4. Amy Pond
Yes, Amy Pond is a model now. Well, at least she was at the start of Asylum of the Daleks, anyway, and she somehow found the time to write travel articles between her intermittent escapades with the Eleventh Doctor, too. Like she said all the way back in The Eleventh Hour, she dabbles. If there's one thing Amy Pond did throughout her turbulent tenure in the TARDIS, though, "dabbling" it was not. Not as far as the viewers were concerned, at least, for whom it was genuinely like watching 'The Amy Pond Show' at one point. In fact, she got so much screen time (in Series 6, especially) that a first time viewer could've been forgiven for assuming that Matt Smith was just a bit character who popped up every now and again to make silly faces as the show's comic relief amidst his companion's latest overly dramatic life crisis. Because Amy's time with the Doctor really was dramatic, wasn't it? She first met him as a young girl, didn't see him for over a decade and then eventually ran away with him on the night before her wedding. Over the course of her three series, she watched her long suffering other half, Rory, die repeatedly, got turned into a flesh doppelgänger, gave birth to a baby with Time Lord tendencies (who was subsequently kidnapped and raised as a pyschopathic killing machine known as River Song) and she also tried it on with the Doctor and popped her clogs herself a few times along the way. Just 'cause! In a nutshell, the story of Amy Pond was eventful at best. Even her eventual departure in Series 7's The Angels Take Manhattan was an exhaustive experience for all concerned when she and Rory heroically sacrificed themselves and lived to tell the tale before being zapped back in time by the Weeping Angels anyway. Talk about drama. You would've probably been better off watching EastEnders...
Dan Butler
Doctor Who Editor
Dan Butler is the Doctor Who Editor at WhatCulture.com. When he isn't writing his own articles or editing other people's, he can be found trawling the internet for gifs of Steven Moffat laughing. Contact him via dan.butler@whatculture.co.uk.
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