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blog! “Why do Doctor Who companions leave?”
If you got the chance to travel in time and space, with an immortal alien, and got to rescue the universe again and again - would you ever give up that life? Would you be content to go from unravelling the mysteries of the universe and fighting DALEKs to, I don't know, marrying a stranger […]
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@Edent Having watched the (extant) original series from cover to cover for the first time recently, I think I agree with almost all of this. The "oh, I'm staying to marry Z" thing was unbelievably arbitrary in almost every case (with the possible exception of Jo, where there was at least some attempt at increasing chemistry after an inauspicious start.
@Edent However, I'd like to object to the comparison between Adric and Wesley Crusher. Wesley was, I think, massively maligned. I watched TNG with the expectation of a truly irritating character, but he really wasn't. Adric, however, was intensely irritating (with Victoriaaaaaaaa! a close second). Not particularly for the ubernerd personality, but for the combination of utter naïvety and/or self-interest. He was less trustworthy than Turlough, but without the plausible motivation.