I come with the pics.
The character would be the type of girl I would date when I was 16. Which probably isn't a good thing...
Is Ace fanciable?
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I come with the pics.
The character would be the type of girl I would date when I was 16. Which probably isn't a good thing...
That was the books rather than the audios.
The age of the character has always been a bit off though - Sophie was 26 at the time of Remembrance, and the actor playing Ace's love interest (Mike) was 23. A 23 year old character interested in a 16 year old would have attracted attention.
So it might be worth arguing that Ace was lying about her age, arrived on Iceworld age 16 and was stuck there a few years.
Parallel canon.
I was attracted to her (being in my teens when the eps aired). But nowhere near the level of drool for Romana II and Teegan 
Think about December 1st 2000. You know exactly what you were doing that day. We all do.
Then or now.
Where would you rather be, and who would you rather be?
You now? Or You then?
The past is a little old hat and pathetic.
I can't believe how strungout I used to be for new airings of Friends.
Harry was a Doctor.
Zoe must have had a Doctorate.
Liz ditched him pretty quick. Was she a Doctor?
Martha kind of proves your point.
I think it's more got to do with someones ability to imagine the unanticipatable.
Grace was so small that she thought her life was large.
Then again, she made out with Julian Bashir as well.
A weakness for space Doctors this one has.
Then or now.
Where would you rather be, and who would you rather be?
You now? Or You then?
The past is a little old hat and pathetic.
I can't believe how strungout I used to be for new airings of Friends.
Harry was a Doctor.
Zoe must have had a Doctorate.
Liz ditched him pretty quick. Was she a Doctor?
Martha kind of proves your point.
I think it's more got to do with someones ability to imagine the unanticipatable.
Grace was so small that she thought her life was large.
Then again, she made out with Julian Bashir as well.
A weakness for space Doctors this one has.
she was given more to than look pretty and scream. she got into the action and she had stories dealing with her background and home-life. and i think the Doctor did genuinely care about her.
Jo Grant, Sarah Jane were both modern and did more than scream and look pretty.
she was given more to than look pretty and scream. she got into the action and she had stories dealing with her background and home-life. and i think the Doctor did genuinely care about her.
Sadly, in practice, this boiled down to 'Ace doesn't like her mum'.
She crawled under an electric eyebeam broadcasting across the threshold of the masters TARDIS, and then 2 minutes later, forgot "the alarm" was there, that she had riggled on her belly to get past the bugger and walked out of the TARDIS upright straight through the beam...
She is the epitome of moron.
Was there perhaps some complaint that Liz Shaw was too much the Doctor's equal for a 70s auddience?
Remeber the quote from one of Jo's earlier (or was it her first), that she took some "O" levels at school and that after cocking something up said "I didn't say I passed"
Well the story goes that, whilst Liz was liked by scientists and science fiction fans, she wasn't so popular with the general public. It is the 'job' of the Doctor's companion to be someone the Doctor can explain the plot to, so the audience at home can understand. If the companion is smart enough to figure it out herself, no explanations are forthcoming, and so the viewers are left in the dark.
Well, that's the story at any rate.
One thing to consider is that Liz was intended to be Zoe from Troughton's final season. Only Wendy Padbury decided that if Troughton and Hines were leaving, she should leave, too. Even if Zoe had been in season seven, she would have been roughly the same sort of character that Liz was -- a brainy woman who was the Doctor's near equal intellectually.
To be fair, the boys were also ninnies who were hopelessly eclipsed by the every day run of the... I'm thinking about Surgeon-Lieutenant Doctor Harry Sullivan of course.
Oh yes, it wasn't a problem when the Doctor had super smart Zoe with him, because he also had Jamie around to explain the plot to.
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