We seldom saw Nardole venture into the TARDIS to go on adventures with the Doctor. Nardole fully becomes a companion after the Doctor spent 24 years with River Song on Derrilum and was unprepared to deal with the loneliness that came after. He has cybernetic implants and was the first ever non-human to act as a companion in 30 years and the first in New Who.Īnd here is where I use the term companion very loosely because Nardole does not fit into the major characteristics of the role and this could have partially been due to his alien status but truly it could have been the lack of commitment on the writer’s part. Nardole is a humanoid alien from the planet Mendorax Dellora in the 54th century. He was brought back in the episode The Return of Doctor Mysterio as Twelve’s companion. Up until that point he was a reformed criminal which led him to being an employee of River. The first time we see Nardole is in the 2015 Christmas Special The Husbands of River Song. There’s a clear distinction between a character who was designed to facilitate comic relief, and a character who’s just simply funny. From beginning to end, we never learned anything about her and that’s unacceptable. One of the most in-depth stories we get about her is in the episode Demons of the Punjab, but that story focuses on the story of her grandparents during the Partition, not specifically her. Introduced as a police officer who wanted to rise in the ranks, it’s pretty absurd that we never really learn anything else about Yaz during her travels in the TARDIS. And unfortunately, Yaz got the worst end of the stick out of the trio. There were too many of them with not enough time and not interesting enough storylines to accommodate that. One of the issues with the companions of Thirteen as a whole was that they were treated as a group and not focused on as individuals.
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Yaz joined the TARDIS with Graham and Ryan in series 11, left in series 13 as the longest-serving companion of Thirteen, and received no character development in that time. Dan had established a positive first impression based on the one season but was left with one of the most lackluster endings out of all the companions and didn’t do enough to be placed higher on this list. Ryan Sinclair and Graham O’Brien left the cast at the conclusion of Season 12, which allowed Dan Lewis to become a companion alongside Yasmin Khan. For the purposes of this ranking, I’m eliminating companions who’ve only accompanied The Doctor occasionally and on one-off adventures, so (as badass as she is) River Song won’t be included but spoiler alert…she would’ve been number one.
Going from Rose Tyler to Dan Lewis let’s get started. We’ve already ranked the 10 Best Episodes of Doctor Who but now it’s time to rank every single companion of the show since its relaunch in 2005. But in other cases, the companions can even go on to overshadow the Doctor. Due to various showrunners, different writers, and just the conceptualization of the characters, some of them just end up falling short of audiences’ expectations. However, not all companions are made equal. Despite all of this, the series and the Doctor would be nothing without their devoted companions, who more often than not end up being the backbone of some of the most important stories in the show. Time travel, distant worlds, deadly aliens, and the Doctor – Timelord, master of time, space, (and of course the sonic) are just a few things that make the Doctor Who universe as amazing as it is.
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