Comments on: Sophia Myles returns as Madame de Pompadour?

By: Tom

Tom — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 10:34:09 +0000

@Professor Zed no, it just doesn't seem right. Anyway I thought the Teselecta was destroyed

By: Tom

Tom — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 10:32:15 +0000

no I really don’t think it will be madame de pompadour for a few reasons. First of all, as Vanessa said, we saw her funeral procession. obviously that could be overcome by the doctor but, would the doctor have the heart to travel with someone every day, knowing how they die, and wouldn’t she have mentioned it in her letter. Also, her life was a fixed point in time, it was made so in series 2 episode 4,the girl in the fireplace, when the clockwork robots were keeping her there until she was ready. obviously after the doctor defeated them they could have returned, but the King never mentioned her dissapearence. finally, I really don’t think Moffat would use a previously seen character. I think he will use someone new, or atleast someone who is very close to the Doctor

By: Vanessa

Vanessa — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 13:19:43 +0000

How would that work? Last we saw was her funeral procession leaving for Paris.

By: Liz

Liz — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 16:35:56 +0000

Really hope she does come back, because it was a really good episode (The Girl In The Fireplace) and I was upset that Reinette/Madame de Pompadour never returned. She is one of the most (in my opinion) influential women in French society. I followed her on twitter, as Steven encouraged us too. It may not be the same, without David, since they were in a relationship, but I would love to see her reaction with the new doctor, Matt Smith.

By: TSG

TSG — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 16:13:19 +0000

@Sharon Still fun to speculate, though! @Katie I agree - if we brought Sally Sparrow back, we'd be totally undermining the acceptance she found at the end of Blink of her new life with Larry.

By: Grace

Grace — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 05:36:14 +0000

Katie

I think we should have learned that with River Song. I think as great as she was, she made a better mystery.

By: Katie

Katie — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 16:19:20 +0000

I loved the episode but I think the character would be spoilt if brought back! Like Sally Sparrow, we got to see a bit of their character but you can have too much of a good thing!

By: Sharon

Sharon — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 12:09:58 +0000

So apparently Sophia is being tipped as the next companion because Steven Moffat urged people to follow her? Great big leap of logic there! You know considering Moffat is a fan of Sophia Myles anyway, its more then likely he’s just helping her up her follower count.

By: Grace

Grace — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 01:31:01 +0000

@Dwepic and JC

Thanks guys! For a minute I felt like the only person pointing out the obvious truth no one else wanted to hear!

And I do agree that she could very well be a relative of herself, but unfortunately it could not be a child of hers.

Perhaps the wisdom to use an actual character from history seemed novel at the time, but it also constricted what the limits for the character could be. You see Madame de Pompadour died at age forty two having no children. And as such she could hardly come back as her own descendant like Verity did.

By: Stormageddon

Stormageddon — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 22:06:10 +0000

@Dwepic Have to say I couldnt agree more !