Who is your favorite companion?

Ok, we know someone had to ask this sooner or later, so it might as well be me!! Mine was Adric (I can hear the groans!) But now I lean more towards Polly. It was facinating meeting Anneka- what a gem she is!! :doc2:

Thats a hard question to answer. There have been many good ones and only a few that I didn't like. The bottom of my list is easiest to answer and that is to say that I liked Adric more than Rose, and I hated Adric. The ones at the top of my list are Sarah Jane Smith, Jamie McCrimmon, Ace, Romana, Liz Shaw, and K-9.

Toss-up between Jamie and Ace.

Companions. Hmmm. Jamie, Leela, Ace. That's all I can think of right now.

Liz Shaw, Sarah Jane, and most importantly, Rose Tyler. What's not to love about Rose?

Jo Grant is a slap in the face to me as a woman. I can't stand her fawning doe-eyed addle paited...she's really ruined the Pertwee stories for me.

AND Rose, of course! If Freema happens to stumble upon here, I'll say her too. You never know....

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Inevitably there is a division between the original series and the new for me.
Rose Tyler comes top of my list for the way the series centered around her and gave the show the perspective from the human character's point of view.
We learned everything about the 9th and then 10th Doctor at the same time that Rose did and every action and event was delivered from her point of view making her an equal to the Doctor.
Ace, Leela, Nyssa, Romana II- all characters who challenged the Doctor in some way or which he developed a special bond or attachment to in a close friendship which whiled away a few years of the interminable millenia he has lived.
Least favorite-Adric but I was intrigued and somewhat surprised in a way in how much Peter Davsion, Sarah Sutton, and Lalla Ward violently disliked both the character of Adric and the actor himself Matthew Waterhouse and told everyone about it in great detail every chance they could at Visions the years they attended.

englishrose wrote:

Least favorite-Adric but I was intrigued and somewhat surprised in a way in how much Peter Davsion, Sarah Sutton, and Lalla Ward violently disliked both the character of Adric and the actor himself Matthew Waterhouse and told everyone about it in great detail every chance they could at Visions the years they attended.

I thought he was cute at the time, and even cried when he died. Little did I know...

Um, spill? You've really got me curious now!

Hoosier Whovian wrote:

bad wolf, dont hold back, tell us how you REALLY feel about Jo Grant :dalek: LOL

Well, since you've asked...

#1 Is PERI..... no doubt.... next would be Rose..... then probably Jamie......

I LOVE K-9, but I'm not sure he can be considered a 'proper' companion......

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Just like I've never had a favorite Doctor, I've never had a favorite companion... until Jack. No matter how many times and over how many years I watched them, I always found qualities I liked in the companions but none that made them stand out over any other companion. It took less than 30 seconds to be charmed by Captain Jack Harkness....

So, um...Adric, yes.
Peter Davison, Sarah Sutton, and Lalla Ward all regaled the crowd at Visions with tales of Matthew Waterhouse's frequent drunkenness and generally behaving like the continent's biggest a**hole during filming.
The publicity photo of the Fifth Doctor and the Tardis crew sitting on the bridge clearly shows that Matthew Waterhouse is green to the gills because he drank like a fish the night before.
The topper was Peter Davison reciting the top ten oxymorons at the variety show and ending with Number One: Matthew Waterhouse-Actor.
That could all be an act however as they pulled themselves together with veiled politeness for the commentary on "Earthshock."

mickey smith "i'm not the tin dog"

My favourite companions are Ace, Sarah Jane, Rose and Captain Jack

My favorites are Zoe, Jamie, Romana II, and Captain Jack.

If only more Troughton stories survived...

Possibly all the lost first doctor stories are in the CBC archives in Canada!

Definitely Rose!!! Sarah Jane and K-9 are cool though too!

Always had a soft spot for Harry...he was my first crush ( I was 9). Jamie would be up on the list also...wish they had more male companions like Jack. My favorite is k-9...he has a big piece of my childhood heart. Of course many say Sarah...yes me to but I also love both Rommana(s).

Romana II, Harry, Jo, Sarah, K-9, I like the UNIT crew, but I'm not sure if they are companions.

greenk9 wrote:

wish they had more male companions like Jack.

Yeah, they seem to dropped that idea or its rare if we have male companions. I read a while ago that Martha was the first black companion, what about Mickey?!

Mickey is just the "tin dog".

mumbojumbo21 wrote:

Mickey is just the "tin dog".

Lol !

I like Romana I from the old series and Martha Jones from the new series.

Ones I do not like, cannot stand are:
Mel from the Old series
"Runaway Bride" from the new series

(ughhhh, all the high pitch screaming banshees ..... )

But that's just me

Jany