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From: brad@looking.UUCP (Brad Templeton)
Newsgroups: net.tv.drwho
Subject: Do we want to keep the current stars?
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Date: Mon, 7-Oct-85 00:57:43 EDT
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Posted: Mon Oct  7 00:57:43 1985
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Reply-To: brad@looking.UUCP (Brad Templeton)
Organization: Looking Glass Software Ltd. Waterloo, Ontario
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Summary: 

A recent poster commented that to save the Doctor we should lose
John Nathan-Turner and keep the current stars.

I am all for nuking JNT.  He should naver have been put in charge, and
in my mind he's responsible for the Davison debacle.

I like Colin Baker.  He's a good, although not the best, Doctor.

Perri (Nicola Bryant) is an average companion, and as such she should go.
She's not *really* bad like Adric, but she doesn't shine either, and right
now the show needs a bright new companion.

Of course, I wouldn't object if the show came back brand new and with lots
of money.  Imagine what it would be like to get Peter O'Toole as the Doctor.
He plays like the Doctor in his other movies, why net let him do it for
real?

Companions should have either likable or admirable traits.  Peri doesn't
do that well here.  Companions like Romana and Sarah were high-status
intelligent characters.  They were good.  Characters like Leela and Turlough
were people of action - they *did* things.  Jo was neither of these, but
so friendly that you liked her too.

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Brad Templeton, Looking Glass Software Ltd. - Waterloo, Ontario 519/884-7473