Re: Anybody Got a filter for all this stupid political and religious arguements going on?

On 16.03.25, Blueshirt  <blueshirt@indigo.news> wrote:

Mickmane wrote:

On 15.03.25, Blueshirt  <blueshirt@indigo.news> wrote:

Mickmane wrote:

I don't feel that way about any other companion of the new
series. There wasn't that much about the others' lives, nor
did they hog the stage so much.

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Companions hogging the stage is becoming a bit of a Doctor
Who trope.

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Nope, don't see it.

Since Doctor Who returned in 2005 the companions and their
lives, and their families at times too, have become more of a
focus than we ever got to see with companions in the classic era
of the show.

Ok, compared to classic, yes.

I started with the new series, so am used to Rose and Martha level of 
companions. They didn't hog the stage, they just had lives. :)

11th doctor, I only watched years later, after the initial few episodes 
(up to not finishing the 2-parter(?) weeping angels episodes, I think) 
spoiled the whole series, made it unwatcheable. For years, until a 
friend said I should check 1 episode of the doctor who follows, which 
was ok again, and then I dragged through the 11th doctor episodes up to 
that. (Actually, we made a deal, I watch that episode, and she the first 
of the new series. I think she still hasn't done that. :P )

Can't we at least replace the figure with, say, Sherlock guy? AI has to 
be good for something.

In any case, 11th is not really Doctor Who in my world. :P

So yeah, most definitely the focus has shifted and the
companions play a much larger part in the series than they ever
did before. Sometimes to the detriment of the actual Doctor.
Which is where I have an issue with it. I want the stories about
the Doctor and whatever alien threat he is dealing with, not the
companion and their back-story or home life.

Yeah, don't really need Rose's or Martha's moms in the episodes. But 
worse are the episodes that have next to no Doctor in them and are about 
some random nobodies. Like the first weeping angel episode, and the 
absorbalov.

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Mickmane