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

2. Donna

So you know who got the most character development of basically any character on the entire run of Doctor Who? Donna Noble. She showed up as a petulant, self-absorbed office worker who had no real ambition and no thought that she could, or even should, be greater than she was. She was just kind of treading water with her life, knew it, and didn€™t really think there was a way out. She€™d basically given up. She wasn't everyone's favorite companion, and her first appearance, "The Runaway Bride", was fairly meh. But by the end of her one and only season, she€™d become a determined, well-rounded character who was smart, resourceful and all around great, and not afraid to show it. She€™d really come out of her shell, and had done so without bothering to fall in love with the Doctor. She'd had a tremendous amount of growth, and that's really saying something, given that she had several episodes where she had to share the spotlight with either Rose or Martha, or both, plus Jack and Sarah Jane. So in the end, her character€™s memories were erased (in a scene no small number of people have compared to rape), and she was reset to being the messed-up person she was at the start, only with a winning lottery ticket, because as we all know, the path to personal development is paved with one-hundred pound notes. When we saw her in the last two Tennant episodes, she basically seemed largely unchanged from how she'd been the first time we saw her, and that was a great tragedy. She deserved better as a character, and we in the audience also deserved way better. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ScUgeZ-fvvU