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My favorite Doctor relationship was hands down Ten/Donna followed closely by Nine/Rose, partly because those relationships allow the companions to stand up to the Doctor without being framed romantically (S2 with Rose and Ten, as artfully constructed and as downright beautiful some of those episodes were, was fundamentally romantic). Martha though...while I adore Donna and she is forever my favorite, I identify with Martha. I think I am Martha, most days. And that whole mundane, he's just a terrible friend/guy is so real that for a long while I thought I would never be able to like Tennant's Doctor. I was that not into him. I loved Nine, I was easing into S2 Ten and then S3 comes along and he's a bag of dicks to Martha while also pulling her along on these great adventures so OF COURSE she's going to fall in love with him. It's a complex relationship I have with Ten in S3 but it's all on him. Martha is flawless. While the Master was keeping the Doctor in a cage, she was walking the earth and that the Doctor was emotionally unavailable was a) too bad for him and b) probably good for Martha in the long run.

Always ship the Doctor with the Tardis. Not shipping them is unacceptable.