that was

probably the most emotional

"Doctor Who" moment

that I have ever seen.

Hello, Sarah Jane.

It's you.

Oh. Doctor.

Oh, my God, it's you,

it's -- it's --

you've regenerated.

Yeah, half a dozen times,

since we last met.

You look...

Incredible.

So do you.

Hmm.

I got old.

That moment

when she sees

David's door

and recognizes him

and knows him

for who he is,

with all those years

of history

between them

was a pretty amazing bit

of television history.

I thought you'd died --

I waited for you,

you didn't come back, and I

thought you must've died.

I lived.

Everyone else died.

What do you mean?

Everyone died,

Sarah.

I can't believe

it's you.

I thought it was

brilliantly done,

brilliantly made,

brilliantly written.

I was like "how

incredible is this!"

Because she has a completely

different regeneration

of the Doctor, first off,

but she still knew it was him.

And what is lovely

about that bond --

it's not a kind of

sexual magnetism,

it's a genuine,

eternal, loving bond.

Sarah Jane and Rose

come face-to-face

and Rose realizes

that Sarah Jane

was kind of one

of his first companions

and Rose is just one

in a long line.

I always sort of wanted,

you know,

Sarah Jane and Rose to sort of

be friends instantly, you know,

but of course not.

Rose, can I give you

a bit of advice?

I've got a feeling

you're about to.

I know how intense

a relationship with

the Doctor can be,

and I don't want you

to feel I'm intruding --

I don't feel threatened by you,

if that's what you mean.

Right, good,

because

I'm not interested

in picking up

where we left off.

No?

With the big sad eyes

and the robot dog --

what else were you

doing last night?

I was just saying

how hard it was --

We got the older,

smart woman

and we got the younger,

like, superhot

kind of --

also smart woman

facing off against

each other.

There was definitely

some tension.

I had no problem

with space stuff.

I saw things

you wouldn't believe.

Try me.

Mummies.

I've met ghosts.

Robots.

Lots of robots.

Slitheen.

In Downing Street.

Daleks!

Met the emperor.

Antimatter monsters.

Gasmasked zombies.

Real living dinosaurs!

Real living werewolf!

The Loch Ness monster!

Seriously?

Oh!

Listen to us.

It's like me

and my mate Shareen.

The only time

we fell out

was over a man,

and --

we're arguing

over the Doctor.

It was great because you would

imagine that would happen,

of who's seen the most,

who's done the most,

who's been there the most,

and i.e. who was

more important

to the Doctor.

There's this moment

where they realize

they're united

in how special they are,

for having had

those experiences

and they start laughing

quite madly.

Once they're past

that territorial stage,

they do then become

great friends

and I thought "all right,

that's good.

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