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Doctor Who gets first openly gay companion
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He wasn't really a permeant companion and yeah omnisexual (and an Alien)
Fuck, I miss Torchwood.
Yeah, I wanna see a Victorian Chimney Sweep, or a middle ages blacksmith or something. I wonder why The Doctor likes the 21st century so much.
Yeah, I wanna see a Victorian Chimney Sweep, or a middle ages blacksmith or something. I wonder why The Doctor likes the 21st century so much.
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Jack wasn't an alien.
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I don't watch doctor who, but wouldn't both of those two characters be annoying as fuck? Like, "HOLY SHIT WHATS THAT WITCHCRAFT" every 40 seconds? Idk, maybe the current secondary characters are like that, I just assume that someone from the 21st century, who has a decent idea on how science, technology and such works, including a somewhat more open mind to aliens thanks to pop-culture, would be more ideal.
I think it's buried in one of her quick one-liners about escaping from prison. Something like that.
She never really demonstrated it as far as I can recall, unlike Jack.
Because companion are suppose to represent the modern viewers and know just as much as the viewer does.
Granted that can still work with different eras but it's easier with the modern era as you don't have to mess about with getting the actress to wear a period costume so the viewers can see straight away that the companions are from their era.
The 'companion falling in love with the Doctor' idea creeps me out as well, but it hasn't really been an issue with Capaldi at all.
River has made many comments about dating/marrying women over the years. Cleopatra was one of them at least. Same thing with Clara actually, the future Dalek version talked about it at one point, and modern regular Clara made out with Jane Austen once.
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*for a series, before she gets unceremoniously booted off.
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What exactly does "Doctor Who companion" mean? Does the Doctor Who have sex with them or something
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I think it used to strictly mean anyone who has travelled in the TARDIS with the Doctor for even a small period of time. With the new series that has gotten a lot more complicated.
I would consider Captain Jack a companion.
That makes sense. Out of interest, is there some sort of in-universe explanation for it? (For context I haven't seen many episodes since Tennant left).
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I'll take your word for it
A traveling buddy. He needs someone to ground him or else shit like this happens.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QiR684csQA
Eh. No.
It's just what the co lead of Doctor Who has been called since the 60s. Just a friend who travels with him.
With Eccleston, Smith and especially Tennant they added some romantic nonsense here and there, but luckily they lost that with the current Doctor. Way too weird.
I can see this mattering as much as LeFou in Beauty and the Beast, in that it doesn't matter at all.
And again, Jack Harkness. I know, not a full-time companion but he was still there.
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And again, Jack Harkness. I know, not a full-time companion but he was still there.
Drive-by shitposting is fun!
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A companion is a series regular in every episode (up until the point they're replaced for plot reasons) that travels with the doctor. Most of them aren't romantic interests, there's only two I can think of that really fall into that category.
There's sometimes a lot of will they won't they innuendo though.
One thing you can't fault the BBC for is that they actually allow people to talk about being gay in programs that are technically aimed at kids. In a Disney movie like Beauty and the Beast all it can be is an undertone, without the movie actually acknowledging it. Disney is still stuck in the past that way, can't have that kind of 'controversy'.
Like the actress said, it won't be her defining characteristic, as it shouldn't be. It's just a part of who she is. But at least they can openly talk about it on the show - Doctor Who has included many different sexual orientations in the past and never shied away from openly talking about it. Different thing compared to Beauty and the Beast imo.
It's a Travel buddy
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