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MARTHA JONES, HUMAN WOMAN
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Top Ten: Martha Jones is Flawless
2. Journey’s End (4x13)The moment is easily one of my favourites ever, not just for Martha but in the whole Doctor Who series. Martha was in love with the Doctor, but when she shows up to help save the world and sees Rose, she’s just happy for them. No jealousy, no cattiness, just ‘oh my god, he found you,’ because Martha Jones is strong and so infinitely classy. After everything that she went through, after all the heartbreak, feeling like she was second-best, the year that never was - after all these things, Martha is just completely happy for him. To me, the amazingness of this scene was nothing to do with Doctor/Rose and everything to do with Martha Jones being one of the classiest and most flawless characters in Who history. It must have hurt her to see them together but she’s not jealous - she’s simply glad they found each other. Not many people are so wonderfully selfless and empathetic.
The thing some people don’t seem to realize about Martha Jones is that she bears no ill will towards her romantic rivals. Oh, yeah, she gets angry—at the Doctor, for sticking Rose up on a pedestal and using her as an excuse to snub Martha in completely unrelated situations. But I can’t think of any place where Martha lays in on Rose herself.
And for fuck’s sake, look at the way she interacts with Joan Redfern. She has every reason to resent Joan—she’s heartbroken that the fobwatched Doctor is falling in love with Joan and not her, the addition of romantic complications makes Martha’s job a hundred times more difficult, and Joan is constantly being a condescending douchebag and trying to keep Martha ‘in her place.’ And Martha? Doesn’t even appear to consider venting her spleen on Joan herself. She hates the entire situation and the Doctor’s failure to plan for it; why bother to take it out on some poor woman who’s fallen in love with an artificial creation?
And that’s Martha all over. She’s all about the task at hand. When the romance interferes with that, she’s not pleased. When the romantic unpleasantness is because Ten is a dick, she’s doubly displeased. But she has no instinctive bitterness towards the other women themselves.
I also just want to state for the record that I love how this scene features Rose’s instant Martha Jones Appreciation Society.
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Wholock: Martha Jones and Molly Hooper studied medicine together
ENTER NEW HEADCANON.
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NEW HEADCANON ACCEPTED.
Yep. This is definitely going in my book.
The flirty happy smiles! omg yess.
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AU MEME →Martha, Rory and River as mutants.
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The Doctor: I lied to you, cos I liked it. I could pretend, just for a bit, I could imagine they were still alive underneath the burnt orange sky. (pause) I’m not just a Time Lord. I’m the last of the Time Lords. The Face of Boe was wrong, there’s no one else.
Martha: What happened? (As the singing continues, the Doctor takes a chair and sits opposite Martha)
The Doctor: There was a war, a time war. The Last Great Time War. My people fought a race called the Daleks for the sake of all creation, and they lost. We lost. Everyone lost. They’re all gone now, my family, my friends, even that sky. (pause; the Doctor begins to well up as he speaks) Oh, you should have seen it, that old planet. The second sun would rise in the south and the mountains would shine. The leaves on the trees were silver and when they caught the light every morning, it looked like a forest on fire…Doctor Who Episode Posters 3.03 - Gridlock
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Reblog ALL the Freema squee faces!
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YOUR FACE, MADAM
IT IS AN EXCELLENT FACE
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Things that need to happen: Martha Jones, River Song, and Ace McShane walk into a bar.
No wait, scratch that. River and Ace get into a bar fight after a vehement disagreement about weaponry, Martha is the only one there with the brass cojones to wade in and break it up, and the three of them end up comparing battle scars over drinks.
All I conclude from this photo set is that when Ace is on the scene, I care only about Ace.
In a post about badass companions, we have pictures of two (white) women looking directly at the camera, holding guns. The other (black) woman, described in the text as being “the only one there with the brass cojones” to break up a bar fight, is looking down and being all demure.
Does anyone else see what’s wrong with this picture?
Ouch, sorry, didn’t even think of the implications of the gif selection when I put the post up! If it’s any consolation, I picked the Martha shot specifically because it is my FAVORITE CROWNING MOMENT OF BADASSERY of hers, and was too fixated on “YAY I get to post Martha laughing in the Master’s fucking face, look at this stone-cold BAMF” to pay attention to how it would look out of context.
If any of my followers have gifs of combat-gear!Martha staring down the camera, PLEASE COMMENCE SPAMMING, it will brighten my evening and you will probably get another photoset out of it. Yes, I am shameless enough to bribe y’all with the prospect of more Martha/River/Ace in exchange for moar Martha gifs.
Ask and ye shall receive! (I realize this is a promo shot, not a gif, because in these scenes Martha is mostly holding very still so the toclafane don’t notice her, and flirting with Tom Milligan. Both of which are also great, but this shot is excellent.)
