Past Companions?

[amymedieval]

So we are all seeing that character building are approaching making monsters from the RTD era, with the bronze daleks and vashta nerada, but the bronze daleks are returning, and the vashta nerada is a moffat created monster, this could be the reason why these are being made and the vashta nerada would prompt a SITL river maybe a s a super rare. So with all this being said what do you think the chances are of getting past companions, we already have the past dr's and character building seems the way forward in terms of wanted characters!

So past companions? Yes or No?

[The Eternal Dalek]

When you say past companions do you mean the likes of Jamie and Jo, or do you mean the likes of Rose and Martha?

If it is the first lot then yes because the range really could do with some reasons to expand into the classic era, but for the others I would be less enthusiastic as it is less focus on the current era.

[amymedieval]

When you say past companions do you mean the likes of Jamie and Jo, or do you mean the likes of Rose and Martha?

If it is the first lot then yes because the range really could do with some reasons to expand into the classic era, but for the others I would be less enthusiastic as it is less focus on the current era.

I generally mean rose and martha, as these are aimed at the current generation im not sure if they would do classics

[judooning]

I think Classics and the RTD era would both do equaly well. However there is more chance of say an 8 year old knowing about the RTD era than an 8 year old knowing about the Classic era. So maybee the RTD era would be at a slight advantage.

[The Eternal Dalek]

I generally mean rose and martha, as these are aimed at the current generation im not sure if they would do classics

Well I think Judooning's post has brought up a very important thing, the "My Doctor" phenomenon.

I think Classics and the RTD era would both do equaly well. However there is more chance of say an 8 year old knowing about the RTD era than an 8 year old knowing about the Classic era. So maybee the RTD era would be at a slight advantage.

But you need to remember that an eight year old would have been two when Rose left and three when Martha left. We have reached a point now where the young audience never knew Eccleston's Doctor, and now there is another group coming up that never knew Tennant. To them they will be as far back as Sylvester McCoy or Colin Baker.

The RTD era's advantage is fading away now. RTD himself wrote an article about in in Doctor Who Magazine, the "My Doctor" phenomenon is nothing new, it has been happening for years. I'm sure plenty of the older fans will remember being a bit disgruntled when the newer fans came in who only knew about Peter Davison and Colin Baker but they had watched it since Patrick Troughton was the Doctor and them hating the fact that these people use this as an excuse to formulate their opinions of the past. The actual effect itself is that as time goes on each generation of children begins further into the show's history. Any child who started watching it is in the past two years will have Matt Smith as their Doctor.

Most people seem to be rather ignorant towards this fact, and as I said before it has happened plenty of times before, there will always be another generation of fans coming soon to usurp the previous to the position of the newest lot of fans. The main lot of fans will be the Eleven Doctor's children (if you understand what I mean by that, I don't mean that the Doctor and River have been up to any funny business). It is because of this that the current children's market will be interested in the Eleventh Doctor primarily, Tennant is fading into the past, and Eccelston is already there as far as the target audience for CB will be concerned (note that any of the figures that have been released so far outside the Eleven Doctors set have appeared in the two most recent Doctors and mostly from the Eleventh Doctor).

[judooning]

But with the branding of the new series, it makes it easier for the 11th Doctor's generation of children to understand the Tennant era.

For example...'The complete series 6 DVD box set'. The children will see that and realise that there is another 5 series to watch. they will probably ask their parents for series 1 for their birthday or Christmas, and work their wa up.

So it's more easier for the children to find out about the Tennant era than it is the Classic series.

[The Eternal Dalek]

But with the branding of the new series, it makes it easier for the 11th Doctor's generation of children to understand the Tennant era.

For example...'The complete series 6 DVD box set'. The children will see that and realise that there is another 5 series to watch. they will probably ask their parents for series 1 for their birthday or Christmas, and work their wa up.

So it's more easier for the children to find out about the Tennant era than it is the Classic series.

But then again, that presumes that children are getting the DVDs. If they are getting them then chances are they will also have seen the classic DVDs as well and will want everything. I was a child once as well, I remember what it was like for me. If I liked something then I would want everything to do with it. I wouldn't be picky over when this thing was from, if it was the thing I loved I would love it.

Of course, things have changed since then considerably for me but if any child has an interest in past Doctors then there is every chance they will discover the classic Doctors at the same time as the RTD Doctors. I've seen shops these days, it is very hard to find the RTD era stuff in some shops but the recent classic releases are there, and children if young enough will not care about the special effects they will just see the Doctor, especially if there is some sort of linking element to the new series.

After all if a child loves the Cybermen, then if one of their parents are looking in the shops for something to do with the Cybermen then they are not going to be able to tell which ones they are in from "Series 4" are they? They'll go for the something like Revenge of the Cybermen or Attack of the Cybermen as the name is clearly showing of the monster the child loves.

[judooning]

I suppose. I have also noticed a lot of Classic DVD's in shops. It's only really HMV that i find any RTD era DVD's in.

But also, Magazines like DWA and MI show Monsters from previous series. So that will also make alot of children want to at least research or look at pictures of the monsters on the Internet.

[The Eternal Dalek]

I suppose. I have also noticed a lot of Classic DVD's in shops. It's only really HMV that i find any RTD era DVD's in.

But also, Magazines like DWA and MI show Monsters from previous series. So that will also make alot of children want to at least research or look at pictures of the monsters on the Internet.

I'm not too sure what DWA is like, but I am aware of Monster Invasion, which seems to treat the RTD era just like a part of the classic series and doesn't give it any special treatment. If anything it gives the classic series a priority.

Look at their Doctor cards. There is a considerable number of classic Doctors in the range (in fact there are more cards of Tom Baker and Peter Davison than there are of Christopher Eccelston).

As interest in the RTD era fades nobody will really pay as much attention to it as the new series. As a result of that, the people interested in the show's past will become interested in all of it, especially if MI is anything to go by.

EDIT: Just seen the psoters in the new DWA. One of the Eleventh Doctor, and another of the Third Doctor an Linx in The TIme Warrior. They seem to be following the same idea.

[judooning]

Well recently in DWA, ever week there has been a poster of a different monster from the RTD era. Empty child last week. Then Trin E and Zu zanna, then pig slaves, Cassandra, Adipose, Max capricorn, Sec Hybrid etc.