DOCTOR WHO: Why Didn't The Doctor Ever Have a Male Companion?
@mythociate (21432)
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
January 11, 2011 3:40pm CST
And I'm talking about 'before homosexuality became something you could announce in public,' back when a male Companion would've been just some OTHER guy traveling through spacetime & dimension.
I mean, even if they had to bring on a girl for the guy's 'needs', wouldn't another guy on the TARDIS just be more-efficient?
Wouldn't The Doctor--with hundreds of years of observation of the human species--just naturally see how much more-clever it would be to bring on a male Companion?
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@AllenWiggs (404)
• United States
17 Jan 11
The Doctor has had several male companion over the years of the show, the most recent of which is Rory. Since the show returned it has only had three male companions, Rory, Mickey, and Captain Jack, technically Wilf was a companion in the last two episodes of David Tennant's run. But the original series had Jaimie (arguably one of the most popular companions of the show), Adric, Ben, Harry, Steven, Vislor, and the show started off with a male companion in Ian. If you count K-9 who is typically refereed to as male although he is a robot, that is a good number of male companions. I may even be missing someone.
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@mythociate (21432)
• Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
18 Jan 11
I wonder if I could find those old episodes on Hulu.
@petersum (4522)
• United States
11 Jan 11
Strange, my daughter asked me that very question just last Saturday when the Doctor took on board yet another female. Personally, I think there are enough queers in the BBC, we don't need them in what is supposed to be a children's show. The rise in homosexuality has reached such proportions that survival of the species in now in doubt.
@petersum (4522)
• United States
12 Jan 11
The last male companion that I remember was in "Around the world in 80 days" and, strictly speaking, it was a servant. Dr.Who series is so old that it was conceived in the era of "forgetting" servants. Downstairs staff, maids and butlers existed not so long ago!
Today, just take a quick glance at any BBC studio, and in answer to your question, there would be a 99% chance that the companion would be homosexual! We can be relieved to some extent that race inequality hasn't survived = dark skinned women CAN be companions.
I don't think the tardis actually takes log journeys like naval ships, it's a time machine.
