Fans were all asquee about how goshdarn COOL it was and...no.
Honestly, I thought when it showed up in the trailer it was part of the misleading warning Francine was being fed. Not untrue necessarily, but definitely a dark spin on the truth, because the Doctor is dangerous and he dances with/in the fire, we've known that since 'Rose' but...that's not *who* he is. I would never have imagined then that we were supposed to *agree* with the speech, I wish we knew whether the Doctor does.
that in-story the explanation was that she did it in order to fool the Master for the necessary time.
Yes but Rose spent her time sassing Daleks and being the usually impossible combination of bad-ass and adorable. And after Jack's no doubt multiple escape attempts and the Jones' help and plots to kill the Master, which granted Martha doesn't know about, they're hardly defeated. I get that Martha was probably playing a part stalling for time, but I just can't escape the idea that Rose would have looked at him as if he smelled bad and said "I'd rather die on my feet thank you," because what he wants is to see them defeated so bringing defiance to the table is a better distraction. And I wanted Martha to show that kind of defiance, after a year of being a commando walking the world, I'd have believed it if she showed it, but she didn't. Playing dead can be an option, but I wanted Rose and her adorable bad ass self ("Sure I'll open the arc for you but, well, don't you want to hear about how I killed the Emperor? It's a really good story. Ha.")
And until it becomes "Beg for *his* life" Rose could keep it up too, because Rose and the Doctor would beg for each other's lives long before they'd beg for their own.
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Honestly, I thought when it showed up in the trailer it was part of the misleading warning Francine was being fed. Not untrue necessarily, but definitely a dark spin on the truth, because the Doctor is dangerous and he dances with/in the fire, we've known that since 'Rose' but...that's not *who* he is. I would never have imagined then that we were supposed to *agree* with the speech, I wish we knew whether the Doctor does.
that in-story the explanation was that she did it in order to fool the Master for the necessary time.
Yes but Rose spent her time sassing Daleks and being the usually impossible combination of bad-ass and adorable. And after Jack's no doubt multiple escape attempts and the Jones' help and plots to kill the Master, which granted Martha doesn't know about, they're hardly defeated. I get that Martha was probably playing a part stalling for time, but I just can't escape the idea that Rose would have looked at him as if he smelled bad and said "I'd rather die on my feet thank you," because what he wants is to see them defeated so bringing defiance to the table is a better distraction. And I wanted Martha to show that kind of defiance, after a year of being a commando walking the world, I'd have believed it if she showed it, but she didn't. Playing dead can be an option, but I wanted Rose and her adorable bad ass self ("Sure I'll open the arc for you but, well, don't you want to hear about how I killed the Emperor? It's a really good story. Ha.")
And until it becomes "Beg for *his* life" Rose could keep it up too, because Rose and the Doctor would beg for each other's lives long before they'd beg for their own.