The Sweet, Sweet Pie of Smugness

[miss_s_b]

Well, we can't pronounce on ALL the predictions yet, but young, white, cis-female, and conventionally attractive? I think we're there on those:

The Doctor's new companion is revealed

Who she's playing, how the Doctor meets her, and even where he finds her, are all part of one of the biggest mysteries the Time Lord ever encounters. Even by the Doctor's standards, this isn't your usual boy meets girl. - I suspect the biggest mystery the Doctor ever encounters might be overselling it a bit. And boy meets girl? REALLY? Eurgh.

I'm sure I'll be able to put up with her character, maybe even I'll like her, but it would have been nice if the opportunity had been taken to have someone a bit more different :(

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[andrewhickey.info]

But surely 'the best actress who turned up to the audition' will only turn up to the audition if *the character created by the production team* is a good-looking able-bodied woman in her mid-twenties. Had the script specified a fat Chinese bloke with Down's Syndrome and one leg, a different set of actors would have showed up.

So it isn't fair to attack this actor for taking the role, but it's certainly fair to see her as being symptomatic of a problem with the production.

[drunkwriter]

I think we've all had more than enough of this conversation, so I'll just quote the one-legged Tarzan sketch:

"I've nothing at all against your left leg... the problem is, neither have you."