Why just one? I'd like to see both Clyde and Rani become companions. I don't want their stories to end.
The next companion should be...
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Why just one? I'd like to see both Clyde and Rani become companions. I don't want their stories to end.
Luke was a dick, and Sky was untested, but Sarah Jane had two children who are "now" orphans... So I'm not sure why the nieghbour kids would take precedence?
Sky is too young, but her being untested is maybe a good thing for her appearance on Doctor Who, she isnt a know it all been there done that type like Luke, Rani and Clyde would be, and lives her life in Lukes shadow. She can have any adventure she wants, but she can be constantly wondering if Luke would have done it better.
The Doctor is non sexual for th most (until "adult" Amy stuck her leg over), but being a father and an uncle of a very very young girl, I couldn't help but thinking "Stranger Danger" when the Doctor tried to wander off with a 6 year old child.
I'm watching Love Soup.
So, I've got Tasmin Greig on the brain, but Montserrat Lombard is nothing to sneeze at which is when I began to wonder... If Sheridan Smith is on the Telly, no matter what name she claims is her own, how can we not suspect that it's not just Lucy Miller playing silly buggers.
Although the thing about Sheridan, is that, after all; that two pints of lager and packet of chips, she seems incomplete without a cigarette in her hand... Would the Doctor let a smoker into the TARDIS and would he keep them around if he caught them smoking inside his timespace machine?
All the people he took from the 60s, it was a miracle Susan wasn't knocking back two packets a day, after hanging out in the Coal Hill School Yards.
So, I've got Tasmin Greig on the brain, but Montserrat Lombard is nothing to sneeze at which is when I began to wonder... If Sheridan Smith is on the Telly, no matter what name she claims is her own, how can we not suspect that it's not just Lucy Miller playing silly buggers.
Although the thing about Sheridan, is that, after all; that two pints of lager and packet of chips, she seems incomplete without a cigarette in her hand... Would the Doctor let a smoker into the TARDIS and would he keep them around if he caught them smoking inside his timespace machine?
All the people he took from the 60s, it was a miracle Susan wasn't knocking back two packets a day, after hanging out in the Coal Hill School Yards.
Humans would think that the next companion must be a human, how typical!
But if we insist on a human, I prefer it to be someone from a few centuries past, with a few episodes taking place in their century. Someone who could be totally baffled even by our century.
But if we insist on a human, I prefer it to be someone from a few centuries past, with a few episodes taking place in their century. Someone who could be totally baffled even by our century.
true of course, however until Doctor Whos alien viewers start to pay the licence fee, they really have no say on what should happen on screen
They tried that with Katarina, a servant girl from ancient Troy, way back in the First Doctor era, but quickly decided that having a companion who couldn't wrap her mind around the present, let alone the far-future planets and technologies and races that the Doctor routinely dealt with, would be an impediment to the storytelling. So they killed her off early in the very next storyline.
Then again, the Fourth Doctor's companion Leela was a "primitive" (despite being from the far future) and they managed to make it work with her.
Still, I don't know... the producers of the new shows seem to like having contemporary characters as companions, for the sake of audience identification.
7 in the lost stories is travelling with Two Girls (Ace of course, and a Noob) from the 80s and Ace was showing the noob how to use a cell phone as if it was second nature while...
5 spent eight years travelling with a Egyptian Pharo in between planet of fire and Caves of Andronazi.
Now I'm not saying that Jo Grant had the mind of Chimpanzee, but some were in greater London in the mid 1970s there was a petting Zoo missing a monkey.
Young Mary Shelly is talking up a storm about how futuristic the late 18 hundreds are as she's facing off against Cybermen along side 8.
Jaimie is arguably the most popular character ever, and hung around for 117 episodes but he seemed to take the future with a grain of salt despite being from the mid 18th century.
5 spent eight years travelling with a Egyptian Pharo in between planet of fire and Caves of Andronazi.
Now I'm not saying that Jo Grant had the mind of Chimpanzee, but some were in greater London in the mid 1970s there was a petting Zoo missing a monkey.
Young Mary Shelly is talking up a storm about how futuristic the late 18 hundreds are as she's facing off against Cybermen along side 8.
