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Post by Mario Di Giacomo on Oct 25, 2008 15:06:57 GMT -8
Given the revelation of who empowers him? Unlikely, unless Bendis goes for a face turn (which basically throws away the entire concept of the character).
I'm betting it'll be a female character. That's the trend these days, no?
(although I liked the idea of Brother Voodoo getting the nod)
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Post by michaelpaciocco on Oct 25, 2008 15:15:48 GMT -8
Clea maybe? Or Mordo?
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Post by Mario Di Giacomo on Oct 25, 2008 16:14:22 GMT -8
Possibly. Or maybe they'll bring Topaz out of limbo (Jennifer Kale is tied up in Marvel Zombies at the moment).
The worst choice, of course, is the obvious one:
Wanda Maximoff.
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Post by K-Box on Oct 25, 2008 18:46:51 GMT -8
Given the revelation of who empowers him? Unlikely, unless Bendis goes for a face turn (which basically throws away the entire concept of the character). The entire concept of the character was that he was a street-level thug-for-hire who suddenly got B-level powers - basically, an evil Peter Parker - and Bendis turned him into a Canon Marty Stu Arch-Villain who was omniscient and omnipotent enough to organize every criminal in NYC, super or not, against the Avengers. The damage has already been done. Why would Bendis slow down now? |
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Post by lostphrack on Oct 25, 2008 20:40:42 GMT -8
Given the revelation of who empowers him? Unlikely, unless Bendis goes for a face turn (which basically throws away the entire concept of the character). See, that's why I actually think he might be it. Yeah, yeah, there's the whole "servant of the Vishanti" thingy tied to the being the SS, but Strange has kicked them to the curb before and kept the mantle, plus it's not like details of the MU's magic has really mattered much to Bendis in the past. |
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Post by jensaltmann on Oct 26, 2008 0:33:51 GMT -8
And it's not as if Bendis has ever shown any regard to continuity, characterization or consistency, even in characters he himself created or continuity he himself established.
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Post by Mario Di Giacomo on Oct 26, 2008 16:05:41 GMT -8
The damage has already been done. Why would Bendis slow down now? Because he's not a pet character from the 1970's? |
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Post by michaelpaciocco on Oct 26, 2008 16:41:50 GMT -8
Yeah, but he's still a pet, the same way Jessica Jones is.
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Post by paulpogue on Nov 8, 2008 14:58:26 GMT -8
While everyone's thinking about the next Doctor Who, let's not forget the all-important question of the next Companion. Some opening odds:
Sally Sparrow: 15 percent. She hit it off with fandom right away, and Moffat's taking over. I don't pin her as very likely, but she's certainly within the realm of possibility.
River Song: 5 percent. I don't think she was ever intended for full-time companion status, even when they thought Tennant was going to be on the game for a few more years. Everything we saw indicated that River and the Doctor met many times, but it wasn't in relative chronological order, to the point that they had a system to figure out where in their respective timelines they were at. The odds go down even further when you consider Tennant leaving -- although do consider that nothing River Son said ever actually precluded "her" Doctor being just Ten. (The one hint is "you looked older last time I saw you," which has a lot of wiggle room there.)
Sarah Jane Smith: 25 percent. Just because she didn't make the last-reel appearance in "Journey's End" doesn't mean she might not appear later on down the road. And in fact, the old tradition of the "transitional companion" is even MORE important now -- at the rate things are going, we'll be going into Series Five with a brand-new Doctor, brand-new writer, AND a brand-new sidekick, which will probably make the BBC brass extremely nervous. And who better for Transitional Companion than the greatest of them all?
Some other Transition Companion: 9 percent. I don't think any of the current run of companions will be coming back -- Billie Piper seems disinterested in the whole thing, and Freema Agyeman has her plate pretty damn full at the moment. I have a hard time imagining one of the pre-Davies companions, save for Sarah Jane, making any kind of return. Although Ace would be fun. Now, all that said ...
Donna Noble: 1 percent. This seems very, very, very unlikely to me, but given the weirdness going on -- and the increasing likelihood that she's going to be making one last appearance for the changeover -- I wouldn't completely rule her out. Yeah, there was all that talk that she was going to do one-and-out, and some talk of tension between her and the production crew, but that could have all been cover.
Someone brand-new: 45 percent. Mostly because I can't think of anything else.
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Post by paulpogue on Nov 8, 2008 15:50:21 GMT -8
P.S.:
My additional oddsmaking for the Series 5 Doctor:
David Tennant: 2 percent. I'm not going to absolutely rule out the possibility that this is an extremely high-stakes gamble on his part to get what he wants from the BBC -- which, according to some reports, includes higher salary, a Who film, and another interregnum in 2011. (I don't know which was the bigger deal-breaker -- the pay hike, or the interregnum. One off-year is already unheard of -- a second would be bordering on the ridiculous.) But deep down, I just have a hard time imagining that Tennant is really, honest-to-god through with the role.
And if he really is, it makes me wonder if there are people in BBC right now who are very, very angry about the '09 interregnum, which was seemingly put in place for his benefit, only to have him jump ship right after. It's probably not a bad idea in any event -- Whomania will have a very hard time topping the peak reached in the week after "The Stolen Earth", so some time off is good -- but it still probably has some people smacking their foreheads in retrospect.
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Post by K-Box on Nov 8, 2008 16:23:35 GMT -8
I'd rank the likelihood of Sally Sparrow well below that of River Song, because Sally Sparrow's entire character arc is done - she's with Larry Nightingale now, As A Couple, and the ONLY reason she was popular was because the Rosefen hated Martha so much that they would have welcomed ANY young blonde who could have replaced her (seriously, EVERY SINGLE SALLY SPARROW FAN I've seen online fits this description).
Also, while I once harbored this misconception as well, it should be noted that, even way back when, when everyone was pretty sure David Tennant was coming back for S5, the BBC was going out of its way to say, "No, this gap year is to aid the transition between Steven Moffat and Russell T. Davies, NOT to accommodate David Tennant."
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Post by paulpogue on Nov 30, 2008 5:37:56 GMT -8
While everyone's thinking about the next Doctor Who, let's not forget the all-important question of the next Companion. Some opening odds: I'm going to crank Sally Sparrow down to 5 percent, for all the reasons Kirk mentioned (though I don't entirely discount her) and dial Martha Jones back up to 15 percent. I don't really know why; just an instinct that she's a character that, in the right hands, could be done so well, and now that she's over her Doctor-crush and has experience as a doctor and soldier (not to mention the Year That Never War), it's easy enough to hit the reset button on all that "Rebound Girl" madness and give the character her proper due. Also, my original reason for not thinking she was high up there was because she's so busy right now, with Torchwood and Law & Order, but BBC filming schedules are odd things, and she could be done with both (probably already IS done with both) long before it was time for Who. Moffat only wrote Martha for a period of about two minutes, but I can certainly see him feeling that she needs some proper treatment from the writers for once. And with Donna, the team has shown they can write a whole season of Nu-Who without any romantic overtones. |
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