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gilithan:

jedilock:

how you write a female character in unrequited love with a man who doesn’t love her back: martha jones💯👌
how you NOT write a female character in unrequited love with a man who doesn’t love her back: molly hooper🚨👎👎👎

martha jones wouldnt shut up about how the doctor doesnt love her, her entire character arc centered around that, her entire relationship with the doctor was about that. she was an awful character

No it wasn’t. (And she wasn’t.)

Martha’s arc is about the battle between being the Doctor and being… a doctor. When she walks the earth to save the world, she’s the Doctor. When she helps the Hath and mourns his death, she’s a regular helpless human doctor. When she tells the German woman at the Oesterhagen station to kill her so she won’t have to choose to use the Key, she’s both. It’s a great conflict and it’s there. It’s there when she holds her head up high and leaves the TARDIS, deciding her own self-respect and her own family are more important than what the Doctor has to offer her. It’s there when she starts defending the earth on her own terms rather than the Doctor’s. It’s there when she calls out the racism around her, something the Doctor has never had to face.

She’s a great character. Clever, compassionate (she bears no ill will towards Rose, her love rival for ages, when she meets her!) and full of life. She’s important. I love her.

And that’s a very unsettling definition of ‘never shuts up about’ considering she kept her love for the Doctor quite under wraps for the most part and never once let it get in the way of things she had to do.