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Billie Piper Quits Doctor Who (Yes, she does!)
Johnr
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News posted by Dreamwatch magazine (who have the exclusive details in issue 130) @Roobarb‘s. She will only appear in a few season 2 eps.
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Shame, I thought she was quite good in the role.
Companions come and go. DW isn't like you average TV show where major cast changes have a serious effect. Rose moving on will allow for different stories and characters to be introduced.
She was an excellent companion for exposition, and for taking the place of the new viewer, but her leaving won't adversely affect the show.
Agreed, but whoever takes over the job will have quite a tough act to follow.
She is - oh no I can't stop myself -
FANTASTIC
K
also - they've gone to great lengths to shed light on the so she's just upped sticks, and keft her mum wondering where the hell she is question, with plenty of back and forth to earth - first phoning her mum, then going back, then going back in time and meeting her dad etc. with all that done, its set up to move on from that - so it really seems too soon to go for that reason - the covering of these bases will now be disproportionate to the time spent in the role.
but after the whole bruhaha before it started, and that huge buzz about, which has largely actually delivered, its a real pity to see it change so much so soon.
Iain
She's been an excellent companion and hopefully she'll pave the way for more fully-rounded companions in the future.
I agree.
I think the reason they did this was to introduce the various concepts of DW to an audience that probably hasn't seen it before. She was an excellent vehicle for things to be explained, and for the realities of upping sticks and leaving in the TARDIS to be demonstrated.
I would imagine that the new Doctor and Companions will have more traditional adventures, without the need to constantly return to the companion's home (which although has been fun in this series will get old very very quickly).
As long as they bring in some interesting replacement(s) then all should go swimmingly.
They need someone who is young and can really act, but who isn't a soap reject.
Who is he?
sorry.
Iain
I'm sure this Tennant guy has his own ideas what he wants to do with the role and so its probably best they tailor make a new companion for him rather risk having the series seem unbalanced.
Abi Titmuss, Rebecca Loos, Jeff Brazier? ;P
Cj
I think Billie has been brilliant, but I think it is right for a new doctor to have a new assistant(s) to build a special relationship with
Possibly one of them could be some sort of alien as well.
She was first seen in Trainspotting and most recently in State of Play.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/drama/stateofplay/game_images/images/4c.jpg
David