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:I'm still not convinced. Throughout multiple sources, in-universe and real-world alike, it is stated that the Doctor's companions are those that travel through time and space with him in his TARDIS. If everyone who reappears is a companion, then the Master, Lytton and Captain Avery are companions, which is hardly correct. I'd really like for an admin or at least a third party to step in so that one or possibly none of us can get an upper hand and add some more zest (zest?) to this debate. I, much like you, don't think that Astrid and Adelaid and Christina are companions, they're just one-off allies. Expanding the term to those who make reappearances in multi-episode stories is a bad idea because, by these means, Richard Mace, Tallulah and Astra are companions, just to name three. And the Brigadier's travel in ''The Three Doctors'' is no more of an adventure of those of van Gogh and Duggan. [[User:Bigredrabbit|Bigredrabbit]] 10:16, August 7, 2011 (UTC) | :I'm still not convinced. Throughout multiple sources, in-universe and real-world alike, it is stated that the Doctor's companions are those that travel through time and space with him in his TARDIS. If everyone who reappears is a companion, then the Master, Lytton and Captain Avery are companions, which is hardly correct. I'd really like for an admin or at least a third party to step in so that one or possibly none of us can get an upper hand and add some more zest (zest?) to this debate. I, much like you, don't think that Astrid and Adelaid and Christina are companions, they're just one-off allies. Expanding the term to those who make reappearances in multi-episode stories is a bad idea because, by these means, Richard Mace, Tallulah and Astra are companions, just to name three. And the Brigadier's travel in ''The Three Doctors'' is no more of an adventure of those of van Gogh and Duggan. [[User:Bigredrabbit|Bigredrabbit]] 10:16, August 7, 2011 (UTC) | ||
I wouldn't count Lyttton or Avery, because the definition I suggested said that they have to be in consecutive episodes, and obviously characters in multi-part stories don't count, or almost every character in the classic series would be a companion. To exclude the Master, I will ammend my definition to say that they also have to be an ally of the Doctor's. The Brigadier, Sergeant Benton, and Captain Yates were in most episodes for the Third Doctor's entire tenure, so why shouldn't they be considered companions? Although those characters are disputable as companions, Liz is almost universally considered as a companion, even though she never even entered the TARDIS. And, should we say that Jo wasn't a companion until ''Colony in Space'', even though she had done everything else that a companion does in her episodes before that. There is really no reason to say that travelling in the TARDIS is necessary to be a companion.[[User:Icecreamdif|Icecreamdif]] 14:25, August 7, 2011 (UTC) | |||