Who’s your favorite 5th Doctor companion? Note that this is from across all mediums and includes all TV companions and only multi-story companions from other mediums. Feel free to comment explanations for your choices, but you don’t have to. You can choose as many as you want.
The more I listen to or read an Erimem story, the more I love her. She and Peri pair so well together that I kind of wish Erimem was a Six companion or, at the very least, an old companion they revisited. It’s strange how Erimem seemed to be Peri’s BFF and yet she’s never mentioned once Six comes into the picture[1]
as far as I’m aware. I never paid any attention to Erimem until now. ↩︎
Peri and Erimem are my absolute favourite 5th Doctor companions – I adore their relationship with each other, and the way their personalities balance each other out. Having a companion from such an ancient time period makes for really interesting characterisation and stories! Tegan is another favourite, she’s just so iconic and I’ve grown to appreciated her more recently having listened to several audios with her in. Nyssa I also love, I’ve similarly got more attached to her very recently – I love how intelligent she is, and feel like she’s the sort of person I’d get on well with.
You absolutely need to! She’s in lots of pure historicals that are SO GOOD.
I finished “The Bride of Peladon” and that was a terrible companion exit. I don’t know why Peladon is used so often as a setting. Every story I’ve listened to involving it has (1) made no sense to me and (2) has been capital B boring. TBoP was no exception. It only started getting mildly interesting in act four.
We’re supposed to believe, though, that Erimem and the prince met for two seconds and are now willing to be betrothed and have kids together? I don’t understand where that element came from. The entire “exit” was so anticlimactic, even when she was about to sacrifice her life, I felt nothing. It all felt very blunted.
That being said, they left Erimem’s storyline wide open for an audio where she and Peri could reunite. It’s unfortunate that hasn’t happened yet, because I would like the BFFs to meet up again. But, ugh, that would mean another Peladon story…
