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fans say ...
The
public say ...
The
look
The
companions
One
for the dads
Hang
on a minute, isn't that? ... 1/2
So
we meet again, Doctor!
Up
above the gods
Trial
of a Time Lord
It's
the end ...
TARDIS
databank
Those
spin-offs they could have made ... 1/2 |
ONE
FOR THE DADS: LEELA, a chamois-leather clad tribal warrior who
appeared to have stumbled off the set of 1,000,000 Years BC. Apparently
named after Palestinian hijacker Leila Khaled, she was part Emma
Peel (with a knife!), part Tarzan's Jane, and was almost certainly
responsible for single-handedly awakening many millions of young
boys' sexuality. Behaved as violently as the programme would allow
and talked without using grammatical contractions or apostrophes
("Doctor, these 'taxes' they are like sacrifices to tribal
gods?"), mainly in order to ask plot-idiot questions. This
lent her an air of vulnerability, although the grown-up males watching
probably fancied taking their chances in a one-on-one wrestling
smackdown.
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