Binged the whole series and OMG the ending! Absolutely the best series I've seen in years. Paul Darrow as Avon was terrific, like a cross between William Shatner in TOS and Patrick McGoohan in the Prisoner. Incredibly ballsy storylines and not even the main characters are safe.
Honestly I kind of like that trope, it forces the hero to get creative sometimes. For example in the Parting of the Ways the Doctor wanted to use a delta wave to wipe out everything on Earth to defeat the Dalek Emperor. Say what you will about omnicide, at least he doesn't use a gun!
I never liked her as a love interest ever since her debut episode aired. Another random woman out of nowhere who wants his alien dick? He can't catch a break. Did they think every episode without an explicit kiss and all of the spinoffs outweighed all the screen time spent on teasing another romance? I'm like Krokodil Overdose, just give me more adventures. Sometimes the romance felt a bit like shipping with official branding.
Oh, the ending of Blake's 7 is something else.
It was the peak of Tumblr shipping. It was intentional once Rose left to set up another shipping situation. She was the Tumblr girl self insert
That was from Season 1 "Duel" which was on a planet with some very TOS-like aliens. Also the episodes that mutoids were shown to be vampires (until they immediately dropped that idea).
Shame the episode in question randomly added a scene beforehand where the Daleks turbo nuked earth to the point where every continent melted which means that the whole "destroy the daleks at the cost of killing earth" plotline became utterly fucking moot as earth was super dead already by that point. I actually remember watching at the time as a mini sperglet and even then that shit confused the hell out of me as I tried to figure out what the fuck the moral dilemma was supposed to be beyond some garbled "KILLING BAD" horseshit
I'm gonna be real with you I completely forgot about that scene but in my defense so did the writers.
wouldn't the obvious conclusion be to have that be a male companion for Jodie?
that would be catnip for the middle aged women still on tumblr by the time Jodie became the doctor
She was interesting when introduced, the entire conceit of them encountering each other backwards was neat. But Moffatt (OF COURSE) had to follow up on it and tell the entire story back to front and completely kill the mystique. And without that, well, the story was honestly kind of crap: she's a Temu Time Lord who was kidnapped by a cult that had conquored earth and was trying to kill the Doctor who joins forces with Richard Nixon and Mark Sheppard (gay FBI edition) to take them down via the power of subliminal messaging? Or something?
No, because the Companion has to be the moral anchor/human perspective of the show, and a man telling a woman what is and isn't fucked is a sexism or something. Can you imagine the reaction to the Time Lord Victorious speech and Adelaide's rebuttal with the genders reversed?
i'm not talking about the companion taking charge, but just being some cute twink for the doctor to perv out on and take on adventures. or at least have the twink just gaze lovingly at lady doctor while she explains some concept without butting in to mansplain something
He should have done it.
It doesn't work like that. The companion has to be bland enough for women to project themselves onto. It doesn't work with a twinkish male. No woman...except pooners...want to be a 115 male who goes on adventures with a 5'3 woman dressed like a kindergarten teacher. Women hate seeing submissive men, and that companion would have been reviled by the entire fanbase.
The companions are supposed to challenge the Doctor not just be eye candy. The Doctor is supposed to be very smart and very wise but miss the small details that matter to humans or the people he's visiting. Some times he will be a bit sadistic or angry and want to lash out and the companion has to question him and show doubt that he is this God like figure who runs the universe on a whim. The best companions aren't even eye candy, they're the people who challenge the Doctor in ways he cannot think his way out of.
Women would want 2 or 3 men of different arch types (rich, rough, arty probably) to have a love triangle over a bland woman. Putting a twink in would have killed it even faster than it already did. Doctor nigger is very twinkish and look how well he went over.
I was so excited when I found Blake's 7, it's like 4 alternate Doctor Who seasons run by Terrance Dicks and Chris Boucher right when Tom Baker's era started getting silly. Baker and the guy who played Blake had an idea where The Doctor would randomly pass by Blake in a hallway in a Blake's 7 episode, nod and say hello. Also the end of Series B was going to be Daleks but they decided not to in the end. Anyone who's sick of Nu Who should definitely watch B7.
He's just so bitchy. I love it. Sure he's a space hippy, but he just does not give a fuck.
The galactic hobo.
I think JNT's alcoholism had finally caught up with him and he just was no longer competent to run the show.
Blake's 7 was pretty good. So was Connections and I, Claudius.