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Yeah, that would have definetly worked. Prolonging the interval between her meeting the Doctor could have worked if done right, but the plot would have had to be more complicated. She wouldn't have been able to kill him with just the lipstick, but they'd have to come up with something along the lines of she needs to gain more information on him first, or something like that. Just introducing her in ''The Eleventh Hour'' would have been much better though. Alternatively, they could have done the same kind of thing as with Turlough, where she keeps trying to kill him but changing her mind or missing the opportunity, though I'm not sure if they could have teally made that work.[[User:Icecreamdif|Icecreamdif]] 02:03, September 6, 2011 (UTC) | Yeah, that would have definetly worked. Prolonging the interval between her meeting the Doctor could have worked if done right, but the plot would have had to be more complicated. She wouldn't have been able to kill him with just the lipstick, but they'd have to come up with something along the lines of she needs to gain more information on him first, or something like that. Just introducing her in ''The Eleventh Hour'' would have been much better though. Alternatively, they could have done the same kind of thing as with Turlough, where she keeps trying to kill him but changing her mind or missing the opportunity, though I'm not sure if they could have teally made that work.[[User:Icecreamdif|Icecreamdif]] 02:03, September 6, 2011 (UTC) | ||
I don't think they really made it work the first time around. Turlough isn't exactly the most popular companion in history. (There's a reason we didn't see another male companion until Adam in 2005, or a full-time one until Rory in 2011. Although of course Turlough's predecessor deserves as much blame for that as him…) In an interview, Moffat called the Turlough/Black Guardian story arc a low point in what was otherwise the best era of the series, and went on to use it as an example of how not to do a long-running arc. ("The same scene over and over every week is not an arc. And if you must do the same thing over and over, don't have a character call attention to it by constantly growling, 'This time you must do it!'") Personally, I don't think it was nearly as bad as that, and it did set up for some interesting later development in the 5-Turlough and Tegan-Turlough relationships, but I don't see Moffat taking any pointers from it…--[[Special:Contributions/173.228.85.35|173.228.85.35]] 04:25, September 6, 2011 (UTC) | |||
