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Favourite Families in WHO!
Face Of Jack
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OK, I'm a classic Who fan....but nothing was involved with families apart from Dr 1 and his grand-daughter, Tegan and her aunt, and Uncle in that village with Polly James, and Peri and her step-father!
But in the New series (if we can call it new?), the family concept came into being!
I quite liked Rose & family....Jackie was brilliant! I wish she had become a more regular companion in the Tardis! Her Dad was nice too. 8/10
Martha's family were a bit iffy for my liking - even before they got taken by The Master!
Not likeable at all - and mother was a cow! 3/10
Donna's family - Sylvia, such a nag - but lovable at the same time. Wilf was the most lovable grand-dad ever! 9/10
The Ponds/Williams: Debatable this one! Amy got on my wick! Rory was OK untill he started dying every other week! And don't mention bloody River/Melody to me!!
Sorry but - 2/10
Clara: Not met family properly yet........let's wait and see!
Anyone agree or disagree with me? Please feel free to comment!
But in the New series (if we can call it new?), the family concept came into being!
I quite liked Rose & family....Jackie was brilliant! I wish she had become a more regular companion in the Tardis! Her Dad was nice too. 8/10
Martha's family were a bit iffy for my liking - even before they got taken by The Master!
Not likeable at all - and mother was a cow! 3/10
Donna's family - Sylvia, such a nag - but lovable at the same time. Wilf was the most lovable grand-dad ever! 9/10
The Ponds/Williams: Debatable this one! Amy got on my wick! Rory was OK untill he started dying every other week! And don't mention bloody River/Melody to me!!
Sorry but - 2/10
Clara: Not met family properly yet........let's wait and see!
Anyone agree or disagree with me? Please feel free to comment!
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I agree about Marthas' family, pretty poor. Wilf was excellent, never liked Rose' dad.
It was actually her Grandfather she saw in The Awakening and you forgot her other relative from Arc Of Infinity, her cousin Colin. I think Tegan was quite unique in that we saw several members of her family.
And in a small way Nyssa had a family as well with her father Tremas and Step-Mother in Kassia.
I do understand the comment Salad but it was a bit of a running joke with Rory and just became irritating because it cheapened the whole impact having a companion actually die and how final it should be ( Thinking Adric here and Katarina here)
From memory Rory was seen to 'die' in Amys Choice and Day of the moon and Angels take Manhatten
He almost died in the Curse / Black Spot
He actually died in the Hungry Earth story but came back without explanation as an Auton.
Its over-using the concept for effect and not very good at that. Its not unique though.
They did it in the classic series with Peri where she had a really effective and chilling 'death' and spoiled it by then saying she was alive and probably having loud bouncing children with Ycarnos. !
When characters in the show actually comment on the Meme it's hardly totally false is it?
The whole extended UNIT "family" as well
(Just an excuse to spell Bernard's name right after described him as a Legend then proceeded to get it wrong in another thread, really.)
I would love the 12th Doctor to drop in to visit Peri and King Ycarnos.
I loved Donna's family but didn't feel we got to know Martha's particularly well and Amy's family were a bit of a missed opportunity for me.
I think Rose's family remain my favourite, though. Her mum in particular was just superb and I love the journey Rose and her entire family went through during the first four seasons.
My faves are still the Noble/Mott family up to now.
Your right, and in the angels take manhattan even rory himself mocks his repeated deaths twice in one scene.
He dies as often as Amy in series 5. They both die in Amy's Choice, Rory dies at the cliffhanger to Cold Blood, Amy dies at the cliffhanger to The Pandorica Opens. (The Doctor apparently dies halfway through The Big Bang, too, so that's all three stars level pegging.)
He "dies" in Day of the Moon, but not until after the Doctor died in The Impossible Astronaut, and Amy and River die in the same vignette, so he's still equal, death-for-death. His death in The Curse of the Black Spot is quite pointedly not a death - he starts to drown, so they release the Siren specifically because the Doctor suspects she might keep Rory safe. Then if you count his illusory death in The Doctor's Wife you should probably count one of the Amys being actually unwritten from time in The Girl Who Waited... it really isn't that excessive.
He racks up a couple of bonus deaths in The Angels Take Manhattan, but if you count, he's only one or two deaths ahead of his wife, max.
That's how I would rate them.
I didn't like Amy and Martha or their families, but I loved Rose and Donna, and their families, especially Jackie and Wilf. I liked Rory, and if we're talking families, I quite liked his dad too.