Rose was tragically overrated but still she proved to be quite popular, enough to survie her alternate world exile tocome back and help the Doctor in S4. Can't see Amy Pond doing that especially as Karen Gillan wants to make a clean break of it.
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Rose was tragically overrated but still she proved to be quite popular, enough to survie her alternate world exile tocome back and help the Doctor in S4. Can't see Amy Pond doing that especially as Karen Gillan wants to make a clean break of it.
Well, at least that's what she says in public. Billie Piper kept saying she wasn't coming back when behind the scenes she'd committed all along to coming back in Series 4 if her schedule allowed (and it nearly didn't according to RTD's book). Moffat's talk of a "heartbreaking" end doesn't necessarily mean death. Sarah Jane's departure in Hand of Fear and Jo Grant's departure were heartbreaking too, but the actresses came back later.
The risk with changing a companion or a Doctor in the modern era is that in the past if a companion changed after about 6 months or so, or even after a year or so, people shrugged and moved on. Doctors were bigger deals when they changed, but the same still applies. The modern audiences still aren't used to the fact that Doctor Who survives because its cast changes regularly, and for all the complaints about Martha and Donna only hanging about for a season - they forget that having a companion stay on for more than a couple seasons was the anomaly; Amy coming back for a third season would be a rare event back in the original series era. So the risk is losing people who aren't interested in staying with the program if Karen Gillan or Arthur Darvill leave. Just as there are people who still refuse to watch the show following the departure of Tennant for the sole reason that Tennant is no longer in the show (the quality of the stories and whether Smith is any good or not being irrelevant). That's why part of me hopes Amy isn't killed off. Dramatically and from a storytelling perspective it would be fantastic, but it would simply turn too many people off the show, I think. Not everyone likes Amy (I've heard CaptainMatt's "tragically overrated" descriptor used for her too) but I think everyone will agree she ain't Adric.
Alex
I wouldn't say Adric was "treacherous" -- the idea was that he was too young to have good judgment and so he made reckless and ill-considered decisions. Adric and Turlough both resulted from John Nathan-Turner's desire to make the Doctor more vulnerable by giving him companions who got him into trouble. But Adric did so unintentionally while Turlough did so more deliberately (at least to start with).
Heh, like a Fungus?
Ya know, I can't say Adric ever really annoyed me like he does so many others. Sure, he's not amongst my favorites, but, he didn't detract from my enjoyment of the show. I think Mel is really the only one that I really disliked and she has grown me as well. Some of the Black and White Companions that I'm not terribly familiar with, don't do much for me, but, watching them more may change that too.
Adric and Mel weren't among my favorites, but I can't say they ever really annoyed me. Peri's voice and personality could be irritating, at least in her first season or so (she was better in the Trial of a Time Lord season), but at least she was hot. And I've just been watching the Lost in Time DVDs with surviving episodes from the Hartnell and Troughton eras, and I got kind of fed up with Victoria, who was basically useless for anything but worrying and screaming. Apparently Deborah Watling was deliberately playing her as being out of her depth and getting more and more traumatized by her experiences as the season went on, which was a factor in the decision not to bring her back for a second season. (Which was good, because it meant we got the wonderful Zoe as her replacement.)
i'll admit that i wouldn't mind seeing Amy and Rory stick around for another season or two, but i can see they've 'outgrown' it so to speak... their time has passed...
much like River Song's... who just needs dumping out of the TARDIS doors somewhere between galaxies to let her drift for all eternity in the darkness of empty space...
sorry, bit of annoyance showing there lol... can't stand that character
M
much like River Song's... who just needs dumping out of the TARDIS doors somewhere between galaxies to let her drift for all eternity in the darkness of empty space...
sorry, bit of annoyance showing there lol... can't stand that character
M
I don't mind if they kill Amy off; I'm not being callous, that's just the way I feel. Every other companion has had a separate fate and I think having her die in a meaningful way could be satisfying story-wise. My only hope is Amy sticks around for more episodes than fewer. All this talk of not revealing her departure date is making me nervous. And to counter that Amy slam I read earlier: I think she's the best companion in DW history!
Even if Amy is not killed off in a forthcoming episode, she needs to be totally written out for good when the time comes. No more old companions hanging on long after their era is over. AS for her reaching her third seasonwith the programme, both Jo Grant and Sarah Jane did the same, although Sarah did two additional stories after reaching her third season. Just a little factoid there. Billie might have been planned to return schedule permitting for S4 but that does not mean that should be the norm, or that Amy should come back multiple times after her big sendoff, whatever it may be.
Now there is a true statement if I ever heard one. Donna contributed nothing to "the End of Time" and when we thought she might get her memories back, RTD shortchanged everybody and pushed them back in her head!
Donna contributed nothing at any point. Worst companion imho...
Can we have Sally Sparrow back please ?
Only if she grows her hair back out.
Yes, I'm sure the Academy Award-nominated A-list Hollywood star is eager to return to television to take a pay cut so she can appear on a less-prestigious production than most of her current films. That's exactly what Carey Mulligan wants: To go backwards in her career.
Her end was so final in season 4 as it relates to her traveling and having adventures with the Doctor. She did not serve that purpose in TEoT. Zapping the Master-clones was only a small thing. She was brought back because Wilf was. Donna in TEoT serviced Wilf and his asking the Doctor to restore her memories. Then at the end, when RTD wanted a nice little tie up with all the companions, she was there to complete her circle. The Doctor found her in her wedding dress (on the TARDIS) and in TEoT, he last sees her in her wedding dress, getting married (and given a nice wedding gift to boot).
Yeah, and I think the scenes with her in the background were all right because they were more about Wilf's perception of things, and the wedding at the end was all right for the Doctor to say goodbye. But the scene with her starting to remember and her head exploding...that was just unnecessary.
Donna, best of RTD's companions (in fact prtobably the best nu Who companion) even if he did screw her over in the end (for me she should have been important in her own right, not just because she happened to be next to the Doctor's amputated arm at the right moment.)
There was no majot reason for her to be in TEOT, apart from the fact that Wilf was there and it'd have been hard to explain her absense, and I can't imagine TEOT without Wilf so ergo she needed to be there.
There was no majot reason for her to be in TEOT, apart from the fact that Wilf was there and it'd have been hard to explain her absense, and I can't imagine TEOT without Wilf so ergo she needed to be there.
Right, because that's exactly what happened to Derek Jacobi.
Yes, I'm sure the Academy Award-nominated A-list Hollywood star is eager to return to television to take a pay cut so she can appear on a less-prestigious production than most of her current films. That's exactly what Carey Mulligan wants: To go backwards in her career.
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