Thread:Turtle365/@comment-15395126-20150605183559/@comment-27270572-20150609061927

In script form Listen was around 70 pages long but that was in PDF form and that sort of platform usually takes up a lot more space than Word documents. Series 6 was one of my favourite series due to the arc heavy nature of the season with everything being examined throughout and some brilliant reveals like in The Almost People at the end and throughout A Good Man Goes To War.

I can agree that age doesn't matter with Capaldi having a brilliant sense of humour and with an older Doctor comes a darker series with dark humour which I really like, shows like Fargo and Breaking Bad are perfect examples of dark humour being used.

Series 6 suffered from 6B not being as closely connected as 6A was and there were some fairly lackluster episodes towards the end of the season. From this I would suggest spreading out the best story ideas throughout the season instead of clumping them all at the start.

An adolescent companion could be an interesting choice but the show seems to have a reputation for poor child actors and poor writing of those who are younger and teens in particular. Of course a much younger companion than before would obviously have to be written realistically with them needing constant reassurance and there sense of wonder which I think is very hard to write for. A companion who does get on the bad side of the Doctor perhaps acting as a minor antagonist in the story but then warming to the Doctor could be a very interesting storyline as it would show character development for the companion within their first story and it would allow the Doctor to react in a number of possible ways.

Having a plan set for the Doctor until the 16th incarnation is very good, and I am hopeless with choosing new Doctor's for my own fanon series. That should allow plans for a good number of seasons so there is no real worry of thinking up too many personalities. Each Doctor normally has some sort of humour even the War Doctor and he had been fighting in the Time War for a long time as shown by his change of face throughout incarnation. So try to factor that in as it would allow readers to connect better with a Doctor who has a bit of humour. You do not want to write a completely dark and humourless Doctor as it would be hard to connect them. Have you decided on a personality for your next few Doctor's?