2. Hee it's hard to come up with too many unpopular opinions because there's so many groups that seem to share at least one of them strongly, but I guess mine is that I think Martha was overrated? At first I found the hostility towards her before she'd even made her first appearance just ridiculous, but then I found the worship of the character as the anti-Rose before she even appeared, just as ridiculous. By the end of season 3 I didn't think that Martha was all *that* different from the things that people mocked Rose for, but people seemed set on making the character into the anti-Rose, and seeing what they wanted to see. Like yes she was awesome in Smith And Jones, but she did spend most of season 3 crushing and moping over the Doctor just as much as Rose ever did, and there seemed to be this overzealous Martha FTW feeling throughout fandom still. Both Rose and Martha were young girls with crushes at the end of the day, and Donna was the truly perfect companion for Ten in my eyes. I really did like Martha too though (especially her TW appearance), but her fans tend to put me off her when they bash Rose for the exact same things that Martha was also guilty of
3. I didn't ship Ten/Rose in season 2, a lot of the time they actively annoyed me, but I ended up shipping them somewhat in season 3 at the exact time that everyone else was getting annoyed with them.. The whole giggly best friends vibe really didn't work for me as I couldn't see much of anything romantic there, but I ended up melting over most of Ten's references to her in season 3 ("her name was rose", the diary etc). But then season 4 mucked that up, and Nine/Rose are the only DW ship I've ever truly been passionate about anyway
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Date: 2009-06-24 01:19 am (UTC)2. Hee it's hard to come up with too many unpopular opinions because there's so many groups that seem to share at least one of them strongly, but I guess mine is that I think Martha was overrated? At first I found the hostility towards her before she'd even made her first appearance just ridiculous, but then I found the worship of the character as the anti-Rose before she even appeared, just as ridiculous. By the end of season 3 I didn't think that Martha was all *that* different from the things that people mocked Rose for, but people seemed set on making the character into the anti-Rose, and seeing what they wanted to see. Like yes she was awesome in Smith And Jones, but she did spend most of season 3 crushing and moping over the Doctor just as much as Rose ever did, and there seemed to be this overzealous Martha FTW feeling throughout fandom still. Both Rose and Martha were young girls with crushes at the end of the day, and Donna was the truly perfect companion for Ten in my eyes. I really did like Martha too though (especially her TW appearance), but her fans tend to put me off her when they bash Rose for the exact same things that Martha was also guilty of
3. I didn't ship Ten/Rose in season 2, a lot of the time they actively annoyed me, but I ended up shipping them somewhat in season 3 at the exact time that everyone else was getting annoyed with them.. The whole giggly best friends vibe really didn't work for me as I couldn't see much of anything romantic there, but I ended up melting over most of Ten's references to her in season 3 ("her name was rose", the diary etc). But then season 4 mucked that up, and Nine/Rose are the only DW ship I've ever truly been passionate about anyway