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Tag Archives: Companions
Audience Identification: Twelfth Doctor
We’ve made it to the final Audience Identification piece: the era of the great Peter Capaldi. Two of the seasons features Clara and his final season features Bill and Nardole, although the latter barely qualifies. It’s also the era of … Continue reading
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Audience Identification: Eleventh Doctor
We are coming to the final two parts of the Audience Identification Figure series where we look at how the companion represents the audience. It also attempts to look at what we can learn from those companions. Unfortunately, we’re coming … Continue reading
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Audience Identification: Tenth Doctor
Since the 1996 movie and now with the return of Doctor Who in 2005, it seems the companion is actually making a much better audience identifier. My original concern may be forever waylaid by the creative team behind Doctor Who … Continue reading
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Audience Identification: Ninth Doctor
In the era of New Who, we don’t get much in the line of a TARDIS team like we had in the old days. Instead, the Doctor travels with one companion most of the time. In the Ninth Doctor’s case, … Continue reading
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Audience Identification: Companion Piece
Before I continue to the new series of Doctor Who (2005-present) with my audience identification articles, I needed to write a companion piece. My bone of contention with the idea that the companion is the person for whom the audience … Continue reading
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Audience Identification: Eighth Doctor
My family and I have been watching a comedy called Psych. For the first few seasons, it opens with a scene from the main character’s childhood in 1987. By the 4th season, it frequently opens with scenes from 1989 and … Continue reading
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Audience Identification: Fourth Doctor
So the BBC claims we, the audience, will identify with the companion in Doctor Who, to which I say “poppycock”. While I wish I were able to travel with the Doctor, for me, it’s more about being the Doctor. Impossible … Continue reading
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Audience Identification: Third Doctor
Continuing along with the idea of who the audience was meant to identify with during each of the Doctor’s tenures, we have arrived at the Pertwee era. This really only included three companions, as I’m not including para-military organization, UNIT, … Continue reading
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Tagged Companions, Jo, Liz, Sarah Jane Smith
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Audience Identification: Second Doctor
I’ve had a bit of fun lately looking at the audience identification for each Doctor. For those who have not read the former posts, I never accepted the BBC’s notion that the companion represented us. I always connected with the … Continue reading
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Audience Identification: Seventh Doctor
We really don’t know how good we had it. You know when you’re young, grandparents talk about the “good old days”? They seem to think the old days were the best. Even those who “climbed mountains barefoot through glass to … Continue reading
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Tagged Ace, Companions, Mel
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Audience Identification: Sixth Doctor
Since the idea was still fresh in my mind, I felt I would jump into the audience identification for the Sixth Doctor straight away. If you’re coming into this one blind, pop over here to understand where my inspiration came … Continue reading
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Tagged Companions, Mel, Peri
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Audience Identification: Fifth Doctor
This week, I began working on a review for The Visitation when inspiration struck for a weekend article; possibly a series looking at each Doctor’s “Audience Identification Figures”. It came from a piece of dialog between Adric and the Doctor, … Continue reading
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Tagged Adric, Companions, Nyssa, Peri, Tegan, Turlough
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The Male Companion
Last week we looked at the female companions in Doctor Who and the different roles they fulfil. Let’s take a look now at the male of the species, much rarer than their female counterparts (about 10 or 12 compared to … Continue reading
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The Best Female Companion
For yesterday’s blog, Roger took a look at the companion in Doctor Who, focusing on the female companion. We share weekends, sometimes getting a weekend each, and other times splitting the days, but I wanted today to be one to … Continue reading
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The Female Companion
Depending on how you count them there have been about 25 female Doctor Who companions so far, plus a whole bunch of what you might term quasi-companions. They are all individual and fabulous in their own ways and they have … Continue reading
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