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Who was the best companion?
If you leave out K-9, it's a tie between Leela and Romana II.
1) Leela. Leela was a refreshing change from the Doctor's previous shrieking and eeking companions. In most episodes she was the aggressor, always wanting to knife an enemy or blow them up. Although she wasn't very smart, sometimes her lack of intelligence came in handy, such as when the "contact has been made" intelligent virus failed to take her over because she was so dumb. What she lacked in brains she made up in looks, with her fashionable hunting leotard and steel blade.
2) Romana II. The first Romana was a tall, haughty brunette; the second Romana (played by an actress who later married Tom Baker) was shorter, blonde, and had a sense of humor, the last being a quality that had been missing in many of the Doctor's companions. As a fellow time lord she could also hold her own against adversaries. It was a sad day when she was left, to be replaced by Nyssa, Tegan et. al.
Who do you think was the best companion?
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Mark T. Burch
posts on 8/2/2009 10:38:08 PM
Wow. I thought I was the only one who liked Adric. I have heard though that he is very popular in Europe. People on the Continent pick up on the sexual sub-text a lot easier than puritanical Americans and Brits. I've had many a fine wank thinking about Adric. His unique combination of submissiveness and dominance was wildly seductive. No wonder the Doctor (Tom Baker) fell for him. Wish they had continued the sexual interplay and innuendo when Peter Davidson took over. He would have made a more credible bottom to Adric's top than Tom did. Something about the height difference was a little disturbing (or, perhaps, intriguing). The stupidest decision ever made during the whole history of the series was to get rid of Adric, especially in such a heartless way. I couldn't watch it anymore after that.
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Anonymous
posts on 3/31/2009 5:20:31 AM
best dr who companion? nyssa of course! I could kill for those eyes and if she was my slave, i would pamper her and my love for her would be genuine.
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Konstantin von Teichman
posts on 3/19/2009 7:06:50 AM
Really, the whole idea behind the companions was not all that good, and rarely improved the storylines of the series. I have to agree that Adric was an exception in many ways. The most interesting thing about him was that he had a past and a future. Everyone knew that he would end tragically. The actor was exceptionally right for the part, too, and is one of the only actors who played their role with true passion. Even without his sexuality, Adric was the only companion that had real human problems and feelings. The homosexuality was only a nucleus around which the crystal of his personality grew. However, Adric's character was not suited to the fifth doctor-- they were too similar in age and personality, so they competed instead of cooperating.
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Paul Kendall
posts on 9/18/2008 6:59:25 AM
Adric was in a class all of his own, and wasn't at all typical of the other companions, most of whom were simplistic and not very well developed. So I can see why a lot of people can't stand Adric. Especially if you take the homosexuality into account. For my part, I sorta liked him, precisely because his character was so complex. I don't think I go so far to say that I had a crush on him, though, as some of the other posters here write. More of a passing teenage fancy, really.
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Dan
posts on 8/8/2008 6:19:08 AM
Have to disagree about Leela being stupid, she was after all smart enough to be an atheist! It's just that she was only written properly by Boucher and Holmes. She was written very poorely by Martin and Baker (then again not many things aren't!!) but she was immune to the virus because of her blood as I recall.
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Kendall
posts on 6/30/2008 7:37:52 AM
It's a toss up between Adric and Jamie. Actually, I'd have to pick Adric, because he was cuter. Jamie was a bit of a pussy.
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The commentator Question Bot
posts on 4/29/2008 4:07:48 PM
I would have to go with Romana II, she is probably the only one I would do 69 with - provided she had shaved that day. She was totally smoking hot.
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Lars G.
posts on 4/25/2008 10:50:23 AM
Adric without a doubt. I know some people didn't like the fact that he was openly gay, but that is the main thing I liked about him. It made him the only real human companion. The rest were crap, especially the female companions. Well, maybe Leela.
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James Vale
posts on 10/30/2007 5:15:43 AM
Adric sure seems to be liked around here. I always thought that most people hated him. For my part, I liked him a lot, for the very reason that he was openly gay. For gays growing up in the 80s, Adric was one of the few TV personalities that they could identify with. I also like Sarah, but not Leela. She was the most boring companion beside K-9.
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Joseph Johansson
posts on 10/20/2007 7:46:54 AM
The female companions were sometimes nice to look at, but were uniformly bland and rarely made up an essential component of the story line. Concept-wise, the best was Leela. But her part was terribly underwritten. Of the male companions, Adric was by far the best, although Jamie and Turlough were interesting in a way, too. As always, their parts were underwritten. Adric's homosexuality made the stories he was in more intimate and interesting.
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Harvey K.
posts on 10/16/2007 7:01:08 PM
Adric. Without a doubt. The ONLY believable companion in the history of the whole show, and I've seen just about all of them. So what if he was gay. I didn't mind when I was a teenager watching him for the first time. In fact, it's one of the many things that made him so gosh darn interesting.
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The commentator purple pie pete
posts on 9/2/2007 9:12:32 PM
Sack Freema and hire Carey Mulligan!!!
The girl from the 'Blink' episode.
Looks like Jo Grant...
