From: Kim <deidrekim@...>
Subject: Re: [timegate] Doctor Who's New Assistant
To: timegate@yahoogroups.com
Date: Monday, June 1, 2009, 8:40 PM

At 07:25 PM 6/1/2009, Roger wrote:

Will want to be her? They ARE her! (What used to be a show for Children is
becoming a show of children...)

Well, I'll grant you that I am disappointed that, after promising us a much older-looking Doctor (ie, an actor in his 40s or 50s), Moffat choose to cast a 26-year-old for the part. So I was hoping that he would cast an older person as the next companion, but guess not.

When Matt Smith was cast, the joke on the LJ comm "doctorwho" was that the 12th Doctor would be Time Boy/Kid/Teen, and that the 13th Doctor would be Time Tot/Baby! LOL!

However, quite often the companions have been twentysomething actors playing teenagers, so this new companion's age is no surprise.

See Susan, Ace, Rose, etc.

Or often the companions are twentysomethings, played by actors in their 20s.

See Tegan, Nyssa, Turlough, Sarah Jane, Jo Grant, Mickey, etc.

Older companions, well, there haven't been that many: Grace, Ian and Barbara, the Romanas (although Romana was over a hundred, the actresses playing her were in their 20s at the time), the Brig (if he counts as a companion--but please let's don't have a heated disuccion about that!), and some others from the Hartnell era. Not sure about how old Liz Shaw was supposed to be. Donna was supposed to be in her late 30s, but Catherine Tate is in her early forties.

(Of course, I'm just talking about the TV show here, and not including the novels or the audios.)

For the next companion, I was hoping for someone from the past or future, or not from Earth, but from her BBC pictures, if that's anything like what her first outfit on the show will be, she looks like another present-day companion. I do hope that she can keep her Scots accent, and not be from London, though! That's the least that the new production team could do for us.

And, come on, the actress is rather pretty.

As someone said somewhere, if the Doctor can't achieve his ambition this time round to be ginger, at least he's had three ginger girls and one ginger lad as companions. *grins*

Take Kerr,
Kim