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From: "Mickmane" <ATH@kruemel.org>
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Subject: Re: Anybody Got a filter for all this stupid political and religious arguements going on?
Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2025 18:51:00 +0100
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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.
>>
>>> Companions hogging the stage is becoming a bit of a Doctor
>>> Who trope.
>>
>> 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.

-- 

Mickmane