Perhaps an overly simplistic answer, but I believe the reason he didn't try to regenerate is because he knew that Martha was going to encounter a future him who would come up to her on the street and take his tie off.
As for him lugging her around, I thought maybe there was some point they were trying to make regarding his physical strength - particularly given his condition at the time - that was going to come up later on.
I didn't know DT had ad-libbed mouthing 'It's bigger on the inside' along with Freema. How brilliant was that? And I think it set up a pretty clear expectation that his relationship with Martha would in almost no way resemble that of his relationship with Rose.
I know that RTD felt they needed to put a lot of extra love and care into crafting the character of Rose since they knew CE was only going to be around for a single series. Quite right too. However, I think they really dropped the ball with Martha and her family. No, the Doctor was never going to have the same level of closeness with her or them as he had with the extended Tyler clan, but the Joneses, including Martha, were woefully underwritten.
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Date: 2007-07-15 11:54 pm (UTC)As for him lugging her around, I thought maybe there was some point they were trying to make regarding his physical strength - particularly given his condition at the time - that was going to come up later on.
I didn't know DT had ad-libbed mouthing 'It's bigger on the inside' along with Freema. How brilliant was that? And I think it set up a pretty clear expectation that his relationship with Martha would in almost no way resemble that of his relationship with Rose.
I know that RTD felt they needed to put a lot of extra love and care into crafting the character of Rose since they knew CE was only going to be around for a single series. Quite right too. However, I think they really dropped the ball with Martha and her family. No, the Doctor was never going to have the same level of closeness with her or them as he had with the extended Tyler clan, but the Joneses, including Martha, were woefully underwritten.