Quote: sootyj @ September 9 2012, 12:22 PM BSTNo they weren't and if that isn't obvious its going to be hard to explain the subtleties.
But I'll make the effort.
They're separate characters with agendas and role (and you missed out Rory's excellent dad). They're individuality affects the plot (Nefertiti insists on being sacrificed). And they have arcs (the hunter is chastened by the death of the dino) nothing huge, nothing major just the kind of neat plotting a good series can do.
Where as Joe seemed to spend years going eek and asking whats that?
Character arc's, oh please spare me the GCSE Media studies tutorial. These characters were thin, incidental and simply muddied a plot line that could have been resolved far more simply by a little care and attention to plot line..
K9 took on shakespearian proportions next to these two badly invisaged and poorly thought out characters..
APS