Is that what you’re gonna do to me?
You okay Moff?
He suddenly realised Capaldi is an Oscar winning writer.
PLOT TWIST:
PETER CAPALDI PLAYS TWELVE AND ALSO TAKES OVER AS SHOWRUNNERWE CAN DREAM.
I think this might be why, of all the new series’ companions, I don’t like Martha Jones.
Rose, Donna and Amy didn’t want to leave ‘My Doctor’, ‘Raggedy Man’ or ‘Spaceboy’, but they didn’t have a choice.
Martha Jones just walked away.
Martha’s family had just gone through a year of hell. A year of being TORTURED, a year where they were threatened with DEATH every day, a year where they saw horrors unimaginable. They needed her.
Martha herself just went through a year of hell. A year where she was hunted every day. A year where there was a special forces unit tasked with doing nothing but tracking her down. A year where she saw an entire country burn in front of her eyes. A year where she witnessed more death and destruction than any one person should ever have to. A year where she saved the universe not with magic TARDIS/Metacrisis/Universe crack powers but with her own brains, cunning, determination and willpower. She needed her family.
She had also just spent a year in love with a man who didn’t love her back. A man who was often dismissive of her thoughts and feelings. A man who she had to watch fall in love with another woman and accuse her of being his executioner after two months of going from being a doctor to a maid in an era when she was thought of as less than a person because of the color of her skin. Then three more month of working in a shop to support him. Her thanks for those things was “thank you” and a hug. She went through a year where she TIME AND AGAIN proved herself, delivered the impossible and yet was judged unworthy just because she wasn’t someone she’d never met. And THEN the year of literal hell.
Put yourself in her shoes for just a minute.
She made absolutely the right decision, for her own mental and emotional well being, and for her family’s. She still cared for him, she gave him a lifeline back to her, but she couldn’t survive in that environment anymore, having her self esteem torn down every day after she had proved over and over just how amazing she was.
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The most interesting thing here stems from the fact that River doesn’t know Donna or have any personal vested interest in her and yet she looks at her with such emotion. Donna doesn’t die traveling with The Doctor as the audience suspects in this moment. She forgets.
River has seen a lot of horrible things and isn’t one to be easily moved, but you can see how just the mention of Donna’s name completely affects her. The look on her face reflects the pain of what The Doctor told her about Donna. We are seeing a reflection of how much and how deeply what happened to Donna affected The Doctor long after she was gone.
Journey’s End // His Last Vow
When Martha said this, it wasn’t because she was a bitch, or she had a superiority complex, or she was self-centred.
Can we all remember for a moment what Martha did for the Doctor?
She spent six months working as a maid in 1913 England.
A medical student, from a time when, while racism existed, she was recognized as intelligent and capable and a human being.
She worked. In an utterly racist society. AS A MAID. For six months. For him.
Then, when he got kidnapped and aged by the Master, instead of giving up, she gave a WHOLE YEAR to walking around and telling the whole world how good the Doctor was, and how much he deserved their trust. If she hadn’t, the world wouldn’t have made it. Everyone would be dead. If not for Martha Jones.
She saved Shakespeare’s life. She kept the Doctor alive from the Judoons on MARS before she even knew who he was. She fought off aliens and broke an anti-aging machine, fighting her family’s disapproval all the way.
And through all of that, the Doctor never loved her.
Not that that was his fault. I’ve posted about this before. But still.
He didn’t love her.
And she loved him.
And she’d given her whole self up to him.
At this moment, she does the bravest thing any human being can do. She realizes she’s in a relationship that’s unfair to her, and so she walks away.
If knowing my own self-worth and demanding respect from the people I love makes me a bitch, then I don’t want to be anything else.
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