Jenna leaving - next compnion ?

[StCoop]

So, presumably, these stories were rewritten to include her again. But what I'm really wondering: if Clara was supposed to be gone, who was supposed to be in her place? Was this going to be a Companionless season? Was Missy supposed to have more of a full time role? Was some random new person supposed to have been introduced? Because I'm having a hard time figuring out where that would happen.

Let's see how it could have happened...

1&2 Could easily have been just the Doctor and Missy.
3&4 Introduce O'Donnell as the new Companion but have the story set in the present rather than the future.
5&6 O'Donnell wouldn't have much to do / wouldn't have been in it.
7&8 O'Donnell had already been set up as being ex-UNIT so she'd have slotted right in. (Actually that bit of characterisation doesn't really make much sense in the televised story.)

 

[Samurai8472]

I don't think we'll ever see the "roll on, roll off" type companion again, with a companion joining or leaving mid-series, because of the way the publicity cycle works today. It's easier and more beneficial to promote the series and its cast as a unit, hence things like the "Doctor Who World Tour" or the annual San Diego pilgrimage. Trying to introduce and promote a mid-series companion doesn't work with the publicity cycle.

It can work.

-Both companions start off at the beginning of the season.

-They do another season

-One companion leaves around episode 6 sometime around September.

 

[Unionized Elf]

So, presumably, these stories were rewritten to include her again. But what I'm really wondering: if Clara was supposed to be gone, who was supposed to be in her place? Was this going to be a Companionless season? Was Missy supposed to have more of a full time role? Was some random new person supposed to have been introduced? Because I'm having a hard time figuring out where that would happen.

Considering how poorly the titles Magician's Apprentice or Witch's Familiar actually fit those episodes I'm inclined they were originally written to introduce a new companion, and presumably those scripts match the titles better.

There were some who believed Shona from Last Christmas would be coming back as a companion. I don't know if there is truth to this or if it was just speculation which ran wild, but certainly Last Christmas does kind of give the impression she could return.

 

[The Borgified Corpse]

I reckon have two companions, which aren't connected to eachother. Perhaps two females. They should also join the TARDIS at different times, more like the classic series.

Agreed. I kept hoping that they would add a new companion to the show while Clara was still on it. (I kept imagining a woman that had a secret, unrequited crush on Clara. Clara wouldn't find out about it until just before she got killed off the show.)

I like the idea of making the woman from "Under the Lake"/"Before the Flood" the new companion. She was cute. As my best friend said, "She's adorable. She's totally going to die. I hate this show."

 

[Gov Kodos]

I'd like something more like the transition between Mel and Ace. Clara takes off on her own adventures after scouting up a new companion to get under the Doctor's skin.

 

[Samurai8472]

 

[Ar-Pharazon]

Lo, the Queen approaches!!

 

[Starkers]

OMG Queen Victoria was a Clara splinter!

 

[Candleicious Ghost]

OMG Queen Victoria was a Clara splinter!

Impossible Girl indeed

 

[Starkers]

That would be fab, especially as it would mean it was a Clara splinter who knighted Ten then formed Torchwood!

 

[Allyn Gibson]

Whether by intent or accident, Moffat made it so that pretty much any Jenna Coleman role is really a secret Doctor Who role.

I've done this with John Hurt. We'll never have a War Doctor "era" outside of Big Finish, so I've identified a number of Hurt films or television projects where I've decided he's secretly playing the War Doctor. Contact, for one; that's clearly the story of the War Doctor getting Earth psychologically ready for interstellar contact. Or The Storyteller; that's the War Doctor during a period where he'd had enough of the Time War so he secretly retired.

 

[ITL]

Whether by intent or accident, Moffat made it so that pretty much any Jenna Coleman role is really a secret Doctor Who role.

