I wonder... (What?) Shh, I'm wondering.

[chicafrom3]

You know what I want Doctor Who to go back to? Overlapping Companions.

In the new series, we've had Companion teams sometimes - Rose & Adam, Rose & Jack, Rose & Mickey, Rose & Sarah Jane, Martha & Jack, Donna & Martha, Donna & Martha & Jenny - but there's never any overlap. There's never been anything like 'Babs & Ian join the Doctor and Susan, they have adventures, Susan leaves, the Doctor & Babs & Ian have adventures, Vicki joins the Doctor & Babs & Ian, they have adventures, Babs & Ian leave, the Doctor & Vicki have adventures, Steven joins, etc.' Instead, we have Rose joins the Doctor, maybe there is a temporary Companion B who leaves after an episode or two, Rose leaves the Doctor, the Doctor emos about being lonely, Martha joins the Doctor. That's all we've gotten from the new series (with, obv, names swapped out regularly).

It's always last one in, first one out. And that's not an inherently bad formula, but it's gotten very repetitive. Bring back overlapping Companions! Just to break it up.

It would also mean we'd have to have more Team TARDIS groups, but that has nothing to do with my wanting it, noooo.


(Also, I was rewatching The War Games today, and hee. Remember when the sonic screwdriver did stuff like drive screws?)


(ALSO also, but completely unrelated, have some Animorphs-related YAY)

Comments

[chicafrom3.livejournal.com]

Ten really doesn't work well with multiple-companions. The Ten/Rose/Mickey matchup is painful -- and the sucky part is that Ten and Mickey work pretty well together when it's just the two of them, but as soon as it's both Rose and Mickey, Ten is too busy being ~cute~ with companion prime to pay any attention to companion beta.

If that makes sense.

(Pssh, like TL;DR ever throws me off.)

I'm hoping the same thing. I don't think she'll become a proper Companion, but she really needs to be a regularly recurring character.

[allfireburns.livejournal.com]

That makes perfect sense and is pretty much exactly what I was thinking. I really do like Ten and Mickey when Rose is somewhere else, but just... gah. Ten has issues with being a dick. I love him dearly and always will, but it's true. It's part of why I love him.

(And I so wish I were coherent enough to TL;DR at you, because there are few things I love more than writing essays on my favorite characters, but... I'm shocked I'm managing to put together complete sentences at the moment.)

I'm still mildly pissy that she wasn't even mentioned in the specials when there is no way she didn't know Ten before the Library episodes. *Sigh* There are two years between Journey's End and End of Time, so it's not like I can't assume she's somewhere in the gaps, but that won't stop me sulking a little.