#Martha Russell

[little-dikdik]

Russell family, Riverside. Trent, a crazy grandpa, Martha with her teenage son Josh and her friend, Claire. Clare has hots for her father for whatever reason... Meanwhile Josh is stuck in a love triangle between Danielle and Melissa Brooke.

[tv-moments]

Extrapolations

Season 1, “2070: Ecocide”

Director: Michael Morris

DoP: Jaime Reynoso

[akajustmerry]

What did Russel T Davies do to Freema Agyeman? (I love her and I need to know who i have to kill and why)

I love her too! But to answer your questions: RTD wrote Martha Jones in a racialised way that made her more susceptible to fan racism than she already was as a visibly Black woman. He wrote Ten in a way that he's straight up cruel to her, doesn't protect her from racism or even have the same level of empathy for her as other white companions. To this day, discussing the racism Freema endured at the hands of fans as a result of the way RTD wrote Martha has brought Freema to tears. Princess Weekes dropped a whole video essay on the racism in the way Martha and Mickey were written, which you can watch here. Also, I've shared this article before but this is a great breakdown of the Misogynoir in Martha's characterisation <3

[leikeliscomet]

'Ten should've treated Martha better by acknowledging time travelling as a Black person and not comparing her to Rose' and 'Ten and Martha were an interesting duo by having a doctor x doctor pairing an had some great character moments' and 'RTD's handling of race in s3 was dookie' and 'Martha had great character traits and many Black fans felt seen by her' need to coexist. Because I feel like bc of the way things went down in s3 people think Martha never wanted to travel with Ten AT ALL or she would never wanna travel in space or time ever again. All this 'she hates the Doctor' 'she wouldn't wanna come back' whoa hold on now...

[variousqueerthings]

rtd first era is like

s1: awkward closed-off secretly (not so secretly) silly alien learns to feel things again because of a woman who feels so much and isn't afraid to challenge the silly alien on the importance of these feelings

s2: formerly awkward closed-off secretly (not so secretly) silly alien feels so hard that there's no defense left against an inevitable loss that both alien and woman pretended wasn't going to happen

s3: silly alien now bleeding uncontrollably everywhere, but a doctor comes along and does triage on the wounds. experience deeply traumatises this doctor and her whole family and she has to leave

s4: silly alien now in some tricky equilibrium, tries to balance bleeding heart with living, made easier because of a very special woman who understands on some intimate level the struggle of this balance. things looking up on the whole. but watch out

specials: oh no oh no oh no oh dear

[brekkerholmes]

you start doctor who thinking it'll be a fun little series about an alien having adventures through time and space and you end up watching this mf suffer for 47 episodes straight

(edit: no spoilers please! i still have the end of time pt1 and pt2 left to watch😭 wish me luck)

(edit 2: i already watched them and i'm devastated)

[badxwolf]

“[Donna, Martha, Rose, Jack, Sarah Jane and Mickey] were all created to show off Doctor Who’s central premise: the world and the universe is wonderful, ordinary people can do great things, and the human race survives.”

- Russell T Davies, The Writers Tale

[topsee-turvee]

10 Years - 10 Moments

The Americans (2013)

[unnamedmedicalprofessional]

I don't think either approach is bad but there's a certain irony in RTD era companions travelling full time with The Doctor but the audience sees their families a lot, but Moffat's companions travel part time but the audience hardly sees their family.

[unfriendlyneighbourhoodhorror]

[juviavevo]

finding out ncuti gatwa is the new doctor, david tennant is returning for 3 specials and rtd is returning as a writer so you excitingly decide to rewatch all of doctor who (2005) again since 2014: no fear

actually rewatching doctor who (2005) again and realising that the rtd1 era was more antiblack than you remembered it to be and he’s now also writing the first black (main) doctor: one fear

[casasupernovas]

these photos send me over the edge every time, they really had no idea what vibe they were going for:

recently married pastor and first lady? teacher couple working in waterloo road?

or frasier crane's new best friends? carrie bradshaw's frenemy (meta) and mr big's worst nightmare? earth two olivia pope and fitzgerald grant???

Edit:

I raise you...Me and Mrs Jones. They got a thinnnnnng. Going awn.

[querade]

god...the impact of david tennant's acting...

coping with doodles!

[calmingthoughtsinyourhead]

Do you ever think about how the RTD companion kisses perfectly sum up their relationships with the Doctor?

The doctor kissed (and kinda died for) Rose to save her

The doctor kissed Martha because he was using her

And Donna kissed the Doctor to save him

[stargazerlily7210]

Anyone who claims to be a fan of the original RTD/New Who era while arguing that 2023 Doctor Who is too preachy/progressive/message focused is a fraud.

With episodes like The Long Game, Gridlock, Planet of the Ood, etc. It's been like this since day one.

I specifically remember Planet of the Ood, and the Ood in general being one of the the show's biggest triumphs at the time. I wasn't even really aware of Doctor Who when that episode came out. I didn't get into the show until 4 yrs later. But I knew about the Ood. EVERYONE loved the Ood.

And that episode was waaay more preachy and pointed than anything we were shown in 2023.

If it's suddenly too preachy for you, you need to ask yourself some big questions about why that might be. Because it's not Doctor Who that has changed.

[icedsodapop]

Okay, biased Martha Jones stan here but like, it just doesnt make sense to me that Donna would name her daughter Rose when it's literally established in Donna's companion era that she and Martha got along fabulously when they met each other while Donna and Rose were polite acquaintances at best, abrasive at worst?? Did rtd forget about this?

Oh and there's also the slight issue of Donna having her memories as a companion erased, no biggie.