Fuzzy Necromancer wrote: ↑Thu Feb 20, 2025 9:54 pm
"No more politics" I'm afraid is a pretty tall order for a show that has been dealing with politics more or less since it's inception. Remember the Happiness Patrol or the Sun Makers? Or how the Daleks themselves are allegorically about militarism to the point of being a quivering little ball of rage in a tank?
What I'd like to see is another companion who isn't a contemporary human. I've had enough of Everyman-style companions for a while. You know what would be really cool? A Rutan companion. They can have it be a proper alien, but Rutan shapeshifting would allow them to save on the budget they would otherwise need for a more alien companion.
That said, I'd probably settle for somebody from Earth's past, or a future human space colonist. Just like, not every companion has to be Joe Blow from contemporary Earth Prime, and that's something that's kind of dominated the New Who era.
A work without politics is a blank sheet of paper, maybe that much.
