To be honest, I was pretty frustrated when I wrote this entry and comments *g* At the time it felt to me like all of the arguments on RTD being racist and sexist, were devaluating Martha the most! Just in order to make their point about the show devaluating Martha. The arguments on how Martha really didn't do anything that impressive in the finale, certaintly it wasn't anything clever or worthwhile that she thought up off her own bat, and the suggestion that the Doctor was constantly looking at Martha and comparing her to Rose. I find it an unnecessary focus on victim Martha, and not even that accurate as to what the show was portraying. Especially when some scenes were blatantly being taken out of context in order to stregnthen an argument
I honestly do think that a lot of it was frustration because, when the first promo pics came out, people were perhaps expecting Martha to be set up as a direct replacement to Rose, and have that exact same type of relationship with the Doctor. And people who had disliked Rose, were particularly excited about that and the "Martha FTW" comments were all too frequent before the character had even made an appearance on the show :P And then when it didn't turn out as they had hoped, there was so much lashing out after LotTl, and I think some people lost perspective is my honest opinion, and failed to appreciate what a fabulous character the writing team gave us with Martha. Or even Tish, who I really adored as well, and hope we will get to see more of soon.
I mean some of Freema's comments make me sad when I think of how some of her "fans" seem determined to distort Martha's contribution, and talk of how Martha was never allowed to be as great as Rose, because Freeme is rightfully proud of Martha's character and development
"I was told about character development towards the end, when Russell did say to me, 'Look, are you prepared - Martha saves the world!' I felt so honoured and so flattered that he'd entrusted me with that"
"She outgrew The Doctor, in a sense, and so the next time they meet it will be in a more professional capacity. I'm so proud of her journey and who she has become."
Yet there were so many comments on how it was all the Doctor that saved the world, Martha wasn't allowed to do anything particularly special, and what an insulting exit she had. I think pepple got carried away and ended up ultimately putting down the character of Martha in their rants on the writing team
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I honestly do think that a lot of it was frustration because, when the first promo pics came out, people were perhaps expecting Martha to be set up as a direct replacement to Rose, and have that exact same type of relationship with the Doctor. And people who had disliked Rose, were particularly excited about that and the "Martha FTW" comments were all too frequent before the character had even made an appearance on the show :P And then when it didn't turn out as they had hoped, there was so much lashing out after LotTl, and I think some people lost perspective is my honest opinion, and failed to appreciate what a fabulous character the writing team gave us with Martha. Or even Tish, who I really adored as well, and hope we will get to see more of soon.
I mean some of Freema's comments make me sad when I think of how some of her "fans" seem determined to distort Martha's contribution, and talk of how Martha was never allowed to be as great as Rose, because Freeme is rightfully proud of Martha's character and development
"I was told about character development towards the end, when Russell did say to me, 'Look, are you prepared - Martha saves the world!' I felt so honoured and so flattered that he'd entrusted me with that"
"She outgrew The Doctor, in a sense, and so the next time they meet it will be in a more professional capacity. I'm so proud of her journey and who she has become."
Yet there were so many comments on how it was all the Doctor that saved the world, Martha wasn't allowed to do anything particularly special, and what an insulting exit she had. I think pepple got carried away and ended up ultimately putting down the character of Martha in their rants on the writing team