Classic Doctor Who Companions Tegan & Ace Return in New Image

Classic Doctor Who Companions Tegan & Ace Return in New Image

Tegan Jovanka was an Australian air hostess who stumbled into the Fourth Doctor’s TARDIS – but is best known for traveling with Fifth Doctor Peter Davison. She’s generally viewed as one of the most iconic companions of the 1980s, noted for her boldness and forthright manner. In 2020, Russell T. Davies penned a short story in honor of Elisabeth Sladen’s Sarah Jane Smith, and it confirmed a fan theory that Tegan and her fellow companion Nyssa became a lesbian couple. While it’s true Doctor Who has never had much of a sense of continuity, and tie-ins are of dubious canonicity, hopefully Chibnall’s Centenary Special will honor this.
Sophia Aldred’s Ace was the last companion of the classic era, working alongside Sylvester McCoy’s Seventh Doctor. She’s possibly the most important companion because she was the first to effectively become a co-star alongside the Doctor; she was a mystery for him to solve, a teenager who had been transported to a distant world by a time storm, planted there for the Doctor to discover by an enemy named Fenric. Her story came to an abrupt end in the 1989 episode “Survival” when Doctor Who was canceled, and tie-ins have shown her life take many different routes from there – leading many fans to rationalize them by suggesting the Seventh Doctor messed up her timeline so much there’s no degree of consistency. It will be particularly interesting to see Ace’s Doctor Who story continued on-screen.

Source: BBC

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Classic Doctor Who Companions Tegan & Ace Return in New Image

Tegan Jovanka was an Australian air hostess who stumbled into the Fourth Doctor’s TARDIS – but is best known for traveling with Fifth Doctor Peter Davison. She’s generally viewed as one of the most iconic companions of the 1980s, noted for her boldness and forthright manner. In 2020, Russell T. Davies penned a short story in honor of Elisabeth Sladen’s Sarah Jane Smith, and it confirmed a fan theory that Tegan and her fellow companion Nyssa became a lesbian couple. While it’s true Doctor Who has never had much of a sense of continuity, and tie-ins are of dubious canonicity, hopefully Chibnall’s Centenary Special will honor this.
Sophia Aldred’s Ace was the last companion of the classic era, working alongside Sylvester McCoy’s Seventh Doctor. She’s possibly the most important companion because she was the first to effectively become a co-star alongside the Doctor; she was a mystery for him to solve, a teenager who had been transported to a distant world by a time storm, planted there for the Doctor to discover by an enemy named Fenric. Her story came to an abrupt end in the 1989 episode “Survival” when Doctor Who was canceled, and tie-ins have shown her life take many different routes from there – leading many fans to rationalize them by suggesting the Seventh Doctor messed up her timeline so much there’s no degree of consistency. It will be particularly interesting to see Ace’s Doctor Who story continued on-screen.

Source: BBC

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