Then there's the dangerous lunatics who will argue 4/Adric was actually a sneaky great pairing that never got a proper run, even if by all accounts Baker/Waterhouse was an absolute disaster.

Which episodes in series 9 would you point to as Capaldi being Smith-like?

I'm blanking on when Tennant aged? Either way, I don't think the show has ever really addressed this concretely, but it seems like any given incarnation will remain looking much the same for about 400 years (I'd estimate that to be the length of 11's pre-Trenzalore run), then he starts aging as the body wears thin.…

I'm definitely hoping Dollard writes multiple episodes in series 11. She's very much on my ongoing dream wish list for a season of Who writers.

Capaldi is *rocketing* up my Doctor rankings. It's a little scary, honestly.

Either way, I don't think you can argue this one as pure historical without "The Crimson Horror" also qualifying, unless you want to be persnickety about Strax.

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Screw it, let's just get Roberts, Simm, Gomez, Derek Jacobi, and Geoffrey Beevers together and have the most deranged party in the cosmos.

For what it's worth, I've said I'm throwing open the doors to occasional special guests. I'm also faintly terrified of the bold realness of your takes. But seriously, shoot the podcast an email and we can talk if you're interested in coming on at some point.

John Simm's Master both feels deeply obvious and more implausible the more you consider it. So yeah, it's either *probably* him or not even remotely likely to be him.

I just realized: Rona Munro has written for both 7/Ace and 12/Bill. I'm excited to see whether the synchronicities between the two eras are particularly strong in her episode later this year.

The great thing about an early turn is it makes the more nuanced friendship that results all the richer.

It immediately put me in mind of a similar action in "Into The Dalek," except this was maybe worse because a damn kid was involved! Much as I'm sort of casually critical of the 12th Doctor's series 8 characterization, I'm glad they haven't jettisoned it entirely, just found smarter, more assured ways to deploy it.

Again, the credits thing is more about reflecting how the show is structured. I'm okay with considering Rory a primary companion, but it's real close, and the fact he really never gets a showcase outside "The Rebel Flesh"/"The Almost People" (and even that doesn't have as much Rory in it as you might think it does)…

Sorry, yeah, I got the "shit" trivia wrong this time. It's that it was the first instance the word "shit" was said in an episode featuring the Doctor.

To my mind, primary/secondary is mainly useful in an out-of-universe context, hence why we go by thinks like opening credits. To be sure, you can argue that the 9/Rose/Jack team had a good run of adventures that we didn't see, and if "permanent occupancy in the TARDIS" is a key feature, then maybe you can even argue…

My favorite companion is probably Rory, who was in the main credits for all of S6 and S7A. And I *still* can't in good conscience consider him a primary companion.

Yeah, but Barrowman didn't get the credit until his return in S3, by which point he was the visiting star of another show. It's more like when they put Elisabeth Sladen's name in the main credits for Stolen Earth/Journey's End.

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I hear what you're saying, but I once sat down and tried to figure out what if any season of the classic series featured not a single returning monster from a previous season (other than the first, obviously). I believe, mostly off the top of my head: