10 Categoric Reasons Why Doctor Who Is The Best Show Ever

3. The Lesson About Being Important

"You know that in nine hundred years of time and space, I've never met anybody who wasn't important before." That is another one of the Eleventh Doctor's great quotes and one that perfectly underlines this quintessential lesson that Doctor Who has always tried to teach. Take Donna Noble, for example. The sassy and initially annoying temp from Chiswick evolved into becoming, "for one moment... one shining moment, the most important woman in the whole wide universe". It all ended in tragedy, of course, with no memory of her acts, because, once again, Doctor Who doesn't pander. But that is the fate of most of the Doctor's companions. It's their evolution that you're watching every season and, in many aspects, they're the main characters. Take classic companions like Sarah Jane Smith or Romana who were extremely unlikable in the beginning (yes, they were, someone had to say it!), but turned their flaws into virtues so well that everyone shed tears during their otherwise formal departures. Episodic allies are treated the same most of the times. You see, when you consider this aspect, you realise that Doctor Who has never really stopped being an educational show after all. It's how it was created and when you take that away from it, it just doesn't work that well anymore. The Doctor is a great character but his adventures are never about him being cool, but about his relationship with his companions, how they evolve and how that always ends up making the titular alien more, well... human. Here's hoping that no showrunner ever forgets this.