From Newsgroup: rec.arts.drwho.moderated
From Address: daibhidchenedelh@aol.com
Subject: Re: The Companion Roll Call

On 07 Oct 2012, "gerard.morvan"  wrote:

> "Ron"  a ocrit dans le message de news: 
> 85bcd9c9-3b73-442e-804c-abb2c5b2b872@googlegroups.com...
>>I just saw the Sarah Jane adventure, Death Of The Doctor, and found
>>myslf 
>> curious about the roll call of companions who were mentioned at the
>> end. I can understand why companions like Adric, Turlough, and
>> Bernice weren't mentioned-- even Peri-- but when SJ said there was a
>> Dorothy something running a charity it took me a moment to know that
>> she meant Ace. That was strange enough, but since she also mentioned
>> the Chestertons still being alive, I wondered what about the only
>> other human companion of the Doctor that didn't get mentioned, Dodo--
>> Dorothea Chaplet. She was around with both Ben & Polly, who also were
>> mentioned, but how is it Dodo gets no mention?
>>
>> Ron
>>
> Well, according to some spin-off novels, her fate was not the best.
> That might be the reason why she's not mentioned by Sarah Jane. Or
> it's entirely possible that our intrepid journalist didn't learn about
> her. 

Maybe it was just the way I saw it, but least part of the point of the 
Where Are They Now? stuff seemed to be to undo the horrible fates of 
companions in the spin-offs, most obviously with the statment that Liz 
(who died in the NAs while on a UNIT mission to the Moon in 2003) can't 
make it to the funeral because she's on UNIT's Moonbase. With this 
interpretation in mind, the failure to mention Dodo is even odder.


-- 
Dave
The problems in this world are not caused by those who love.
They're caused by those who hate.
--Arthur, King of Time and Space.

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