The Next Companion?

Good. I really really like River Song.

Not even as an administrator of punishment?

The Browncoat Cat wrote:

Sid Seadevil wrote:

The Browncoat Cat wrote:(And this has nothing to do with me wanting to see Florence Hoath in a nurses uniform, honest. )

I don't believe you...

The black stockings and heavily starched blue dress and white apron does not move me at all.

Doc Filth afraid of proper women.

Doc Filth wrote:

Sid Seadevil wrote:

Doc Filth wrote:That was part of what gave me the idea .

We'll see River Song back before Nancy I'll wager.

I hope not. I was curiously unmoved by River Song.

Rich Flair wrote:Not even as an administrator of punishment?

I've been a very naughty boy.

Sid Seadevil wrote:

The Browncoat Cat wrote:I also hope not. I don't like River Song.

Sorry chaps, I can't recall exactly which interview with Alex Kingston I read it in, but she did everything except outright confirm it.

Arse

Doc Filth wrote:She did?

Oh well. That'll be a "grin and bear it" moment, then.

Afraid so. Her comment basically boiled down to The Moff requesting if it was at all possible keeping a window in her diary starting in 2010, IIRC.

Sid Seadevil wrote:Afraid so. Her comment basically boiled down to The Moff requesting if it was at all possible keeping a window in her diary starting in 2010, IIRC.

I love River Song and I want her to be in as many episodes as the Beeb can afford.

<----------------- River Song

Lucy McGough wrote:I love River Song and I want her to be in as many episodes as the Beeb can afford.

<----------------- River Song

Er...okayyyyy...

I heart Alex Kingston - but Bernice Summerfield River Song, while enjoyably played, really didn't ring any of my collection of bells.

Sid Seadevil wrote:I heart Alex Kingston - but Bernice Summerfield River Song, while enjoyably played, really didn't ring any of my collection of bells.

That's about my position too - I think Moffat got a bit OTT in telling us how wonderful she is, but forgot to show much of it. That aside, I really can't see her working as a regular companion, so I would assume any contact has been for guest roles, not as a regular.

Nick Barlow wrote:That's about my position too - I think Moffat got a bit OTT in telling us how wonderful she is, but forgot to show much of it. That aside, I really can't see her working as a regular companion, so I would assume any contact has been for guest roles, not as a regular.

Oh you're absolutely right re her probably, almost certainly, being a guest star rather than a fully fledged companion, Nick. I think that particular point just got lost somewhere during the discussion.

I liked River, although I think the production team would be missing a trick if they didn't cast several actresses as her at various ages, starting as teenager (primarily so the Doctor wouldn't initially recognise her, giving the episode a nice twist ending).

And no, that's not my perversions coming out, simply because I've read the Time Travellers Wife...

Well, I say read it. I read the first couple of chapters... and then, er, put it down and never picked it up again.

Lee Carey wrote:I liked River

I love you!

Lee Carey wrote:... although I think the production team would be missing a trick if they didn't cast several actresses as her at various ages, starting as teenager (primarily so the Doctor wouldn't initially recognise her, giving the episode a nice twist ending).

I agree.

Lee Carey wrote:And no, that's not my perversions coming out, simply because I've read the Time Travellers Wife...

Well, I say read it. I read the first couple of chapters... and then, er, put it down and never picked it up again.

I hate you!

Gosh, that was like far too many of my previous relationships, Lucy (and I'm not just talking about its brevity!)

Lee Carey wrote:I liked River

I love you!

Lee Carey wrote:... although I think the production team would be missing a trick if they didn't cast several actresses as her at various ages, starting as teenager (primarily so the Doctor wouldn't initially recognise her, giving the episode a nice twist ending).

He's Taken.

I agree.

Lee Carey wrote:And no, that's not my perversions coming out, simply because I've read the Time Travellers Wife...

Well, I say read it. I read the first couple of chapters... and then, er, put it down and never picked it up again.

You're just creeping now.

Lucy McGough wrote:I hate you!

Ahhh...that's more like it.

Lee Carey wrote:Gosh, that was like far too many of my previous relationships, Lucy (and I'm not just talking about its brevity!)

I think we may have the same former female in common.

Lee Carey wrote:Gosh, that was like far too many of my previous relationships, Lucy (and I'm not just talking about its brevity!)

<------------------- Me reading Lee's post

Sid Seadevil wrote:I think we may have the same former female in common.

The world of DW fandom is small. Some say incestuous.

Sid Seadevil wrote:

Doc Filth wrote:...or just engineeer a situation wherein she's forcibly removed from the 1940s and can't get back there; we know the kid is safe and being looked after by someone else, and Nancy gets a whole bucket of angst to carry around.

Sorted.

SOAP!

That would work nicely - under RTD. Not certain The Moff would to take that route though. But I would love to see Nancy return - even if it was only for another guest shot Perhaps set during the 50's when the character's older, allowing Florrie to play closer to her actual age.

I just had a brianwave. Why not bring back the character of Nancy, but not played by Florence Hoath. The story could be set nearly thirty years after The Empty Child/Doctor Dances. Have Ms. Hoath playing Nancy's daughter "Lucy", who is a nurse, and when off duty a 1960's dollybird in a very short skirt. Best of both worlds.

(I so need a girlfriend. )

The Browncoat Cat wrote:I just had a brianwave. Why not bring back the character of Nancy, but not played by Florence Hoath. Have her playing Nancy's daughter "Lucy", a 1960's dollybird.

We might as well just call her Polly and have an instant continuity meltdown/tie-in.*

*wibbly-wobbly stuff

Sid Seadevil wrote:We might as well just call her Polly and have an instant continuity meltdown/tie-in.*

*wibbly-wobbly stuff

Oh, she could go and make the coffee and scream a bit.

Frank wrote:Oh, she could go and make the coffee and scream a bit.

Sounds like you have a definite plan there, Frank.

I just had a brainwave/premonition/sign of imminent breakdown - I reckon the next companion is going to be played by Lucy Griffiths (Marian from Robin Hood).

Nick Barlow wrote:I just had a brainwave/premonition/sign of imminent breakdown - I reckon the next companion is going to be played by Lucy Griffiths (Marian from Robin Hood).

I would certainly have no objection to that.

Not that my objections, justified or otherwise, have any effect on the outcome...but, yes. She was pretty good in Hood, I'd like to see what else she can do.

The Browncoat Cat wrote:
(I so need a girlfriend. )

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Nick Barlow wrote:I just had a brainwave/premonition/sign of imminent breakdown - I reckon the next companion is going to be played by Lucy Griffiths (Marian from Robin Hood).

No, not Maid Mahogany. Anything other than that.