What Could Have Been …
The Doctor had the whole of time and space to choose his companions from. So why were three of the most significant ones a chavvy shop-girl, a mediocre medical student and a temp from Chiswick? He had met an awful lot of people, after all …
The First Doctor had bumped into Joan of Arc, sat next to her at a banquet and then asked her to come along, but she'd been too focussed on leading France to victory and had politely declined. And rightly so!
The Second Doctor went four hundred years into our future and asked the creator of the first human-cat hybrid along for a ride. Understandably, however, he'd not quite thought of it as his scene, being much more at home in a lab.
The Third Doctor had met Jane Austen, been intrigued by her feminism and eloquence and sought to show her the future. Needless to say, she was more than happy to stay in southwest England and write. The Doctor understood; he did love her novels after all.
The Fourth Doctor met a ten-year-old Winston Churchill once. He would have asked him along, but didn't really want to mess with the fate of the entire Western World. It would have been too much of an abuse of his status as a time traveller. He still regrets not asking, though.
The Fifth Doctor wanted the first ever female racing driver along with him. Unfortunately, she'd driven off before he had the time to ask. Nevertheless, he was glad he didn't as she went on to greater and speedier things.
The Sixth Doctor had been watching 'Braveheart' in the nineties, then skipped back a few centuries and found William Wallace. He'd offered him a trip to modern day Scotland, but the hero had declined reasoning that he wouldn't leave his own day until he brought about the changes he wanted himself.
The Seventh Doctor had had a run in with King Arthur, but he didn't even bother asking. He already knew the famous king would be dead within six months.
The Eighth Doctor didn't have much time to meet many characters from history, but he did once catch sight of Paul McCartney getting off a bus in Liverpool in the early sixties. He was going to chase after him, but where would the world have been without the Beatles?
The Ninth Doctor actually managed to convince Claude Monet to come along for a ride. That was, until he showed him the future where oil paints and canvas were obsolete. He hadn't been so enthusiastic after that.
The Tenth Doctor met Casanova on a spur-of-the-moment trip to Venice. He was going to ask him along, but people kept on mistaking them for twins and he thought it might get a bit confusing. He had no idea why that was, though.
The truth was, these three aforementioned 'insignificant' mortals were just as great as anyone else, they just needed more room than the Earth to show it; they needed the whole universe.
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