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Post by dalekbuster523finish on Jan 3, 2016 21:46:01 GMT
Of course! This is Doctor Who we're talking about. Also: let's not forget Frobisher is a shapeshifter so he'd only need to take on the form of something other than a penguin and call himself something else when around the 4th Doctor. What about A talking cabbage with parsnips for arms and garlic bread for legs? Perfect!
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Post by Sir Wearer of Hats on Jan 3, 2016 21:57:21 GMT
Only if the cabbage is voiced by David Benson.
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Post by kimalysong on Jan 3, 2016 22:19:53 GMT
I don't think the Doctor needs a companion but besides a story here and there it would be pretty boring for me personally if he didn't have a companion.
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Post by bobod on Jan 4, 2016 12:03:21 GMT
Hey everyone, What do we want to see in a new companion for Four? (I hope no-one minds me bringing up this old topic) A badge for mathematical excellence.
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Post by dalekbuster523finish on Jan 4, 2016 15:07:34 GMT
Hey everyone, What do we want to see in a new companion for Four? (I hope no-one minds me bringing up this old topic) A badge for mathematical excellence. As those crazy fangirls would say, 'THE FEEEEEEELS!'
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Post by randomjc on Jan 4, 2016 15:12:40 GMT
A badge for mathematical excellence. As those crazy fangirls would say, 'THE FEEEEEEELS!' ...I'm a fan girl?
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Post by bobod on Jan 4, 2016 15:32:48 GMT
A badge for mathematical excellence. As those crazy fangirls would say, 'THE FEEEEEEELS!' Would they? Why?
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Post by dalekbuster523finish on Jan 4, 2016 21:08:13 GMT
As those crazy fangirls would say, 'THE FEEEEEEELS!' Would they? Why? I guess you're not familiar with Tumblr...
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Post by Audio Watchdog on Jan 4, 2016 22:13:11 GMT
The hard thing pairing someone with 4 is the sheer range of his previous companions. With Sarah Jane he got the spunkiest & smartest of the young ladies. With Harry he got the solid military person. He got the noble savage with Leela. The aristocrat with Romana I. The plucky & brilliant Romana II. The brilliant young man with Adric. The sole surviving member of her race with Nyssa and the mouth with legs in Tegan. Then with the Paul Magrs audios he got the older companion with Mrs. Wimsey. I say we give him Forbisher and be done with it.
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Post by Feroniya27 on Jan 5, 2016 3:35:59 GMT
I came into this thread with the express point of saying he needed the cabbage. So just consider me another +1 for the idea.
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Post by brax on Jan 5, 2016 6:54:42 GMT
Hey everyone, What do we want to see in a new companion for Four? (I hope no-one minds me bringing up this old topic) A badge for mathematical excellence. Yes. This. No, seriously. This. As a clever, annoying four year old I thought Adric was great, and always wished he'd been introduced with more time to spend with 4/Romana before becoming one of the crowded grumpy-family tardis of S19. Failing that, I'd adore a Wibbsey box set picking up where the AudioGo story was originally going to go in the cancelled 4th season of those audios.
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Post by constonks on Jan 9, 2016 14:43:26 GMT
I think it's more the fact that he's such a powerful being and one of his biggest flaws is his arrogance, somebody needs to be there to make sure he doesn't do something stupid. I disagree. I think it's a bit more nuanced than that. There are lots of stories with the Doctor travelling alone where he doesn't screw everything up due to his hubris, loneliness, rage, etc. Far more than ones where he does. The only times I'd say he needs a companion to help guide him is at the really hard moments. The moments where anyone would need help making a decision. It's just the Doctor faces a lot more Big Decisions than your average human being. He also absolutely needs a companion so he doesn't get bored. This becomes more explicit with later Doctors - the Eleventh states it in a webisode - as the Doctor sees the universe anew through his companions' eyes. It allows him a new perspective every time. I think the Fourth Doctor's TV companions are perfect examples of different perspective. Sarah, Leela, Romana, K9 and Adric are so wildly different that they show all these wonderful different aspects of the same Doctor. Actually, I'd throw in Mike and Wibbsey as well. So if I were to pick another companion for Tom, I wouldn't want it to be "another Sarah" or "another Leela" - but rather someone altogether different. Specifically, I was thinking of Braxiatel but that's just me.
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Post by mbt66 on Jan 9, 2016 15:18:03 GMT
I came into this thread with the express point of saying he needed the cabbage. So just consider me another +1 for the idea. I am not a fan of the talking cabbage idea, but if they introduce a new companion they could always call her... Scarlet Savoy ...in tribute to Tom's original request.
