Howling:Whats with them keep downplaying Rory?

What I don't ge is why the writers keep downplaying rory. I mean think about it in only one story has he been important,

In his first apperance he does nothing to help the plot, except had the doctor his phone, in the "Vampires Of Venice", again he does nothing crucial to the plot except fight francisco, and he couldn't even win that.

In his next apperance he does nothing but get beaten by a old man, knock a old woman over, get killed, and try to convice the doctor his dream life is real, what point did he play? In the next episode it gets better, he helps the doctor capture a sillurian, he convices them they can trust the doctor ect he accually plays a part in the plot, but by the second half they have all but forgotten about this, and until the end he does nothing important and then he gets killed.

Mind you, it improves after that, in his next he acurally plays a crucial part in the story, he even saves them all twice, and finally we feel like he is important.

But in the next story, he all but disappers, he only makes three cameos, admitally amy doesn't appear much either, but at least she played the ghost of christmas present, couldn't they had him have part?

Then afterwards, again he does nothing important to the plot, through out the two episodes he does little more than stand at the back and look worried, and again in "Curse Of The Black Spot" all he does is get captured, act silly, and almost down, what part does he play?

What happened to the stories where every companion played a major part in the story? If you removed him from all but two of those stories, virtually nothing would be changed. I've put up with this since his first apperanc but now its starting to get irritaing,

Why can't they have him play a least some part in the stories? If not, than why have him, I find this most sad, as I quite like Rory's charater, and I would love to see him do something important for once.

What do you think? General MGD 109

It has been a long time when every companion played a major part in the story. Before Rory, the last time there was more than one companion for more than a couple of episodes was when the 5th Doctor always had three companions at once, and usually at least one of them would have almost nothing to do with the plot. Rory may not always help to defeat whatever enemies they are fighting, but he is usually important to the plot. The entire subplot of Vampires in Venice involved Amy and Rory's relationship, and the entire plot of Amy's Choice was Amy having to choose between the Doctor and Rory. He had plenty to do in The Hungry Earth/Cold Blood, and they presumably remember it now anyway. A Christmas Carol was really about the Doctor and Kazran, so Rory and Amy both only made cameo appearances. Even though Canton and River are not actually companions, the Doctor was still fighting the Silence with 4 people in The Impossible Astronaut/Day of the Moon, and Rory still had plenty to do once Amy was kidnapped. Based on Rory's tally marks, he probably met more Silence in between the 2 episodes than either Amy or River. In Curse of the Black Spot, Rory was attacked by Sirens and almost drowned. The entire ending of the episode was basically about him.Icecreamdif 16:55, May 8, 2011 (UTC)