On an Unfortunate Turn of Events in This Season of Doctor Who
SPOILER ALERT: Don’t read this if you haven’t watched first episode of Season Four proper of Doctor Who (so, you know, not the Titanic one but the one after that - although you should see the Titanic one first, too).
Here is a list of companions I would rather have The Doctor take on than Donna.
1. Mickey. Yes, Mickey.
2. That little burble of stardust Kylie Minogue turned into in Voyage of the Damned.
3. Donna’s kooky grandfather.
4. Nikki and Paolo from Lost.
5. A stapler.
6. A Dalek.
7. Two Daleks.
8. Rob Schneider.
9. Parker from Buffy.
10. Richard Hatch.
April 30th, 2008 at 2:36 pm
I am apparently in the minority here, but I like Donna. She’s like a Tegan for the 21st century, but more fun. When she gets good writing, Catherine Tate is HI-larious. Stay tuned.
April 30th, 2008 at 2:38 pm
She really needs to turn the shrill shrew factor down by about a factor of 10.
April 30th, 2008 at 3:44 pm
Brad,
I can only hope you’re right, because I actually liked Tegan a lot. Maybe it will be like what happened in season two of Torchwood where they decided to actually start writing for Ianto (not that I disliked Ianto, but I LOVED him in season two).
May 1st, 2008 at 1:50 am
I’m not a huge Catherine Tate fan, and personally I’m glad to see Freema back for a while. That said, the Donna character is about 70% less annoying than she was in “The Runaway Bride”, and in the 2nd and 3rd episodes of this series, I thought she was used (quite effectively) as The Doctor’s conscience. We’ll see what happens as more companions are added into the mix.
While I’m at it… Mickey the idiot makes the list, but not poor ol’ K-9?
May 1st, 2008 at 10:04 am
No, see, I liked K-9. These are people that are just slightly more tolerable. Although I’m beginning to reconsider Richard Hatch. That would suck.
May 2nd, 2008 at 12:32 pm
Ha, my first impression of Donna as a companion is similar to David’s. Aigh! Even so, the point about writing for the character (cf. Ianto) is well-taken. Give them time. But man, I think I’ll miss Freema for a long time.
Was Mickey *that* bad?
May 4th, 2008 at 2:29 pm
Wait - which Richard Hatch are we talking about? The one from BSG, or the fat nude git from Survivor?
May 4th, 2008 at 6:07 pm
fat nude git. Anybody from BSG would rock.