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]

My list of "things I want but will not get from Doctor Who" is getting pretty long at this point, but companion teams and overlapping companions is a major point on it. ...someday I will actually write out the full list and marvel at all the pie in the sky wishing on it.

I love my Animorphs collection, although a good bit of it is in pretty ratty condition now. They were a major influence on me growing up. Oh, KA, influencing my morality and my views on war and my preference for morally gray good & bad guys and emotionally-unhealthy-relationships in fiction...

[astropixie.livejournal.com]

We should totally make and post our lists of things we want but will not get from Doctor Who.

Animorphs influenced all that for me, too. It's no wonder I was obsessed with them. It makes me wonder if they were healthy.

[chicafrom3.livejournal.com]

I'm in for that!

They probably weren't healthy, come to think. But I'm sure there were much less healthy things we could have been obsessed with at the time! ...Somewhere!