{"id":273011,"date":"2013-06-16T05:18:12","date_gmt":"2013-06-16T05:18:12","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2013-06-16T05:18:12","modified_gmt":"2013-06-16T05:18:12","slug":"tensbluebox-oodlyenough-burntlikethesun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2013\/06\/16\/tensbluebox-oodlyenough-burntlikethesun\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

tensbluebox<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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oodlyenough<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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burntlikethesun<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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burntlikethesun<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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\u00a0I don\u2019t like how we\u2019re led to\u00a0side\u00a0with the Doctor when he\u2019s behaving rudely<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

psa if u think ur supposed to side with ten on the occasions inS3 when he is rude to martha or treats her unfairly then ding dong u are wrong<\/p>\n

the entire series is written from her POV, as were the previous and following series written from the POV of rose and donna. the camera focuses on her reactions to his interactions with her, you get cutaway shots of her whenever he talk about rose because you are meant to sympathise with her. when she talks to characters like tallulah or cheen or jenny or john smith or chantho or the people of earth when she is walking the world- about him, you are meant to feel for her <\/em>not ten.<\/em>\u00a0and when she \u2018gets out\u2019 of her unrequited love situation you\u2019re meant to cheer for her\u00a0<\/p>\n

the very notion that someone would create a companion for the specific purpose of \u2018being hated\u2019 is ludicrous<\/p>\n

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yeah i find the prevalent attitude that s3\/rtd \u201cwanted us to hate martha\u201d really baffling \u2014 if people hated martha that\u2019s on them, that\u2019s not what the text was asking of them. like you said, if we were meant to hate martha and side exclusively with ten we wouldn\u2019t have shots of martha looking sad every time he was mean to her, we wouldn\u2019t have scenes where martha talks to others about her POV, we wouldn\u2019t have her \u201cgetting out\u201d scene, etc<\/p>\n

the other day i saw someone angry that the master calls martha \u201cuseless\u201d and mentions \u201ccompanions that could absorb the time vortex\u201d \u2014 but like, it\u2019s the master? he\u2019s clearly the villain and he\u2019s clearly taunting martha and we\u2019re clearly not meant to think the master is right.<\/p>\n

the other thing is that the way martha\u2019s exit is written, even if you\u2019ve spent all of s3 obliviously seeing only ten\u2019s perspective and only thinking about \u201cbawww rose\u201d etc, her \u201cgetting out\u201d speech should<\/em> be a wake-up call for you, just like it is for ten.<\/p>\n

but yeah clearly martha was designed to be hated because rtd hates her and he wanted the audience to think she sucked.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

#also it is not impossible to sympathize with both ten and martha at the same time for different reasons<\/a>\u00a0#i know in fandom the attitude is that neither can live while the other survives<\/a>\u00a0#one has to be 100% at fault and one has to be 100% victim<\/a>\u00a0#but that is not actually the case<\/a>\u00a0(via oodlyenough<\/a>)
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tensbluebox: oodlyenough: burntlikethesun: burntlikethesun: \u00a0I don\u2019t like how we\u2019re led to\u00a0side\u00a0with the Doctor when he\u2019s behaving rudely psa if u think ur supposed to side with ten on the occasions inS3 when he is rude to martha or treats her unfairly then ding dong u are wrong the entire series is written from her POV, … <\/p>\n

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