New Companion Rumour
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Maybe that's why he used to pretend he couldn't take any of them home, because they didn't have mobile phones?
It might have been easier for the Doctor pre-cellphone and pre-internet. It'd be a lot easier for a person to randomly disappear for a year or so without explanation. (Just in case he 'missed his stop' by a few months or a year.)
Exactly. The Nu-Who era needs a Leela. Or a Romana. Or a Jamie. Real standout, I'm-not-from today companions. I think they'll be using this as a way to juxtapose the "old" fandom with today's incarnation in several ways...
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I dunno if this is a spoiler or not so will put in tags but rumour going around that the Christmas Companion could be:
Captain Jack. Seemingly at a book signing in Cardiff last week John Barrowman said he would be back in the city in a week and a half. And on The One Show when asked if was returning he said he didn't know but keep watching. He said keep watching a number of times.
That rumour's been going around for a week or so already. It's been blazing the internet, in fact I'm surprised it's taken this long for it to be mentioned here.
But on topic, I'd love it to happen, but I'm not getting my hopes up.
But on topic, I'd love it to happen, but I'm not getting my hopes up.
There's already a rumor of Captain Jack and Jackie Tyler returning to Big Finish for a Ninth Doctor audio story, Companion Chronicles-style, so you can't say that Barrowman isn't busy lately...
I don't think it's exactly a rumor. Barrowman posted a picture to social media of the two of them in a recording studio together. It could just as easily be a Torchwood story as a Doctor Who story, though.
It certainly will be an interesting thing to hear, though. Jackie Tyler on audio? One step closer to Rose...I don't think it's exactly a rumor. Barrowman posted a picture to social media of the two of them in a recording studio together. It could just as easily be a Torchwood story as a Doctor Who story, though.
I'm doubtful we'll ever have Billie Piper on a Doctor Who audio. It's not something she needs to do.
I rate Karen Gillan only slightly more likely to do a Doctor Who audio than Piper.
But do any of them "need" to do Big Finish audios? Many of the actors do them because they enjoy the experience. Seasoned actors like David Warner and Alexander Siddig regularly perform for Big Finish for that reason. John Hurt certainly doesn't need to do them.
I've often wondered how well paying those gigs are. I can't imagine Tennant, for example, needs the money. I suppose like any voice over work there's a bonus in that you get paid reasonable well for not very much time (as you can go in and do your recording in a few days, if that).
I can see how they appeal from a financial angle to the classic companions/Blakes 7 alumnus etc, the people who don't have the kinds of careers that the Tennants/Hurts/Tate's of the modern era have.
I can see how they appeal from a financial angle to the classic companions/Blakes 7 alumnus etc, the people who don't have the kinds of careers that the Tennants/Hurts/Tate's of the modern era have.
Reasons why audio is attractive to actors. Around 2 minutes in...
Also think no waiting around for make-up, sets, camera set-ups, lighting and all that extra stuff that goes into TV.
Or, maybe if the new Companion was a man, it could be an indicator that when Capaldi leaves, he will be replaced by a Female Doctor
If they do replace Capaldi with a woman, I just hope they do it for the right reasons, and not to bow to the pressure of blogs and feminist keyboard warriors. I've said it before: if a woman gives the best audition, she should get the job, not because some bloggers think because it's 2017-18-whatever, that it's "time for a female Doctor." If a woman comes in and gives a great audition that gets Chibnall excited for the possibilities of what he could do with the new direction and storylines, great. Cast her. At least in Doctor Who you have a mechanism in place for it to be believable. The Doctor regenerates, and Moffat has provided a canon precedence on 2 recent occasions that a gender switch is possible.
This is different to, say, James Bond, which is the newest target of the keyboard warriors in response to Daniel Craig's likely departure and think there should be a female 007.
This is different to, say, James Bond, which is the newest target of the keyboard warriors in response to Daniel Craig's likely departure and think there should be a female 007.
I don't think they will, but if they do, I wouldn't like them to.
And I'm not a sexist, as it seems like we HAVE to say this in these talks, but I genuinely don't want the Doctor to regenerate into a woman, just so the BBC can pointlessly appease to the feminists. Just because it CAN happen, doesn't mean it SHOULD happen.
And I'm not a sexist, as it seems like we HAVE to say this in these talks, but I genuinely don't want the Doctor to regenerate into a woman, just so the BBC can pointlessly appease to the feminists. Just because it CAN happen, doesn't mean it SHOULD happen.
Ooh, yea, that's right, I had forgotten about her Tribal Ways, The Great God Xoanon that eats Babies (I haven't watched any Classic Who in somewhere close to a year, and didn't get far in that time, though, I have been craving to start popping in some Classic Who). And then there's the Yoyo, <Leela looks at The Doctor in irritation> "I thought it was part of the Magic"
RotFLMAOI do not even want to begin to imagine where the door would be in that configuration.
The thing is, the character is James Bond, it makes it hard to cast a woman in the role, she'd have to be Jane Bond or Jamie Bond. Besides, the thing about Bond is he's the quintessential dude who other men want to be. And while I would like them to branch out and try casting someone non-white (huge supporter of Idris Elba getting the role, though I know that's unlikely) this is one character who really should stay male.
As for a female Doctor, I'll admit I was hesitant a few years back, not because I was against a woman having the role, I was firmly in the camp that felt regeneration shouldn't change gender. But now it's canonical fact it can, we've seen it happen twice, and it's been mentioned a third time, so that's that. And, opinion of what regeneration should and shouldn't do aside, I've never been against the idea of a female Doctor. And now that a female Master has worked just as well as her male predecessors. But I agree, should we get a female Doctor, it should be because she was the best to audition for the role, not because of any outside pressure forcing the matter.
I pretty much agree with The Wormhole on this. Bond is a bloke, end of discussion really, but the Doctor can really be anyone, and even before Missy or the Gallifreyan general, or the Corsair made the notion of gender swapping canon it was pretty certain it could happen, if your DNA is being rewritten at such a base level really anything is possible.
Personally I think maybe we should have a non white Doctor before a female Doctor (but heck they could do both at once!) but I think it does come down to who is available and who is the right choice at the right time. For me looking at someone like Olivia Colman she's about as perfect a fit for the Doctor as you could hope to find and if she were male she'd probably have been high on the list when Smith left.
I don't want them to do it just because they can, or just to tick a box, but if someone is perfect to play the Doctor they should get the chance, whether they're male, female or...and I appreciate this may be a step too far...American!
Personally I think maybe we should have a non white Doctor before a female Doctor (but heck they could do both at once!) but I think it does come down to who is available and who is the right choice at the right time. For me looking at someone like Olivia Colman she's about as perfect a fit for the Doctor as you could hope to find and if she were male she'd probably have been high on the list when Smith left.
I don't want them to do it just because they can, or just to tick a box, but if someone is perfect to play the Doctor they should get the chance, whether they're male, female or...and I appreciate this may be a step too far...American!
Bond is a bloke, but how about a blockbuster about Moneypenny?
