Miss Martha Jones
Jul. 12th, 2008 09:57 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
salienneSo having just rewatched Smith and Jones and Martha's exit in Last of the Time Lords, all I can say is, Martha kicks so so much ass and I really wish she'd gotten more to do in S4.
Also, I still say she and the Doctor should go to a pub and discuss how screwed over they've both been. Except of course hearing her pain would make the Doctor drown in even more guilt and self-loathing and angst, but once you get past that, they'd work just as well as the Doctor and Crichton.
And finally, writing Martha, Donna, and Rose giggling over alien Chia pets (sort of) when I should be studying for the test I have on Monday is highly entertaining.
ETA: Oooh, I forgot to say, yet again, how the Doctor has the biggest Death Wish EVER during SaJ (and S3 as a whole, really). I mean, the only way to foil this evil plot is to get the plasmavore to suck you dry of blood? The only way your vast Time Lord consciousness can think of to stop the Evil Plan is to... die before the Evil Plan is even complete? Ok then.
First off, Sarah Jane and Martha accomplish it without any such thing, I'm fairly certain. Also, he mentions another way in that scene itself: have the Judoon increase their scanning level. I can think of so many plans that, though a bit more complicated than the Doctor's, would have worked out a bit better; sadly, all of them would've left him alive at the end. *Shakes head*
Also, yay one of the only examples of emotional consistency in New Who! The Doctor's being such a cold prat throughout the whole episode that I think Rose would've glared while showing him how he should be treating rightfully terrified people, and Donna would've given him a hell of a verbal smack.
Though, I do wonder, how on earth is the Doctor maintaining emotional stability? Seriously. He's completely hanging on by a threat throughout S3 and while that is because all his alone!lastofkind!wounds were reopened with some fresh Rose-related ones, it's not like the angst stopped. Then there was the Master's death after a year of hell. And then Astrid. And then what happened to Donna. And then just the utter bleakness and despair at the end of S4.
The frustrating lack of sense-making and frustrating lack of emotional continuity are frustrating.
Also, I still say she and the Doctor should go to a pub and discuss how screwed over they've both been. Except of course hearing her pain would make the Doctor drown in even more guilt and self-loathing and angst, but once you get past that, they'd work just as well as the Doctor and Crichton.
And finally, writing Martha, Donna, and Rose giggling over alien Chia pets (sort of) when I should be studying for the test I have on Monday is highly entertaining.
ETA: Oooh, I forgot to say, yet again, how the Doctor has the biggest Death Wish EVER during SaJ (and S3 as a whole, really). I mean, the only way to foil this evil plot is to get the plasmavore to suck you dry of blood? The only way your vast Time Lord consciousness can think of to stop the Evil Plan is to... die before the Evil Plan is even complete? Ok then.
First off, Sarah Jane and Martha accomplish it without any such thing, I'm fairly certain. Also, he mentions another way in that scene itself: have the Judoon increase their scanning level. I can think of so many plans that, though a bit more complicated than the Doctor's, would have worked out a bit better; sadly, all of them would've left him alive at the end. *Shakes head*
Also, yay one of the only examples of emotional consistency in New Who! The Doctor's being such a cold prat throughout the whole episode that I think Rose would've glared while showing him how he should be treating rightfully terrified people, and Donna would've given him a hell of a verbal smack.
Though, I do wonder, how on earth is the Doctor maintaining emotional stability? Seriously. He's completely hanging on by a threat throughout S3 and while that is because all his alone!lastofkind!wounds were reopened with some fresh Rose-related ones, it's not like the angst stopped. Then there was the Master's death after a year of hell. And then Astrid. And then what happened to Donna. And then just the utter bleakness and despair at the end of S4.
The frustrating lack of sense-making and frustrating lack of emotional continuity are frustrating.
