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« on: March 11, 2012, 03:49:23 pm » |
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Susan Foreman was the Doctor's granddaughter. After landing on Earth for repairs to the TARDIS, Susan enrolled at Coal Hill School in Shoreditch where her advanced knowledge of history and science attract the attention of schoolteachers Barbara and Ian. Attempting to solve the mystery of the "unearthly child," Ian and Barbara follow Susan back to the junkyard, where they hear her voice coming from what appears to be a police box. When they investigate further, they discover that the police box exterior hides the much larger interior of the TARDIS, and are whisked away on an adventure in time and space with the Doctor and Susan, against their will. Susan continued to travel with the Doctor and her two teachers until the 1964 serial, The Dalek Invasion of Earth. During the events of that story, Susan falls in love with David Campbell, a young freedom fighter in the 22nd century. However, Susan feels that she has to stay with and take care of her grandfather. The Doctor, realizing that Susan is now a grown woman and deserves a future away from him, locks her out of the TARDIS and leaves after a tearful farewell. Susan displayed less knowledge about the workings of the TARDIS than her grandfather and was even naive to dangers that existed on the planets they visited. Also while she showed knowledge beyond earth science she did not display the advanced knowledge that was seen in other people of Gallifrey. Although it has never been explicitly established whether she can regenerate (though it is usually assumed that she can), she does display telepathic ability on occasion.
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« Reply #1 on: March 12, 2012, 04:41:46 pm » |
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In this episode you could really believe that Susan was 'alien' but after this story there were only a few times when they got that feeling back. For the most part she just seemed like any other girl, which I think is a shame.
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« Reply #2 on: March 12, 2012, 08:11:44 pm » |
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This is one of the rare occassions where Susan doesn't annoy me. I think in the first story she started off great but she became boring anf screechy the longer she stayed in the show and there didn't seem to be any change coming for the character, so I think Carole Ann Ford probably did right thing to move on. She played it all well enough but she just wasn't given good stuff to work with.
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« Reply #3 on: March 12, 2012, 11:35:38 pm » |
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I really like Susan. As a character I think she had so much potential, but unfortunately most of it was unrealised. They've gone a ways to rectifying that in the audios but in the series she was very much overlooked in favour of everyone else.
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« Reply #4 on: March 13, 2012, 05:56:52 pm » |
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Aside from essentiall luring Ian and Barbara to the scrap yard I see very little point to Susans character. That isn't to say I don't like her, I just think she was wasted. There was so much they could have done with her. So much potential for the character. Unfortunately for most of the stories her being there made little to no difference at all.
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« Reply #5 on: March 13, 2012, 11:58:03 pm » |
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I thought Susan was great. I agree she could have been better and there was a lot of room for development, but just going by what we got i thought she was fine. Not the best companion but definately a good one.
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« Reply #6 on: March 14, 2012, 03:15:19 pm » |
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I thought Susan was great. I agree she could have been better and there was a lot of room for development, but just going by what we got i thought she was fine. Not the best companion but definately a good one.
This pretty much says what I was thinking. I can totally understand why CAF wanted out of the role. It must have been really frustrating coming in each week, screaming a few times, falling over, getting rescued then going home. Not exactly the meatiest of roles.
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« Reply #7 on: March 14, 2012, 10:40:22 pm » |
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I like Susan. I think the main problem was that she was written very inconsistently, sometimes as a maturing young adult, sometimes as a clinging kid. Overall, there was a progression in her character (seen especially in The Sensorites and The Dalek Invasion of Earth) but it wasn't a consistent one.
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