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Agree with you. Bill had a lot of potential, and it was a bit of a sudden ending. I will say, pretty creative way to not completely kill her off. A watery atom-restructuring entity seems way too powerful to me to just be casually thrown into the plot like that though. Isn’t that just absolute power? With all the talk about Daleks and powerful races, if she can bring someone back to life by just restructuring a bunch of atoms, isn’t Heather just the absolute most powerful entity in the universe? Unless even in the Who lore, it’s not quite as simple as she explained it.

I don’t know what Gentleman Jack, or The Mail is :). Thermal Maximum, love it. Time is threatened because some race wants to keep the Earth cool to make it more habitable, maybe?

Yeah, I think you’re right. Bowel evacuations are gonna be a rough one to put on TV. Seems to me like wonderful novelization material though.

Tree Humanoids: thought of it. Last showed up for an episode for the 9th, and then not really anything. Can be a good character to bring back. Vastra, Vinvocci, Zocci, etc all top tier choices. They were super humanized though, everything from clothing to personality. It didn’t really feel like they are alien, or that much different from humans other than looking different and having maybe a few customs changed. I feel like many of the societal nuances weren’t explored. Like for example, filming the Tivolians and how they surrender to everything in existence, but actually showing it instead of just mentioning it.

Silence is awesome. We still don’t know how they operate together, whether they have a society or are just straight up assassins/tools for the Church. Tasha Lem is too powerful to be a companion I think. She has a major role to play as the leader of the Mainframe.

How would you add dynamics to the Ood? They have grown to show up at significant points in the Doctor’s timeline. There would need to be a reason/something that the Ood is doing to guide the Doctor, in my opinion. Just an Ood for whatever reason seems hard to do now that they’ve had a lot of plot time and  a general role you’d expect them to play.

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I wonder if bringing a very obviously non-human companion for more than just a one-off episode would be a good way to bring some creativity?

Nardole is obviously a concrete example, but you would never really guess him as non-human until he says a dialogue or makes certain expressions in situations. But you don’t actually see something like a Silurian or other very clearly non-human species being such a developed character to that extent, at least as far as I can remember. Give them a bit of human personalities, and I think it can really add to portraying how different from the rest of the universe the Doctor really is.

And there are so many opportunities to create interesting interactions as well. For example, we know that the Doctor’s fashion style can be pretty goofy on earth (11 mainly). But consider that he has knowledge about so many races. Maybe it’s just way too much for him to know, and the universe is bigger (in Doctor Who) than we can even comprehend. Let’s say the show develops backstory for one of the companions and the social standards for their species, and shows a bunch of fashion standards completely wild by human standards. Just off the top of my head, I’ll take the species that the Doctor mentioned that communicates by disemboweling from its 60+ stomachs. Their species will probably have a pretty wild irrigation system. I can imagine them wearing pipes near the part where they disembowel from to hook into those irrigation systems, and said pipes come in different styles and shapes.

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