Picspam: Tegan Jovanka is better than you.

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I watched "Black Orchid" again yesterday, and marvelled at how it was quite a good story for Tegan, especially considering she didn't do anything except drink, dance and flirt. (Not such a good story for the Doctor, who fails at having sympathy for Ann after she's attacked, even if she is accusing him, or Nyssa, who is just ... there.) And then I had more thinky thoughts about Tegan, only I'm far too busy and important slothlike to articulate them properly, so here is the lazy fangirl's meta: a picspam.

She changes her own tire. Or would, if her aunt's spare didn't have a puncture.





She demonstrates her Australian-ness by understanding and liking cricket. (Awful screencap is awful, but the DVD is all the way out in the lounge room, and it's cold.)





She dances with older men from the 1920s and introduces them to Australian colloquialisms.





At a party, she's the first one out on the dancefloor.





Faced with attacking Cybermen, she will don fatigues and borrow a weapon from the nearest mercenary. Now that's service QANTUS can be proud of. (Sorry, "Air Australia".)





Tegan is always appropriately dressed for the terrain. But sometimes the terrain doesn't know that.





GRATUITOUS ROMANA IS GRATUITOUS





It's not every companion who has UST with One, you know.





She bonds with other companions.





Including the Brig and Sarah Jane. (I firmly contend that the Brig fell a little bit in love with her in "Mawdryn Undead", but I couldn't find any screencaps to illustrate it, so you'll just have to take my word.)





A Yeti died for her coat. And it was happy to do it.





In the early '80s, she was the best dressed companion in the room.





*ahem*





Had Turlough not freaked out and stopped her, she would have made like Rose in, um, "Rose" and saved the Doctor.





...Look, someone had to be the second companion to do inappropriately sexual poses with a Dalek!





Living through "Resurrection of the Daleks" gave her a terrifying glimpse of "Journey's End"*, and she knew she had to leave before that hot mess happened.


Then there's "A Fix With Sontarans", in which Tegan returns with Six to fulfill some child's Reasonable Wish. For a brief, glorious nine minutes, they become the funniest, sparkiest Team TARDIS until the day Donna Noble invited herself on board. In fact, with her mouthiness compensating for a secret lack of confidence and fear that no one takes her seriously, Tegan is basically Donna Mark I. And for some proper meta on the subject, I shall direct you here.




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