Spoilers Russell T. Davies' Second Turn as Doctor Who Showrunner

[Set Harth]

Nardole was an alien. Leela was an alien. Romana was an alien. Adric was an alien. Nyssa was an alien. Turlough was an alien.

I guess what they mean is an alien who doesn't look exactly like a human.

 

[Ray Hardgrit]

Nardole was an alien. Leela was an alien. Romana was an alien. Adric was an alien. Nyssa was an alien. Turlough was an alien.

Leela was human! At least, I think she was.

I guess what they mean is an alien who doesn't look exactly like a human.

That would get awkward in episodes set in the present day or Earth history. They'd have to cover their pointy ears with something.

 

[Set Harth]

Leela was human! At least, I think she was.

It appears so.

 

[camdudetenger2018]

if the whosverse were still part of disney can you imagine if the mcu did crossovers with the whosverse

 

[Rich Watson]

Radio Free Skaro, who have a good track record with news (they were first with TWB airing dates for one) are saying Christmas is cancelled. As is Tom Spilsbury.

 

[Set Harth]

Not just the special, the entire holiday?

 

[Ray Hardgrit]

Not just the special, the entire holiday?

What's even the point without Doctor Who to watch!

 

[Set Harth]

This is the way.

 

[Starkers]

I'm sure there's some logical reason why not, but why do the Beeb not show repeats of past Who Christmas specials at Christmas?

I mean I wouldn't suggest it if we had an incumbent Doctor in the middle of their run, but would it hurt to show The Snowmen on Christmas day?

 

[Chaos Descending]

Leela was human! At least, I think she was.

Was it ever established that Leela's ancestors / the ancestors of the Sevateem and the Tesh came from Earth?

The novelization of the Face of Evil said that Leela's race was the "Mordee".

 

[The Wormhole]

I thin the best way to handle this would be to go back to having more than one companion, that way we can still have our modern day audience surrogate, but then throw in some more interesting characters, like someone from a different era, or maybe even our first alien companion.

Even then, the modern show has taken the companions introduced as being from another time period and/or planet and turned them into contemporary British humans when they got any kind of real focus. Jack was a time traveler from the future, then got stuck on Earth in the late 19th century and lived in Britain all the way through to modern times. River is an archaeologist from the future, then spent enough time living as a child and teenager in Britain throughout the 1990s and 2000s. Even Nardole, an alien from another planet spent fifty years living in a university in London.

 

[Ray Hardgrit]

Was it ever established that Leela's ancestors / the ancestors of the Sevateem and the Tesh came from Earth?

The novelization of the Face of Evil said that Leela's race was the "Mordee".

I checked the TARDIS Wiki and it says her people were from the Mordee expedition, and the planet they colonised is Mordee. Dialogue in the episode says that they're humans.