The Dr Who thread

HGFB · Post by **HGFB** » Tue Jul 04, 2006 3:05 pm 0

The new companion is going to be announced tomorrow. Would you like to know who it is now? Or would some of you consider that a spoiler and would rather wait until next April?

aureole · Post by **aureole** » Tue Jul 04, 2006 3:15 pm 0

Put it in as spoiler text?

SimonB · Post by **SimonB** » Tue Jul 04, 2006 3:16 pm 0

Bog wrote:
what the dalek genesis arc all about then
It's like a plot arc, but with a very definite beginning.

That done made me smile...

As for new companion, is the announcement tomorrow just a precursor to what we will learn when someone steps in to the tardis at the end of Doomsday or someone we will pick up on Christmas day...

HGFB · Post by **HGFB** » Tue Jul 04, 2006 3:24 pm 0

That would be a spoiler.

HGFB · Post by **HGFB** » Tue Jul 04, 2006 3:31 pm 0

While we're waiting for the announcement tomorrow you might like to see my new remote controlled Davros invading the toilet. He tends to spit a bit while ranting so be careful

http://flub.scmgames.net/davros.avi

SimonB · Post by **SimonB** » Tue Jul 04, 2006 3:42 pm 0

Dagnabbit you've gopt me thinking about companions now and I've convinced myself it can't be Mickey:

If the Doc has just had the best companion relationship ever with Rose as it would appear, then he's going to want someone radically different next time around who won't keep reminding him of her - we know he largely forgets/deliberately puts them out of his mind from School Reunion - so the last thing he'd want would be the boyfriend of the previous girl.

aureole · Post by **aureole** » Tue Jul 04, 2006 3:44 pm 0

Hmm. The rumoured choice seems a little strange/impossible.

HGFB · Post by **HGFB** » Tue Jul 04, 2006 3:45 pm 0

Ok. I'll do some stuff in spoiler text.

The character's name is Martha Jones. She won't be in Doomsday and she won't be in the Christmas special (Apparently there's another surprise planned for that. Hopefully a Jack shaped one). She's played by Freema Agyeman who played the dead black girl in Army of Ghosts.

The full press release is here if you don't mind the spoilers

*Edit*. Link removed. It was a spoiler

grue · Post by **grue** » Tue Jul 04, 2006 3:45 pm 0

The new companion is:

The left lever.

You know I'm right

SimonB · Post by **SimonB** » Tue Jul 04, 2006 3:51 pm 0

Fair enough. (I had to know, I'm like that, spoilers up the anticipation for me rather than spoiling...).

aureole · Post by **aureole** » Tue Jul 04, 2006 4:03 pm 0

Eeek. I've just wandered onto rec.arts.drwho by mistake. Scary, scary place.

HGFB · Post by **HGFB** » Tue Jul 04, 2006 4:17 pm 0

I just felt the need to order one of these from the Play.com sale

http://www.play.com/Gadgets/Gadgets/4-/ ... oduct.html

Peter Cushing movie Daleks? I'll take one of those my good man.

DutchLlama · Post by **DutchLlama** » Tue Jul 04, 2006 4:55 pm 0

HGFB wrote:Ok. I'll do some stuff in spoiler text.

The character's name is Martha Jones. She won't be in Doomsday and she won't be in the Christmas special (Apparently there's another surprise planned for that. Hopefully a Jack shaped one). She's played by Freema Agyeman who played the dead black girl in Army of Ghosts.
The full press release is here if you don't mind the spoilers

*Edit*. Link removed. It was a spoiler

Mental that it's still under embargo. Someone must have leaked the link.

I wonder how they will explain the likeness. In Destiny of the Daleks Romana chose the appearance of Princess Astra from an earlier story. Princess Astra had also been played by Lalla Ward.

DutchLlama · Post by **DutchLlama** » Tue Jul 04, 2006 5:14 pm 0

HGFB wrote:I just felt the need to order one of these from the Play.com sale

http://www.play.com/Gadgets/Gadgets/4-/ ... oduct.html

Peter Cushing movie Daleks? I'll take one of those my good man.

I wonder why Paul McGann is counted as "canon" when Peter Cushing isn't.

Either Eccles should have been the 8th doctor or the 10th.

fro · Post by **fro** » Tue Jul 04, 2006 5:22 pm 0

DutchLlama wrote:
HGFB wrote:I just felt the need to order one of these from the Play.com sale

http://www.play.com/Gadgets/Gadgets/4-/ ... oduct.html

Peter Cushing movie Daleks? I'll take one of those my good man.
I wonder why Paul McGann is counted as "canon" when Peter Cushing isn't.

Either Eccles should have been the 8th doctor or the 10th.

Wikipedia wrote:Dr. Who, as introduced in this film, is an Earth-born scientist and inventor who built Tardis (not the TARDIS as in the television show), his time travelling ship.

So if that's true, it couldn't really be considered canon.