Doctoring the Doctor...

[dangermousie]

Mr. Mousie's view of Martha:

"She is annoying."

Heh.

Two eps in, I was neutral on Martha, with a mild like. If it keeps going like ep 3, I'll end up disliking her. Seriously. Mainly because there is no dramatic tension. Though more likely because she just doesn't have a strong presence. Tennant is kinda a crazy whirlwind, and she can't keep up.

Oh well.

The third episode of Doctor Who was rough in general. Seriously. BORING. Except for the stuff about Gallifrey in the beginning, and stuff with face of Boe at the very end, I was bored bored BORED. Were the writers on vacation that day?

I really find it interesting that the Doctor is completely shut down with Martha. She has to drag anything personal out of him with plyers. He keeps deflecting. Probably because he got burned getting close and personal before. I wish I could sympathize with her, but I don't get a strong sense of anything out of her. Also, if her biggest problem is that a cute guy she recently met and might like isn't sharing his deep dark secrets with her? Welcome to the human race.

And ohhhh, the bit when she is all 'did the face of Boe mean you are not alone because you have me?' and he is all flatly 'no.' Heh. She keeps flirting and it's not taking. Clearly the Doctor is not the only one not really familiar with the term 'rebound.'

But seriously. I know we can't have Rose back. Fine. But either give Martha some interesting personality or I am going to spend this season waiting for Donna next season. Or a Jack appearance. Or the Master. Whoever. Someone to bounce of Tennant, at least.

Comments

[yavannie77.livejournal.com]

After watching the first third or so of the S3 last night (yup, I'm accidentally in your exact schedule with DW now), I'm still not sure about Martha, either. But then again, I just about got used to Tennant as the Tenth Doctor, because I just loved Eccleston's Nine and it was so hard to "let go". So I'm more than willing to give Martha a chance. It took me a whole season to really be convinced by Tennant... (He got to me alright in the end, heh.)

But I do have to say I wasn't impressed by Martha's ignorance in the Shakespeare Code. She didn't know Shakespeare had a son called Hamnet? Well, duh... But the Harry Potter references were funny, I love the idea of the Doctor reading the seventh book ahead of time and crying. :) Awww.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

I got used to Tennant as the Doctor (after loving Eccleston to bits) in about ten minutes. No idea why.

Re: ignorance. That was sort of an annoying McGuffin. I'd buy that barely-educated Rose wouldn't know, but Martha? Who graduated from the University? In Britain? Come on.

Doctor crying at Harry Potter is definitely FTW :P