Ah come now - in fiction nothing "just happens that way sometimes."
Oh of course, I simply meant in terms of this perception in fandom that the Doctor treated Martha really poorly. Martha suffering from unrequited love is a stumbling block that exists in a friendship sometimes, but IMO it doesn't make the Doctor an ass because he didn't fall for her as overtly as he did Rose
And seeing the show as pushing eternal soulmates is a stretch surely? I saw it more as RTD wanting to play the reality of the Doctor adjusting to the loss of his first companion after the Time War. Really, the whole point of introducing a companion as awesome as Martha, was to make it even more obvious how the Doctor was struggling to get over his emo state of being. If they had deliberately introduced a rubbish companion to follow Rose, then that would have been missing the point of the arc RTD was planning on. Whether it was a good arc or down is down to viewers personal preference, but it certainly wasn't there to push "Martha as Sorry, Just Not Good Enough", nor do I understand what was so objectionable about it. I can understand that people might not have liked that arc, but Martha left on strong terms as a character, and she will be appearing in both DW and TW next year, so I don't think that she was used that badly by any means. Although I understand that YMMV there of course
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Date: 2007-12-16 08:47 pm (UTC)Oh of course, I simply meant in terms of this perception in fandom that the Doctor treated Martha really poorly. Martha suffering from unrequited love is a stumbling block that exists in a friendship sometimes, but IMO it doesn't make the Doctor an ass because he didn't fall for her as overtly as he did Rose
And seeing the show as pushing eternal soulmates is a stretch surely? I saw it more as RTD wanting to play the reality of the Doctor adjusting to the loss of his first companion after the Time War. Really, the whole point of introducing a companion as awesome as Martha, was to make it even more obvious how the Doctor was struggling to get over his emo state of being. If they had deliberately introduced a rubbish companion to follow Rose, then that would have been missing the point of the arc RTD was planning on. Whether it was a good arc or down is down to viewers personal preference, but it certainly wasn't there to push "Martha as Sorry, Just Not Good Enough", nor do I understand what was so objectionable about it. I can understand that people might not have liked that arc, but Martha left on strong terms as a character, and she will be appearing in both DW and TW next year, so I don't think that she was used that badly by any means. Although I understand that YMMV there of course