C: Barbara Wright - Tumblr Posts

the thing w Ian and Barbara is, there’s a bunch of other DW companions who had much more positive starts to their relationships with the Doctor but who very likely hold significant grudges due to the way things shook out.

whereas Ian and Barbara are like ‘yeah he straight up kidnapped us and it was a terrifying experience and we almost died multiple times as a result of his actions. but we moved past it & became quite good friends!!’ 

so they’d be like. completely positive about the whole experience bcos like ultimately they had a good time and it brought them closer together and they were able to go home. but then they’d just come out w the most Harrowing Shit. like oh yeah one time the Doctor tried to bludgeon a guy to death with a rock. another time he broke his own TARDIS so he could go exploring and we all almost died of radiation poisoning and that’s how we met the daleks!! & everyone else at the companion support group is like what the shit what the shit