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He has his fans. *loves Adric to bits*

That's fair to say.

Myself I think that, even given Mathew Waterhouse's somewhat limited acting skills, Adric worked great in season 18 - really bringing out the Tutor/Mentor/'wise old man' Merlin-ish side of Tom Baker (who very much looked the part by then). I can't think of a companion who'd have been more suitable for Keeper of Traken or Logopolis.

But once we're into Season 19, the character just doesn't work so well. With a crowded TARDIS in which Tegan's constantly moaning about something or another, a smug and socially inept adolescent is one irritation too many, especially since his youth is rather redundant with Davison as the Doctor.

Also...audiences often take thier lead from the characters. Both Tegan and even sweet and deferential Nyssa made it clear on different occasions that they didn't like him much and what the Fifth Doctor thought of him was highly ambiguous.

Adric's a great idea on paper though, it's just the casting and the dynamics of the Season 19 TARDIS crew that meant he didn't work. If he had of done, I imagine he'd have been something like the (wonderfully played and very engaging) Luke from SJA.



I wouldn't necessarily agree (Rememberance and Genesis for me), but I'd nod my head sagely and say, "Yeah, I can see that."

Most of the good Dalek storys succeed because they manage to work around or avoid the problems inherrant in telling a Dalek story. Dalek works because it solves those problems.

3nodding It's one for the ages.
Like everyone alive in the mid-seventies somehow manages to remember the giant maggots in The Green Death, everyone from the current audience is always going to remember the miming scene.

Unless, of course, there's something similarly brilliant in every episode this season. There might well be.

And the thing is, it's actually an effective way of reducing body fat (as the Doctor muses at the end), and wouldn't have killed anyone if Miss Foster didn't use the 'consume non-fat substances as an emergency food source' signal. So there could have been a neat little human-Adipose symbiotic relationship established, had Foster decided to go that route.

Still would have been illegal, of course, because of the Shadow Proclamation. Plus, I don't think many people would have been cool with the idea of white marshmallow aliens popping out of their bodies.

Not sure, but Voyage of the Damned goes out on April 18 here. If they're showing an episode per week starting from then, I guess Partners in Crime would air on the 25th.

I wanna see that trivia quiz, darn it!

All I can say is wow...I screamed in horror when I saw her but was relieved to she that she had changed. There were cute little fat adipose beasts and OMG ROSE!