Martha Jones, Why Are You So Difficult?

bana05:

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sentiment-is-a-defect:

I want to like Martha Jones. I really do. Because nothing is more irritating than trying to watch Doctor Who with a companion you dislike. It takes all the fun out of it. So making peace is better, in a sense.

Maybe it’s too early in the season to judge, but it’s been 5 episodes and I’m not warming up to her. Yes, I had Rose feels in Doomsday, and 10 crying made me whimper like a baby, so could be remnants of that?

I go through Tumblr and it’s about a 70-30 ratio of MJ fans to… Non-MJ ones. And people just won’t shut up about her “BAMF-ness”, so does some epic shit happen in accordance to her character? Because so far it’s been a bit of a bland season overall…

I do appreciate her intelligence, just not the constant reiteration of her “unreciprocated love” with a man she’s known for all of what, a week? He is going through his own recovery, after all.

Oh, there just aren’t enough hours in the night for DW.

She’s supposed to be difficult.

Because she’s written as his healer.

Healing wounds like that isn’t easy.

So she’s going to push his buttons to get him to open up and get over losing Rose.

Unfortunately, in the process of his healing, Martha Jones receives scars by his hand.

Look closely at how he treats her. How callous he is. How he flippantly ignores her fear of being kidnapped by slavers. How he literally calls her an idiot just one episode after she gives her last breath to save his life.

Add in the fact that she’s been the one who has had to hold it together (her family breaking up since her dad left her mother for another woman).

She wanted to escape, and here comes this man offering the sun, the moon and the stars.

And slowly but surely he’s treating her like she’s nothing, making her second guess her own capabilities.

She’s fighting her own insecurities while being with him. Because in the back of her mind, she’s thinking “Will I be good enough, or will he just dump me on this next trip?”

Too many people forget that Martha has feelings too.

LULZ @ black women having feelings…

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save-a-tardis-ride-a-time-lord:

So I’m re-watching series three at the moment, and I know it’s cool to hate on Martha for a variety of reasons, some of which, I think, can be attributed to the fact that she had the misfortune of being the first new companion after Rose, and she just wasn’t Rose. For me, she did have her moments, sometimes I liked her, other times I didn’t, but she did end up saving the whole world, and the Doctor. But the real reason that Martha Jones will always be my least favorite companion is because of how she left the Doctor. I can understand wanting to move on, most people don’t travel with the Doctor forever even if they want to, but it was how she left that put me off. She left him because she fancied him and he was never gonna see her the way she saw him, which just wasn’t fair to him, that he should be punished for just wanting a friend, someone to travel with, and the fact that she had the nerve to go and do that to him, to leave him all on his own right after the Master died, is just unforgivable for me. She knew that the Master’s death had devastated him, and that he was all alone, the very last time lord in existence, and she went and abandoned him. It’s like, “thanks for all the amazing things you showed me and all the adventures we had, have fun being the last of your kind and knowing that everyone you care about will eventually either die, grow old, or leave you.”

Because she was supposed to just totally ignore the status of her family after they had been kidnapped and held hostage by the Master?

She was supposed to ignore her own feelings about the entire situation and continue to be his emotional whipping post?

He needed to be left the hell alone. He honestly DESERVED to be alone.

We always talk about The Doctor’s feelings, but we are never supposed to empathize with Martha Jones, the woman whose life was RUINED by The Doctor (By his own damn admission).

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shonilane:

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tic-tocgoestheclock:

Out of doctors 9, 10, and 11, Clara Oswald will be the first companion with brown hair… weirdddddddy

Martha has brown hair, dearest…. She’s brunette.

Wait…did OP tag this with Martha Jones and then go on to ignore the fact that she is a brunette?

A whole lot of folks think that only white folks can be naturally blonde, brunette or red head….

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thedoctorrepsychles:

I feel like you could make a drinking game out of the Martha Jones tag.

Every time a post mentions:

“She was so whiny.”

“She didn’t do as much as the other companions.”

“She had no right to fall in love with the Doctor.”

“SHE’S NOT ROSE”

or any variation of the above,

TAKE A SHOT. You’ll be drunk DIE OF ALCOHOL POISONING in no time.

Fixed that for you….

(Source: mymarthajones)