@ps1l0v3y0u     @nahh   I have always thought it would be great to have a more alien companion,just to change things up a bit. Maybe even an android or cyborg or a robot.

I think the human companion is there to connect us to the Doctor through them and let us travel with him. I also think the human companion provides a contrast, the Doctor is a…[Read more]

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Great DW non-human aliens tend to be monsters.

The Boneless, for instance, seem to be relentlessly inimical; how would The Doctor deal with ‘nice’ Boneless, how would they manifest, one trick pony or superpowered? I mention them because they are reminiscent of Azimov’s race that has three sexes/larval forms (The Gods Themselves) who are t…[Read more]

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interesting points there…

Nardole… he kind of lost the script when a humorous companion was abruptly not required/not written half way through the series. Bill Potts had similar issues… great acting, love the character, but once her Mum had saved the mind of the World, it was pretty much a set up for the darkness of the final two-p…[Read more]