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Post by Deleted on Mar 10, 2016 12:18:57 GMT
I'm not entirely sure the First Doctor needs another companion to join Susan, (recast) Barbara, Ian, Vicki, Steven, Oliver, Polly and (recast) Ben. If Simon Guerrier is writing, however, I'm sure it will be well worth hearing. I would go for a non-human companion of some kind.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 10, 2016 12:40:16 GMT
I'm not entirely sure the First Doctor needs another companion to join Susan, (recast) Barbara, Ian, Vicki, Steven, Oliver, Polly and (recast) Ben. If Simon Guerrier is writing, however, I'm sure it will be well worth hearing. I would go for a non-human companion of some kind. That's why I think it's a fake companion, a cuckoo in the nest.
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Post by dorney on Mar 10, 2016 16:16:45 GMT
I'm not entirely sure the First Doctor needs another companion to join Susan, (recast) Barbara, Ian, Vicki, Steven, Oliver, Polly and (recast) Ben. If Simon Guerrier is writing, however, I'm sure it will be well worth hearing. I would go for a non-human companion of some kind. You're just doing it to wind me up now, aren't you?
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Post by Deleted on Mar 10, 2016 16:49:33 GMT
I'm not entirely sure the First Doctor needs another companion to join Susan, (recast) Barbara, Ian, Vicki, Steven, Oliver, Polly and (recast) Ben. If Simon Guerrier is writing, however, I'm sure it will be well worth hearing. I would go for a non-human companion of some kind. You're just doing it to wind me up now, aren't you? Believe me, I have no wish to toy with the mind that created stories as sinister as 'The Red Lady' and 'The Crooked Man!'
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Post by dastari on Mar 10, 2016 18:15:17 GMT
My suspicion is that it's a romantic interest for Susan. She sneaks some boy onboard the TARDIS and watch the Doctor get upset. It's a Vicki story, actually. Still possible, I guess... Ah, the original press release erroneously showed it as another Ian/Barbara/Susan story and I commented at the time that it seemed strange to have two of those and not a single Ian/Barbara/Vicki story. I see that has been changed. I guess it could be a romantic interest for Vicki then, although she always seemed kind of sexless to me even in the story where she went off to get married...
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Post by icecreamdf on Mar 11, 2016 5:09:00 GMT
What about a good Dalek similar to Rusty the Dalek as companion? That would create interesting conflict. While I'm sure Nick Briggs can find a way to give a Dalek extended dialogue without making it too annoying, I don't think that would work for 1. The Doctor always says that the Daleks are irredeemable, and there is no such thing as a good Dalek, which wouldn't make sense if he once had a Dalek companion.
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Post by dalekbuster523finish on Mar 11, 2016 11:00:31 GMT
What about a good Dalek similar to Rusty the Dalek as companion? That would create interesting conflict. While I'm sure Nick Briggs can find a way to give a Dalek extended dialogue without making it too annoying, I don't think that would work for 1. The Doctor always says that the Daleks are irredeemable, and there is no such thing as a good Dalek, which wouldn't make sense if he once had a Dalek companion. Whilst I can see that point, I just think it would be fun because of the awkward dynamic it would create.
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Post by bobod on Mar 11, 2016 11:05:41 GMT
Such gimmicky companions though override any kind of plotting the individual stories might take. There is a reason regular characters are less high-concept (for 'high-concept' read 'daft').
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Post by icecreamdf on Mar 11, 2016 13:23:51 GMT
While I'm sure Nick Briggs can find a way to give a Dalek extended dialogue without making it too annoying, I don't think that would work for 1. The Doctor always says that the Daleks are irredeemable, and there is no such thing as a good Dalek, which wouldn't make sense if he once had a Dalek companion. Whilst I can see that point, I just think it would be fun because of the awkward dynamic it would create. I do like the idea of a Dalek companion, but I think that would have to be with the current Doctor.
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Post by elkawho on Mar 12, 2016 4:51:22 GMT
Such gimmicky companions though override any kind of plotting the individual stories might take. There is a reason regular characters are less high-concept (for 'high-concept' read 'daft'). On TV I can think of two "gimmicky" companions. One that worked (K-9) and one that really didn't (Kamelion). Honestly, I think that K-9 is the exception, though. It really could have bombed if the writing hadn't worked and if, well, we didn't have John Leeson. And if he had been too unwieldy to control.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 12, 2016 5:51:11 GMT
Such gimmicky companions though override any kind of plotting the individual stories might take. There is a reason regular characters are less high-concept (for 'high-concept' read 'daft'). On TV I can think of two "gimmicky" companions. One that worked (K-9) and one that really didn't (Kamelion). Honestly, I think that K-9 is the exception, though. It really could have bombed if the writing hadn't worked and if, well, we didn't have John Leeson. And if he had been too unwieldy to control. The problem with gimmicky companions like K9, Frobisher or Kamelion is that it takes a certain level of imagination in order for them to be well-utilised, e.g. How does the Doctor get from one turret of the castle to another? Why his trusty companion Frobisher can turn into a hang-glider to make the distance. Aside from that, the only problem is that once you have that kind of a companion you need to put limitations on them. K9's laser can only take down so much before he needs to retreat, Frobisher was still prey to disease and had Kamelion gone ahead he would have been a companion who could be held sway by anyone with a strong enough will. What killed Kamelion I think was a lack of imagination. So the robot didn't work, he's a polymorph capable of transmuting himself into any other humanoid form, why not have him turn into another actor to be better at ease with the TARDIS crew and have him/her take over.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 12, 2016 7:36:57 GMT
Such gimmicky companions though override any kind of plotting the individual stories might take. There is a reason regular characters are less high-concept (for 'high-concept' read 'daft'). On TV I can think of two "gimmicky" companions. One that worked (K-9) and one that really didn't (Kamelion). Honestly, I think that K-9 is the exception, though. It really could have bombed if the writing hadn't worked and if, well, we didn't have John Leeson. And if he had been too unwieldy to control. Kamelion jist should have worked, as they could have ditched the robot and used a variety of actors with a shimmering effect in between. It was really dumb of them to just stick him in a cupboard for a year instead. I think they realised he was a plot killer, many of the dramatic situations the plots rely on can be solved so easily by a shaped changer that you wonder what they were thinking when they introduced him after getting rid of the sonic screwdriver for being too powerful.
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Post by Sir Wearer of Hats on Mar 12, 2016 7:41:17 GMT
The book Crystal Beuchpalhus handles Kamelion well, and explains why he hides in the TARDIS - anyone with a strong enough will can control him, only a Time Lord has the strength to overrule that control and the Doctor is loathe to control Kamelion as he believes in free will (that Sud, when he does so in CB is one of the highlights of the book).
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Post by anothermanicmondas on Mar 12, 2016 17:05:14 GMT
You're just doing it to wind me up now, aren't you? Believe me, I have no wish to toy with the mind that created stories as sinister as 'The Red Lady' and 'The Crooked Man!' not to mention writing "the Creeping Fog" for the Dark Shadows Range (runs for cover) Edit: The above statement was a joke. The Creeping Fog is written by Simon Guerrier who is writing "the Sontarons" for the Early Adventures (which is not the one with the new companion)
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