TMOG posted...
Yaz was alright but not great. I'm honestly pretty tired of the concept that every female companion that travels with the Doctor wants a romantic relationship out of it, the only two-and-a-half exceptions of the current era being Donna, Bill, and post-marriage Amy. (And that last one is still kind of on the fence)
Honestly, after Dhawan I think Yaz was the second best part of the era.
She got some deserved criticism in her first season for fading into the background a lot and not really having anything to do (Demons... aside), but her development and growth was probably one of the things that Chibnall did best in his era, in that it felt like a natural progression. When she spent
years effectively being the lead by herself in Flux it felt earned - it wasn't like Martha spending a year uniting the world in Last of the Time Lords just because all the other characters tell us she's brilliant, but rather it was a case of "well of
course Yaz
is in charge now." When Yaz is left
with Dan and Jericho as her companions it felt like she'd naturally reached a point where she could cope in that role. A lot of the Chibnall era being a badly written weirdly makes the good parts harder to notice, but I genuinely think she had one of the best written and most organic character arcs of any NuWho companion.