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Ike
posts on 8/24/2007 9:13:19 AM
Adric almost slipped my mind, in spite of the fact that I really liked him as a teenager. I have to agree that there was something strangely seducing about him. He's probably the only guy that I ever felt anything sexual for. Reading through the other posts, I have to agree that the episodes with Adric and Tom Baker were groundbreaking as far as sexual tolerance is concerned. I didn't like Leela and Romana II, though. In fact, none of the female companions ever appealed to me, and they mostly detracted from the series. In all fairness, so did most of the male companions. Adric was a rare exception.
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Dunstan Thorogoode
posts on 6/30/2007 9:40:52 AM
Adric. I'm sort of surprised that many of the posters here feel the same way. Usually I here guys complaining about him, especially about his open homosexuality. This site is a refreshing change. I think the episodes with Adric and the fourth doctor were the first time in television history that gay love was portrayed in a sympathetic fashion. Matthew Waterhouse was also really talented in that he was able to play the role so well. I's also surprised that so many of the male posters here confess to having had a crush on Adric. I did, too. He was hot. Have to agree about the costume and haircut- they were awful. Have to disagree about Leela, though. Great concept, great actress, but some of the lousiest writing in the whole series.
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Anonymous
posts on 4/24/2007 12:51:10 PM
I'm glad to see that I am not the only big fan of Adric. The episodes with Adric and the fourth Doctor are the best of the whole series.
The homosexual attraction between them was very daring for its time, and I'm surprised that even twenty years later, we still haven't seen such a mature and sympathetic treatment of the subject.
I used to think it a little weird that the writers decided to make Adric the top and the Doctor the bottom, but now I realize that this was a brilliant move.
The relationship was a lot more natural, credible, and fascinating than, say, the cliche, pastiche and clumsily portrayed affair between Bruce Wayne and Dick Grayson, in which Bruce came off looking like a dirty old sugar daddy, and Dick came off looking like a spoiled, conniving rent boy.
There was something noble and sublime about Adric and the Doctor, and something cheap and icky between Batman and Robin. With Adric and the Doctor, love was the most important thing, and the writers cleverly used sex to emphasize how strong, deep and eternal their love was for each other.
Even though I'm straight, I remember having a serious crush on Adric myself. It's uncanny that many guys, especially straight guys like me, fell hopelessly in love with Adric, but that so few girls even noticed him and barely remember him at all. There was something eerily seductive about him, something that lowered your defenses and compelled you to totally submit to him.
Whatever it was, it was not those ugly banana-yellow pajamas they made him wear or the silly salad-bowl haircut they gave him. I know the budget was tight, but they had no right to humiliate poor Matthew like that. It's a testimony to his in-born acting ability that he managed to shine in spite of these handicaps.
Great chemistry between him and Tom Baker, too bad that it didn't work as well with Peter Davison. I have to blame the writers for throwing away what would turn out to be the best companion in the whole series.
But then, they sort of did the same with Leela, too. She was another wasted companion. I loved her to death, but the writers did such a bad job with her part, and the director treated her so much like a circus freak, that I wince now when I rewatch the episodes with her.
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Planet Strange
posts on 4/13/2007 12:29:55 AM
The Keeper of Traken was a good second-to-last episode. As to Adric being homosexual...I don't think it's a factor, anyway; it's a sci-fi show, not a soap opera. But, at any rate, I kind of liked Adric; he was the only companion who was from a whole other universe (plus he's named after Paul Dirac)
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Juanito
posts on 4/12/2007 12:51:51 PM
Adric was best of corse. He was funny and serrios at same time. I was very much liking him. It was sad he was die. He was my favrite gay actor from Ingland. I think he was best companion of all the time. I never forget him. He was very much loving Doctor, and Doctor was very much him loving also. This was a true love such like Romio and Julieta. Fifeth Doctor no very much him liking, this was very much wrong, and I was wishing Fourth Doctor will coming back to Adric but then Adric was sudenly die. Keeper of Traken is best segment of all the time of all the segmentes.
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Thorben Gjelstrup
posts on 4/9/2007 7:35:59 PM
Sorry, Matt, but Pool and Adrian are right. If you showed "Keeper of Traken" to an audience in Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Germany or Holland, and then asked the audience what they saw, they would say it was a romantic gay love story. And a very sweet and touching one at that. (Stupid Finnish people think it's gay porn). The first ten minutes of the episode when Adric and the Doctor are alone in the Tardis is especially homoerotic. Adric is a gay hero on the continent. He and Tom Bakers Doctor are the best know DW characters by far. There are two boys in my class named Adric. Everybody loves Adric here, whether they are gay or straight, young or old. I am angry my parents didn't name me Adric, too. He was the sexiest English that ever lived. And I'm hetero, by the way.
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The commentator Matt Newham
posts on 3/28/2007 9:01:57 PM
Any suggestion that Adric and the Doctor had any form of gay relationship is utter rubbish. The Doctor never had any such relationships with any of his companions (although some would suggest that Tegan may have been an exception) until Rose was created for the new series. Back in the early 1980's any such suggestion of homosexual activity in a show aimed at children and family's would have had severe repercussions. Why have we not heard such a suggestion before? Because it is the product of nothing more than a hyperactive (and perhaps rather bored) imagination!
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anon213
posts on 2/2/2007 5:24:41 PM
The romans was released on video alond with The Rescue, The tenth Planet was released in a limited edition set with Attack of the Cybermen, try Amazon marketplace, thats where I got Romans and you can also get Tenth planet
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