New Companion - Faye Marsay...?

[StCoop]

Just seen a supposedly "spoiler-free" review of 'Last Christmas' that drops a highly unsubtle hint that Faye Marsay who plays "Shona" in the episode will be the new Companion.

Certainly looking at her CV, she positioned in the same (by now predictable) area career-wise as Coleman and Gillan.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faye_Marsay

 

[Guy Gardener]

Approved.

I have screamed at the television for this actress to simulate coupling with another actor inside the television before.

I remember screaming orders, but I don't...

The character I wanted to put a baby inside Fay's character had a thick ring of salt around his bed, with about 60 half dissolved slugs and snails who had tried to penetrate that barrier and did fail.

(If you have never seen Fresh Meat, it's for the best, you probably couldn't handle the depth or wit.)

 

[intrinsical]

Right.

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Backs slowly away from this thread.

 

[DrFrankhamstien]

Right.

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Backs slowly away from this thread.

Yeah. I was thinking that. Second post... kind of odd.

 

[The Nth Doctor]

Just seen a supposedly "spoiler-free" review of 'Last Christmas' that drops a highly unsubtle hint that Faye Marsay who plays "Shona" in the episode will be the new Companion.

Certainly looking at her CV, she positioned in the same (by now predictable) area career-wise as Coleman and Gillan.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faye_Marsay

Sounds good to me if it's true. I loved her in Pride.

 

[OmahaStar]

Just seen a supposedly "spoiler-free" review of 'Last Christmas' that drops a highly unsubtle hint that Faye Marsay who plays "Shona" in the episode will be the new Companion.

Certainly looking at her CV, she positioned in the same (by now predictable) area career-wise as Coleman and Gillan.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faye_Marsay

Sounds good to me if it's true. I loved her in Pride.

Curious. I saw the exact same thread posted on the Big Finish forums. Now I'm wondering how many other sites Coop posted this on?

As for Faye, I also loved her in Pride. She's got acting chops for sure!

 

[StCoop]

Curious. I saw the exact same thread posted on the Big Finish forums. Now I'm wondering how many other sites Coop posted this on?

They're the only two I'm still a member of. Don't do a lot of posting anymore.

 

[The Wormhole]

If true, it is interesting just how under the radar the character has been. BBC's gallery only has one image of her, showing her to be one of the characters at the Arctic base that the episode is set at (she's image 21). All the other characters, even the Arctic base characters get two images.

But then, I suppose aside from Nick Frost, all the other guest stars have been under the radar.

 

[StCoop]

If true, it is interesting just how under the radar the character has been. BBC's gallery only has one image of her, showing her to be one of the characters at the Arctic base that the episode is set at (she's image 21). All the other characters, even the Arctic base characters get two images.

I absolutely could be reading them wrong and she'll turn out to be the Master in disguise or something but both Den of Geek and the Radio Times reviews hint at her having a much more important role than it appears at first.

 

[Allyn Gibson]

I absolutely could be reading them wrong and she'll turn out to be the Master in disguise or something but both Den of Geek and the Radio Times reviews hint at her having a much more important role than it appears at first.

That Den of Geek review:

watch out for Faye Marsay, seen earlier this year in the brilliant movie Pride, who gets a bigger role than her billing may immediately suggest. She's excellent here.

 

[Ar-Pharazon]

Right.

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Backs slowly away from this thread.

Yeah. I was thinking that. Second post... kind of odd.

Or in Guy Gardner terms, "just about right".

 

[Mitty]

I'm really over them having potential companions (e.g. that girl from "The God Complex") show up, and for them to be really good, only to kill them off in the same episode. Though I guess originally they killed of Jenna in AOTD but we already knew at that stage she was the new companion so were left with the nagging question of what the hell was she doing there?

 

[The Wormhole]

I doubt the intent in The God Complex was for the nurse to be a companion, or even for us to believe she could have been one, it was just fans who really liked the character wishing she had have stayed on as a companion.

Meanwhile, the original plan with Oswin in Asylum was that she was to be a one-off character even played by a different actress. It was after casting Jenna as Clara that Moffat decided to have her play Oswin as well, a decision which set off a cascade of changes including a new ending to The Snowmen where Clara dies, and then making a new Clara from the modern day who would be the regular companion.

 

[Jax]

She seems a little like Rose 2.0 in the way she was written and sounded but I wouldn't mind seeing her back. She was given a slightly longer and more detailed final scene compared to the other side characters in the X Mas special though don't know if that meant anything.

 

[Green Lantern]

Well hopefully that won't come to fruitation. Too many northerners.

 

[Jax]

Well hopefully that won't come to fruitation. Too many northerners.

More the better

 

[The Nth Doctor]

She seems a little like Rose 2.0 in the way she was written and sounded but I wouldn't mind seeing her back. She was given a slightly longer and more detailed final scene compared to the other side characters in the X Mas special though don't know if that meant anything.

In what way? She was nothing like Rose.

The was forefront of my mind the whole episode and I'm honestly disappointed that Shone didn't join The Doctor in the end instead of Clara. But who knows, maybe she will join up next season. The scene lingered longer with her character than the others after waking up.

 

[Jax]

In what way? She was nothing like Rose.

I meant in the way she spoke and her real life when we jumped to it. She seems someone whose lost looking for adventure.

 

[Guy Gardener]

Different parts of the country.

Different parts of the century.

Rose could almost have been her mum.

Clara was bogging off.

Old Lady Clara was supposed to die or live happily ever after, but old.

The fucking end.

But the sexy gnome changed her mind.

The end was changed.

Or was it?

Did you see that tangerine?

Clara is still dying.

The next season until the next Christmas special is all going to be a dream.

Will Faye draw them out?

Is she already Clara's replacement?

Okay now for a seriously scary thought.

Was where the Doctor woke up, the same place/time where Clara was throwing keys into that super volcano?

If so, then Danny is not dead and the Doctor has not yet faced off against the Mistress, because what we saw at the height of season 8 must have been a dream.

No seriously.

Seriously!

Seriously-seriously!

Die Pink and stay dead.

 

[The Wormhole]

The was forefront of my mind the whole episode and I'm honestly disappointed that Shone didn't join The Doctor in the end instead of Clara. But who knows, maybe she will join up next season. The scene lingered longer with her character than the others after waking up.

Well, I'm wondering if there's some significance to the fact that Shona kept referring to the Doctor as a magician, and we know the S9 premiere is titled The Magician's Apprentice.