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[ SECRET POST #1816 ]

⌈ Secret Post #1816 ⌋

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A season in the Doctor Who universe is a long time, though! I mean... it'd be nice for young male fans, sure, and I'm not saying there can't be other male companions as well (like Rory! Or, you know, even better, a version of Rory who isn't criminally underused and underwritten!), but by the same logic what about little girls watching? I just think this show has enough issues when it comes to female characters without adding "there aren't any" to the list.

A full season is quite different to one or two specials, though.

A season in the Doctor Who universe is a long time, though

HAHAHA. Sorry, I had to laugh at that. It's just coz over here our seasons are like 20 episodes at the least. Doctor Who has about...13? Unless you mean how they were spaced out this year because, yeah, that did feel like a long time.

Well the little girls already have four badass female companions to aspire to (yes, they are all badass IMO). For guys it is just the Doctor and occasionally an underwritten male side character. What's wrong with just having one badass male companion who simply wants to travel with the Doctor and not just be there for the sake of his girlfriend? Also, c'mon, while Moffat is still around it means we'll always have River Song popping up in every other episode. So there'll hardly be no female characters left when she's become so important to the canon at this point.

LOL I mean within the context of the show/for the show. Seasons are short but spread far apart

Why can't there be a badass guy who is not a boyfriend and a badass woman with x/y/z plot? I have nothing against that. Jack was like that (except that he never had a full season). That's all I'm saying. Make a great male companion! But he doesn't need to be the only one.

River Song is... not really going to cut it for me in terms of good female representation, unfortunately.

Why can't there be a badass guy who is not a boyfriend and a badass woman with x/y/z plot? I have nothing against that. Jack was like that (except that he never had a full season). That's all I'm saying. Make a great male companion! But he doesn't need to be the only one.

THIS.

River Song is... not really going to cut it for me in terms of good female representation, unfortunately.

And though I sincerely wish it otherwise... also this.

TBH I was hoping s6 would be like that and Rory would get his own arc outside of Amy and Amy would develop more and everything would be beautiful and nothing would hurt!

Alas.

I agree.

I love Rory and I LOVE Rory's fierce love and devotion to his wife, but I was hoping for even just a teensy little arc for him. And a great arc for Amy.

But, as you said... Alas.

lol there's a macro on Tumblr somewhere that has all the companions and their titles like "DEFENDER OF THE EARTH" and "DEFENDER OF THE MULTIVERSE" or something and then poor Rory is "DEFENDER OF AMY POND".

I like Rory a lot but it would've been nice to give him an arc outside of Amy, just as it would be nice if Amy had an arc outside... being an incubator.

LOL OH RORY I LOVE YOU

Before S6 I loved the idea of a future for Amy and Rory after traveling with the Doctor where they had a couple of awesome little Pond-Babies.

Now?

just as it would be nice if Amy had an arc outside... being an incubator

Like becoming obsessed with the Doctor in her first episode to losing her absolute faith in him in "The God Complex" and living her own life, with a bit of saving the entire universe in the middle?

Oh no wait Moffat is very very bad therefore all of Amy's (and River's of course) achievements must be set at naught in the name of... strong female characters, apparently.

Amy's exit in God Complex would've been more powerful to me if it had been her choice, not the Doctor's -- and also if it had stuck, which it won't, because she's coming back in s7 to travel again and ultimately leave... again. You also get Karen Gillan saying that the Doctor leaving them restores Amy's faith in him, which I try to ignore because I think it defeats the whole point of the episode and I did find Amy's absolute blind and unfounded faith disturbing. Beyond that, they missed major opportunities to develop her emotionally by skimming over basically any and all responses to losing her baby.

I was exaggerating slightly, but overall no, I don't think s6 did nearly as much with Amy's character as it could've.

I'm conflicted on the subject, personally. There are times that I'd like to see the dynamic of the Doctor interacting with a primary male companion, just because it would be a new thing to explore, something that we haven't seen before, and it would say to young boys that they could be companions too, which is a message that I'm not seeing much on modern Who, where, except for Jack, the male companions have been tagalongs to the female companions. At the same time, though, I acknowledge that the show already does have problems with female characters, so by dropping them from the main cast entirely would easily create more, not to mention that, though growing, the list of female characters on sci-fi shows who aren't created and used primarily out of a desire for sex appeal is still on the low side, and seeing more rounded female characters is always a good thing, so... I don't know.

