I think its pretty apparent he wants some sort of romantic subplot between assistant and Doctor. Rose the unspoken love, Martha with her unrequited love. Then he distanced it with Donna. But she was still there to make fun of the traditional love dynamic he’d set up.

The reboot takes a lot of its nods from other modern cultish shows, buffy in its structuring a lot (which RTD often doesnt get, he doesnt seem to graps the difference between some plot points that become important and just layering references to tiny past events like they are important in finales.)A big component of every show since X-files is a male and female lead with some sort of chemistry and he obviousy threw it in.

Still, whatever, roll on the Moffatt era. The man has written all the great episodes of the reboot so far, it should be a break from the ruts and mistakes RTD made. Maybe we will get episodes when somebody doesnt randomly mention they are gay (“where are you going on your trip?” “IM GAY YOU KNOW, EVERYONE IS GAY IN THE FUTURE, PEOPLE ARE FINE WITH IT”) apropos of nothing. Be sort of refreshing.

MrGale:”He used to have a little scottish dude.”
James “Jamie” McCrimmon

“And that evil ginger was with him for ages.”
Turlough

And that’s not counting Steven Taylor, Ian Chesterton, Ben, Harry Sullivan, or Adric. The new series treats the male companions like shit. I have no idea why. Part of me thinks that it may be the way Davies treats his own lovers, but I don’t know enough about the man is say that definitively.

Well that’s me nerding out for the day.

(Apart from Catherine Tate)

(and that empire state building episode, what the fuck was that, “we’re from NOII YAWKKK”)

Even nerds have standards. And I say that fully aware some of them make foam swords and hit each other in dank woods shouting “fireball lvl 4.”

What 1960’s boardgame did you buy?

It was a trio of Sid Sackson games: Executive Decision, Venture and Sleuth (the latter two in the super-awesome 3M Gamette boxes).

I still need a copy of the Gamette edition of Monad, though.

If the whole thing is narrated by the late, great, Oliver Postgate, I will quite literally have died happy. And quite possibly saluting.

The new M clearly hasn’t been briefed on the situation, because unlike the old M, she treats the “new” Bond as an entirely different person with the same name, instead of realizing that the Pierce Brosnan Bond died and regenerated into the Daniel Craig Bond.