Amy and Rory to be leaving Doctor Who in the next season!
By burrito88
@burrito88 (2774)
United States
March 22, 2012 11:28am CST
It's been announced that the Amy and Rory will somehow be departing from the show next season in a 'tear jerking' episode. The Doctors have come and gone as have and gone as have his companions. This latest change brings up several questions. Will you miss Amy and Rory? Who has been your favorite companion and separately, who's departure most affected you? While we're at it, which Doctor was your favorite?
4 responses
@Citizen_Stuart (2016)
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22 Mar 12
Rory and Amy are good characters, but it's probably time to move on. It's hard to pin down a favourite companion, there have been so many, but Sarah Jane would have to be up there, along with the Brigadier (if you count him as a companion). I also like Jamie and Zoe. Donna had the most tragic departure in my view. Favourite Doctor? Depending on the mood I'm in, I'd have to pick Pertwee, Hartnell or Colin Baker. I wasn't sure about Matt Smith when I first heard about him, but I reckon he's done a good job so far, and I hope he'll be staying on in the role for a few more years.
@burrito88 (2774)
• United States
23 Mar 12
Being in the US, I came to watch the Doctor in the late '70's. (Well my first exposure was in the '60's seeing the Peter Cushing movie Doctor Who and the Daleks, which doesn't really count.) I spent a year (1978-79) at Iowa State University and my apartment did not have cable TV. There were only 4 channels including the Public Broadcasting channel from Des Moines which used to run reruns of the Tom Baker episodes at 10 o'clock at night opposite the local news.
@burrito88 (2774)
• United States
23 Mar 12
I hit post before I intended to.
I didn't get to watch the series again until they restarted it with the ninth doctor.Out of the 4 doctors that I've seen, David Tennant is my favorite although it took me a little to get used to him. Tennant made the Doctor seem more human and more vulnerable. The Matt Smith Doctor seems a bit more aloof and disjointed.
Sarah Jane was a great companion and I was sorry to hear of Elizabeth Sladen's passing. Of the later companions, my favorites are Rose and Donna. One companion who doesn't get mentioned much K-9 and it's a shame that he is apparently gone for good in an episode of the Sarah Jane Adventures.
With my cut back in cable service I lost BBC Americaa; however, I recently subscribed to Netflix and I'm getting caught up with the Matt White episodes. I also discovered that Netflix has many of the older shows including some of the pre-Tom Baker shows. I'll have to try watching some of those after I get caught with the new ones.
@Citizen_Stuart (2016)
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23 Mar 12
I wasn't that keen on David Tennant myself - it seemed to me that he was trying to hard to be eccentric, and also the character's basic arrogance tipped over the edge into megolomania once or twice. Matt Smith - in his quieter moments - has a talent for projecting the impression of an old mind in a young body. Generally speaking, I prefer a lot of the old Doctor Who stories to the current ones, because they took the time to develop the stories - I think the serial format works a lot better for this kind of series.
I was never a big fan of K-9 - I'm allergic to cute robots - but there was a spin-off series about K-9 on Channel 5 a year or two back. I don't know if it's still running. I understand it was pitched at younger viewers.
@XLintLuvR (1)
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1 Oct 12
Here's an issue that I had a problem with these two and why I felt that after the season finale last season they needed to take those two off. First, the cotor keeps talking down to them as mere mortals who live for a split second compared to the life of a Time Lord. Let's not forget, that Rory is over 2000 years old while the Doctor is under 1000. Rory and Amy are River's parents and River is the Doctor's wife. While I never really got to watch as many of the old series, but while they seemed to be more serial in nature and set more in the future than the more recent reboots, the fact that he's got a kindred spirit that's actually older than him should have in my opinion changed the dynamic between that particular set of companitons. The relationship in my opinion, is one that should have opened a bunch of new opportunities for them. That they decided instead to make these just another set of companions instead of his in-laws, the fact that Amy has a daughter although she can't remember being pregnant, the fact that we never really saw them raise the girl at all, yet now in this finale the two of them pass with it seeming that they never went on to have any other children is kinda sad.
@burrito88 (2774)
• United States
13 Feb 13
I think showing Amy being pregnant and having her and Rory raise a daughter would not have worked with the show. I don't think the Doctor would even want to travel with them while they were raising a baby.
There's a lot of contradiction about the Doctor's age. The 8th Doctor at one point calculated his age as 1012 but then he was trapped in real time as an amnesic from the 19th century until the year 2001 making him at least 1125 at that time.
The first Doctor said he was 236 years old when he stole the TARDIS and started traveling. The 9th Doctor later told Captain Jack that he was traveling in a phone box for 900 years making him at least 1136.When the 11th Docotr leqves Amy and Rory, he tells them that he is 1200 years old.
But then Steven Moffat the current head writer and producer of the show said in an interview "The thing I keep banging on about is that he doesn't know what age he is. He's lying. How could he know, unless he's marking it on a wall? He could be 8,000 years old, he could be a million. He has no clue."
@thedoctorrr (64)
• United States
15 May 12
Amy and Rory's departure will be the most painful for me no doubt. I love them so much. They remind me of myself in so many ways. I connected with them in such a way that it'll be nearly traumatizing when they go. They just taped their last episode this week. :(
My favorite doctor is eleven, but I like David Tennant and TOm Baker as well. (:
@burrito88 (2774)
• United States
16 May 12
I thought Rose Tyler's and Donna Noble's departures were tough.
@mutchy126 (317)
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29 Aug 12
I will miss them as I miss the Doctor when they move to the Next One. But you know, They can't keep the same person forever. They have to change every so often because it will start to become boring having the same characters with the Same Interests and all that!
@burrito88 (2774)
• United States
13 Feb 13
The 4th Doctor, Tom Baker, had the role for 7 years and 173 episodes. One of the more famous companions, Sarah Jane, traveled with him.
It took me a little time to get use to David Tennant but now I miss him.
