Apparently the idea WAS floated about because of how popular the Paternoster Gang became, but Moffat shot it down because he "didn't want to dilute the Doctor Who brand on Television".
The Doctor: "When you find something brand new in the world, something you've never seen before, what's the next thing you look for?" *moment of concentration* Strax: "A grenade!"
One scene which I find hilarious but i understand why it's always left out, if in the episode where they go to the doctor's grave and Jenny is dying and Vastra says to Strax "Bring her back, or I will destroy you!" And Strax basically says "Calm the f*ck down, this sh*t is easy to fix."
I'm sorry, but there is no way in hell that the actor didn't improvise some of those lines. That part where he yells about being run over by a cab. I bet it was originally improved before they had to redo it just for the take. Cause it honestly looked like Matt was about to say something before Strax butted in.
@@samtrotter7177 A little improv from a creative type in the moment can really add something. Since the advent of digital cameras, directors have and grant more leeway for multiple takes. And I think actors like Ryan Reynolds spend a lot of time before production, noodling with their lines. But maybe there is too much emphasis on it and too little emphasis on a tightly written story lines and scripts. I guess it depends on the writer and how good the writing is. If they nailed it, there's not much you can do but make it worse with a bunch of vamping.
@@samtrotter7177 To be fair Dan Starkey, the actor who plays Strax, is a writer too. He even wrote one of the Big Finish episodes for The Paternoster Gang. He's clearly quite familiar with Strax's character so I wouldn't put it past him to improvise a few lines here and there 😊
The Doctor: You think I'll go solve a mystery for any bint who smiles at me?! Who do you think I am?! Strax: Sherlock Holmes. The Doctor: DON'T try to be clever, Strax, it doesn't suit you. Strax: Yes, sir. The Doctor: I'm the clever one, you're the potato one. Strax: Yes, sir. The Doctor: Now go away. Strax: Yes... Mister Holmes. The Doctor: Oi! Shut up! (As Strax walks away, laughing) You're not funny! Or clever! And you've got tiny little legs!
I feel that would be a bad idea for everyone. It'd be terrible for the fans as they'd have wonderful characters ruined by inept writers and it'd be terrible for the writers as ruining a character with a point of comparison would make it blatantly obvious to even more people that they are in fact inept writers.
@@jwwprod3862 Yeah, but I personally didn't like the design. I know it's more true to the original. But to me it looks really cheap and weird. Like the actors are wearing masks, which of course they are, but the 2010 sontarans looked way better.
@@RDMGAMER Not. What. Happened. Show just became boring. I do not care if this comment is 6 months old I need to say *somewhere* that I'm tired of seeing this or I think I'm going to explode.
Sadly, that's always the way with the companions, even the really popular ones. Actors deciding to leave the role aside, it is an unfortunate necessity if the show is going to continue growing. A show without change stagnates, and that which stagnates dies...or is given to a bad showrunner who does stagnation's job instead.
@@gestaltdude they never got a proper conclusion though as they weren't really companions. Compared to the RTD era when even minor characters like Jackie, Mickey had a closure to their stories. We never saw these guys after Deep Breath, I'd like them to pop up at least one more time.
“Deflected narcissism, traces of passive aggressive and…a lot of muscular young men doing sport” “What are you looking at?” “Your subconscious” couldn’t stop laughing for a while after that one
She didn't want to lost the memories, then or at the end. And Dan Starkey's Strax combines over-the-top British and potato-dwarf insanity. Now, prepare for obliteration.
You should have put in “who do I look like” “Sherlock Holmes” “listen you are nothing but a potato blah blah blah blah” “okay...Mr.Holmes” I can’t remember the rest of what the doctor said, but that was one of my favorite bits from Strax
I have to admit to a 'guilty pleasure'. When Strax 'paper trains' Clara by beaning her with The Times, it cracks me up whenever I watch it. I like Clara, I really do, but those times she gets too 'River Song' with the Doctor, I think of that rotating rolled up paper...🙋🏻♀️🗞️💥Whap! 😂
(At 2:47 to 2:58 ) Commander Strax: [cackling while gunning down the Bad Guys] "SONTAR-HA!!! HAHAHAHAHAHA!!! HEH HAHAHAHAHA!!! HAHAHAHA!!!" (OMG?!!!!..... Hahahahahahaha! Commander Strax looks like he's been playing to much Warhammer 40K? Heh hahahahahahaha!!!) LOL
@@Chimera936 (Me speaking in a Supreme Dalek voice): [in agreement] "Same here too. Strax is awesome. Plus..... I would really really really REALLY like to see Strax make a grand return onscreen appearance again someday....... even if that's most likely unlikely due to a NO THANKS from that MEDDLING CHRIS CHIBNALL when he and JODIE WHITTAKER completely RUINED Doctor Who Series 11, 12, and ALSO Series 13 FOREVER!!! DOCTOR HAS NEVER BEEN THE SAME!!! HE MUST BE TOTALLY EXTERMINATED!!! EXTERMINATED!!! EXTERMINATED!!!"
What's remarkable about Strax -- and this is true of the Doctor and many of the characters he encounters -- is that they are all bereft of community; they are often orphans or the last of their kind. They all work at making something of their lives. Vastra, Strax, even Jenny, all do the best they can with what life or time has left them.
@@mevolander8478 It's not shit bcs It's different, yes It's not as good as it was back in 2005 but so was DW in the 80s and many people still enjoyed it. Just because things change doesnt mean they become bad
You know what be nice to see. If Strax had his own series like maybe at some point he is coming to the end of his life and thought about lot of his past reaching his way to his present each episode at a time in best and funny ways we not even imagine, even take some moments of how he meet the Doctor and how he ended up where he did all to adventuring up to the last few moments of which we see the rest play out :3
A good one I think should've been part of this from The Snowmen "It's the human male from the institute. What's he doing here? Suggest we melt his brain using projectile acid vision then interrogate him." (looks from Jenny and Vastra) "Other way around."
Why have we not seen any new Strax, Jenny and Vastra since Peter Capaldi's regeneration episode? They should have had an entire season as full time companions.
Damn I miss Strax. So expertly played. Unfortunately, as much as a part of me would love a Patternoster spin off, I'm not sure they would work terribly well without the large Whoniverse. It would be like Joey, if he was joined by Janice and maybe David the physicist. Entertaining characters in their own right, but not why people watched the show, and not enough depth to them to be entertaining over a long time.
