I don't believe the Doctor looks on his human companions as pets, any more than he does his Gallifreyan companions. Alan Dean Foster once wrote that beings who keep zoos oughtn't be kept in them, and I get the same vibe from the Doctor. He can be pretty snobbish, but at heart(s) he believes that intelligence/sapience is a binary condition; cf. his response to the Eternals' attitude toward "ephemerals".
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Date: 2007-05-08 03:20 pm (UTC)I don't believe the Doctor looks on his human companions as pets, any more than he does his Gallifreyan companions. Alan Dean Foster once wrote that beings who keep zoos oughtn't be kept in them, and I get the same vibe from the Doctor. He can be pretty snobbish, but at heart(s) he believes that intelligence/sapience is a binary condition; cf. his response to the Eternals' attitude toward "ephemerals".