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« on: April 22, 2012, 06:15:41 pm »


Vislor Turlough — more commonly just "Turlough" — was a companion of the Fifth Doctor who principally traveled alongside Tegan Jovanka, but also had a few adventures with Nyssa and Kamelion. He also briefly met and saved the life of Peri Brown before departing the Doctor's company.

Turlough was a complex individual, whose motivations were often unclear to those around him. He was for a time — by his own choice — under the influence of the Black Guardian. During this period he was actively trying to kill the Doctor. Later, after overcoming the Black Guardian, he was mostly a trusted member of the TARDIS crew, but there remained instances where his actions were questioned. It was only at the end of his time on the TARDIS that the Doctor finally discovered the truth about how Turlough ended up on Earth, and why he was susceptible to the Black Guardian in the first place.

Turlough acted selfishly, always preventing himself from blame. He could lie convincingly to most though some, such as Tegan and the Brigadier, were not taken in by him.

Tegan did not like Turlough, finding him untrustworthy. She did not approve of the Doctor letting Turlough consider the Black Guardian's offer, believing that Turlough would choose the crystal. However, the Doctor was confident in Turlough's morals.

Despite this, he recognised the Doctor's good intentions; he tried to make the Black Guardian reconsider his order to kill the Time Lord. He understood the TARDIS systems well enough to be able to run a diagnostic in The Five Doctors and programmed the TARDIS to rescue the Doctor and Peri in Planet of Fire.

Turlough was the last male companion to travel with the Doctor on-screen until Adam Mitchell, who joined in Dalek in 2005
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« Reply #1 on: April 23, 2012, 08:49:55 pm »

I think Turlough was a decent character but once his bad guy arc was done he sort of became a little pointless. He was ok in this story but didn't really bring anything to it.
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« Reply #2 on: April 24, 2012, 02:27:08 pm »

You know, I think the guy who plays Turlough is a really good actor. Every time I have seen him I have thought so. The problem I have is that there is absolutely no point to him being there. At all. And why is he still wearing the school uniform? When I was in school the first thing I would do was get changed as soon as I could. The fact he wears it for months on end is concerning.
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« Reply #3 on: April 25, 2012, 05:16:05 pm »

Yea I sort of agree with the above. He was acted well but he was there just for for the sake of it. It was good to see the turnaround in his character but it also took away the edge. They should have probably written him out a little earlier.
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« Reply #4 on: April 26, 2012, 07:26:26 pm »

I like Turlough. He wasn't the most active companion and he was often sidelined but I think he was a decent character and he was always played really well.
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« Reply #5 on: April 27, 2012, 02:59:42 pm »

I find him boring. He starts off really interesting and then quickly becomes a spare part. The most interesting thing he does in this is get captured, which essentially takes him out of the main stuff for a while because there really was nothing to do with him. It's a shame because as everyone else has said, he was always acted pretty well.
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« Reply #6 on: April 27, 2012, 07:01:53 pm »

I find him boring. He starts off really interesting and then quickly becomes a spare part. The most interesting thing he does in this is get captured, which essentially takes him out of the main stuff for a while because there really was nothing to do with him. It's a shame because as everyone else has said, he was always acted pretty well.

I think he commented once that they never knew what to do with him, so he ended up getting captured and knocked out a lot.  I agree basically with most of the above - he was a potentially great character played by a good actor, who was wasted once the Black Guardian trilogy was over.

I suspect the school uniform was an ongoing attempt to convince us that he was about ten years younger than he actually looked.
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« Reply #7 on: April 28, 2012, 02:59:49 pm »

Turlough was ok. Not one of my favourite companions but not one I dislike either. I think mostly he was just sort of unmemorable
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« Reply #8 on: April 28, 2012, 03:00:27 pm »

I find him boring. He starts off really interesting and then quickly becomes a spare part. The most interesting thing he does in this is get captured, which essentially takes him out of the main stuff for a while because there really was nothing to do with him. It's a shame because as everyone else has said, he was always acted pretty well.

I suspect the school uniform was an ongoing attempt to convince us that he was about ten years younger than he actually looked.

Also, this! Passing him off as a teen was just ridiculous. He looked at least 30
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« Reply #9 on: April 28, 2012, 11:36:51 pm »

Decent enough actor but there was absolutely no reason to keep him around once his Black Guardian story was done with.
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