Info about the new companion *POTENTIAL SPOILERS*

[the_willows]

At the moment, this is potentially speculative, and the info comes from an as yet un-aired interview with Steven Moffat for BBC Radio 5. But, according to DoctorWhoTV, Mr Moffat has said the following about the new companion:

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[the_willows]

Moffat you are talking out of you backside again. Could you not at least make her from a different time period for a bit of variety? Whilst I also appreciate companions from different time periods and planets, I've been watching Who since Pertwee was all up in my childhood. There are a lot of new viewers of all ages who just aren't familiar with the show and it's conceit. Not everyone has the means and money to go out and catch up with all of classic Who, and may not even want to, and that's their choice

[ccorday]

"There are a lot of new viewers of all ages who just aren't familiar with the show and it's conceit."

*knocks over tables and chairs*

Well they need their minds expanded, not coddled like all white Western youths are coddled these days. "Oh, we don't want to introduced too many new ideas to you at once, it might make you scared and hurt your feels." I'm seriously trying not to swear here and be bitchy, but the science fiction genre is supposed to drag people out of their little mundane worlds, not make them feel all safe and comfy.

In short, I really don't care about these imaginary "new fans" who will be turned off if a character in a science fiction television show doesn't remind them of their classmates or whatever this is supposed to mean. I will also add that since I'm American, I've learned lots of things about England and history that have nothing to do with my safe little upbringing in middle class USA. Stephen Moffat is not even English, he should know that people can cope with ideas and people that aren't from down the

[roseandheather]

I hate to put it this bluntly but - please stop being an ass. (Also, if you have to say "I'm not trying to be bitchy" you are already there.) You are not the sole audience of Doctor Who. For me the best intrigue of Who as a fandom is seeing what happens when an ordinary person encounters a time-travelling, all-but-omnisicent alien who can change history on a whim and holds the fate of entire galaxies in his hands. The fact that the companion is human and from the present day doesn't change how fantastical the stories are, and it certainly doesn't coddle the viewers. In fact, I'd argue it makes them coddled less, because in Who all these fantastical, crazy, heartbreaking, incredible things are happening to people just like us, not aliens from another world

[myfirstkitchen]

Your version of the show would only be given a budget of tuppence ha'penny if it was greenlit at all, would be written and produced by complete unknowns with no effects or music and be shunted around the late night BBC3 schedule before being ditched after one series.

[eclecticmuse]

Doctor Who, believe it or not, is made for the not-wes--that is to say, it is not made for hardcore fans like you and I. Nor should it be. You might want to sit down and think about your sense of entitlement a little.

[the_willows]

Whoah there, no-one is being coddled. Like I said, not everyone has the money and means to start with Doctor Who from way back in the Hartnell origins, and they really don't have have to. Every viewer gained is a tick on the sheet of 'reasons why we need to renew this show for another series'.

I cannot abide fandom elitism in any form. No-one has ownership over the show except for the people who write and finance it, and as viewers, we have the choice whether we sit down and watch it, or decide that we no longer find the production values and ethos to our personal taste, and stop.

New fans are not 'imaginary', they are very real, and absolutely essential to the show continuing past the 50 year mark.

[lyricwrites]

Given that it's Moffat, though, the odds are fairly good that one of those statements is a blatant lie-and even if they're not, they're probably incomplete. As in, perhaps she thinks she's a contemporary Earth human, but is actually something a bit more dangerous. Or, perhaps she's originally from twenty-first century Earth, but has gone native in another time period, having gotten there through stuff and plot.

Personally, I am attempting to wait and see. It's not working all that well, but ehh.

[the_willows]

You have a point there, I was forgetting that rule number one is that the Moff lies.

This could all be a careful subterfuge to throw something in from left field. Or he could just be feeling the unseasonal summer chill, and hoping to warm his toes by the raging flames of a fandom tearing itself apart over his statements. XD