Spoilers for that new spoiler.

[drakyndra]

Oh look, it's our first walk-out promise.

Wow, that's what, 2 hours from the announcement being officially released?

Comments

[tavella.livejournal.com]

Yes, but this is a reboot, and a pretty drastically different one. As part of modernizing it, they opted to go with anchoring the companion with family and character growth, and there's a price to be paid for that; people get attached in ways they didn't used to. For all that I'm old-school Who, I do get a bit tired of people saying 'well, they used to do it, you shouldn't complain!' They used to do green bubblewrap monsters, too, but that doesn't mean I'd accept them doing so today.

As it happens, I like Ten fine, equally with Nine; but if you don't like Ten, and are watching for Rose -- and they have quite deliberately made the companion an emotional selling point, and old-school better get used to that -- it's not unreasonable to not be interested in making the commitment again.

[drakyndra.livejournal.com]

but if you don't like Ten, and are watching for Rose

...than you have obviously missed the part of the title where it says Doctor Who.

There was a reason for the POV shift during the series.

[tavella.livejournal.com]

And there's a reason why there's still so much time spent on the companion. They wouldn't spend so much time this season on Mickey and Jackie as well as Rose if we weren't supposed to care.

Hell, even in the old days the companion was often the selling or cutting point for viewers.

[drakyndra.livejournal.com]

Aye. Which is why we are getting introduced to out new companion so early - so we know there will be Life After Rose. For all the criticism of the Beeb's timing, I think they know what they are doing.

Also, caring for one character doesn't mean to the exclusion of all others.