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« on: March 18, 2012, 04:05:42 pm » |
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Harry, at very first much confused by the Doctor, trailed him and his companion Sarah Jane Smith. After the defeat of the robot K1, Harry found himself in the Doctor's TARDIS with them. The three went to Space Station Nerva and were pitted against Wirrn and then by transmat from the space station, travelled to an uninhabited far future Earth in the same time period, where they faced the Sontaran Styre. The transmat next took them to Skaro at the time of the creation of the Daleks. This was for a mission from the Time Lords. Via time ring, they travelled back to Nerva, but to a much earlier year.
Back in the late 20th century, Harry rejoined UNIT to defeat the shape-changing Zygons and their giant, dinosaur-like beast, the Skarasen, in Scotland. The Zygons captured Harry and one assumed his form. He decided to go home to London by train rather than by TARDIS. A short time later, Harry helped the Doctor against the Kraals.
Harry was rather old-fashioned and stereotypically English in his attitudes. He often employed slightly archaic language, referring to Sarah affectionately as "old girl" or "old thing". He was brave, one time saving the Fourth Doctor's life from a bomb on Skaro, and had a "can-do" attitude, adapting well to the many strange situations in which he found himself. He could, however, be quite clumsy and unsubtle, leading the Doctor to declare in a moment of frustration, that "Harry Sullivan is an imbecile!" before passing out from the effects of a rockfall on Voga – caused by Harry! He flirted a bit with Sarah though they kept a strong friendship rather than a romantic one.
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Peri-Peri
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« Reply #1 on: March 21, 2012, 03:16:56 pm » |
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I think Harry is a great character but not necessarily a great companion. He was always well played and written but he was always second fiddle to SJS and the Doctor. Perhaps that was the intention all along but I think that is the biggest contributing factor to why he is mostly overlooked today.
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« Reply #2 on: March 21, 2012, 04:32:00 pm » |
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He's an ok character I guess and he gets a decent intro here but there is nothing about him, for me at least, that is very memorable. I haven't ever watched him and felt excited about seeing his next appearance.
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« Reply #3 on: March 21, 2012, 07:21:09 pm » |
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This was the first time I've seen Harry and I thought he seemed like a nice guy. He is probably the least talked about of all the classic companions and other than what I saw of him here I know absolutely nothing about him. It's a shame because based on this it seems he has some real potential.
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« Reply #4 on: March 22, 2012, 04:39:31 pm » |
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To be honest I was surprised Harry lasted as long as he did. They really did have nothing for him to do. I'm not even sure what the point of his introduction was.
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« Reply #5 on: March 23, 2012, 12:32:26 am » |
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I liked him, and I thought he had a good relationship with Sarah.
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« Reply #6 on: March 23, 2012, 12:53:04 pm » |
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To be honest I was surprised Harry lasted as long as he did. They really did have nothing for him to do. I'm not even sure what the point of his introduction was.
I'd say this was spot on. He felt very much like a spare part from the beginning.
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« Reply #7 on: March 23, 2012, 12:53:20 pm » |
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I liked him, and I thought he had a good relationship with Sarah.
Though I do also agree with this.
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« Reply #8 on: March 23, 2012, 11:09:42 pm » |
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More than anything else, Harry was a good guy. He didn't have a lot to do but he never became annoying either. Rory for example sort of fills a similar role, but he really is getting annoying to me because he feels like a total spare part. Harry, to me at least, never did. He just felt underused.
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« Reply #9 on: March 24, 2012, 03:18:41 pm » |
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I like Harry. It's such a shame that he wasn't given something meatier to deal with while he was around. I thought he was a potentially very good character, but the way things panned out makes it hard to see what the point of his character was.
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« Reply #10 on: March 25, 2012, 01:02:57 am » |
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I found Harry boring. Even as a guest character he wouldn't have worked. There was just nothing to him.
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