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Jul. 6th, 2007 02:14 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
beccaelizabethIn other news: Have decided that the Doctor's next companions need to be
(a)me a slightly crazy lady advertising for a companion, who believes the end of the world is coming and has been getting ready
and
(b) a cook.
Not a fancy in charge of things chef. Just a guy who did a bunch of studying and like the hospitality and catering courses at college and kind of figured he'd be like those TV chef guys but ended up cooking stuff in one of those places most of us eat in, ie somewhere the meal options mostly involve beans.
Because then he's regular people, with an ordinary job, sort of stomping along being grumbly because he thought it would be better than that
but
he has a lot of transferable skills useful to companions. Good with knives is going to get him in more trouble than it gets him out of, or at least told off by the Doctor a lot. And the possible uses of gas or those little torches for browning things are again not kids show friendly unless the Doctor does it and the bad things are clearly aliens.
But they're forever having to go undercover as servants to get information, and he could work in the kitchen.
And he'd have all sorts of taking-orders skills, and organisation in pressure situations skills, getting a team to work together, doing that time management stuff where you put a whole lot of things in motion to come together at the right time, and possibly yelling a lot.
And there could be memorisation. And being good at chemistry if he's got a recipe to follow.
And he also cooks.
In my head he totally does that line. He does something swish with fire and stopping the alien menace and he tries to be all cool and action-movie quote, and then the alien shoves a door out the way and gets up looking cranky and he's all "run away!" and less cool.
It's fun.
... there is no way that thinking up new companions is in any way shape or form useful. I mean, none.
I wants there to be a couple of people travelling with the Doctor, though. I like it when there's a team and not just a couple. They can do more things and it doesn't always have to be the same person in trouble. And they can represent more than one opinion without the Doctor being one of them, because you know how generally the universe ends up agreeing with the Doctor even when he sounds like he's being an ass.
The other thing I would do is think up companions and then randomly roll up their gender and ethnicity. Because then you get interesting mixtures.
Only then you have to check for accidental oops. I mean, mixing crazy with anything can look a bit bad. So I'd make her white because there's never any thing where it looks like you're representing all white people with one character.
I keep on thinking up stuff like how cool it would be to have someone who does wheelchair sports as a companion and they could do stunt driving only in a wheelchair and when the Doctor says "run" he'd be the one trying to keep up and they'd be rattling down stairs and stuff and in my head it looks really cool.
And then they could go in space and in zero gravity and fly and stuff. Except then it's like that episode of DS9 that really annoyed me.
Or just... I don't know, new people, different people, not just for the Doctor to meet but to bring something to his story that isn't there yet.
The thing about the Doctor picking up companions is there's always that thing where it could be you. Or people you know. Just any time, there's the TARDIS, whoosh.
... assuming we're being crazy here and pretending the universes are the same ...
So it's like... sometimes the Doctor is the interesting part of the story, but the Doctor is going to keep on being the Doctor, and that's fair enough, that's all done.
But the companions can all be different stories. And some of them could be really cool.
Everyone can write themselves into the Doctor Who stories and everyone could make them a bit interesting in different ways. That's the point, really.
... I don't actually read DW fanfic. Well, er, sort of, recently, if there's Jack or the Master, but before that I don't. So it's not like I'd read other people writing themselves into the TARDIS. It's just... for anyone to turn up in Sunnydale would take a lot of work. For any random person to turn up in Doctor Who is just how it *works*. You know?
... it's half two in the morning. I need to go sleep now.
(a)
and
(b) a cook.
Not a fancy in charge of things chef. Just a guy who did a bunch of studying and like the hospitality and catering courses at college and kind of figured he'd be like those TV chef guys but ended up cooking stuff in one of those places most of us eat in, ie somewhere the meal options mostly involve beans.
Because then he's regular people, with an ordinary job, sort of stomping along being grumbly because he thought it would be better than that
but
he has a lot of transferable skills useful to companions. Good with knives is going to get him in more trouble than it gets him out of, or at least told off by the Doctor a lot. And the possible uses of gas or those little torches for browning things are again not kids show friendly unless the Doctor does it and the bad things are clearly aliens.
But they're forever having to go undercover as servants to get information, and he could work in the kitchen.
And he'd have all sorts of taking-orders skills, and organisation in pressure situations skills, getting a team to work together, doing that time management stuff where you put a whole lot of things in motion to come together at the right time, and possibly yelling a lot.
And there could be memorisation. And being good at chemistry if he's got a recipe to follow.
And he also cooks.
In my head he totally does that line. He does something swish with fire and stopping the alien menace and he tries to be all cool and action-movie quote, and then the alien shoves a door out the way and gets up looking cranky and he's all "run away!" and less cool.
It's fun.
... there is no way that thinking up new companions is in any way shape or form useful. I mean, none.
I wants there to be a couple of people travelling with the Doctor, though. I like it when there's a team and not just a couple. They can do more things and it doesn't always have to be the same person in trouble. And they can represent more than one opinion without the Doctor being one of them, because you know how generally the universe ends up agreeing with the Doctor even when he sounds like he's being an ass.
The other thing I would do is think up companions and then randomly roll up their gender and ethnicity. Because then you get interesting mixtures.
Only then you have to check for accidental oops. I mean, mixing crazy with anything can look a bit bad. So I'd make her white because there's never any thing where it looks like you're representing all white people with one character.
I keep on thinking up stuff like how cool it would be to have someone who does wheelchair sports as a companion and they could do stunt driving only in a wheelchair and when the Doctor says "run" he'd be the one trying to keep up and they'd be rattling down stairs and stuff and in my head it looks really cool.
And then they could go in space and in zero gravity and fly and stuff. Except then it's like that episode of DS9 that really annoyed me.
Or just... I don't know, new people, different people, not just for the Doctor to meet but to bring something to his story that isn't there yet.
The thing about the Doctor picking up companions is there's always that thing where it could be you. Or people you know. Just any time, there's the TARDIS, whoosh.
... assuming we're being crazy here and pretending the universes are the same ...
So it's like... sometimes the Doctor is the interesting part of the story, but the Doctor is going to keep on being the Doctor, and that's fair enough, that's all done.
But the companions can all be different stories. And some of them could be really cool.
Everyone can write themselves into the Doctor Who stories and everyone could make them a bit interesting in different ways. That's the point, really.
... I don't actually read DW fanfic. Well, er, sort of, recently, if there's Jack or the Master, but before that I don't. So it's not like I'd read other people writing themselves into the TARDIS. It's just... for anyone to turn up in Sunnydale would take a lot of work. For any random person to turn up in Doctor Who is just how it *works*. You know?
... it's half two in the morning. I need to go sleep now.