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New Doctor Who Companion Announced
eternaldoctorwho writes "Jenna-Louise Coleman will be the newest companion to the Doctor (Matt Smith) on the hit series Doctor Who. The announcement came earlier today on the BBC's Twitter page devoted to the program, along with some other details about the upcoming season of the show. Miss Coleman is also known for her previous roles on Emmerdale and Captain America: The First Avenger."
I still miss Donna.
Are those torches I see over the horizon?
I "agree".
Why can't we have a long term positive male companion?
Because the Doctor likes nice young girls to show them that it's bigger on the inside.
I'm not claiming this is in any way representative of Who viewers as a whole, but my university has a Who fan club (we call ourselves the Society of Gallifreyan Scholars) and the membership is ~75% female.
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systemd is Roko's Basilisk.
Dr Who already has a rather bumbling male character who only seems to get his head in gear on occasion, and mostly near the end of the episode. Currently he's played... by Matt Smith.
Answer the question we all want to know:
When is The Amy Pond Show coming back?
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Canada is largely thought of as "North Wisconsin".
By who ? My tired, puckered ass, you idiot.
Instead of a long rant, one line from north of the border: "You, my friend, are a xenophobic fucking cunt."
When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro. ~~ Hunter S. Thompson
I think most of us try to forget Adric. When he dies, you can tell when he dies that all of the characters are thinking 'we have a time machine. We only saw the spaceship crash from the outside - we could go back and rescue him before it does. I really hope no one else thinks of that...'
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What I really want is for the Doctor to take on a non-human companion
That sort of defeats the point of the companion. They exist in the show as a surrogate for the audience, someone who will ask the same questions as the audience and allow The Doctor to explain things for the benefit of the audience without breaking the fourth wall. An alien companion can work, but only if there is also a human companion.
Sci-Fi usually operates on the basis that any alien we meet will be significantly more advanced and worldy (universly?) than us mere humans, but that is because we are working on the assumption that they have arrived on our planet and therefore have accomplished space travel, which we haven't.
That assumption doesn't necessarily hold for a Doctor companion though. He could arrive on an alien planet where the aliens are around our level of technology (and coincidentally speak english!) and it could still work. It could be a little more interesting as the alien could be asking questions about earthlings...
Thinking about an alien companion, a Doctor Who / Star Wars crossover with Jar Jar Binks as the companion would be really cool. Especially the bit where Jar Jar gets brutally murdered 5 minutes into the episode.
Not to troll, but is it really a good comparison to say "well, our entire country has more people than any of your states, well, except for California."
No kidding! The proper way to think about Canada is 'North Minnesota.' People in Wisconsin are generally too drunk to play hockey.