This is something I don't understand about TOR. KotoR, Mass Effect, Dragon Age. All have good companion conversations with many dialog options to choose from any time you feel like talking to them. Why has BW diverged from this with TOR? The companion conversation is so bad in TOR, half the time you can't even talk with them until you complete part of your class story. Too often it means finishing mutiple worlds before you can do so.
Companions feel like nothing other then pets, with little attachment, if any. I am very dissapointed with companions. This is one of BW's staples and they all but routed it out of TOR.