Quote Originally Posted by Burn View Post
Ryan had potential ... this episode had potential for Ryan to turn on The Doctor, he could see through her bullcrap, he pushed her to talk and open up, and he could see the dangers of being with her, that's why he got off the boat.
That was the other thing that annoyed me with the writing of this episode - there was this emphasis on the Doctor leaving his/her companions, as if he/her chooses to abandon them. It goes back to their characters being poorly written as suddenly being very self-centred in this episode, to not care about what the Doctor had just been enduring for months or years all on her own while her companions lived their lives with friends and family... to the extent of being angry about the possibility of her intentionally abandoning them one day, without a reason (like protecting them).
That being the excuse for Ryan and Yas turning on her, and Ryan and Graham leaving her, did not make sense, after they had just spent about a year or so travelling around as a family, and the Doctor risking her life to keep them safe a number of times. To suddenly turn on her, and not even care about her much worse situation, seemed really wrong.