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🚨👎👎👎Why? What are the differences?
The difference is that Martha spent her entire season jealous of her crush’s ex girlfriend, spent an entire year devoting her life as a kind of apostle for her crush’s gospel, in a way, then left the show completely after only one season, only returning for one small and disappointing cameo, ultimately being an awesome but woefully neglected character. I am completely mystified as to how this is better in any way, TBH?
No wait I figured it out. Both Molly and Martha threw a wrench into the big popular ship of their respective shows, and the characters were both widely insulted by the big shippers. But Martha was written out after only one season. So that’s the correct thing to do with female characters with unrequited love for a man who doesn’t love them back: quickly remove them.
Of course, that does rather beg the question as to why, if Martha was the better written character, she got years and years worth of hatred which has barely subsided even now and Molly is universally loved.
(Though we know the answer.)
