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The incomparable Martha Jones.
None of the Doctor’s Companions are less than extraordinary, but I feel Martha underwent some of the hardest trials of the recent Companions. While all the Companions have faced great danger and sacrifice, Martha had The Year That Never Existed. She had a year of knowing her family’s fate rested in the hands of an insane Time Lord, a year in which she traveled the world under deep privation, risking being killed at any time by any anonymous member of the Master’s forces, all to relay a story, an idea, to spread the legend of the Doctor so he could eventually save everyone. She did it alone, without any real hope of support or thanks or even a guarantee that it would work, under threat of death for herself, her family, and the Doctor, never knowing if this day her mother would die, or if her sister would be assaulted, or her father beaten and humiliated. If Jack would die yet again or the Doctor suffer more torture, and all of it, every bit of the fate of the world was lying in her hands.
This was not the harrowing experiences of Rose’s absorption of the time vortex, the tragedy of Donna being the most important person in the universe and then losing it all, of Amy and Rory’s whole lives being intertwined with the Doctor, of Clara going beyond the bound of death. Martha’s courage was not a dramatic statement, but a hard slog of devotion with no payoff for her other than a return of the status quo. And still she was able to gain the strength to move on with her life and make a differences for a long time down the road.
The incomparable Martha Jones, fellow Whovians.
one of the reasons why i appreciate the doctor standing up for bill is that back when i saw the family of blood two-part special, i was very disappointed with how the writers treated the bigotry and racism martha faced to protect the doctor, and it hurt me that the doctor never really stood up for her or even apologized after gaining his memories back for practically treating her as a servant. it made him look back. so i appreciate them finally recognizing the type of racism a companion like bill and martha would face and not have the doctor ignore it.
Regarding that Pearl Mackie rumour.
There’s a couple of posts going around, rapidly gaining traction, stating that Pearl Mackie has been ‘fired’ from Doctor Who after just one series. Source: The Sun. Small problem with this:
The Sun are LIARS. Also racists, transphobes, homophobes, every bad thing under the sun. (Pun actually not intended.) I cannot stress this enough. Even in the UK, they have no credibility whatsoever. They are our equivalent of Fox News. Don’t just take my word for it, read their Wikipedia page.
They’ve worked out by now that a fake Doctor Who story = lots of clicks. Observe:
(They also once ran a story about Harriet Jones being the Supreme Dalek (???), though all evidence of it beyond that one forum link is long gone)
Anyway, and this is the really important part, so important I’m gonna put it in bold and italic and header font:
The Sun did this exact. same. thing to the last Black actress to join Doctor Who in a lead role.
A few episodes into Freema Agyeman’s run as Martha Jones, the Sun claimed she was “axed” (Original article long gone: text of it can be found here) Everyone believed it; the result was distressing to Agyeman, as you can imagine –
And of course it wasn’t true. Freema Agyeman and Martha stuck around til series four.
I am SO PISSED OFF that The Sun did the same thing again, to another young black actress just starting out. So pissed off.
In fact, the bold header text is not enough to contain my pissed-off-ness.
The Sun is not a good newspaper. It is barely a newspaper. It is certainly not a credible source. It actively endangered people’s lives in the 80s with its lies about AIDS. It ruined many people’s lives in 1989 with its lies about the Hillsborough disaster. It published an article by human toilet (/frequent Sun contributor) Katie Hopkins calling for “cockroach” refugees to be gunned down. (Yes. That is a thing that really honestly happened.) It is nothing but lies, lies, racism, every other -ism, and lies. What wouldn’t I give to it, The Daily Mail and the Express gone from the shelves.
Do not believe what they’re saying about Pearl Mackie. Do not believe what they’re saying about anything. If you click on a Doctor Who story and see “The Sun” anywhere near it, immediately back away. They are scum. They are utter, utter scum.
Please spread this around with the same speed with which you would like to see Katie Hopkins punched in the face.