DantesFire

You're probably right on that. I remember the goodbye scene wrong. I thought he had said something like, "It's time for you to go back and live your life." I'm probably confusing their goodbye scene with Susan's.

Yeah, but they demanded before and he didn't bother.

Isn't it 3 out of 3? I always got the impression that part of the reason the Doctor returned Barbara and Ian was cause he saw they were ready to marry each other, settle down and raise a family.

Is that what used to happen to all the female companions? They fell in love and the Doctor would drop them off?

I gotta see it again. I seen it 3 times, I think and never did I feel touched, I always felt betrayal. Her grandfather abandoning her. Her teachers who claimed they only wanted to help her not even saying a word to help her out. Okay, I just saw it again and it's worse than I remember. The Doctor not only left her behind, he took one of her shoes and then left her behind. And you could see she was in shock from his betrayal. Now she gotta live her life with a guy who wants to be a farmer and with one shoe. And what kind of speech was that? Was that suppose to make her feel better? "Go live your life, on a post-apocalypse world as a farmer. No being anything great like a Timelord for you. You're just a silly girl, now go play house and prove my old fashion ways are right."

I gotta see it again. I seen it 3 times, I think and never did I feel touched, I always felt betrayal. Her grandfather abandoning her. Her teachers who claimed they only wanted to help her not even saying a word to help her out. I think she was dumped because she had started to get on everyone's nerves with her whiny, screamy attitude. That's something else I didn't like her character doing, screaming all the time. I figured if she's so smart then she would know screaming probably wouldn't help. Guess it was another 60's mentality thing, females and kids in trouble, scream. Actually I don't quite get the screaming when scared thing. Or atleast when scared why aren't they screaming help or for someone. Even when I was a kid I never just screamed, unless we were playing, I always screamed for someone, mom, dad, somebody. Course I've never gone against real monsters, but I would wake up yelling, "Ma! Pa!" after waking from nightmares. Never just screaming.

I gotta see it again. I seen it 3 times, I think and never did I feel touched, I always felt betrayal. Her grandfather abandoning her. Her teachers who claimed they only wanted to help her not even saying a word to help her out.

I hated how Susan was stranded on Earth like that. She was basically dumped. Didn't she might have some possessions on the Tardis she might want? Or how about that fact that you're being dumped in what amounts to a prehistoric post-apocalypse backwater world when you are from one of the most advanced worlds in the universe. Maybe it was based on a England 1960's sensibilities but I watched this in the 80's, NYC, and I already knew crushes can have powerful feelings, but they usually don't last long. To me it seemed like if my dad dumped me on a deserted island with a pretty girl I had a crush on. Okay, for a few months I would enjoy it, but after awhile I would be missing tv, the movies, stores, friends, parties, comic books, going somewhere besides the same island over and over.