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[doyle]

I've registered a community called companions which is for, in a does-what-it-says-on-the-tin way, the Doctor Who companions (and those whose companion status is debatable like Jackie Tyler or Duggan). I'm not quite sure what I want to do with it, though. I wanted a general comm about all the companions, new, old and middle school, but I don't want it to either descend into faction-bickering or floods of Ten/one-of-Ten's-companions fic. Hm.

Just the fact that this was the comm I immediately wanted to make, though, proves what I've thought for a while, that the companions are really the most important bit for me; I don't even mind which companion so much, so long as one of them's around. This latest batch of NSAs is the first I haven't immediately bought because I'm much less interested in Ten alone or Ten plus one-off novel companion than I am in Ten plus Rose, Martha or Donna (or Jack, Mickey, Jackson and Rosita...)

I'm reading the Gary Russell one with Donna and Wilf at the moment. I wish this one would be an episode so I could have EVIL NORTHERN IRISH MEGALOMANIACS on my telly. Normally we're only allowed to be terrorists, alcoholics or sarcastic police detectives, so Doctor Who Villain would be a step up.

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[rheanna]

Normally we're only allowed to be terrorists, alcoholics or sarcastic police detectives, so Doctor Who Villain would be a step up.

Sad but true.

[doyle]

It's quite tragic how pleased I was that there was a Northern Irish air hostess on Jonathan Creek, and a priest on due South (who even got to mention being from Belfast). I kind of want to become a writer just so there's some fiction set here that isn't fixated on the bloody Troubles.

[pontisbright]

Hurrah! More things to join.

And yes, have been ruminating on such things too, since importing the old journal and thus poking through random old bits of babbling. I found a hilarious bit of venomous fury from myself at the casting of Catherine Tate for S4 - along the same lines of 'the companion's the most important bit'. (Though looking back, the fact that I then utterly adored Donna in the end made me like Ten more - but then again, I do think Tennant's more comfy in S4, the writing overall is better, etc etc). Haven't read any of the... NSAs (is that what we're calling them? honestly?) for that reason, really: suspect they'll be bothering more with the Doctor characterisation and happy to slot in whichever companion happens to be around, in a Five Doctors-y cracky-yet-annoying kind of way.

Damn, it feels good to be thinking about this stuff again.

[glinda]

Yay for companions *waits patiently for fandom to provide the awesome steampunk adventures of Rosita and Jackson* perhaps you'll have to ban Doctor/companion pairings as a temporary measure?

I'm all in favour of EVIL NORTHERN IRISH MEGALOMANIACS (technically there are lots of Scottish megalomaniacs in the cinema, they're just all doing unconvincing Eastern European accents...)

[nwhyte]

Ohh! ooh! Which book is that, then?