User:SOTO/Forum Archive/The Panopticon/@comment-24070818-20131127190509/@comment-71.212.250.47-20131128233309

I would argue that no, she is not for two reasons.

Reason 1: The moment doesn't just claim to be using an interface, like the Tardis does in "Let's Kill Hitler," but to actually be emulating a person of significance in the Doctor's timeline. To me that makes "The Moment" and "Bad Wolf" synonymous. We also know so little about the Moment - it's entirely possible that in Bad Wolf's tampering with time and space, she would have seen all that happened with Gallifrey and Rose's eventual fate, and chosen to leave some of herself "laying around." The Time Lords say that the Moment "developed" a conscious. Bad Wolf may have taken the opportunity to simply possess it. In this case, the Moment is already a listed companion: Bad Wolf herself.

Reason 2: While initially abducted by the Doctor, the Doctor essentially becomes HER companion. She initiates all his travel, determines who and what is he is able to witness and interact with, and nudges him in the right direction. At no time does he have any initiative over the movements of the Moment. Not by suggestion, manipulation or direct order. He simply acknowledges when he is ready for her to take him back to his own time, which she had essentially said she was going to do.