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28 April 2025
Peter Anghelides’ “Good Companions” is honestly a weird little story, it’s the one that features an unspecified future Doctor traveling with a companion called Anna, his housekeeper. This is a story that also is told through the framing of an older Tegan Jovanka, married and widowed, having written up this encounter in Good Companions. A lot of the appeal of this short story is the future Doctor, an incarnation entirely down to Anghelides who sadly feels a bit generic. Unlike say The Infinity Doctors or the Merlin Doctor, this Doctor is more a composite of other Doctor’s traits up to that point, though there’s certainly room for development since Anghelides does use this Doctor in multiple Short Trips. The big problem for me is actually the characterization of Tegan: she’s a bit too mellow in her old age that makes her feel more a generic companion, Anghelides not really reflecting on her exit in Resurrection of the Daleks or Adric’s death in Earthshock or the death of her Aunt Vanessa in Logopolis. It honestly feels like she could have been any female companion who was left on Earth, leaving “Good Companions” more “Meh Companions”. 5/10.
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