I knew a lot of people who hated Clara, including an ex, and the reason was because Clara was more or less the perfect manifestation of every fanfic Mary Sue companion out there but written and acted by someone else. This pissed off a lot of the tumblr tier fans whose own fantasies about being The Doctor's perfect companion were not only suddenly taken away from them and actually done as canon, but also made them look into the mirror about the whole thing which never ends well.
All of this is before even getting onto actual criticisms like the constant reliance on deus ex machina in a series finale to actually beat whatever big bad there is, which very quickly devolved into being either The Master or Daleks again as none of the showruners were actually that creative when it came to actual writing.
Seriously, look at the regeneration episodes.
Eccleston: Daleks.
Tennent: Daleks during the fake out episode that also brought back Rose briefly, The Master during the actual one which was also the second time a Tennent finale used him after bringing him back in the third new series.
Smith: Daleks.
Capaldi: The Master.
Jodie: Who cares at this point?
The new writers have always been far more interested in huffing their own farts and virtue signaling than actually writing something interesting that will be remembered outside of memes and tropes.
Clara, or Bill..?
I mean, I get the Clara criticism, but no way was she a worst ever candidate...
More just, "Yeah, you probably should have quit a while ago," if anything...
But yeah Bill sucked, lol.
I knew a lot of people who hated Clara, including an ex, and the reason was because Clara was more or less the perfect manifestation of every fanfic Mary Sue companion out there but written and acted by someone else. This pissed off a lot of the tumblr tier fans whose own fantasies about being The Doctor's perfect companion were not only suddenly taken away from them and actually done as canon, but also made them look into the mirror about the whole thing which never ends well.
All of this is before even getting onto actual criticisms like the constant reliance on deus ex machina in a series finale to actually beat whatever big bad there is, which very quickly devolved into being either The Master or Daleks again as none of the showruners were actually that creative when it came to actual writing.
Seriously, look at the regeneration episodes.
Eccleston: Daleks.
Tennent: Daleks during the fake out episode that also brought back Rose briefly, The Master during the actual one which was also the second time a Tennent finale used him after bringing him back in the third new series.
Smith: Daleks.
Capaldi: The Master.
Jodie: Who cares at this point?
The new writers have always been far more interested in huffing their own farts and virtue signaling than actually writing something interesting that will be remembered outside of memes and tropes.
Bill.
Clara was mostly an example of "enough with the Magical Companion that's the most important person in the whole wide whirled" bullshit.