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From: demillo@uwmacc.UUCP (Rob DeMillo)
Newsgroups: net.tv.drwho
Subject: Re: Nyssa was indeed a companion !!!
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Date: Thu, 11-Apr-85 18:22:42 EST
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Posted: Thu Apr 11 18:22:42 1985
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Here we go with the "Nyssa" bit again. I know I started it last time,
and I shouldn't be responding to this article for the sake of not
rehashing old ground...but you know how it is, you see something
that just HAS to make you respond...for instance:

Jim Hatfield writes:


> I take personal objection to Mr. Kupperman's assertion that 
> 	"Nyssa wasn't a companion".
> 
> She was in 13 stories spanning 3 seasons and 2 doctors 
> ("Keeper of Traken" to "Terminus").
> 
> Just because there were other companions in the same period 
> does not detract from her importance and her contribution !

Um, Jim, I don't think that's what Mr. Kupperman was referring to...

> 
> Nyssa combined intelligence, level-headed rationality, and great beauty (!!!)
> to be one of the few 'companions' that could understand the Doctor
> and even the operation of the Tardis itself.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA...
hehehehe...
...I'm sorry, I just couldn't help myself...

Doctor: "Stay in the TARDIS Nyssa"
Nyssa: "Well,OK..."

Monster: "Boo!"
Nyssa: "Shreak!"

etc
etc
etc

> 
> Let's not diminish the contributions of any other 'companions'.
> Each person/entity/being that appeared in "DR. WHO" hadho something unique
> to contribute.

Well, a good deal of them...

> ---
>   Jim Hatfield      AT&T Information Systems Laboratories - Denver
>                     UUCP:   {ihnp4}!druxi!jhat 

Sorry, I usually try to be more diplomatic when taking an opposing
viewpoint with someone, but the whole "Nyssa" thing is, and always
will be, an annoying target. I STILL maintain, that the only reason
she was liked was for her cute bod...she was a ridiculous character
that totally demeaned women in a poorly acted fashion...

...there! I had my say again, again....


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                           --- Rob DeMillo 
                               Madison Academic Computer Center
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