Quote Originally Posted by comicshorse View Post
As a fellow 'old school' watcher this to occured to me and I did like it when romance was introduced. Note however the 'did', I'm going with the 'has been done, give it a rest and try something different' approach

On the alien companion thing I'd just point out that both Lela and Romana were alien and came off as so without it becoming something that had to be mentioned every 10 seconds ( I remember particularly liking Lela worshiping the tardis).
Leela wasn't an alien. She was a human from the future--specifically, from an Earth colony that had regressed to a primitive technological level.