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

[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