To those who have been following the Casting for Doctor Who Season 4

[puppetmaker]

And whining about it. Jeez Louise, I swear if they told you that Alan Rickman was coming on to be the companion, you would find a reason to not like it. Last year after they announced Martha Jones, the bitchfest was amazing and she is a GREAT companion and this season has some of the best episodes yet. Give these people a chance. I can remember the K-9 kurfluffel way back when and he is now considered one of the most beloved of companions. Give them a chance and I bet they will surprise you!

Warning to those who have not seen the 3rd season and have avoided spoilers for the fourth, I am allowing for spoilers in the comments.

Comments

[paleologa.livejournal.com]

Amen, sister!

[puppetmaker40.livejournal.com]

I swear that every fandom does this. I can remember when Next Gen was announced and the fan muttering of how could it be any good without the originals began. I was in the "give it a chance" camp and had some fans not speak to me for close to a year.

[norda.livejournal.com]

I swear that every fandom does this.... I was in the "give it a chance" camp and had some fans not speak to me for close to a year.


I had it happen in my own living room last night!

Well, the young lady in question, my semi-daughter, is still speaking to me, but the incident caused a lot of temporary friction.

We're currently watching the classic WHO with Crystal and are almost at the end of Tom Baker's run. Michael and I haven't seen any Tennant and only a few Ecclestons... we're trying to get Crystal up to speed so we can all watch it together.

The video for "Warrior's Gate" had a "commercial" for the then-new DOCTOR WHO CD-ROM computer game [back in 1997], with Anthony Ainley's Master doing the voice-over. Within two minutes, Crystal was yelling "Loser!" at the screen. I then had to "break it gently" to her that she'd have to get used to this fellow she was deriding, becaause he was going to be around a while. The NEXT GEN comparison came up as a conversational springboard which did much to cool tempers [I've been very, very strung out and touchy lately, and her reaction REALLY hit a nerve].

My personal opinion is that Ainley did a great job with what he was given; he knew that comparisons to Delgado were unavoidable, but he carried on like a trouper and eventually managed to put his own spin on it. I'll still always love Roger best, but I give Anthony props for his effort.

I'm open-minded enough to give each new character in any fandom a chance... it takes a little longer for me to warm up to some, like Jool in FARSCAPE, but I get there eventually.

So Rose into Martha into Donna? I'll watch and wait.

[spydielives.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the warning. I really, really appreciate it.

[puppetmaker40.livejournal.com]

Not a problem.

[neadods.livejournal.com]

My only problem is that right when I've had the racial issues in this show leap out screaming, they've gone with two more white, fair-haired companions. Which hardly fixes the problem of treating the two good black companions as less than equal.

As for how good they'll be *as* companions - I don't know Kylie from Eve and thus have no preconceptions, and I liked Runaway Bride to the point of considering it the best gateway episode and probably the best way out of the "everybody loves the Doctor" corner that the plots have painted the companions into... but I'd still like to see them bring on a non-white companion and treat them well.

[puppetmaker40.livejournal.com]

I agree with you about Martha and Mickey and how they have been treated but I think that is a separate issue from blasting anyone who gets cast as a companion no matter who it is.

I do like that they are using Martha as the connecting point between Torchwood and Doctor Who and this goes a really long way to explaining why the second season of Torchwood is so long in coming.

[budgie-uk.livejournal.com]

Unless they're going to change Torchwood MASSIVELY, I think they're stocking up trouble for themselves. It was fairly early on stated that when Jack came back, he wouldn't be bringing anyone from his team with him, because if the kids watching WHO liked them, they'd want to see them in their own programme... which wasn't suitable for kids. (Phil loves WHO, but even at 11, there's no way I'd let him watch TORCHWOOD.)

And now they're putting a companion that kids like into TORCHWOOD and then bringing her back? I already know that I'm going to be fielding questions from Philip as to why he can't watch TORCHWOOD...

[puppetmaker40.livejournal.com]

Hadn't thought of that. But you are right it might be a bad idea.

[budgie-uk.livejournal.com]

However, if they're not running series 2 until after xmas, then Phil will be 12 and possibly, just possibly, I might let him watch it, after I've vetted the episodes.

Depends on how they change it.

[puppetmaker40.livejournal.com]

Heck Ariel is 15 going on 16 and there are two episodes in the first season that we will not allow her to see.

[budgie-uk.livejournal.com]

As I said, depends on how they change it for s2.

S1 ticked me off with the first five minutes when they used a swear word purely to show that it was 'adult'. There was absolutely no necessity for the cop to swear, but hey, it's adult, so people swear for the sake of it.

Mind you, I always used to wince when creators said they were wary about stuff they'd written being read by their kids, until I wrote something for publication (the Trailer Park of Terror stories) and realised that there's no way I'm letting Phil read the book until he's older...

[mabfan.livejournal.com]

I'm curious to know which two. I personally found the second episode to be rather adult. And there's a love scene in a later episode that seemed to border on soft-core porn.

[puppetmaker40.livejournal.com]

The cannibal episode and the second episode

[mabfan.livejournal.com]

Thank you for this post.

[puppetmaker40.livejournal.com]

It just had to be said somewhere. Right now if anyone says a positive thing they are shouted down like a lot of people were about Martha.

[michael-b-lee.livejournal.com]

Now I can't get the notion out of my head that Alan Rickman would make an AWESOME Doctor.

If only.

[puppetmaker40.livejournal.com]

Have you seen "Curse of the Fatal Death"? Rickman is not the Doctor but Rowan Atkinson is.....

[besideserato.livejournal.com]

I only know one thing abut Dr. Who: the whining in my flist about it is really, really annoying!