Board Thread:The Reference Desk/@comment-27692948-20160613195853/@comment-188432-20160613210526

I kinda get where the person who wrote that is coming from. "Kate" tells Clara that they know about the Doctor's associates, and then she vaguely points in the direction of the bulletin board. So this editor is just assuming that anyone on the board is therefore another companion who has had the same treatment as Clara.

Problem is, a) we shouldn't be making such a big leap of faith without having something clearer in-frame or in-script and b) just because you have a picture of someone doesn't mean that you took it.

If you look carefully, you can see that Clara's pictures are bar-coded in a modern, 21st century way, and are of her alongside Kate at the Archives.

But older companions haven't had their pictures processed that way. It's exceptionally clear at one point that Nyssa's picture came from an old UNIT file, and that she's wearing her costume from around the time of Mawdryn Undead.

In fact, all of the "classic" companions have accompanying paperwork which uses older variants of the UNIT logo and none of which is marked classified in any way.

I think you'd have to reallllllly stretch to believe that a) every single companion is on the board and b) that they made it to the Black Archives.