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hermaj reports: "While waiting in the waiting area of the audiologist this afternoon, Dad and I listened to the receptionist talking to a client very loudly on the phone. Apparently the lady had had several Christmas drinks, passed out and her dog had eaten her hearing aids! (I think they were still in her ears). The receptionist assured the lady that this was a common occurrence as dogs don't like the frequency given out by the aids? I wonder if cats do the same!!!"Dec. 26th, 2008
hermaj reports: "While waiting in the waiting area of the audiologist this afternoon, Dad and I listened to the receptionist talking to a client very loudly on the phone. Apparently the lady had had several Christmas drinks, passed out and her dog had eaten her hearing aids! (I think they were still in her ears). The receptionist assured the lady that this was a common occurrence as dogs don't like the frequency given out by the aids? I wonder if cats do the same!!!"
Another thing about companions
Dec. 26th, 2008 08:04 pmSomewhere (gods know where) I stumbled across someone complaining that the Doctor's line in Midnight, spoken quickly to test the possessed Sky, erased Mickey and Captain Jack from the hallowed category of companion: "Rose Tyler Martha Jones Donna Noble TARDIS."
Contemplating this, we at once we bump up against the awkward fact that "companion" is a category defined by fandom, not by the series nor its makers - and not by the Doctor, because that would mean Leela is not a companion, since she was omitted from the flashbacks in Resurrection of the Daleks. I seriously doubt the Doctor whiles away a boring afternoon deciding which of his many friends count as companions - I mean, do you sit around with pen and paper, putting your own friends into categories? (If you do, please, don't answer that!)
How does the Doctor describe the people we call companions? I want to pull together some examples from the new and old shows - your contributions encouraged. I'll ETA them here. But I bet you can't find an example of the Doctor himself using the word "companion"! :)
ETA: Lulz, already found one, from Death to the Daleks 1: "I have a young companion with me - Sarah Jane Smith." And from Frontier in Space: "What about my companion?" Plus The Two Doctors: "My companion is not for sale!" (That's all I've managed to find at the Doctor Who Transcript Project, anyway.) ETA: Got one from the new show! Rose (Aliens of London).
How about "friend"? Romana (Ribos Operation), Ace (Ghost Light), Ben, Polly, and Jamie (Faceless Ones), Donna (Fires of Pompeii, Journey's End), Rose (Unquiet Dead, New Earth, Smith and Jones), Jack (Utopia). (Obv I'm relying on Doctor Who (2005+) Transcripts too.)
And how about "assistant"? Liz (Ambassadors of Death, Jo (Three Doctors), Sarah Jane (Invasion of the Dinosaurs, Planet of the Spiders), Tegan (Frontios), Mel (Time and the Rani. Interesting - looks like "assistant" was basically a UNIT position; in Dinosaurs the Doctor says Sarah is his assistant to stop her being evacuated as a civilian, and the Brig introduces Jo as the Doctor's assistant in Terror of the Autons. But it's also a more sexless term than "companion" or even "friend", which makes it handy when you don't want the audience thinking of the Doctor as a dirty old man.
(Come to think of it, when was the first list of companions compiled? The 1973 Radio Times special? Or even earlier than that?)
ETA: In The War Machines, the Doctor introduces Dodo as his "secretary". Heh.
Contemplating this, we at once we bump up against the awkward fact that "companion" is a category defined by fandom, not by the series nor its makers - and not by the Doctor, because that would mean Leela is not a companion, since she was omitted from the flashbacks in Resurrection of the Daleks. I seriously doubt the Doctor whiles away a boring afternoon deciding which of his many friends count as companions - I mean, do you sit around with pen and paper, putting your own friends into categories? (If you do, please, don't answer that!)
How does the Doctor describe the people we call companions? I want to pull together some examples from the new and old shows - your contributions encouraged. I'll ETA them here. But I bet you can't find an example of the Doctor himself using the word "companion"! :)
ETA: Lulz, already found one, from Death to the Daleks 1: "I have a young companion with me - Sarah Jane Smith." And from Frontier in Space: "What about my companion?" Plus The Two Doctors: "My companion is not for sale!" (That's all I've managed to find at the Doctor Who Transcript Project, anyway.) ETA: Got one from the new show! Rose (Aliens of London).
How about "friend"? Romana (Ribos Operation), Ace (Ghost Light), Ben, Polly, and Jamie (Faceless Ones), Donna (Fires of Pompeii, Journey's End), Rose (Unquiet Dead, New Earth, Smith and Jones), Jack (Utopia). (Obv I'm relying on Doctor Who (2005+) Transcripts too.)
And how about "assistant"? Liz (Ambassadors of Death, Jo (Three Doctors), Sarah Jane (Invasion of the Dinosaurs, Planet of the Spiders), Tegan (Frontios), Mel (Time and the Rani. Interesting - looks like "assistant" was basically a UNIT position; in Dinosaurs the Doctor says Sarah is his assistant to stop her being evacuated as a civilian, and the Brig introduces Jo as the Doctor's assistant in Terror of the Autons. But it's also a more sexless term than "companion" or even "friend", which makes it handy when you don't want the audience thinking of the Doctor as a dirty old man.
(Come to think of it, when was the first list of companions compiled? The 1973 Radio Times special? Or even earlier than that?)
ETA: In The War Machines, the Doctor introduces Dodo as his "secretary". Heh.