User:SOTO/Forum Archive/Tales from the Tardis/@comment-188432-20140327234318/@comment-24752348-20140406180249

PurpleSnitch6 wrote: Clara saved the Doctor many, many times across his timestream. She's the only companion to know ALL incarnations of the Doctor.

Then she convinced the Doctor to save the Time Lords (he was just about to use the moment, but Clara intervened)

Then she convinced the Time Lords to save the Doctor (hey, opposites! and basically is the cause of his new regen cycle)

Plus Clara is my favourite companion ever and Rose is good, but selfish and annoying sometimes. My vote definitely goes to Clara. Rose only did one thing. Clara did 1000. and 3.

Okay, this is where you're getting it completely wrong. Imagine you have a math equation. You have negative 5, and positive 5. Imagine the negative 5 is the Great Intelligence, and the positive 5 is Clara. So, when the GI jumped into the Doctor's timestream, he became the negative 5, and when Clara jumped into it, she became the positive 5. So, in this math equation, Clara cancels out the Great Intelligence. So, technically, Clara only saves him once, not 1003 times. Like that positive 5, she's only counteracting the GI once. I think I might've said this before, but while I love Rose and Clara, Rose saves the Doctor many more times than Clara does. Everyone has their character flaws, so she's not going to be the perfect girlfriend to Mickey. Yes, what she did and said to him was horrible, but you have character flaws just like everyone else. I can't think of any one of the companions that is perfect. I think someone mentioned this before that Clara's family were just plot devices. Rose's family actually had lives that didn't revolve around her. They did good things, developed into better people. And weren't useless, like Clara's family. Nice try, though. Simple mathematics.