Day 148: The Underwater Menace Episode 4

We've come to the end of Jamie's first adventure in the TARDIS, so let's make a brief comment on how he's fitting into the TARDIS crew. To be brutally frank though, he isn't making that much of an impression. This is mostly due to his character not orginally being in the story, so he takes the role that would have been taken by Ben in the original script, meaning that both character's roles are effectively halved from what they would originally fulfil which draws to attention the fact that Jamie is perhaps a bit of a bad idea. I'm not saying that he won't amount to much, because he certainly will, it's just that the series is now running with two young male leads, and this is causing a bit of a problem as it means that the characters just don't really work well together. What we have is a crowded TARDIS, where we have three characters that writers have to figure out roles in the plot for, and that is possibly too much for the series to handle. What this means is that the series might have to lose a companion or two, and soon, if it wants to stay alive.