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hedgie:
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--- Quote from: Masterpiece on 22 Nov 2015, 20:06 ---DAMNIT DON'T READ THAT SPOILER
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Well, it is a rather big spoiler about the most recent episode, so you gotta tread carefully. But I just put it inside a second spoiler tag just to keep you safe.
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A double spoiler tag would probably make some people (myself included) *more* likely to take a look. It's kind of like having a sign saying "do not press the button" followed by another sign with "I mean it, do *not* press the button". Perfect bait for the insatiably curious.
BenRG:
I want the next Companion to be male and for there to be absolutely zero romantic subtext with the Doctor. RTD overdid it with Rose Tyler and every attempt they've made to 'rediscover the magic' since Billie Piper left has only made it worse.
Masterpiece:
See, my favorite companion was Donna. No romantic connection there whatsoever. Amy was a somewhat distant second, yet they really fucked up her arc towards the end.
J:
personally, i think they could get a lot more mileage out of the whole part-time companion idea if he had several that they could alternate between for different episodes.
BenRG:
Purely FWIW, I'd love for the Doctor to have a Companion that was totally anti-Doctor. Someone that he has decided to keep around because:
* They really are brilliant or just have a lot of potential and he believes that they deserve more than the life they currently lead;
* The Doctor is more than a little fascinated with them, despite himself (the last of their culture or something);
* They're so fantastically dangerous that he really prefers to have them somewhere that he can keep an eye on them 24/7.As an example? Look up Douglas Adams' original treatment of 'Doctor Who and the Krikkitmen'. They pretty much anticipate Terminators about 10 years before the James Cameron film - human-looking combat robots but that are true robots rather than androids ('synthetic men').(1)
One idea I had for this never-completed mini-arc was for him to fiddle with the CPU on one of the Krikkitmen using his screwdriver to get its co-operation. Much to his shock, it slowly becomes fully sentient through the length of the arc. His morality prevents him from just destroying it at the adventure's end, so he brings it with him as a Companion, hoping to teach it a method of conflict resolution that doesn't summarise as 'Point gun at problem; pull trigger until problem is no longer there'.
Originally, this story was a Fourth Doctor story so Sarah Jane Smith was the default Companion. I guess I just liked the idea of having someone other than the Doctor on-hand to rescue her whenever she walked into the Monster of the Week.
FOOTNOTE
(1) - In classic sci-fi, androids tend to be more like Blade Runner Replicants than anything else - more biological than mechanical. True robots are those with non-organic 'brains', no matter how many biological components they have.
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