I've done this with John Hurt. We'll never have a War Doctor "era" outside of Big Finish, so I've identified a number of Hurt films or television projects where I've decided he's secretly playing the War Doctor. Contact, for one; that's clearly the story of the War Doctor getting Earth psychologically ready for interstellar contact. Or The Storyteller; that's the War Doctor during a period where he'd had enough of the Time War so he secretly retired.

And Alien, where he..umm..never mind.

 

[Skellington]

Whether by intent or accident, Moffat made it so that pretty much any Jenna Coleman role is really a secret Doctor Who role.

I've done this with John Hurt. We'll never have a War Doctor "era" outside of Big Finish, so I've identified a number of Hurt films or television projects where I've decided he's secretly playing the War Doctor. Contact, for one; that's clearly the story of the War Doctor getting Earth psychologically ready for interstellar contact. Or The Storyteller; that's the War Doctor during a period where he'd had enough of the Time War so he secretly retired.

Ten, of course, took time out to play Hamlet (and possibly be Jessica Jones' main antagonist Kilgrave, as all three have similar accents).

 

[Timewalker]

Whether by intent or accident, Moffat made it so that pretty much any Jenna Coleman role is really a secret Doctor Who role.

I've done this with John Hurt. We'll never have a War Doctor "era" outside of Big Finish, so I've identified a number of Hurt films or television projects where I've decided he's secretly playing the War Doctor. Contact, for one; that's clearly the story of the War Doctor getting Earth psychologically ready for interstellar contact. Or The Storyteller; that's the War Doctor during a period where he'd had enough of the Time War so he secretly retired.

Have you read the novel that the movie was based on?

And if you're going to go this route, explain Caligula in I, Claudius (incest with his sisters, killing one of them after getting her pregnant, and making his horse a senator - among many other things).

 

[Candleicious Ghost]

Keeping with this theme. I watched the BBC mini series of Casanova which had David Tennant in that role and a lot of action scenes had a very Doctorish feel to them.. Just felt weird watching this with that in the back of my mind that this same guy played the Doctor..

 

[Allyn Gibson]

Whether by intent or accident, Moffat made it so that pretty much any Jenna Coleman role is really a secret Doctor Who role.

I've done this with John Hurt. We'll never have a War Doctor "era" outside of Big Finish, so I've identified a number of Hurt films or television projects where I've decided he's secretly playing the War Doctor. Contact, for one; that's clearly the story of the War Doctor getting Earth psychologically ready for interstellar contact. Or The Storyteller; that's the War Doctor during a period where he'd had enough of the Time War so he secretly retired.

Have you read the novel that the movie was based on?

Are you referring to Contact? Several times, though not in a good fifteen years. I'm not sure that matters. First, a movie and a novel are different things. Second, I'm only talking about my own personal theory of the War Doctor's life, and I'm not expecting anyone to accept it.

And if you're going to go this route, explain Caligula in I, Claudius (incest with his sisters, killing one of them after getting her pregnant, and making his horse a senator - among many other things).

You are under a misapprehension that I said "all" John Hurt movies are War Doctor stories, when I very specifically said "a number of." Alien obviously doesn't work. Nor does The Elephant Man or V For Vendetta (though, I have sometimes imagined the Doctor in that world).

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, on the other hand, works perfectly fine as a War Doctor story.

 

[Starkers]

Alien could work if he was still within 12 hours of his regeneration

 

[Candleicious Ghost]

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, on the other hand, works perfectly fine as a War Doctor story.

I am curious now. How so?

 

[Allyn Gibson]

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, on the other hand, works perfectly fine as a War Doctor story.

I am curious now. How so?

There's nothing about Ox that suggests he couldn't be the War Doctor? Okay, maybe that he's a bit addled. That said, if you squint, you could believe that Ox/the War Doctor is involved in this adventure to make sure the Soviets don't get their hands on the Crystal Skull and ally themselves with the aliens.

 

[Unionized Elf]

Alien could work if he was still within 12 hours of his regeneration

I'm picturing him getting up after everyone else leaves the dining room, we see his chest glow and seal up, he shrugs and walks back to the TARDIS.