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Post by ladydetemps on Jun 29, 2007 14:19:17 GMT
I was thinking the other day whats the optimum length a companion/assistant should travel with the Doctor?
A companion a series?
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Post by Kit on Jun 29, 2007 15:43:24 GMT
Hmm, that's an interesting question. Companions seem to come and go quite randomly. A companion a series seems a bit too frequent. But I suppose it also depends on the Doctor. Like Nine only had one series and one companion whereas Four was on for seven years and had loads of different companions staying for different amounts of time.
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Post by ladydetemps on Jun 29, 2007 15:47:17 GMT
I think it depends how long it takes for the character to develop....or if they are just there for a story ark
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Post by eponymousrose on Jan 4, 2008 2:44:40 GMT
I like it when the companion in question gets enough time to actually grow as a character - but past the point when the character's arc seems to have played itself out, things just get a bit on the stale side.
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Post by clocketpatch on Jan 4, 2008 5:46:42 GMT
They really come and go though. I can probably name about 50 different companions if I think about it hard enough (which really shows just how far gone into this fandom I am) but there's only ten Doctors, so VERY high turnover. I think Sarah-Jane is the longest lasting companion, and she only travelled with the Doctor for 3 1/2 seasons!
Then again, things are put in a slightly different perspective if you consider the Brig as a companion. I do, ish, but really he fits into a category of his own. Reoccuring character I guess, but I forbid anyone to lump the Brig with Jackie (not that Jackie isn't awesome in her own way, and oh dear, I have some truly scary plotbunnies poking their noses out at me now...)
Yeah...
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Post by magnusgreel on Feb 7, 2008 4:04:53 GMT
I think I want for Sarah to have stayed longer, but I don't, because then Leela wouldn't have happened. You have to have significant change happen within a Dr's lifetime (they are lifetimes, lasting longer in his life than they do for us on TV)-- so he has to go through multiple companions, so some can't be there long. Jamie and Tegan almost stayed with their respective Doctors for their entire regenerations, and that can't happen. It would mean a regeneration lasts, say, three years, not a "lifetime" (or the equivalent of a human lifetime).
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Post by clocketpatch on Feb 7, 2008 5:18:08 GMT
With Jamie and Tegan that almost works, because, for those two regenerations at least, there was very much a sense of them being cut short. Then there's Three who techincally had three different companions during his era (not including UNIT and the Brig) but you really can't pretend that life lasted more than five years with the show being so earth bound and all.
Then there are other Doctors like Four and Seven who definitely had more (and companions?) life than what you saw on screen.
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Post by magnusgreel on Feb 7, 2008 18:52:00 GMT
No matter what, one can just assume that any and all Doctors put the current companion on hold, by getting in the Tardis and going for however long he likes and then coming back to the same moment he left. If he goes for too long, though, he'd forget things about companions and the "current" situation, and we don't see that happening.
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