DAS CUZ TEN/MARTHA IS MAH SHIT ESSE. There are not enough stuck-in-1969-fanfics in the world tbh.
it's also clear IMO that we're meant to sympathize with Martha in her rejection, often even over the Doctor -- her relationship with him is framed almost completely from her POV
I actually think this was a rare case of writers doing it right and the fandom doing it wrong because fandom REFUSED to sympathise with Martha, all we got (until pretty much after she left and people realised how awesome she was) was ERMAGHAD DIS MARFA BITCH TRYNA STEAL THE DOCTOR FROM ROSE, HOW DARE SHE I HOPE SHE DIESSSS. And I should know because I was one of them and was a bitter peasant until halfway through the series and realised that Martha was a bamf/hbic/every badass acronym available to describe her. [ASIDE: And contrary to how this basic piece of shit fandom would have it, Martha Jones is not wholly and solely "defined" by the Doctor. She is in fact consistently portrayed as an exceptionally capable, intelligent, proactive, and moral person whose one major weakness is being hung up on an emotionally unavailable guy. I balk at the idea that the latter "ruined" her character because no, being a Strong Female Character (TM) let alone a "strong woman" does not preclude being in love with a dude who's bad for you -- plus also fuck Strong Female Characters (TM). This complaint particularly irks me wrt Martha since inside the story she consistently displays agency, has life goals that are unrelated to men, forms and maintains relationships with other women, helps people for the sake of helping people and, oh yeah, SAVES THE ENTIRE WORLD ALMOST SINGLEHANDEDLY, not to mention the Doctor's useless ass on more than one occasion. And at the end of it all she makes the decision for herself to stop traveling with the Doctor, not just because she recognizes that she deserves better but also in order to pursue her true life goal: helping people in need. The moral of this paragraph is basically that Martha Jones is a goddess and peasants will bow or get out of my journal.]
RIGHT CLICKING AND SAVING THIS PARAGRAPH, TO MAH HEARTTTTT. GONNA JUST DIRECT PEOPLE TO THIS PARAGRAPH AND MAKE THEM SEE THE LIGHT.
Martha was my fav companion, walked the earth goddess, Martha/Ten!doomedness is the OTP of my heart etc etc congrats on this post, it's good and you should feel good.
P.S - how forever bitter am I that she broke up with hottest ever DW male Tom Milligan and basically got fucking race!paired with Mickey. Like. No. NO. NO NO NO NO NO. SIT DOWN,
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Date: 2013-01-13 09:01 pm (UTC)DAS CUZ TEN/MARTHA IS MAH SHIT ESSE. There are not enough stuck-in-1969-fanfics in the world tbh.
it's also clear IMO that we're meant to sympathize with Martha in her rejection, often even over the Doctor -- her relationship with him is framed almost completely from her POV
I actually think this was a rare case of writers doing it right and the fandom doing it wrong because fandom REFUSED to sympathise with Martha, all we got (until pretty much after she left and people realised how awesome she was) was ERMAGHAD DIS MARFA BITCH TRYNA STEAL THE DOCTOR FROM ROSE, HOW DARE SHE I HOPE SHE DIESSSS. And I should know because I was one of them and was a bitter peasant until halfway through the series and realised that Martha was a bamf/hbic/every badass acronym available to describe her.
[ASIDE: And contrary to how this basic piece of shit fandom would have it, Martha Jones is not wholly and solely "defined" by the Doctor. She is in fact consistently portrayed as an exceptionally capable, intelligent, proactive, and moral person whose one major weakness is being hung up on an emotionally unavailable guy. I balk at the idea that the latter "ruined" her character because no, being a Strong Female Character (TM) let alone a "strong woman" does not preclude being in love with a dude who's bad for you -- plus also fuck Strong Female Characters (TM). This complaint particularly irks me wrt Martha since inside the story she consistently displays agency, has life goals that are unrelated to men, forms and maintains relationships with other women, helps people for the sake of helping people and, oh yeah, SAVES THE ENTIRE WORLD ALMOST SINGLEHANDEDLY, not to mention the Doctor's useless ass on more than one occasion. And at the end of it all she makes the decision for herself to stop traveling with the Doctor, not just because she recognizes that she deserves better but also in order to pursue her true life goal: helping people in need. The moral of this paragraph is basically that Martha Jones is a goddess and peasants will bow or get out of my journal.]
RIGHT CLICKING AND SAVING THIS PARAGRAPH, TO MAH HEARTTTTT. GONNA JUST DIRECT PEOPLE TO THIS PARAGRAPH AND MAKE THEM SEE THE LIGHT.
Martha was my fav companion, walked the earth goddess, Martha/Ten!doomedness is the OTP of my heart etc etc congrats on this post, it's good and you should feel good.
P.S - how forever bitter am I that she broke up with hottest ever DW male Tom Milligan and basically got fucking race!paired with Mickey. Like. No. NO. NO NO NO NO NO. SIT DOWN,