Doctor Who: 5 Best And 5 Worst Companion Send-Offs

4. Lucie, Susan, Tamsin, Alex

Big Finish audio has done a very large number of audio stories centering on the Eighth Doctor. In one case, they did four seasons of audios with the Eighth Doctor traveling with a woman named Lucie Miller. This was done in tandem with the BBC for broadcast on BBC Radio. They were intended to have the "feel" of the new TV series, and they accomplished that goal quite well, even giving us the aforementioned Lucie, who was like all the best attributes of Rose and Donna in one character. She was also paralyzed by the Daleks in her second-to-last story, and in the fourth season finale, €œTo the Death€, she was killed by them. So was Tamsin, a woman who had briefly traveled with the Doctor that season before falling in with another Time Lord known as the Monk. And Alex, Susan's son and the Doctor€™s great-grandson, who was introduced only a short time earlier. Yes, the Doctor had a great-grandson, but not for long. The Monk got away, seemingly a somewhat changed man and swearing he'd put things right. Susan also got away and was alive and healthy, but that€™s about the best we can say for that whole scene, and we can assume she was deeply traumatized. Anyone would be, watching a Dalek murder their son in front of them. The end result of all of this was that the Doctor was€not happy. He didn't quite swear revenge against the Daleks, but it was certainly a close thing. It was at this moment that he started down the road to being the kind of person who could fight, and essentially win, the Time War. Yes, he wasn't at that place yet, as "Night of the Doctor" later showed us, but he was certainly turning into the sort of person who could make the choice he made in that story, and that's saying something.