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Post by mrperson on Jan 9, 2016 18:23:02 GMT
Ohh lord do I HATE that idea he need companions to "stop him" like he's some wild animal. Me too. Incompatible with the Doctor as a scientist and pacifist. Its only chance of making sense was as applied to nine through to 11/Day (Time War PTSD + nobody to put him on trial).
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Post by seeley on Jan 9, 2016 18:39:40 GMT
Ohh lord do I HATE that idea he need companions to "stop him" like he's some wild animal. Its only chance of making sense was as applied to nine through to 11/Day (Time War PTSD + nobody to put him on trial). Indeed. I found Prisoner of Peladon to be troublesome, for this reason. King Peladon keeps going on about how the Doctor needs a companion, and yet the consequences of him not having one seem to amount to "he's a bit rude, isn't he?"
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Post by dalekbuster523finish on Jan 9, 2016 18:48:02 GMT
Its only chance of making sense was as applied to nine through to 11/Day (Time War PTSD + nobody to put him on trial). Indeed. I found Prisoner of Peladon to be troublesome, for this reason. King Peladon keeps going on about how the Doctor needs a companion, and yet the consequences of him not having one seem to amount to "he's a bit rude, isn't he?" In The Water of Mars, he tries to change a fixed point in time and develops an 'evil god'-ly status. In A Town Called Mercy, he nearly shoots an escaped alien criminal with a gun. Proof right there that the Doctor needs a companion.
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Post by seeley on Jan 9, 2016 19:17:56 GMT
Indeed. I found Prisoner of Peladon to be troublesome, for this reason. King Peladon keeps going on about how the Doctor needs a companion, and yet the consequences of him not having one seem to amount to "he's a bit rude, isn't he?" In The Water of Mars, he tries to change a fixed point in time and develops an 'evil god'-ly status. In A Town Called Mercy, he nearly shoots an escaped alien criminal with a gun. Proof right there that the Doctor needs a companion. Those instances are both post-Time War, and both at particular points in the Doctor's life. Prisoner of Peladon is set between the Green Death and the Time Warrior. What's in character for the Tenth Doctor is not necessarily so for the Third Doctor.
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Post by dalekbuster523finish on Jan 9, 2016 19:30:15 GMT
In The Water of Mars, he tries to change a fixed point in time and develops an 'evil god'-ly status. In A Town Called Mercy, he nearly shoots an escaped alien criminal with a gun. Proof right there that the Doctor needs a companion. Those instances are both post-Time War, and both at particular points in the Doctor's life. Prisoner of Peladon is set between the Green Death and the Time Warrior. What's in character for the Tenth Doctor is not necessarily so for the Third Doctor. That's because there's no solo-3rd Doctor stories. Also: the 4th Doctor in The Deadly Assassin shoots a poison dart at the Master because there was no companion to stop him.
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Post by seeley on Jan 9, 2016 19:48:20 GMT
Those instances are both post-Time War, and both at particular points in the Doctor's life. Prisoner of Peladon is set between the Green Death and the Time Warrior. What's in character for the Tenth Doctor is not necessarily so for the Third Doctor. That's because there's no solo-3rd Doctor stories. There are no solo-3rd Doctor stories on TV (in fact, the Deadly Assassin is quite possibly the only solo story of the classic series,) but the idea of the Doctor as a "lonely god" is only glimpsed occasionally (e.g. "I walk in eternity") prior to the McCoy era. The idea that the Doctor's companion should reign him in simply isn't present in the Pertwee era (quite the opposite-"Nonsense. What you need, Doctor, as Miss Shaw herself so often remarked, is someone to pass you your test tubes and to tell you how brilliant you are"), and it shows in PoP, where, despite the King's musings and complaints, the Doctor saves the day solo, without any catastrophic consequences. Those instances are both post-Time War, and both at particular points in the Doctor's life. Prisoner of Peladon is set between the Green Death and the Time Warrior. What's in character for the Tenth Doctor is not necessarily so for the Third Doctor. Also: the 4th Doctor in The Deadly Assassin shoots a poison dart at the Master because there was no companion to stop him. The lack of a companion is not equivalent to the lack of a companion who will reign the Doctor in. This is the same incarnation of the Doctor, after all, who gasses Solon to death in Brain of Morbius (with Sarah present) and whose companion urges him to destroy the Daleks in Genesis (advice he ignores.)
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Post by Bonesaw14 on Jan 9, 2016 22:36:01 GMT
Dale Earnhardt, Richard Petty in his prime or David Pearson. oh wait, I think I'm in the wrong forum. Though i'll stick with my answers. The 3, the 43 or the 21. I never thought I'd see the day when Nascar was mentioned in a Doctor Who forum!
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