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Highwaymen, cat people and Winston Churchill. Here are the geeky bits and pieces we noted in Doctor Who's The Woman Who Lived...
The Woman Who Lived is a fascinating episode of Doctor Who, filled with philosophical discussions and ruminations on the nature of immortality. In truth, on first viewing we weren’t sure there’d be very much to write about in this column this week. However, as a great man once said, ‘life finds a way’. So here are all of the callbacks, similarities and tenuous-but-interesting geeky things we spotted in this week’s episode. If we’ve missed any, make your way to the all-important comments section below!
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Ashildr isn’t the first highwayman to team up with the Doctor; 1982’s The Visitation saw the Doctor and his companions befriend highwayman Richard Mace. Together they thwarted the reptilian Terileptils,...
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Highwaymen, cat people and Winston Churchill. Here are the geeky bits and pieces we noted in Doctor Who's The Woman Who Lived...
The Woman Who Lived is a fascinating episode of Doctor Who, filled with philosophical discussions and ruminations on the nature of immortality. In truth, on first viewing we weren’t sure there’d be very much to write about in this column this week. However, as a great man once said, ‘life finds a way’. So here are all of the callbacks, similarities and tenuous-but-interesting geeky things we spotted in this week’s episode. If we’ve missed any, make your way to the all-important comments section below!
Your References Or Your Life
Ashildr isn’t the first highwayman to team up with the Doctor; 1982’s The Visitation saw the Doctor and his companions befriend highwayman Richard Mace. Together they thwarted the reptilian Terileptils,...
- 10/23/2015
- by louisamellor
- Den of Geek
We all love (well, most of the time) the Doctor Who companions that we’ve had over the years, but somehow we still pine for the companions that could have been. Characters that showed up for a single episode and were so well-suited for the show you could easily imagine them travelling with the Doctor for years. Sometimes we just want something a little different — a male companion, a historical companion, an alien companion.
Maybe the timing wasn’t right. Maybe the Tardis already had a companion or two (or three, in the Fifth Doctor’s case), and it would have been too much to take on another. Maybe the writers simply didn’t know a good thing when they had it. For whatever reason, it’s hard to watch these fantastic characters and not wish that they could have had a shot at the big leagues. These are the best of the also-rans.
Maybe the timing wasn’t right. Maybe the Tardis already had a companion or two (or three, in the Fifth Doctor’s case), and it would have been too much to take on another. Maybe the writers simply didn’t know a good thing when they had it. For whatever reason, it’s hard to watch these fantastic characters and not wish that they could have had a shot at the big leagues. These are the best of the also-rans.
- 6/29/2013
- by Audrey Fox
- Obsessed with Film
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