Seventh Doctor and Companions...
The Seventh Doctor Portrayed by Sylvester McCoy
Appearances: 12 (Time and the Rani - Survival)
Grade: C
The Seventh incarnation of the Doctor, nicknamed the "sad clown", comes across as an easy-going yet mysterious figure. He appears a simple man with simple tastes; he likes the circus, he enjoys playing with spoons, and he hates burnt toast. He is a showman and often plays the part of a buffoon, and he is adept at performing magic tricks. However, underneath his affable personality lies a more cynical and serious persona. The Seventh Doctor at heart is a dark figure, with a questionable past and an unclear future. He has a calculating and analytical mind, and he often treats the people around him as pawns, small pieces to be moved and manipulated to serve a greater purpose. He is a master tactician with schemes so Machiavellian that sometimes even his own companions feel uneasy placing their trust in him.
The Seventh Doctor is known for his panama hat and his question mark shaped umbrella. He regenerates into his eighth incarnation in the Doctor Who TV movie after a physician accidentally kills him, unaware he isn't physiologically human. The Seventh Doctor represents the last doctor from the classic series.
Notable Quotes: "That's right, you're going. You've been gone for ages. You're already gone. You're still here. You've just arrived. I haven't even met you yet. It all depends on who you are and how you look at it. Strange business, time."
"There are worlds out there where the sky is burning, and the sea's asleep, and the rivers dream; people made of smoke and cities made of song. Somewhere there's danger, somewhere there's injustice, and somewhere else the tea's getting cold. Come on, Ace. We've got work to do."
Melanie Bush
Appearances: 6 (Trial of a Time Lord: Terror of the Vervoids - Dragonfire)
Grade: F
Mel is a computer programmer from Pease Pottage. She is an avid health enthusiast with a photographic memory and is an incorrigible optimist.
The character of Mel is 100% cardboard. She is embarrassingly underwritten and appears little more than some hastily written background notes, a pathetic attempt by the writers to give her personality depth. Mel is never seen actually using her programming skills or her eidetic memory (they are mentioned only in passing), and her interest in health and exercise disappears after her first story. Most of her screen time involves her screaming or running about through corridors, especially in Time and the Rani and Paradise Towers. Considering how often her life is in jeopardy, her unflappably cheery disposition comes off as ridiculous at times and downright annoying at others; it's as if she believes a smile on her face and a song in her heart will somehow whisk the evil monsters away. Mel decides to leave the Doctor and travel with intergalactic con-artist Sabalom Glitz at the end of Dragonfire.
Mel is the only companion never to have had her first adventure with the Doctor chronicled on-screen.
Grade: F
Mel is a computer programmer from Pease Pottage. She is an avid health enthusiast with a photographic memory and is an incorrigible optimist.
The character of Mel is 100% cardboard. She is embarrassingly underwritten and appears little more than some hastily written background notes, a pathetic attempt by the writers to give her personality depth. Mel is never seen actually using her programming skills or her eidetic memory (they are mentioned only in passing), and her interest in health and exercise disappears after her first story. Most of her screen time involves her screaming or running about through corridors, especially in Time and the Rani and Paradise Towers. Considering how often her life is in jeopardy, her unflappably cheery disposition comes off as ridiculous at times and downright annoying at others; it's as if she believes a smile on her face and a song in her heart will somehow whisk the evil monsters away. Mel decides to leave the Doctor and travel with intergalactic con-artist Sabalom Glitz at the end of Dragonfire.
Mel is the only companion never to have had her first adventure with the Doctor chronicled on-screen.
Ace
Appearances: 9 (Dragon Fire - Survival)
Grade: A-
Ace is a young girl with a troubled past that the Doctor takes under his wing. Although outwardly tough with a hardened street-wise exterior, Ace is insecure and fearful, finding it difficult to confront and move past her unhappy childhood. She hated her mother, blew up her art classroom, and once set fire to an old Victorian home. When she turned 16, inexplicably a time storm formed and swept her away (later it is explained that this is caused by the ancient sentient being Fenric) many years into the future onto the planet Svartos. She managed to procure a job as a waitress, and it is there she meets and joins company with the Doctor.
Although she failed her high school chemistry courses, Ace enjoys playing with explosives, and she makes her own brand called Nitro-9 which she stores in deodorant cans in her backpack. She affectionately names the Doctor "Professor", whom in turn seems to take a special interest in her education. However, as the Seventh Doctor becomes darker and more manipulative of the people around him their relationship does become strained at times.
As the show was cancelled after its 26th season and at the beginning of the Doctor Who movie the Doctor is traveling alone, what happens to Ace is open to debate.
Notable Quotes: "Do you feel like arguing with a can of deodorant that registers nine on the Richter scale?"
Grade: A-
Ace is a young girl with a troubled past that the Doctor takes under his wing. Although outwardly tough with a hardened street-wise exterior, Ace is insecure and fearful, finding it difficult to confront and move past her unhappy childhood. She hated her mother, blew up her art classroom, and once set fire to an old Victorian home. When she turned 16, inexplicably a time storm formed and swept her away (later it is explained that this is caused by the ancient sentient being Fenric) many years into the future onto the planet Svartos. She managed to procure a job as a waitress, and it is there she meets and joins company with the Doctor.
Although she failed her high school chemistry courses, Ace enjoys playing with explosives, and she makes her own brand called Nitro-9 which she stores in deodorant cans in her backpack. She affectionately names the Doctor "Professor", whom in turn seems to take a special interest in her education. However, as the Seventh Doctor becomes darker and more manipulative of the people around him their relationship does become strained at times.
As the show was cancelled after its 26th season and at the beginning of the Doctor Who movie the Doctor is traveling alone, what happens to Ace is open to debate.
Notable Quotes: "Do you feel like arguing with a can of deodorant that registers nine on the Richter scale?"