I like the idea of Polly, and she's been great in the episodes I've seen. It's just a pity so many of her episodes are lost.
Polly/Ben is pretty much canon, these days. I've also made the occasional nod toward Polly/Jamie. And by "nod", I mean writing fic where her dress hits the floor and fade to black.
Kirsty from The Highlanders.
Writing Polly/Jamie seems to have horrified a section of my readership :-)
It's interesting to speculate how history would have been different if it had been Polly, rather than Sarah Jane, who'd showed up in School Reunion.
One of the people she knew in Sixties London was Ace's Aunt Rosemary (from the novelisation of The Greatest Show in the Galaxy).
Oh, definitely on the side of love.
I think just who she was; an attempt to move away from the surrogate-granddaughter type of companion to a slightly older, more independent style of character.
I DO NOT UNDERSTAND YOU. THERE ARE PEOPLE DYING ALL OVER YOUR WORLD AND YOU DO NOT CARE ABOUT THEM. It's an unsettling truth about humans and our limited ability to think of others as real people.
Her ability to cheer people up.
I don't think so; even with the dress-hits-floor moment previously mentioned, the fic ended before things got quite that far.
I only really got to know Polly when I happened to buy the DVD of The War Machines; before then, I didn't get the chance to form an opinion.
I'm going to get lynched if I don't say 'Ben', aren't I? :-)
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