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From: Agent Jakanov <mouth@onlegs.org>
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Subject: Re: The Lemonade Treatment
Date: Sat, 16 Mar 2024 20:41:20 -0000 (UTC)
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"Blueshirt" <blueshirt@indigo.news> wrote in news:xn0ojegjy43nyxt003
@reader.xsnews.nl:

> Mickmane wrote:
> 
>> On 16.03.24, Blueshirt  <blueshirt@indigo.news> wrote:
>> > Agent Jakanov wrote:
>> 
>> >> Regeneration crises are almost a tradition in Doctor Who.
>> >> At least they tried to do something different with it, even
>> >> if the execution was lacking.
>> 
>> > Well, it certainly was different to what other Doctors went
>> > through post-regeneration.
>> 
>> > Now, if the Fifth Doctor had strangled Adric...
>> 
>> Why strangle Adric?
> 
> Why not? He was more annoying than Peri and JNT thought that was
> a good idea!

What's the motivation for it, from the writing standpoint?  In the case 
of Peri, the Doctor was subconsciously aware that she was indirectly 
responsible for his previous incarnation's death, and he was triggered 
by her name, which alluded to a supernatural being in Persian mythology 
which was at one time "evil".

> Also, it would have saved time and money on having to arrange a
> space freighter to crash in to Earth just to get rid of him! :-)

So strangled all the way to death?  The idea of the Doctor going all the 
way with Adric is just... wrong.

That said, it was implied in the very first episode An Unearthly Child 
that Barbara and Ian feared he was child abuser.