No thanks. Never could stand her.Sounds like the perfect time to bring back Ace! Who's with me?
Since when did Timofnine have a concept of blasphemy?
Seeing a clearly grown-up woman jumping around while shrieking "Wicked!" is not my idea of fun, the "Professor" thing stopped being funny the second time it was used, the ridiculous outfit and obsession with explosives certainly didn't help, and because I want to be nice, I'll just say that I remain unconvinced by Sophie Aldred's acting skills. To each their own of course.
I'd like to see her come back for the same reason people want to see McGann come back - we never got a definitive closure for the character of Ace. The novels offered several different fates for her, and the Death Comes to Time webcast offered another, but we never did find out what happened to her. If she was just a run-of-the-mill companion it wouldn't matter, but there was a conscious effort to make Ace different, with a very detailed backstory and ongoing character development that, left unresolved, remains one of the major dangling threads of the original series. The only bigger "dangler" is the question of what ultimately caused the Eighth Doctor to regenerate. In the case of Ace, given the actress is now in her late 40s, it would be interesting to see how Ace matured (especially if the TV series decided to follow the Ace-as-space-warrior thread of the Virgin New Adventures novels, or the Ace-as-Time-Lord-Padawan thread of Death Comes to Time, or the Ace-as-19th-Century-Debutante thread of the Curse of Fenric novelisation...
Incidentally, there is a Big Finish audio with the Eighth Doctor visiting Susan, but no Ace or connection to the Time War.^I've always had a story idea in mind where McGann's Doc revisits the decimated-now-rebuilt Earth of the future where he left Susan. We find out during the story that the 7th Doctor saw the coming Time War, and to protect his granddaughter...his only living relative....he was training Ace to become her guardian/bodyguard. Ace grew up, trained for years under the Doctor's guidance, and then was left with Susan to protect her and her family. By the time McGann returns to check up on them, Ace (who now calls herself by her name of Dorothy) is the age of the actress, and has a daughter of her own (played by a younger actress that can obviously kick-ass like mom) from a deceased husband. So, Dorothy and her daughter (who I named Sylvia McShane) continue to protect the now-elderly Susan, who is approaching her first regeneration.
Do I have a plot? Not so much. Just the character pieces...
