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   Ron to All   
   Re: The Companion Roll Call   
   16 Oct 12 16:17:03   
   
   From Newsgroup: rec.arts.drwho.moderated   
   From Address: orion@centurylink.net   
   Subject: Re: The Companion Roll Call   
      
   On Oct 7, 1:42 pm, Daibhid Ceanaideach    
   wrote:   
   > On 07 Oct 2012, "gerard.morvan"  wrote:   
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   > > "Ron"  a crit dans le message de news:   
   > > 85bcd9c9-3b73-442e-804c-abb2c5b2b872@googlegroups.com...   
   > >>I just saw the Sarah Jane adventure, Death Of The Doctor, and found   
   > >>myslf   
   > >> curious about the roll call of companions who were mentioned at the   
   > >> end. I can understand why companions like Adric, Turlough, and   
   > >> Bernice weren't mentioned-- even Peri-- but when SJ said there was a   
   > >> Dorothy something running a charity it took me a moment to know that   
   > >> she meant Ace. That was strange enough, but since she also mentioned   
   > >> the Chestertons still being alive, I wondered what about the only   
   > >> other human companion of the Doctor that didn't get mentioned, Dodo--   
   > >> Dorothea Chaplet. She was around with both Ben & Polly, who also were   
   > >> mentioned, but how is it Dodo gets no mention?   
   >   
   > >> Ron   
   >   
   > > Well, according to some spin-off novels, her fate was not the best.   
   > > That might be the reason why she's not mentioned by Sarah Jane. Or   
   > > it's entirely possible that our intrepid journalist didn't learn about   
   > > her.   
   >   
   > Maybe it was just the way I saw it, but least part of the point of the   
   > Where Are They Now? stuff seemed to be to undo the horrible fates of   
   > companions in the spin-offs, most obviously with the statment that Liz   
   > (who died in the NAs while on a UNIT mission to the Moon in 2003) can't   
   > make it to the funeral because she's on UNIT's Moonbase. With this   
   > interpretation in mind, the failure to mention Dodo is even odder.   
   >   
   > --   
   > Dave   
   > The problems in this world are not caused by those who love.   
   > They're caused by those who hate.   
   > --Arthur, King of Time and Space.- Hide quoted text -   
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   Well, there's a bigger problem when you try to reconcile th books and   
   the show: yes, Liz is on the moon in Eternity Weeps, but in that book   
   besides Liz dying, about a quarter of the planet gets wiped out either   
   by the alien disease or by the Doctor's cure for Agent Yellow. Such a   
   big event and it never gets mentioned, even in passing, in any of the   
   shows? So if that didn't happen, maybe Dodo didn't get the chop in Who   
   Killed Kennedy... But it's strange to mention Ben and Polly and yet   
   completely forget Dodo who would be in her 60s or so by the time of   
   this episode.   
      
   Ron   
      
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