Preface to Third Series
I wish I could say that I've done all my expounding on the relationship issues of series 2, but alas, I would be lying. Yes, I did a lot of complaining about the gloopy icky moments between the Doctor and Rose, and their time has effectively passed...
But what's coming over the next thirteen episodes is my favorite series of Doctor Who, in which the Tenth Doctor travels, sometimes reluctantly, with the brilliant and beautiful Martha Jones. This would be the Martha Jones, lest we forget, whom he hand-picked from a hospital full of clever doctors and nurses and students, and did not just haphazardly rescue from a basement full of monsters. Look for plenty of Cringeworthy Moments to be related to her sadness and his utter cluelessness, and plenty of Fangirl Moments to be instances of vindication for Martha where her love for the Doctor is concerned.
I promise to try and remain focused on the value of the moments, on the things that make the stories work, and try to keep in mind what I know, in spite of myself, to be true: unrequited love makes for compelling television, and this angst-ridden partnership was created with that in mind. If the Doctor had thrown caution to the wind and simply taken on a new Companion to replace Rose as the love of his recent life, then it would have been crass, in light of things. With all that, I must give proper credit to Freema Agyeman whose role as second-fiddle has been two-fold, and whose lot as Martha Jones has been sometimes thankless!
Anyway, allons-y.
But what's coming over the next thirteen episodes is my favorite series of Doctor Who, in which the Tenth Doctor travels, sometimes reluctantly, with the brilliant and beautiful Martha Jones. This would be the Martha Jones, lest we forget, whom he hand-picked from a hospital full of clever doctors and nurses and students, and did not just haphazardly rescue from a basement full of monsters. Look for plenty of Cringeworthy Moments to be related to her sadness and his utter cluelessness, and plenty of Fangirl Moments to be instances of vindication for Martha where her love for the Doctor is concerned.
I promise to try and remain focused on the value of the moments, on the things that make the stories work, and try to keep in mind what I know, in spite of myself, to be true: unrequited love makes for compelling television, and this angst-ridden partnership was created with that in mind. If the Doctor had thrown caution to the wind and simply taken on a new Companion to replace Rose as the love of his recent life, then it would have been crass, in light of things. With all that, I must give proper credit to Freema Agyeman whose role as second-fiddle has been two-fold, and whose lot as Martha Jones has been sometimes thankless!
Anyway, allons-y.