# DOCTOR WHO starring PETER CAPALDI and ....PEARL MACKIE **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 23, 2016, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doctor-who-starring-peter-capaldi-and-pearl-mackie/752921 "2016-04-23T18:20:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Don\_Draper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b2d939/32.png) [@Don\_Draper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_Draper)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2016, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doctor-who-starring-peter-capaldi-and-pearl-mackie/752921/1 "2016-04-23T18:20:32Z")
The Doctor officially has a new companion … actress Pearl Mackie joins Peter Capaldi as “Bill.” Yes, “Bill.” The [story](http://www.denofgeek.com/tv/doctor-who/40144/doctor-who-pearl-mackie-confirmed-as-new-companion) is here, complete with an introductory video of Capaldi and Mackie in character, to get a little taste of what she’s like. My first reaction was that “It’s Sharon” from the Doctor Who magazine comic strip. They are certainly going in a new direction, but at least she’s not another willowy, nubile, white-bread, just-barely-twenty-something bimbette (sorry Jenna, Karen and Billie, but if the stereotype fits…) This could be interesting. ---
**Author:** ![Cinnamon\_Imp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/58956e/32.png) [@Cinnamon\_Imp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cinnamon_Imp)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2016, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doctor-who-starring-peter-capaldi-and-pearl-mackie/752921/2 "2016-04-23T18:44:56Z")
> [@Don\_Draper](#): > > at least she’s not another willowy, nubile, white-bread, just-barely-twenty-something bimbette (sorry Jenna, Karen and Billie, but if the stereotype fits…) This could be interesting. I’m looking forward to seeing the fan-boys whining about that, and how SJWs have got their way with the casting 😉 I thought the dialogue was standard bolshie-young-female-companion writing that could have been spoken by any of the three above (or even Donna), and it didn’t really give me an idea of who she was or how their relationship will be beyond young woman and grumpy old man. When I first saw her, I thought for a split second she was the stroppy schoolgirl (Courtney?) from Coal Hill, but I think I read she’s in the spin-off “Class” instead. I look forward to seeing how things work out anyway - I’m pleased at the non-white casting, but otherwise she seems a standard cookie-cutter companion from the 2 minutes I’ve seen. Hope I’m wrong 😉 ---
**Author:** ![stegon66](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee59a6/32.png) [@stegon66](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stegon66)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2016, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doctor-who-starring-peter-capaldi-and-pearl-mackie/752921/3 "2016-04-23T20:01:15Z")
Too bad all we’re getting for the next year and a half or so is a Christmas special. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![bobkitty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c67d28/32.png) [@bobkitty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobkitty)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2016, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doctor-who-starring-peter-capaldi-and-pearl-mackie/752921/4 "2016-04-23T21:43:04Z")
I would have been happy with a log in a wig as the next companion; I am SO BURNT OUT on Clara. ---
**Author:** ![Declan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecae2f/32.png) [@Declan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Declan)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2016, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doctor-who-starring-peter-capaldi-and-pearl-mackie/752921/5 "2016-04-23T23:02:18Z")
> [@Cinnamon\_Imp](#): > > I’m looking forward to seeing the fan-boys whining about that, and how SJWs have got their way with the casting 😉 Concidering that they were thinking of casting that chick from East Enders, the SJW’s most certainly did not get their way. Declan ---
**Author:** ![Declan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecae2f/32.png) [@Declan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Declan)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2016, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doctor-who-starring-peter-capaldi-and-pearl-mackie/752921/6 "2016-04-23T23:05:48Z")
> [@Don\_Draper](#): > > They are certainly going in a new direction, but at least she’s not another willowy, nubile, white-bread, just-barely-twenty-something bimbette (sorry Jenna, Karen and Billie, but if the stereotype fits…) This could be interesting. Sorry , but I like that type. Not that I won’t watch who, obviously. But I hope she is only around for one season, before the show returns to form. Declan ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2016, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doctor-who-starring-peter-capaldi-and-pearl-mackie/752921/7 "2016-04-23T23:29:04Z")
