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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Brown Jenkin" data-source="post: 4435128" data-attributes="member: 2572">Rose is the exception to the companions with the Doctor falling for her. The new series has mostly limited itself to female companions, unlike the old series which may have had about 1/3 male companions. Previous to the new series the only romantic interest was probably Romana (another Time Lord) with companion relationships strictly verboten (Apparently the 5th Doctor wasn't even allowed to put his arm around Nyssa or Tegan). The Doctors companions as heroic commoners go back to the very first companions with the otherwise ordinary science teacher Ian taking on much of the action.Of course the aid of the gods is balanced by the fact that all the problems he got into were because of the gods. To argue that the gods helped him is much like the arguing that Xander doesn't count because occasionally a demon helps him for its own reason.Ripley was very much ordinary, in the first movie she was just a crew member on an undistinguished freighter. She survives by her wits alone. For the second one she has been demoted and is in bad economic shape. She is recruited for the mission not because of her fighting ability (That is what the Marines are for) but because she had prior experience with the aliens. Her big battle scene at the end vs. the queen was based on her ability to use a robotic loader from her past freighter job not any military training. Through most of the second movie she basically left the fighting to marines with guns. There was at least one episode when they recounted first meeting Mulder that they played an active role. Plus they got their own TV show where they were all the action.</blockquote>

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