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Doctor Who Spoiler
Apparently they have announced who will be playing the new companion to the new Doctor. Article is one giant spoiler, naturally. Won't say who it is here other than to say it really looks like they are gunning for a younger audience. Then again, that's the way Old School Doctor Who was, so, is it really a change?
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eye candy is well and good, but give me someone who can ACT and give them a plot and dialogue they can sink their teeth into and I don't care if they look like the hunchback of notra dame, I'll be happy
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If it doesn't suck.
Doctor Who+time warp.... hmmmmm
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From when I was a pre-teen watching with my mother and grandmothers, to a 20-something, to just about double 20-something, it's always been the older, established characters who've interested me the most.
That and teens on soaps never acted like teens. They're generally written as brattier versions of the adults and I'd rather see a more experienced actor act as an adult character.
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The show I'm watching now is new to me, so I don't always get the history until other fans explain it, but every so often I catch one of my old shows. And then promptly get weirded out by an older character (often played by the same actor as 20+ years ago) dating a character who wasn't even born when I previously watched.
Yet they're shown as being only a few years age difference. There must be some strange time anomolies going on in Soap Opera Land. ;)
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Always confused how a single day could take a week, yet the kids aged years in a matter of moments.
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ahhh soap operas. Where canon rewrites itself daily. Gotta love them.
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Unfortunately used to watch Days. Stopped around the time the re-cast Ronon suddenly remembered he was John so the original actor could return, never mind he knew all sort of secrets only Ronon would know and was recognized by his wife and kids for how many years? That, incidentally, was around the time of a demonic possession (pre-the series that actually has demons) and a mob boss keeping Marlena in a gilded cage. It was just too much.
They have to know it's crap scripts and crap acting, yet it's a steady paycheck with millions of followers, so you can't really blame them. (Plus, it gave us people like Buffy and Dean, so...)
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I watch others on and off still. Depending on the plots and eye candy and whatnot
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I remember one summer where Carly (?) was buried alive by Vivian (?) and as soon as it was revealed the "coffin" had air and water, my mother was like, "You know this is going to go on all summer." She was right, down to the day almost.
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The Old School show was considered a kid's show (that some of the family could watch too), but that didn't mean the actors were kids.
Today's show is aiming to be "young and hip" but they seem to be forgetting the Old School fans are, well, older. They do a lot of homages to the old show, but can't the actors be a little older too? At this rate, Twelve will be a pimple-faced teenager.
I'm not thrilled with the casting. They're gonna get ship all over the TARDIS again, aren't they? They just got the smell out after a full season sans ship.
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As for the casting, I'm betting they went with a younger companion due to the new Doctor being so young. They go with a companion older than him, it undermines his experience, at least in appearance.
Fear the ship. There's probably at least one fic being written as I type this. Who cares about characterization when you can twu luv? Sure the Doctor is actually far older in reality, but he doesn't look it so it *so* doesn't count. *rolls eyes*
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They may shock me and not go The Way of the Ship, but I'll only believe it when I don't see it.
I understand their probable reason for keeping the companion young since the Doctor appears young, but it makes me wonder how this very issue will be handled within the show.
Will a 40-something character question a 20-ish man's advice on how to save life, the universe and everything due to his apparent age?
The Doctor has often been ignored simply because he knows too much or because it doesn't fit with what everyone else thinks they know, but will they use his apparent age as another reason to ignore his words?
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