#Martha deserved and deserves better

[blackladynerd]

Every nu Who companion was mentioned except Martha! WTF?! 🤬

[robiniswriting]

martha jones is stronger than the us marines because i think i would have killed anyone that treated me the way the doctor treated her in cold blood. he starts off their time together by kissing her passionately in a hospital hallway and when she’s like “who are you omg?” he starts waxing poetic to her about this random girl she’s never met. and then he ends their time together by having homoerotic tension with and then sobbing over the body of a man who just made her have the worst year of her life. its a wonder she didn’t go apeshit

[shot-in-the-sky]

Unproblematic Besties

[princess-pine-cone]

[heavensententhusiast]

[accio-motivation]

[tangerinelabyrinth]

If I was Martha, I would have let the Doctor eat nothing but pears.

[aletterinthenameofsanity]

Does it ever hit you that Martha sat down in New New York and told the Doctor that she needed his honesty more than she needed to go home and that religious music played in the background at that scene and it was almost framed as a confession, in the most religious sense, and go a little bit feral? That as early as her third episode, she was framed as his equal, equally divine, equally a doctor, able to confront him, able to make him honest, able to sympathize with him, able to abide with him? That so few companions have ever spent so much time in one time period with the Doctor (1969/1913, for example), being with him/her, not running, just staying? That for every fucking thing Ten did wrong as John Smith/after coming back to himself in Human Nature/Family of Blood, he trusted her enough to leave himself vulnerable and human in her care, because he trusted her as a Doctor, because she was just as much a Doctor as he was? That Martha was, more than any other companion of the Tenth Doctor's, his equal, that her final speech about not being second was not just talking about her not being second best to Rose but about being second best to him? That she finally understood what had been true from the moment that they met and she closed Stoker's eyes and the Doctor realized that she had not just bravery and cleverness but a kindness that he had forgotten, that Martha Jones, more than anything else, has been and always will be The Doctor?

[leikeliscomet]

You think Martha deserved better because you think her being attracted to Ten is some moral failing she needed to correct I think Martha deserved better bc the misogynoir in S3 in the show and fandom was so rampant that Freema Agyeman, other Black and mixed actors and fans are dealing with the repercussions over a decade later we're not the same

[khruschevshoe]

You think being dumped by text is hard? Imagine being one of the Tenth Doctor's exes (or not-quite-exes, we're counting brutal platonic break-ups here too).

[cactiaintracist]

Time travel tropes/concepts in Doctor Who:

Stepping on a butterfly

Grandfather paradox

Living proof

The Shakespeare Code (2007) // Space Babies & the Devil’s Chord (2024)

[willowcrowley]

Martha my love, you'll always be my favourite.

You need to be talked about more (⁠￣⁠(⁠ｴ⁠)⁠￣⁠)

[sillylittlegaymer]

Marfa i love herrrrr i need to marry herrrrrr please

[blackladynerd]

Martha definitely doesn’t need her own Doctor like Rose or Donna but…an apology? A mention? Some acknowledgment of her existence? That’s all I ask.

[juviavevo]

finding out ncuti gatwa is the new doctor, david tennant is returning for 3 specials and rtd is returning as a writer so you excitingly decide to rewatch all of doctor who (2005) again since 2014: no fear

actually rewatching doctor who (2005) again and realising that the rtd1 era was more antiblack than you remembered it to be and he’s now also writing the first black (main) doctor: one fear

[robiniswriting]

the reason why the doctor and martha never worked out romantically is because you gotta be a little deranged for the doctor to like you like that. martha had good self care, a healthy level of self love, and no predisposition towards codependency whatsoever. put more simply, she was way too good for him and he knew it 😭