I think the absolute worst and least forgivable mistake RTD has ever made was to make the first primary black companion on TV Doctor Who the first (and I really hope only ever) companion to be consciously conceived and written as "the one the Doctor didn't like as much as the previous one".
think the absolute worst and least forgivable mistake RTD has ever made was to make the first primary black companion on TV Doctor Who the first (and I really hope only ever) companion to be consciously conceived and written as "the one the Doctor didn't like as much as the previous one". Ditto. I think even Davies feels this now
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You make a good point about the TV Joan being a nicer character than the book's version!
I accept that putting Martha in a caring role for the Doctor does turn the tables in an interesting way. But you're right about the unrequited love thread being at its most cringeworthy here, and anyway this is a story about the Doctor and Joan with Martha in it, whereas the book was a story about the Doctor and Benny with Joan in it.
I've looked around for other accounts of the Gallifrey interview. There are three clips on YouTube, but none of them covers that point.
I'm afraid that I didn't form an impression of Freema's perfume! But I suspect it was discreet and sensible. A Facebook friend of mind who works with her outside the entertainment business messaged me to say. "We have many actor clients and she is probably the nicest, most grounded and just plain bright of the lot of them. And frankly one of the prettiest, too."
I accept that putting Martha in a caring role for the Doctor does turn the tables in an interesting way. Martha starts her travels with the Doctor as a care giver--saving his life with very incorrect television CPR so that he can save the others, and women of color as care givers is not necessarily a novel image. I hesitiate to view the solution of having the hero take his Black female companion to the past and having her assume a subservient position as anything but convenient. At best the sceario fulfilled the audience's stereotypical assumptions of the relationships between black and white Britons at the time. But as you pointed out, the teleplay Human Nature was a love story between Joan and The Doctor, and Martha's only role was as observer.
In all the interviews with her co-stars and others for the Carrie Dairies, Freema has the same reputation, decent, grounded, and just lovely to look at. Again, thank you for sharing.
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I accept that putting Martha in a caring role for the Doctor does turn the tables in an interesting way. But you're right about the unrequited love thread being at its most cringeworthy here, and anyway this is a story about the Doctor and Joan with Martha in it, whereas the book was a story about the Doctor and Benny with Joan in it.
I've looked around for other accounts of the Gallifrey interview. There are three clips on YouTube, but none of them covers that point.
I'm afraid that I didn't form an impression of Freema's perfume! But I suspect it was discreet and sensible. A Facebook friend of mind who works with her outside the entertainment business messaged me to say. "We have many actor clients and she is probably the nicest, most grounded and just plain bright of the lot of them. And frankly one of the prettiest, too."
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In all the interviews with her co-stars and others for the Carrie Dairies, Freema has the same reputation, decent, grounded, and just lovely to look at. Again, thank you for sharing.
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