Originally Posted by Ulfgeirr:
“I do like a gusty heroine, but they all seem to be in the same mould, and with too much forced sexual tension. There are plenty of other ways to write strong female characters..”
Oh, goody, no-one has revealed any spoilers about the new episode of Doctor Who, as I haven’t seen it yet. And I’ve seen every episode since the first one, way back in 1963 (and that meant staying in on Saturdays, before we had our first video recorder in 1980.

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Sexual Tension? Really? Generally the Doctors Companion is usually a cute and or feisty youngster, and usually female, whose job is to ask the Doctor the questions that the audience would ask.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Companion_(Doctor_Who)
As examples I give you the original grand-daughter Susan, Polly, Victoria, Zoe, Jo and Nyssa. (Please don’t mention the irritating Tegan, Peri, Melanie and Ace!)
As the Doctors have got younger, there has always been some possibility of sexual interest, but the writers have always steered away from it, making the Doctor particularly naïve about this human trait, and as such, a rich source of humour. I expect the dark-haired cutie from Emmerdale to be no different.
Originally Posted by Ulfgeirr:
“I got banned from watching it during series 1, but I've restarted recently. I got up to series 3 episode 4 the other day, but I've moved onto rewatching Merlin before the new series. I've only watched most of the episodes once and I need a refresher on the backstories of each character.”
Merlin - Bumped into Arthur Pendragon (and the knight Adetomiwa Edun) in the bar of a Cardiff hotel earlier this year – they tend to use locations around Cardiff for some of the filming (I am always spotting bits of Caerphilly Castle in the show) and the medieval village you’ve seen is at Cosmeston Lakes near Penarth.
I also walked through the Being Human outside location set last week. What with Doctor Who, Torchwood, Merlin, Gavin and Stacey, Being Human, Cardiff and its environs is fast becoming the UK’s Hollywood!