Bit of an odd throwaway comment for such a significant piece of news!
New companion?
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Originally Posted by Mulett:
“Bit of an odd throwaway comment for such a significant piece of news!”
“Bit of an odd throwaway comment for such a significant piece of news!”
Yeah on one hand it could be Moffat playing with us, just trying to be truthful without giving away a planned big exit at Christmas
On the other hand he's not exactly known for being truthful and remembering how crappily the BBC handled Matt's final contract extension it could just be it's still subject to negotiation and he genuinely doesn't know but is hoping she'll be signed again
Why not have a guy who's from the future/another world and not human?
You could have a third as a female or male and a soldier - could be from the wars with the Daleks and Cybermen?
Both strongly characterised and friction as in not get on with each other but grow into a team?
You could have a third as a female or male and a soldier - could be from the wars with the Daleks and Cybermen?
Both strongly characterised and friction as in not get on with each other but grow into a team?
A Doctor/Master in the TARDIS dynamic might be interesting for a series. They have to work together, under duress maybe then we get to see that old buried friendship come to the surface only to fall apart come the finale by The Masters inevitable betrayal.
Originally Posted by Tom Tit:
“Interesting... you refer to men using the familial, informal word 'guy', but women are referred to very coldly and formally as 'females' (twice). Then, you refer to whatever female companion may be 'picked up' as a 'girl', although one would presume you don't want her to be adolescent. Your words seem very telling to me.
I'm interested in why you feel a 'strong emphasis on women' is bad. I think most would surely like to see a strong emphasis on the characters - whoever they may be? It's an odd thing to say, as I doubt you would say something like 'there's been too much emphasis on black people lately'.
I would point out to you that of the two leads last season it was a 50 / 50 split of male and female, and the tertiary main character was also male, meaning the ongoing cast leaned more heavily towards men than women by 67%.
One of the worst things, to me, about the classic series of Doctor Who is how few female characters there were, and even fewer good ones. If not for the companions, a number of those episodes may well have passed by without a single female face onscreen (I believe the companionless 'Deadly Assassin' more or less did) and perhaps a majority of them wouldn't have had a significant female character. Very few of them would have had more than one tokenistic female.
Rectifying that in the revived series has been one of their best moves, and has helped make Doctor Who massively more popular with the female audience. For decades fantasy and Science-Fiction were seen as male genres that women inherently had no interest in. In fact, it was actually the case that women simply were not represented adequately within them, either in number or quality of characters or authentic female viewpoints within the narratives. As that has gradually changed over the last 20 years there has been a massive shift in the audience for the genres with women embracing it, as both consumers and producers.
The very worst thing Doctor Who could do would be to eliminate the female lead. Of course, I think you do realize this really; your subtext is obvious, but I'm sorry, Doctor Who is never going to have the strong gay vibe you want it to have. It will continue to be as representative as possible, and as long as they have a primary male lead the co-star will always be female.”
“Interesting... you refer to men using the familial, informal word 'guy', but women are referred to very coldly and formally as 'females' (twice). Then, you refer to whatever female companion may be 'picked up' as a 'girl', although one would presume you don't want her to be adolescent. Your words seem very telling to me.
I'm interested in why you feel a 'strong emphasis on women' is bad. I think most would surely like to see a strong emphasis on the characters - whoever they may be? It's an odd thing to say, as I doubt you would say something like 'there's been too much emphasis on black people lately'.
I would point out to you that of the two leads last season it was a 50 / 50 split of male and female, and the tertiary main character was also male, meaning the ongoing cast leaned more heavily towards men than women by 67%.
One of the worst things, to me, about the classic series of Doctor Who is how few female characters there were, and even fewer good ones. If not for the companions, a number of those episodes may well have passed by without a single female face onscreen (I believe the companionless 'Deadly Assassin' more or less did) and perhaps a majority of them wouldn't have had a significant female character. Very few of them would have had more than one tokenistic female.
Rectifying that in the revived series has been one of their best moves, and has helped make Doctor Who massively more popular with the female audience. For decades fantasy and Science-Fiction were seen as male genres that women inherently had no interest in. In fact, it was actually the case that women simply were not represented adequately within them, either in number or quality of characters or authentic female viewpoints within the narratives. As that has gradually changed over the last 20 years there has been a massive shift in the audience for the genres with women embracing it, as both consumers and producers.
The very worst thing Doctor Who could do would be to eliminate the female lead. Of course, I think you do realize this really; your subtext is obvious, but I'm sorry, Doctor Who is never going to have the strong gay vibe you want it to have. It will continue to be as representative as possible, and as long as they have a primary male lead the co-star will always be female.”
Gosh Tom Tit - what a heavy psychological analysis you gave from my little post!!
I have no problem with girls/women being companions (they are usually the best!) I used to love Tegan, Leela and lately Donna and Clara. I was simply stating that a guy (a man) would be interesting to have on board as well!! No gay agenda at all .
And yes - I am gay too!
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