Doctor’s New Companion, Pond’s Exit Revealed
Posted by Justin on March 21st, 2012
Dissecting the Stephen Moffat Doctor Who press conference today.
How many episodes?
We will get six this year including a blockbuster Christmas special (MUCH more on that in a bit) and then eight more to round out this season in 2013.
When are Amy and Rory off the TARDIS for good?
Episode five. Which means we have five episodes for them to reconnect with the Doctor whom they’ve just realized is still alive. I sincerely hope that this season comes with a bit of reinvestment for the Ponds. The possible pregnancy / Amy’s going crazy angle last season felt tacked on. In fact, Amy’s storyline has felt a bit stalled since the end of her first season. She got on the TARDIS to put off getting married to Rory, she then rediscovered her love for him, bada bing bang boom we’re dun-zo.
If it’s simply, “Hey! The Doctor is back!” I’ll be a little bummed.
Will one of them die?
Moffat says not everyone will survive the fifth episode. But… c’mon, you wouldn’t send Amy off a widow, would you? Or kill off a beloved companion? Stuck in an alternate time stream is bad enough.
Anywho… their final nemesis will be the Weeping Angels.
Who is the new companion?
Jenna-Louise Coleman. Her biggest credits to date came from the ITV soap opera Emmerdale. Let’s go to a clip…
She also played one half of the silent double date put together for Steve Rogers by his pal Bucky at the World’s Fair in Captain America.
We will soon see her in the upcoming Titanic miniseries penned by the folks behind Downton Abbey.
Why is she the new companion?
Moffat says she won him over in an audition with Matt Smith where the motor-mouthed rambler played catch up with JLC’s energy.
Also, as The Internet has already noticed. She’s pretty. Reading between the lines of Moffat’s answers, they seem to be positioning her as an Amy Pond-level spitfire with Rose Tyler looks.
Raise you hand if you think that’s a bad idea? I thought not.
She does look tiny. Next to the stretchy Smith she might look even smaller.
How does she meet the Doctor?
No firm details beyond that she’s not a “conventional” character. So I guess we can rule out the Doctor arriving in modern day London and solving a crisis surrounding a smoking hot chick in her early 20s before inviting her on his space ship to enjoy platonic adventures?
What we do know is that it will take place during the Christmas special. This creates the highest stakes incarnation of that particular episode since David Tennant had his “Hello, World” turn in The Christmas Invasion, which began season two.
Once Rory and Amy are gone, have we seen the last of River Song?
Quoth Moffat: “No, not necessarily.”
It can’t all be good news, sweetie.
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March 21st, 2012 at 5:56 pm
“Plutonic” or platonic or maybe both (crazy radioactive space love of a non romantic nature)?
March 21st, 2012 at 6:23 pm
At least there where no “spoilers”
March 23rd, 2012 at 11:54 pm
Matt Smith has to keep up with Jenna-Louise Coleman’s motor mouth?
I’m seeing an inter-stellar time-travelling Philadelphia Story.