Let's face it the ratio of male-to-female companions on Doctor Who has always leaned heavily in the females' favour. This really is a shame because a male companion has just as much to offer as a female one, and is it really fair to deny guys their chance to travel through time and space as well? Naturally enough, I was excited to learn that Samuel Anderson would be joining the show in the fall as the new companion Danny Pink, and I'm really looking forward to how he's going to act opposite Peter Capaldi and Jenna Coleman. But then I started remembering some of the men who had traveled with the Doctor before some have been great; others have been buffoons. Where will Danny fit? It would be a shame for Moffat to turn a potentially interesting companion into little more than comic relief just for the sake of making the Doctor look smarter, yet if Danny is too perfect, it could make him unlikable. It's a fine line to walk for all new companions, not just for the male ones, but it's especially important to get it right for the males because they will inevitably be compared to the Doctor throughout their TARDIS tenures. The majority of the Doctor's male companions can be divided into five categories. Sometimes there is cross0categorisation, and sometimes a companion can start in one category and end in another, but these five have been fairly constant throughout Doctor Who's 50 years. Let's examine them more closely, shall we?
Paula Luther hails from Pennsylvania and has been an avid Whovian since 2008. She enjoys writing (obviously), reading, dancing, video editing, and building websites. She has also self-published two books on Amazon, "Bart the Bard" and "Android Mae and Other Stories".
