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From: nyssa@abnji.UUCP (nyssa of traken)
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Subject: Re: Old companions
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Date: Tue, 12-Nov-85 12:58:42 EST
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>I only have two quibbles with James' companion evaluation.  First, I'm 
>a female, and Leela's one of my favorite companions because of the way
>she interacted with Tom Baker.

I don't think that I passed any editorial judgement of companions
in my short description of companions posting ("Old Companions").
That I left for an earlier posting.  Should anyone be interested, I
can post my personal views of these companions from what I've seen,
as opposed to just the short descriptions.  

>Second, I don't think either of the
>Doctors were overly fond of Teegan, she seemed to be nothing but trouble.


She was nothing but trouble, true, but did you see how hurt the Doctor
was when she left at Butler's Wharf?  (Location for Ressurection)  How
he tries practically to woo her at the end of King's Demons?

>I use as evidence the episode in which she returns (I've forgotten the
>title of it) when she informs Nyssa and the Doctor that she has nowhere
>else to go so she would come back to them, Nyssa gets excited, but the
>Doctor rolls his eyes in apparent frustration.

The Doctor has always been a good humoured character!

>The only reason she was
>initially allowed to stay is that the doctor realized her aunt had been
>killed (by the master) and Tom Baker was the compassionate sort.

What is this "allowed to stay"?  The earliest time in which Tegan
could have been returned to earth after getting lost in the TARDIS
corridors was Timeflight.  The Doctor didn't know she was there until
they were off earth, and they didn't return with a competant Doctor
until then.

>But you
>may recall, that was the episode (Logopolis) where he goes into his "I
>NEVER choose my companions" tyrade.

Which was a ruse to mollify the companions upset at being "dumped" for
the Master.  Many companions the Doctor has chosen.  Most recent shown
here is Vicki.

-- 
James C. Armstrong, Jnr.	{ihnp4,cbosgd,akgua}!abnji!nyssa

"All these corridors look the same to me!"  Who said it, what story?