Game of Throne's Maisie Williams had the charisma to
be the Doctor’s new companion or his next enemy in Doctor Who, by Jim
Shelley
The Doctor said he didn’t but we sure as hell did.
It was Maisie Williams from Game of Thrones
in Doctor Who – a verifiable TV event, a geeks’ paradise although
whether it was a meeting of minds or a case of opposites attract only
they could say.
In
music, pairings like this – duets or supergroups - always seem like a
good idea/nirvana but in practice are invariably rubbish.
Crossing over: Game of Thrones star Maisie Williams made her debut in Saturday's Doctor Who
So
the appearance of the young star who plays Arya Stark in possibly the
only series on TV whose fans are more obsessed than GoT represented high
stakes for followers of both shows.
It
could have been a recipe for disaster and would have been if the script
by Jamie Mathieson and Steven Moffat had carried on making knowing
jokes about who she was.
Happily, it transpired Williams was perfectly cast and more than held her own in her scenes with the Doctor.
Related? Maisie's resemblance to Jenna
Coleman's Clare was striking - so much so that the Stark girl might be
even more appealing as the Time Lord’s ‘companion’: the perfect
replacement when Coleman leaves
In
fact there was a danger she would upstage poor Jenna Coleman as Clara –
so much so it struck you that the 18 year-old Stark girl might be even
more appealing as the Time Lord’s ‘companion’: the perfect replacement
when Coleman leaves.
With those big brown eyes she could have been not just Coleman’s heir but her younger sister.
Her storyline was in two parts with this episode ‘The Girl Who Died’ followed next week by ‘The Woman Who Lived.’
Predictably
Moffat was savvy enough not to take any chances and to play to both
parties’ strengths, meeting both shows in the middle with a plot that
saw some classic Doctor Who sci-fi monsters ‘The Mire’ (space warriors
from the future) colliding with the type of folklore fantasy Williams is
so familiar with (playing a Vikings’ village girl called Ashildr).
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