> [@Cinnamon\_Imp](#): > > I thought the dialogue was standard bolshie-young-female-companion writing that could have been spoken by any of the three above (or even Donna), and it didn’t really give me an idea of who she was or how their relationship will be beyond young woman and grumpy old man. So another Martha Jones? ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2016, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doctor-who-starring-peter-capaldi-and-pearl-mackie/752921/8 "2016-04-24T02:15:49Z")
> [@Don\_Draper](#): > > They are certainly going in a new direction, but at least she’s not another willowy, nubile, white-bread, just-barely-twenty-something bimbette (sorry Jenna, Karen and Billie, but if the stereotype fits…) > [@Declan](#): > > Sorry , but I like that type. In the worlds of the immortal Sarah Jane Smith: _“You can tell you’re getting older, your assistants are getting younger.”_ 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Penfeather](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/penfeather/32/384_2.png) [@Penfeather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Penfeather)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2016, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doctor-who-starring-peter-capaldi-and-pearl-mackie/752921/9 "2016-04-24T02:29:43Z")
[TINFOIL]That’s a Purple Rain T-shirt.[/TINFOIL] ---
**Author:** ![Penfeather](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/penfeather/32/384_2.png) [@Penfeather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Penfeather)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2016, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doctor-who-starring-peter-capaldi-and-pearl-mackie/752921/10 "2016-04-24T02:35:55Z")
[See?](http://i.ebayimg.com/00/s/NjIxWDgyMg==/z/Sm0AAOSwstxVVCFc/%24_1.JPG) ---
**Author:** ![DSeid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dseid/32/20194_2.png) [@DSeid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSeid)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2016, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doctor-who-starring-peter-capaldi-and-pearl-mackie/752921/11 "2016-04-24T03:45:41Z")
> [@bobkitty](#): > > I would have been happy with a log in a wig as the next companion; I am SO BURNT OUT on Clara. There was [a campaign](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Y0dGHkAkIY) for that … we had hopes. But it looks like Ms. Mackie got the nod. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2016, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doctor-who-starring-peter-capaldi-and-pearl-mackie/752921/12 "2016-04-24T04:26:51Z")
She’s sarcastic and questioning everything like Donna, but still a young female 20-something. She may or may not be from a different time period, though, if 2017 is the future. Well, it’s the future for all of us right now, but not when the show returns. I dunno. There’s nothing about her that strikes me as new or interesting. I’m getting bored by the show now, and she’s not going to be what brings me back. ---
**Author:** ![Cinnamon\_Imp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/58956e/32.png) [@Cinnamon\_Imp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cinnamon_Imp)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2016, 9:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doctor-who-starring-peter-capaldi-and-pearl-mackie/752921/13 "2016-04-24T09:02:58Z")
> [@Declan](#): > > Concidering that they were thinking of casting that chick from East Enders, the SJW’s most certainly did not get their way. > > Declan Cite? ---
**Author:** ![Declan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecae2f/32.png) [@Declan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Declan)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2016, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doctor-who-starring-peter-capaldi-and-pearl-mackie/752921/14 "2016-04-25T22:19:54Z")
> [@Cinnamon\_Imp](#): > > Cite? yeah , give me a few moments to track it down on facebook, it should have at least the original link. Declan ---
**Author:** ![Lok](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e8c25b/32.png) [@Lok](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lok)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2016, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doctor-who-starring-peter-capaldi-and-pearl-mackie/752921/15 "2016-04-25T22:22:50Z")
> [@GuanoLad](#): > > She’s sarcastic and questioning everything like Donna, but still a young female 20-something. She may or may not be from a different time period, though, if 2017 is the future. Well, it’s the future for all of us right now, but not when the show returns. > > I dunno. There’s nothing about her that strikes me as new or interesting. I’m getting bored by the show now, and she’s not going to be what brings me back. I figured the 2017 being the future bit was because they had done something like traveled to the past, and they needed to get back to the present day (for when the episode airs). ---
**Author:** ![Declan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecae2f/32.png) [@Declan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Declan)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2016, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doctor-who-starring-peter-capaldi-and-pearl-mackie/752921/16 "2016-04-25T22:26:14Z")
> [@Cinnamon\_Imp](#): > > Cite? [could-ex-eastender-rakhee-thakrar-join-doctor-who-as-the-new-companion](http://www.radiotimes.com/news/2016-02-29/could-ex-eastender-rakhee-thakrar-join-doctor-who-as-the-new-companion) Well, that was easy. Declan