I read meta today about how Martha was hard to connect to because she wasn't as flawed as Rose and didn't have much of a character arc
Well, that's got a lot to do with it too. That contributed a lot to not knowing how to see her, but the way she saw the Doctor also didn't help me see through her eyes. He was the *much* more fleshed out character, and she didn't see the fleshed out character I knew him to be. The position she was working from wasn't clear and the viewpoint she had of him was too askew for me to sympathize with her, or use it as a point of reference for why she acted like she did.
And it's been repeatedly said, and it does have a fair bit of truth to it, that the companion is supposed to be the audience's window into the Doctor's world, but Martha could never be that for me because she was looking up at him rather than in his eyes where I was looking.
I wanted to smack her in 42 and tell her to wake up, wipe the reverence off her face and see that he was just *a guy*, yes he has a magic box that can take you across the universe and have you home for tea, but he's the designated driver, not your lord in any sense of the word. I've come to the conclusion that I hate Tim's speech in FoB (even if I can't call it untrue) because no one comes in after to say the he also likes greasy chips and cakes with edible ball bearings and those are the details that make him real, and that would have made it so much easier for John to relate and accept what was happening.
But then, I also had to think during LotTL that Rose would have found a way to tell the Master to go f*ck himself even if it was a kid's show and never knelt before him. That's not really connected to the point here, but since I can't bring myself to do a recap of the episode I wanted to say it somewhere because Rose would have bitch slapped the Master up one side and down the other and called him tiny because this girl doesn't run from the Dalek Emperor or the Devil himself, she'd stare down the Master too. Martha's word of power was "believe", Rose's was "No."
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Well, that's got a lot to do with it too. That contributed a lot to not knowing how to see her, but the way she saw the Doctor also didn't help me see through her eyes. He was the *much* more fleshed out character, and she didn't see the fleshed out character I knew him to be. The position she was working from wasn't clear and the viewpoint she had of him was too askew for me to sympathize with her, or use it as a point of reference for why she acted like she did.
And it's been repeatedly said, and it does have a fair bit of truth to it, that the companion is supposed to be the audience's window into the Doctor's world, but Martha could never be that for me because she was looking up at him rather than in his eyes where I was looking.
I wanted to smack her in 42 and tell her to wake up, wipe the reverence off her face and see that he was just *a guy*, yes he has a magic box that can take you across the universe and have you home for tea, but he's the designated driver, not your lord in any sense of the word. I've come to the conclusion that I hate Tim's speech in FoB (even if I can't call it untrue) because no one comes in after to say the he also likes greasy chips and cakes with edible ball bearings and those are the details that make him real, and that would have made it so much easier for John to relate and accept what was happening.
But then, I also had to think during LotTL that Rose would have found a way to tell the Master to go f*ck himself even if it was a kid's show and never knelt before him. That's not really connected to the point here, but since I can't bring myself to do a recap of the episode I wanted to say it somewhere because Rose would have bitch slapped the Master up one side and down the other and called him tiny because this girl doesn't run from the Dalek Emperor or the Devil himself, she'd stare down the Master too. Martha's word of power was "believe", Rose's was "No."