Jaimie is arguably the most popular character ever, and hung around for 117 episodes but he seemed to take the future with a grain of salt despite being from the mid 18th century.
As I said earlier, I identified more with Leela than I ever did with Rose (or Martha for that matter). And as Guy Gardner pointed out, Jamie is one of the most popular companions ever and appeared in more episodes than any other character (sans The Doctor), and likewise I identify more with him than Rose or Martha. I call bullshit on the companions needing to be contemporary in order to be identifiable, either by Whovians or the general audience.
I think either of the 2 guys from The IT Crowd would make good companions, they're hilarious. But maybe not with 11, since he's already kind of wacky. But I could see Roy (the Irish one) having the same kind of vibe as the guy from The Lodger.
I was actually quite impressed with Holly Earl's teenager character Lily Arwell in the Christmas special. She seemed to get on well with 11 and assimilate the future stuff not too badly. If the stigma of having a teenager as companion can be overcome (though the actress herself turns 20 this year according to the TARDIS Index File site) I could see Lily being a half-decent companion.
Suranne Jones had great chemistry with Matt Smith and she's enough of a chameleon that she could come back as a new character and not be considered a clone of Idris. But that ship sailed once Scott & Bailey became a hit.
Re: the companions always being human. Sorry, but that's a ground rule that was established from Day 1 (in fact - someone feel free to correct me - I think it's even spelled out in the original series bible. And I'm talking about the one from 1963). It's part of the formula. K-9 would never have worked as a solo companion, and even if the prop had worked, Kamelion would have only served as a compliment for the other human characters. Romana was an exception, but even she didn't really catch on with viewers until she regenerated and became more "human" in the process. The books and audios and comics have gotten away with non-human companions, but then again can you really imagine BBC viewers accepting a talking penguin or a sentient robot dinosaur (IDW comics readers know what I mean) on telly?
Alex
Suranne Jones had great chemistry with Matt Smith and she's enough of a chameleon that she could come back as a new character and not be considered a clone of Idris. But that ship sailed once Scott & Bailey became a hit.
Re: the companions always being human. Sorry, but that's a ground rule that was established from Day 1 (in fact - someone feel free to correct me - I think it's even spelled out in the original series bible. And I'm talking about the one from 1963). It's part of the formula. K-9 would never have worked as a solo companion, and even if the prop had worked, Kamelion would have only served as a compliment for the other human characters. Romana was an exception, but even she didn't really catch on with viewers until she regenerated and became more "human" in the process. The books and audios and comics have gotten away with non-human companions, but then again can you really imagine BBC viewers accepting a talking penguin or a sentient robot dinosaur (IDW comics readers know what I mean) on telly?
Alex
Ah, Day 1. The day we learned that the Doctor travels with a 14-year-old girl from outer space.
Sadly that would involve giving James Corden more money, more screentime and more publicity. Something i cannot condone.
I'm all in favour of seeing Clani as companions in the future on the other hand.
To be honest, I had no idea he was anybody of note. I've never seen him in anything other than Doctor Who.
Then you are more fortunate than I. Sadly i've seen his attempts at comedy, witnessed his crass behavior, and even had to listen repeatedly to him blathering on about his biography whilst doing my shopping in Asda.
His appearances in Doctor Who are about the only things he has done that i find tolerable, and thats mostly because his dearth of talent is compensated for by Matt Smith.
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Nope. Nonhuman but humanoid companions include Susan (Gallifreyan), Romana (Gallifreyan), Adric (Terradonian born on Alzarius), Nyssa (Trakenite), and Turlough (Trion). The Fourth Doctor was without a human companion for three whole seasons, between Leela's departure at the end of season 15 and Tegan's joining at the end of season 18. And since Leela wasn't from Earth but from a lost human colony in the future, the Doctor went over four and a half seasons without an Earthborn companion.
I'm not a great fan of Corden, but I like Craig, go figure, he must be acting or something...much like Tate he'd probably make a better companion than people think, but I still think an unknown is more lilkely.
shame really as I'd love it to be Clani
Whilst Amy and Rory are contemporay humans, at least they're not from bloody London so that was one improvement!
shame really as I'd love it to be Clani
Whilst Amy and Rory are contemporay humans, at least they're not from bloody London so that was one improvement!
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