I never watched old-school Who when it was originally on, but when we went back and watched a smattering of Old Who after getting into New Who, Leela was my favorite old-school Companion of those I saw. That the Doctor was the brains while she was the brawn - I've got a thing for that particular gender-role-swap, I must admit. ^^
I can understand the point of wanting a modern character to be the audience's POV, and wanting a female char to balance the male Doctor. What I don't get is why can't they follow old-school Who and have more than a single Companion at a time? For more than a couple eps, I mean.
It will probably also help if they develop Amy's friends and family a bit; it looks like that might be planned since we saw so many of them in the first ep, so perhaps having a little Scottish village will help with the show's lack of groundedness so far.
Yeah, one of the reasons I liked RTD's chars from the get-go is that they all had other relationships, too; you got a strong sense of who they were and how they fit into their lives right away. That kind of character establishment is one of RTD's strengths as a writer, and I think it's because that's what he cares about; he feels to me like one of those writers who writes because he loves the chars he writes about. Moffat comes across more like he's interested in characters only so far as he can use them to say clever lines and tell the stories he wants to tell, less like he actually cares about the characters themselves. And while I can appreciate the skill of the latter, I tend to naturally prefer the former style, since it matches my own...
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I can understand the point of wanting a modern character to be the audience's POV, and wanting a female char to balance the male Doctor. What I don't get is why can't they follow old-school Who and have more than a single Companion at a time? For more than a couple eps, I mean.
It will probably also help if they develop Amy's friends and family a bit; it looks like that might be planned since we saw so many of them in the first ep, so perhaps having a little Scottish village will help with the show's lack of groundedness so far.
Yeah, one of the reasons I liked RTD's chars from the get-go is that they all had other relationships, too; you got a strong sense of who they were and how they fit into their lives right away. That kind of character establishment is one of RTD's strengths as a writer, and I think it's because that's what he cares about; he feels to me like one of those writers who writes because he loves the chars he writes about. Moffat comes across more like he's interested in characters only so far as he can use them to say clever lines and tell the stories he wants to tell, less like he actually cares about the characters themselves. And while I can appreciate the skill of the latter, I tend to naturally prefer the former style, since it matches my own...