Oh. So Amy is a contemporary companion. Great.
Passing Of The Trainers (Mild Spoilers)
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Yes, but I like The Girl in the Fireplace and the River Song 2-parter more than I liked The Time Traveler's Wife. Moffat's stories at least writes active characters. Niffenegger's characters are passive to the point of annoyance.
I agree! It's great!
Odd note - we now know that The Doctor will be wearing his brown outfit when he regenerates.
Yay!
I love the brown outfit so much more. Shame that "something will happen" to the coat. Doctor Who, namely the Tenth Doctor and Tennant actually brought my love back for long brown coats.
Yay!
I love the brown outfit so much more. Shame that "something will happen" to the coat. Doctor Who, namely the Tenth Doctor and Tennant actually brought my love back for long brown coats.
I used to have a brown greatcoat from the 1940s. I miss it a lot but I'm glad it's gone in a way. When something becomes part of a characters costume, people think that's why you wear it. I have a fedora (love the style, beats baseball hats any day) but you can't wear it without someone making an Indian Jones comment.
I used to have a long brown coat similar to the Tenth Doctors, but it got old and annoying, so I threw it away, when I saw him wearing it I was like "heh", and people used to comment on how I wore one and that I was copying Doctor Who, even though I had it years before him.
I did recently buy a shorter black jacket recently, might buy a new brown one :P.
I did recently buy a shorter black jacket recently, might buy a new brown one :P.
Unless we're misinterpreting things and she's actually a companion from the mid-90s.
^this.
So, what, Mid-90's is now "ancient"? As far as I am concerned, Mid-90's is just as a good as "contemporary".
No one's said that. I was just pointing out that a companion from the mid-90s is not a contemporary character.
I don't believe you're thinking this through. Think of all the things that have changed since the early-to-mid-90s:
- The World Trade Organization was established
- The rise of the European Union
- The fall of the Soviet Union and rise of Vladimir Putin
- The end of the Troubles
- The assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and the rise of the Israeli right
- The Oklahoma City Bombing
- The end of apartheid and the election of Nelson Mandela in South Africa
- Rise of al Qaeda and Osama bin Ladin
- Russia-Chechnya war
- Rise of Tony Blair and New Labour
- Rise of the World Wide Web, Web 2.0
- Cellular telecommunications technology
- 9/11 attacks on the Pentagon, destruction of the World Trade Center, Afghan War
- Iraq War
- Election of Barack Obama
- Rise of India and China as upcoming superpowers
- Invention of the DVD
- Final end of the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet in Chile
- End of immunity laws for the Argentine military dictatorship
- Rise of the "Washington Consensus," international neoliberalism
- Publication of Harry Potter
- Hurricane Katrina
- 2004 Indonesian Tsunami
- Independence of Kosovo, Kosovo War
- Dissolution of Yugoslavia, arrest of Slobodan Milošević
- Orange Revolution in Ukraine
- London Bombings, 3/11 attacks
Etc.
The world is a vastly different place today after only about 15-20 years, even just from a day-to-day perspective. I think it might be very interesting to see how someone from the mid-90s would react to the world in the late 2000s.
Tell that to the 8-14 year olds who STILL make up the core audience of the show.
Mark
Tell that to the 8-14 year olds who STILL make up the core audience of the show.
Mark
^ This.
Remember, especially to the 8-or-so year olds... Ground Zero in New York has always existed. Tony Blair had always been the Prime Minister until 2007. The U.S. and U.K. have been in Iraq since they were 2 years old. The Afghan War has always been going on. George W. Bush had always been the U.S. President. Labour has always made up the government in the U.K. Cell phones have always existed. Facebook has always been around. People have always been able to take pictures with camera phones, and BlackBerries and iPhones are too old for them to have major memories of life before them. GPS has always existed. Al Qaeda has always been out there.
Oh, and Christopher Eccleston or David Tennant have always been the Doctor.
On the other hand, you also avoid having to deal with the fallout of, say, "Journey's End" and Children of Earth if the companion comes from a pre-2005 timeframe. Amy could look at the universe with wide-eyed wonder, instead of reminiscing about when the Daleks stole the Earth or the week when the children stopped.
Also a very excellent point!
God, we're still going to act like all that nonsense happened? groan.
"Planet of the Dead" was clear that Earth's abduction happened. Children of Earth, in "Day One," took a darker tack in the conversation between Gwen and Rupesh. I can't see any reason to handwave away the general public's knowledge of aliens just because it's a new producer and writer at the helm of Who.
Just go look over at Gallifrey Base forums to see how they react. They generally spend their time moaning how Paul McGann was never asked back, how camp it has become and how great the novels of Lawrence Miles are...
Oh yeah, right... the whole world isn't a television show called Doctor Who.
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