I'm weird. I'd rather wait until the Special and see what is offered rather than argue about rumor and conjecture. Then again, like I said, I'm weird.
The Sun strikes again (possible spoilers for final special)
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if you have this attitude why are you on the internet? the internet isnt for people like you
Well this has annoyed me really, simply because I don't believe there should be an old companion witness to this Doctors regeneration, especially Rose!
I think if Rose saw, what is now thought as her Doctor regenerate, again, it would just remind the viewers that we've had 3 Doctors in 5 series. Martha I think is the only viable character to be witness to the regeneration as her story didn't seem to be wrapped up, but I think she might have burnt the bridge between BBC and herself.
Personally I think we're going to be introduced to the new companion in the last of the specials, she'll go to like the Doctor and he'll have to regenerate for whatever reason, then we have that shock factor we need. Having a character who who witnesses it, and then isn't there for the rest of the series, it makes it a bit redundant.
I think if Rose saw, what is now thought as her Doctor regenerate, again, it would just remind the viewers that we've had 3 Doctors in 5 series. Martha I think is the only viable character to be witness to the regeneration as her story didn't seem to be wrapped up, but I think she might have burnt the bridge between BBC and herself.
Personally I think we're going to be introduced to the new companion in the last of the specials, she'll go to like the Doctor and he'll have to regenerate for whatever reason, then we have that shock factor we need. Having a character who who witnesses it, and then isn't there for the rest of the series, it makes it a bit redundant.
Wow! The report was only in this morning's paper, but it feels as if I've just caught up with an entire season's worth of Enterprise postings. 
The Master back for Tennant's finale - yep, good, promising, particularly if it's true that John Simm's said he reckons if he's coming back, it should be against Tennant (as Matt Smith should have a new Master to 'echo' him).
Companions... I love Donna, but don't undermine her write-out for a one-off. If we can't have her back for a season or more, leave her alone.
Martha... an Ok companion played by a lovely actress, who's already got a lot of redemption for her 2007 season weaknesess during 2008. No objection to having her back, but equally, why not move on?
Rose... never assume your friends represent any trend, but I don't know a single person whose reaction to last season wasn't, by the end, 'Shouldn't have brought her back, please, no more.'
If we are getting another companion gang show, then it starts to feel reminiscent of the moments in the 1980s when John Nathan Turner would announce the return of an old monster at a con, and once you actually saw the story you wondered whether he'd come into the office on the following Monday and said 'By the way, we're bringing back the [whatever], get someone to write an interesting script using them'.
The Master back for Tennant's finale - yep, good, promising, particularly if it's true that John Simm's said he reckons if he's coming back, it should be against Tennant (as Matt Smith should have a new Master to 'echo' him).
Companions... I love Donna, but don't undermine her write-out for a one-off. If we can't have her back for a season or more, leave her alone.
Martha... an Ok companion played by a lovely actress, who's already got a lot of redemption for her 2007 season weaknesess during 2008. No objection to having her back, but equally, why not move on?
Rose... never assume your friends represent any trend, but I don't know a single person whose reaction to last season wasn't, by the end, 'Shouldn't have brought her back, please, no more.'
If we are getting another companion gang show, then it starts to feel reminiscent of the moments in the 1980s when John Nathan Turner would announce the return of an old monster at a con, and once you actually saw the story you wondered whether he'd come into the office on the following Monday and said 'By the way, we're bringing back the [whatever], get someone to write an interesting script using them'.
Tabloid shit stirring says that Freema was written in to series 3 of Torchwood, and at the last minute refused and went to ITV for Law & Order UK.
Freema herself say that Russell was the first person to contact her and tell her congratulations when she got the role.
Tabloid shit stirring says that Freema was written in to series 3 of Torchwood, and at the last minute refused and went to ITV for Law & Order UK.
Freema herself say that Russell was the first person to contact her and tell her congratulations when she got the role.
Russell T Davies is not the BBC, or even BBC drama! (But, now she's been promoted, Julie Gardner might just be!
).But I agree... no one in TV could get away with sort of petty blacklisting even if they wanted to try it.
(allegedly)
Maybe even an explanation as to why Queen Elizabeth wanted The doctor's head
^ What needed to be wrapped up?
River Song. Apparently the whole story between her and the Doctor is wrapped up in this incarnation, unless the "new haircut" she mentioned at their last meeting was a sly way of saying that he'd regenerated. Either way, she knew from the Doctor's apparent age that he was "early on" in his tenth incarnation, suggesting that he had a ways to go before he met her last.
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It's heavily implied, but not outright stated. Even RTD is on record as saying he THINKS that what Steve Moffatt meant the River Song character to be, but isn't entirely sure.
Personally, it could be disappointing to see her story wrapped up that quickly, it seems better left to novels/audios... she didn't come off as any braver/smarter/wiser than... say, Rose/Donna/Martha/Jack in her two episodes, and there's clearly more to her than that if the Doctor has chosen her - out of all the fantastic, wonderful humans he knows - to marry. If she's truly more of a soulmate for him than Rose (or Donna, she fit much better with Ten than Rose did IMHO) then she must be something truly special, and fitting that in to the little time Ten has remaining to him on TV is going to be extremely hard.
Unless it's not so much her, but the Doc coming to realize that he should be more open about his feelings. He all but admitted he loved Rose, but couldn't actually say the words (until he became part-human)... and he tacitly admitted he loved other companions in School Reunion (assuming he wasn't JUST referencing Rose in his "Curse of the Time Lords" speech) but again couldn't actually say it.
I still don't see what needs to be "wrapped up". I'd say that "Forest of the Dead" wrapped up River's run pretty much definitively.
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