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Post by Deleted on Jan 31, 2017 22:14:35 GMT
Hey everyone,
In an unfilmed scene from script for The Doctor's Wife, 'Idris' expressed a fondness for The Doctor's companion Leela. While we know the the TARDIS has some form of sentience (The Edge of Destruction, Boom Town, The Parting of the Ways), what do you think the TARDIS thinks of The Doctor's companions?
I can't help but wonder if the TARDIS kept The Doctor away from Susan so she could develop more as a person away from her overbearing but well-meaning Grandfather and being as idiscocratic as her owner, probably didn't consider the extra years in An Earthly Child. (In fact, I could see her rather welcoming Babara and Ian - someone has to stop the idioit from making a fool of himself)
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Post by Deleted on Jan 31, 2017 22:51:33 GMT
It's difficult to say... Often the TARDIS doesn't seem to act so much like a person as it does a tamed animal like a horse or elephant. It's sentient, but as much a human being as the Doctor is, really. The Edge of Destruction showed it may have possessed a fondness for the Doctor and Barbara in particular as it uses the other two to try and warn everyone of the danger. The reason why it elected Susan as a medium was obvious in retrospect, i.e. her telepathic awareness, but it had a choice between either Ian and Barbara and it chose Chesterton. Maybe in part because Ms. Wright was the one who slowly came to accept the TARDIS's existence while Ian had rejected it outright.
You know, the TARDIS doesn't have as much of an antipathy towards Turlough as one might expect given that he tried to destroy her in Terminus. She certainly wasn't fond of Charley turning up before she should have and the relationship between the ship and Clara was... pretty bad. Bad enough that the TARDIS actually left the Doctor over it in Pay the Piper. It and Frobisher seemed to have a good enough relationship that they played chess together in Profits of Doom (even if Frobisher thumped the console with his foot when he lost), but even she had her limits for what she considered acceptable behaviour if The Holy Terror is anything to go by. Hell, he may have been the first and possibly only companion to make the ship go on strike, so I'd say it was a fairly abrasive acquaintanceship. Ace and the alternate universe TARDIS got on rather well, better than it did with the Seventh Doctor whom it didn't trust.
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Post by sherlock on Jan 31, 2017 23:26:40 GMT
The TARDIS seems usually fairly ambivalent towards them with a few exceptions. It does something to incapcitate Ian and Barbara when it first takes off (no-one else has ever passed out upon take off) but presumably that was nothing personal just mistrust of them, it's clearly a but more trusting by Edge since it bothers to try and warn Barbara. Ultimately the TARDIS only really cares about the Doctor not the 'strays' (in Doctor's Wife it can't even remember Amy and Rory's names and Invasion of Time seemingly mocks K-9 in what's the only example of it 'talking' via the console) and presumably tolerates them since he cares about them, again with a few exceptions (In Turn Left it shows an affection towards Rose).
The most bizarre example of the TARDIS' reaction to someone is it taking a random liking to Chang Lee such that it compromises its security against the Master.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 31, 2017 23:42:15 GMT
The TARDIS seems usually fairly ambivalent towards them with a few exceptions. It does something to incapcitate Ian and Barbara when it first takes off (no-one else has ever passed out upon take off) but presumably that was nothing personal just mistrust of them, it's clearly a but more trusting by Edge since it bothers to try and warn Barbara. Ultimately the TARDIS only really cares about the Doctor not the 'strays' (in Doctor's Wife it can't even remember Amy and Rory's names and Invasion of Time seemingly mocks K-9 in what's the only example of it 'talking' via the console) and presumably tolerates them since he cares about them, again with a few exceptions (In Turn Left it shows an affection towards Rose). The most bizarre example of the TARDIS' reaction to someone is it taking a random liking to Chang Lee such that it compromises its security against the Master.
Eh, I think the whole Chang Lee thing was part of his intended 'arc' and his potential. But, thanks, I'd forgotten that
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