wmartin@brl-tgr.ARPA (Will Martin ) (01/10/85)
Not until the episode Turlough left did I see any explanations as to why he didn't act like an ordinary Earth person; then, of course, it was revealed that he was from Trion (or something that sounded like that) and was sent to British public school as an exile to the worst place in the universe... What I'm wondering is whether this level of confusion was the way it was intended in the original British showing -- or were there other, not in the show, sources of information, like in whatever the British have instead of TV Guide, to explain this to the original audience? Turlough's odd behavior spoiled my enjoyment of all the intervening episodes; I kept wondering why he did what he did, or said what he said, if he was a British schoolboy picked up as a tool by the Black Guardian. And now for something completely different... Which is better - Peri in a bikini or Nyssa in a slip? (Turlough really bungled that bit -- when he took the Trionic device out of Peri's plastic bag of clothes, he could have thrown away the bag, so she would have had to remain in the bikini the rest of the episode... Where is the Black Guardian when we really need Him?...) Will USENET: seismo!brl-bmd!wmartin or ARPA/MILNET: wmartin@almsa-1.ARPA
sjk@timeb.UUCP (Sandra Kynes) (01/21/85)
> Not until the episode Turlough left did I see any explanations as to > why he didn't act like an ordinary Earth person; then, of course, it was > revealed that he was from Trion (or something that sounded like that) > and was sent to British public school as an exile to the worst place > in the universe... > > What I'm wondering is whether this level of confusion was the way > it was intended in the original British showing -- or were there > other, not in the show, sources of information, like in whatever the > British have instead of TV Guide, to explain this to the original > audience? Turlough's odd behavior spoiled my enjoyment of all the > intervening episodes; I kept wondering why he did what he did, or said > what he said, if he was a British schoolboy picked up as a tool by the > Black Guardian. > > And now for something completely different... > > Which is better - Peri in a bikini or Nyssa in a slip? > > (Turlough really bungled that bit -- when he took the Trionic device > out of Peri's plastic bag of clothes, he could have thrown away the > bag, so she would have had to remain in the bikini the rest of the episode... > Where is the Black Guardian when we really need Him?...) > > Will > > USENET: seismo!brl-bmd!wmartin or ARPA/MILNET: wmartin@almsa-1.ARPA In New York City we haven't seen the new doctor (Colin Baker) or the last of Turlough, but it's been obvious since his first episode that he is (was) not an English schoolboy. Throughout his first show he remarks that he wants to get back to his own planet and how he can't stand Earth! (To each his own!) "Doctor, we just can't go dragging about the Universe with a dormant Gravis on the console!" S.J.Kynes