Shocking confession

[Starkers]

Ok, I need to get this off my chest, need to make you all hate me.

Thing is, I've been watching a lot of late Baker and early Davison lately, and something has struck me, an epihany if you will.

Adric really isn't that bad...

I'll understand if people want me to leave the board now

 

[Bob The Skutter]

Granted I never saw them as they aired, and I've only seen a few of the DVDs, but Adric never seemed that bad to me. OK a little smug, but he's that kinda character so what else is he going to be?

 

[Piper]

Watching as a kid I didn't use to mind him at all. However, watching now the fact he's a whinging character played by a less-than-stellar actor means I have to go with the majority view on the Alzarian...

 

[Timofnine]

He is very bad. Wold you watch an episode with him in infront of your partner or parents? I wouldnt!

 

[ITL]

Ok, I need to get this off my chest, need to make you all hate me.

Thing is, I've been watching a lot of late Baker and early Davison lately, and something has struck me, an epihany if you will.

Adric really isn't that bad...

I'll understand if people want me to leave the board now

Get out. Get out now.

Mind you, that look on his face in his final scene in Earthshock was poignant, I suppose...

*tumbleweed*

I'll get me coat.

 

[The Mirrorball Man]

Adric really isn't that bad...

It's called the "Nyssa effect", also know as "contrast".

 

[Starkers]

Aw Nyssa's adorable...somewhat bland but nice to look at at least!

 

[Lonemagpie]

Yes he is that bad. Partly it's because of the new Doctor and addition of Nyssa and Tegan - he doesn't fit with them the way he almost fitted with the doomed 4th Doctor in the previous season.

 

[Winterwind]

You're right. Adric isn't "that bad". He's worse.

There are worse companions, I just don't have them in my DVD collection... oh wait... I do have The Trial of a Time Lord so there is Mel. But she suffered from bad writing/character development. Adric suffered from... being Adric.

 

[ClayinCA]

I never really had a problem with Adric until along around "Four to Doomsday". I think he worked much better with the Fourth Doctor than with the Fifth, and he was also (in addition to being played by a pretty unspectacular actor, as has been said) very inconsistently written, especially after Bidmead left.

Still, glad the little bastard died!

 

[Tomalak]

I'm afraid he really was that bad.

By contrast, every time you watch an early TNG episode, try saying "At least Wesley Crusher isn't played by Matthew Waterhouse". You'd be surprised how much better even 'Justice' seems.

 

[davejames]

The only one I've seen with him so far is The Visitation, and yeah... he was pretty annoying.

Although to be honest, it wasn't any worse than Wesley Crusher or any other teenager on TV. It just goes with the territory, I guess.

 

[ITL]

When a ginger-haired alien spod masquerading as a public schoolboy who's plotting to kill The Doctor is still more of a sympathetic character than Adric you know there's something amiss.

 

[Peacemaker]

I never really had a problem with Adric until along around "Four to Doomsday". I think he worked much better with the Fourth Doctor than with the Fifth, and he was also (in addition to being played by a pretty unspectacular actor, as has been said) very inconsistently written, especially after Bidmead left.

Still, glad the little bastard died!

Same here...He's find until FTD, then everything just goes straight to hell. LOL

 

[Starkers]

When a ginger-haired alien spod masquerading as a public schoolboy who's plotting to kill The Doctor is still more of a sympathetic character than Adric you know there's something amiss.

Surely that's masquerading as a 30 year old public schoolboy

 

[ITL]

^ A good point that only strengthens my argument, I think!

 

[Starkers]

^True.

I actually quite like Turlough as a companion as well.

Much as I like attractive female companions it is refreshing to have something different on occasion and the likes of Turlough and Adric even Harry do offer that.

 

[Newspaper Taxi]

But Adric likes you..

See?

I like Adric overall. I think that as a character he started off pretty well as he had chemistry with Doctor #4 and was a different flavour of companion. At some point, though, the writing of his character jumps a shark at some point I'm not sure of. His Youthful arrogance goes from being cute to being annoying. I thought he had a pretty strong last episode, though.

Turlough is actually one of my all time favorite companions. The majority of the Doctor's companions are do-gooders with heroic morals -- sometimes more so than the Doctor himself in the case of the first Doctor. But not Turlough. Nope. He's cowardly, influenced by his own greed and self interest. He ends up working for an evil deity. But despite his flaws, at his heart he really isn't that bad of a guy -- just a little weasely. I guess Ace is one of my favorite companions for a similar reason.

But do you want to hear a shocking confession?

...I like Doctor Five more than Four.

 

[Starkers]

Personally since Davison is my favourite Doctor I don't find that that shocking

 

[The]

Adric was only annoying because of the way he dressed, acted, and cut his hair.

Vislar Turlough is awesome. When Doc-5 is offering Turlough's help in "making the tea" in The Five Doctors, the quiet way he buttons his jacket and gives the "....thank you...." as he leaves the scene has always stuck with me. There's something very sublime about how Mark Strickson played Turlough. I wish he would be able to do more Big Finish audios, or even re-appear in the show.

It always struck me that Turlough was royalty of his planet. Now, you take his planet (and let's assume they have a great intergalactic military force), and then you look over at Queen Peri Yrcanos (and assuming they have an interstellar force), and you can see where The Doctor could call up some serious firepower/support if needed! Hell, something like Journey's End could have had huge armadas fighting Daleks in space, logistically. Of course, the budget would have been ludicrous. Just flights of imaginative fancy on my part, I guess...