A review by emily_bronte
We're Falling Through Space: Doctor Who and Celebrating the Mundane by J. David Reed

5.0

These people are not just companions of the Doctor, they are the mundane lives of extraordinary people. Each of these people, given the opportunity to go on incredible adventures, was allowed to show the incredible person they always were inside. The Doctor does not create interesting characters out of mundane ones, he finds people who are already amazing.
They are not just characters in a sci-fi show, they are the very real facets of our world. I know a lot of these people, and have myself been a few of them. They are full of potential and change, of histories and futures. They are me, they are you, they are people we know and see every day. This is how Doctor Who celebrates us - by showing off how amazing we are, already. Doctor Who presents people, flaws and all, and asks if we see ourselves in them.
Then, it shows how extraordinary those people really were all along, daring us to acknowledge that, if these people can be extraordinary, then maybe we can too.