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From: wmartin@brl-tgr.ARPA (Will Martin )
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Subject: Re: Origin of Turlough and more on companions
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Date: Thu, 10-Jan-85 15:44:11 EST
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Posted: Thu Jan 10 15:44:11 1985
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Not until the episode Turlough left did I see any explanations as to
why he didn't act like an ordinary Earth person; then, of course, it was
revealed that he was from Trion (or something that sounded like that)
and was sent to British public school as an exile to the worst place
in the universe...

What I'm wondering is whether this level of confusion was the way
it was intended in the original British showing -- or were there
other, not in the show, sources of information, like in whatever the
British have instead of TV Guide, to explain this to the original
audience? Turlough's odd behavior spoiled my enjoyment of all the
intervening episodes; I kept wondering why he did what he did, or said
what he said, if he was a British schoolboy picked up as a tool by the
Black Guardian. 

And now for something completely different...

Which is better - Peri in a bikini or Nyssa in a slip?

(Turlough really bungled that bit -- when he took the Trionic device
out of Peri's plastic bag of clothes, he could have thrown away the
bag, so she would have had to remain in the bikini the rest of the episode...
Where is the Black Guardian when we really need Him?...)

Will

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