Dr Who Review - The Companions - Ace 

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A Death in the Family was a really good exploration of this, where Ace took a while to adjust to a normal life without the Doctor, abandoning her boyfriend when she had the opportunity to resume travelling with him again. So much of her life had been spent on the TARDIS that she didn’t know how to operate in regular, everyday go to work, go to the pub, go home to a pattern life.

Same here, she had a very unique energy that made her just so fun, in contrast to the Chessmaster doctor

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I agree but it like it saying it will return

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Outside of early RTD era, New Who is anything but darker or edgier than the classic series. We went from hide behind the sofa being the most common thing people talk about to the Doctor's speeches and being a beacon of hope being the most common topic. Says a lot.

Sylvester McCoy knew how to be a somewhat sociopathic Doctor without falling into outright Valeyard territory. I wish I could say the same for the infuriatingly overrated Peter Capaldi. With Sylvester McCoy, he's constantly planning ahead with machiavellian twists and surprises but always stays focussed on the greater good. He knew how to balance out his machiavellian sociopathy with charm and humour and it's clear that he genuinely cared about Ace. Hell, as terrible as Chris Chibnall's writing was, one thing I can give him credit for is that he understood Sylvester McCoy and Ace's relationship and gave them the sendoff they deserved. Their brief interaction was probably the best scene in Chibnall's entire era and proved that McCoy's still got it, even in his old age. With Peter Capaldi, I kept getting the sense that his motives were self-serving, usually attempting to gaslight Clara Oswald into staying with him after he unleashed the Valeyard, and the greater good was just a bonus that he didn't really care about. By the time he started to feel like he was taking the greater good seriously instead of just being a selfish, narcissistic ex-boyfriend all the time, it was already too late. I'd stopped giving a shit about the Doctor and only cared about Clara, which was emphasised by the fact that Capaldi's suffering and grief in Heaven Sent meant nothing to me. I was upset about Clara's death purely because I cared about her, not because the Doctor did. He was basically in Hell and I just wanted him to "cut out your whining", beat down that fucking wall and save Clara. After that, he could regenerate or even permanently die for all I cared. There's a reason Peter Capaldi should stick to playing villains like Gideon Shepard or assholes like Malcolm Tucker. He was never a good fit for any Doctor that isn't the Valeyard or at best the War Doctor. Even when he was saying goodbye to Clara as she prepared to die in Face The Raven, I was still half expecting the Valeyard to reveal that he'd planned the whole thing. That's something that Sylvester McCoy, as machiavellian as he was, would be horrified about because his dark edge didn't extend quite that far but I could absolutely buy that Peter Capaldi would do it. He makes me instinctively assume that he cries crocodile tears and this is coming from somebody who almost always believes that crying is genuine.

Wow. Peter capaldi and his twelfth doctor are top tier for me. 7, 11 and 12 are my all time faves. I love them all for slightly different reasons, the issue I had was I wish they had made 12 darker than he was, I loved what we got but I would like eventually for someone to properly embrace a darker side of the doctor.

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Nardole would've been great if it weren't because he was so inconsistently written

I will forever be mad that we were robbed of Victorian-era nanny Clara

I totally agree. There are narrative elements of Ace that could be revived or re-used in an interesting and contemporary way. Specifically, her being found in space after something on Earth sent her through time and space. Rather than a journey that suggests that the companion is something special or a plot device (Amy, Clara, Ruby), it could be interesting to have a series-long adventure back home.

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That's how they get you. It was horrible, but seeing a thing you like can overule most other things for a short time. Damn monkey brains lol

Which is a shame. Whittaker was a fantastic actress and Thirteen was quite charming when allowed to be. Graham and Ryan were also a total hoot. (Yaz? The episode with her grandma's tragedy was great but she was kinda dull otherwise) The writing, though...yikes. It's like all those "screw you, Thatcher" episodes that Baker II and McCoy had to slog through and those will age like milk. I hope Big Finish or other tie ins will cut her as good of a deal as they did McGann, another charming Doctor who had garbage can writing.

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