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companion news
May. 29th, 2009 11:50 amthe new companion has been announced.
( brief thinkins under the spoiler cut )
EDITED TO ADD: meanwhile i am still wanting there to be TWO companions. since moffat's in love with peter davison i was hoping he'd want to recreate a little bit of that dynamic of a more crowded TARDIS. ideally i'd love at one female companion and one male companion, just so there could be another male on the show who wasn't the doctor, since the doctor (male) is coded as infallible, god-like, sexually/emotionally irresistable, and the centre of the (female) companion's life. this would come across differently if there was another male on the show who wasn't treated by the narrative in the same fashion. and also because that male would also be a companion and thus the whole "dropping your life to travel around with a magical dude who will make your dreams come true" thing wouldn't be coded as a purely "feminine" act.
and yeah, i remember when mickey and jack were co-travellers for short periods of time, and i thought that was awesome, except for how they were both treated as explicitly not as important to the doctor as the blonde white girl, to the point that one was abadoned and the other was made so unwelcome that he left. even though two and jamie were obviously gay married, that didn't make either of them care about zoe or victoria any less, you know what i mean?
( brief thinkins under the spoiler cut )
EDITED TO ADD: meanwhile i am still wanting there to be TWO companions. since moffat's in love with peter davison i was hoping he'd want to recreate a little bit of that dynamic of a more crowded TARDIS. ideally i'd love at one female companion and one male companion, just so there could be another male on the show who wasn't the doctor, since the doctor (male) is coded as infallible, god-like, sexually/emotionally irresistable, and the centre of the (female) companion's life. this would come across differently if there was another male on the show who wasn't treated by the narrative in the same fashion. and also because that male would also be a companion and thus the whole "dropping your life to travel around with a magical dude who will make your dreams come true" thing wouldn't be coded as a purely "feminine" act.
and yeah, i remember when mickey and jack were co-travellers for short periods of time, and i thought that was awesome, except for how they were both treated as explicitly not as important to the doctor as the blonde white girl, to the point that one was abadoned and the other was made so unwelcome that he left. even though two and jamie were obviously gay married, that didn't make either of them care about zoe or victoria any less, you know what i mean?
