Thank you. I actually wrote it before the song prompt arrived, and it just fitted like a glove. That kind of romantic frustration can bring out a vicious side in the nicest people.
My friend joely_jo originally mentioned the American flag, though I added the Rose spin to it. I think it was the Short Read novel, "I am a Dalek" that had the two of them messing around in Zero G getting ready for a lunar trip, and it just went from there.
That's right, and I recall them in their spacesuits taking the leap from the TARDIS doorway and landing in the pub. I was laughing at that part as I could so see them doing that.
I still rather wish they hadn't gone with the romantic, unrequited love thing. They must have had their reasons, and time will tell, but it really did diminish her. I've been in her position and a lot of that hurt fed into this story.
The dream of being allowed to love him. She wouldn’t presume to be loved in return.
That really resonated. He wouldn't even allow her to love him. There's a lot right there in that first episode, when she's teasing him about kissing her and he's saying "Stop it, now!"
I like the way you write Martha, a brave, loving, and resourceful woman who had the bad luck simply to be the wrong person at the wrong time.
You're spot on about Martha. As time passes my opinion of her grows, and I'm looking forward to seeing her again in S4. I still haven't quite worked out his motivations in Smith and Jones. I wonder if his behaviour in TRB and Donna's reaction to it had actually scared him, so he grabbed another companion with very conflicted feelings, and he charmed her aboard because he knew he could do that standing on his head. If you won't admit how needy you are emotionally,chances are you'll miss the signs of a naturally compassionate woman falling hard for you.
In the little deleted scene from DiM, it's so painfully obvious that the situation is spinning out of his control, and he keeps trying to put her in her place. Such an interesting dynamic.
He is being an absolute git in this, and it's unforgivable, but at the same time I feel so, so sorry for him (and for Martha); Rose really has taken so much of him with her, hasn't she? :(
I agree so much with your assessment - and there were so many times when just a few words of explanation would have saved so much hurt on both sides, but he wasn't even prepared to do that for her. At times he almost seemed to take a perverse pleasure in her getting the wrong impression. Realistic, and so very sad.
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“There was this thing with the American flag, wasn’t there?” she recalled. “Why it was flapping when there’s no atmosphere on the Moon.”
He looked awkward and poked at his eye. “Oh, that was me. Took a thirty-first century leaf blower. We had a good laugh about that.”
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That really resonated. He wouldn't even allow her to love him. There's a lot right there in that first episode, when she's teasing him about kissing her and he's saying "Stop it, now!"
I like the way you write Martha, a brave, loving, and resourceful woman who had the bad luck simply to be the wrong person at the wrong time.
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In the little deleted scene from DiM, it's so painfully obvious that the situation is spinning out of his control, and he keeps trying to put her in her place. Such an interesting dynamic.
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He is being an absolute git in this, and it's unforgivable, but at the same time I feel so, so sorry for him (and for Martha); Rose really has taken so much of him with her, hasn't she? :(
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