I mean to be honest I'm satisfied by the glimpses you get with Craig or Jack or Mickey or Rory, Craig and Jack I guess being better examples of male companions who interact with the Doctor for reasons beyond a mutual friend/girlfriend. I guess it just never felt to me like there was a lack of deep male friendships on TV, particularly in sci-fi, whereas there IS a lack of strong female characters.

But I wouldn't mind having a male companion unrelated to the female companion tag along for a whole season, sort of like Nine, Rose and Jack in s1. I just wouldn't want it to become only Nine and Jack.

True. To be honest, I have no serious complaints about the current set up (The Doctor and a female companion) that would ever make me stop watching. I just like playing around with different ideas, the what if's. We haven't seen the Doctor with a primary male companion, at least not in modern Who, which is what I'm really familiar with, so that's at least something of the appeal of the idea for me. I know that just because it's something we haven't seen doesn't automatically make it something that we need to see, I'm just saying that I wouldn't mind seeing it if it were to happen.

And, given the precedent, it's probably not likely to happen, since the Doctor's companions usually are female. But it's an interesting scenario to play out, at least for me.

What about a compromise, with a male and female companion who are not romantically involved and who are treated equally by the show, maybe even siblings?

This would be awesome. I don't see why there can't be two "primary" companions.

Yeah I'm sick of that. I've noticed NOTHING but T&A. And heard the way Fanboys talk:
"Oh I'd abduct her and do nasty things." And THEN the disgustig, degrading fanart.

I thought Deanna Troi was T&A, when I watched the ST:TNG Hated her worse then Wesley, actually I didn't mind Wesley. Then ST:VOY I watched it from the start and.... Seven of Nine ewwww I hated her, to me it was series lowest moment bringing her on.

And The things they have Tegan and Peri running around in. But DAMN Amy is no BETTER.

However MOST of the Doctors haven't been Lookers. I'd have to say Three are classically good looking.

What are telling little girls? You can awesome adventures but but you have to STACKED? Depressing.

I'd already bailed on Voyager by the time Seven of Nine was introduced in the original run, but based on reruns I've seen, she was a legitimately good character played by a capable actress. BUT OH THAT OUTFIT.

It's not that Women Must Pretend They Don't Have Boobs, but there was no in-story reason for her not to just start wearing a uniform like the rest. It's not like that catsuit was standard issue Borg apparel, either. Same thing with T'Pol on Enterprise. Ever other Vulcan we saw wore robes, but not her. I wonder why?

I'm not sure I agree with you on the Doctors. I started watching with NuWho, and fell madly in love with Nine. I'd say Five and Ten are very attractive, though not my type, Eight was very much presented as a romantic figure, Eleven has the whole boyish nerdy charm going on, and Four, to me, was strangely sexy. Though yeah, looks aren't nearly so much the end all and be all.

Elven has the weirdest face since Tom Baker, NO EYEBROW and that CHIN!

Look I lust after Doctors Three- Eight and Eleven. With Six being my favorite and I consider him very sexy.

Hell I think '70's porn-Colin Baker is sexy' So I may be touched in the head.

I was just saying what 'normal' non-fans might think.

Fair enough. Even before I became a Who-fan, I tended to have rather strange taste in guys.

Then again Benedict Cumberbatch is considered sexy and is face is pretty weird... so the madness maybe spreading.

It's funny about Seven, watching VOY I was pretty young and not really thinking about anyone sexually. I LOVED Seven. I loved the idea of a Borg becoming human I loved her exploring humanity like Data did but not being in love with it all, voicing her doubts and acting on them, I loved her relationship with the Doctor and with Janeway. I was pretty much watching just for her as a character by the end.

Yeah she wore a catsuit but I never cared or even thought about it. She was just cool, and sometimes funny and awesome and smart.

I think it's silly to dismiss a character because off how they are dressed.

Well I was older then you when I started watching like around nine when I got into ST:NG reruns and a bit older when VOY came out. And to me it was SCREAMINGLY obviously they already had one: "I'm exploring humanity" character in the doctor. Why did they need another and why get rid of Kes?

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