Day 170: The Tomb of the Cybermen Episode 1

New story, new series, new companion. We were introduced to Victoria in the previous story, but there she was just a Princess Peach character, existing mainly to be rescued by other characters within the story. However, at the story's conclusion, she was invited aboard the TARDIS, a position which she took with little choice, given that everything that she was even remotely close to had been destroyed by the Daleks. And so, we see her in her first adventure here, and what comes across is just how absurd everything seems to her. And it's not that she's from Victorian times, it's that she's just been taken away in a magical box to distant worlds, and it's a bit too much for her. And so, the Doctor and Jamie are left to look after her, to comfort her through this period. It's the first time since Ian and Barbara that we've had this sort of reaction, everyone else has either taken it in their stride, or remained skeptic, only to discover that they have travelled in time, at which point everything becomes normal again. But Victoria is able to have problems with accepting this fact, and this makes the audience be able to sympathise with her, because she represents the realistic reaction to everything that's about to happen. And whilst a lot of what Victoria will do will not be realistic for a Victorian girl to do, there is a great deal of realism in how she reacts to everything, giving good signals for how she shall fare over the rest of her time aboard the TARDIS.