boo grr why still having this conversation?
One oft-repeated fandom comment that will instantly bring out the claws and the stabbing eye-pain: "Martha should have been so cool, I thought she was going to be so cool and intelligent and everything, and then she just fell in love with the Doctor."
Do I really have to say it? Being in love with someone does not make you unintelligent. It does not make you less cool or less "kick-ass," unless of course the only definition of "kick-ass" we are willing to entertain is one that involves feeling no emotions. Because that's what soppy girls do. I mean, you don't have to have wanted Martha to fall in love with the Doctor, or be happy about the way that plotline played out. That's fine. But to say that a character is somehow less because she loves? What is THAT?
...Well, it's crap, is what it is. And seriously, what part of "saving the world every bloody week" is not "cool"? The fact that Martha loves the Doctor but isn't blinded by him, puts that aside to do what needs doing? Only makes me love her even more. This meme of "Martha never did anything but moon about over the Doctor" is pure and total crap from beginning to end, and it makes me so mad, because it's not even just about Martha--it's about what we allow in and expect from our heroines, and that is so, so limiting, to suggest that love is weak and worthless and makes it impossible for someone to be amazing.
Do I really have to say it? Being in love with someone does not make you unintelligent. It does not make you less cool or less "kick-ass," unless of course the only definition of "kick-ass" we are willing to entertain is one that involves feeling no emotions. Because that's what soppy girls do. I mean, you don't have to have wanted Martha to fall in love with the Doctor, or be happy about the way that plotline played out. That's fine. But to say that a character is somehow less because she loves? What is THAT?
...Well, it's crap, is what it is. And seriously, what part of "saving the world every bloody week" is not "cool"? The fact that Martha loves the Doctor but isn't blinded by him, puts that aside to do what needs doing? Only makes me love her even more. This meme of "Martha never did anything but moon about over the Doctor" is pure and total crap from beginning to end, and it makes me so mad, because it's not even just about Martha--it's about what we allow in and expect from our heroines, and that is so, so limiting, to suggest that love is weak and worthless and makes it impossible for someone to be amazing.