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[rynne]

So Twin is home, and she brought her Doctor Who DVDs with her. I finally got around to watching the S3 Confidentials, and there was something RTD said about Martha in the Smith and Jones one that sorta struck me.

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[shinyopals]

My disconnect with Martha is both similar and different to yours.

On paper, I am her. I could have gone into medicine if I'd wanted (but I have more sense), two nights out is “dangerously close to a social life”, I don't live with my family, I'm the same socio-economic class, all that kind of thing.

I also sympathise with the unrequited love thing. But the thing is, when I first watched s3 I was head-over-heels for my then boyfriend and in complete denial that our relationship was not working and he was no longer interested in me, picking up on all the little signs and ignoring the big ones. And because of that denial, I was convinced I was not like Martha. No way. My boyfriend loved me, we had a real relationship

[shinyopals]

Also, DT's video diaries are almost too much pretty to contain. I am surprised the DVDs don't burst into flames.

[rynne]

:D I was pretty much always struck either by how sexy he is, how adorable he is, or how unfair it is that he can be both sexy and adorable at the same time when I don't know anyone else like that. *g*

[rynne]

DW--well, fandom in general, since I've been involved in several over the years--is also my escapism. And some things in fandom have at times hit too close to home for my own comfort (I can't read suicide or attempted suicide, for instance, because I've had a close family member attempt it once (whereas before that happened, though it wasn't something I enjoyed reading, I could without getting triggered), and if I saw that in a canon I love, I don't know how I would react), so I understand how you feel. I'm sorry you had that kind of experience. *hugs*

On paper, Martha's closer to me than Rose is, and really neither of them react to things quite like I would, but Rose is a closer match, and I can just understand her a whole lot better than I do Martha.

[goldy_dollar]

I guess on paper, I'm closer to a "Martha" than a "Rose," but... I never really *got* any of the decisions Martha made in S3. They certainly weren't decisions I would have made in her place. She was a university student who... basically didn't seem to care at all about studying or making it back in time for exams. I DID NOT UNDERSTAND. :D

As for the unrequited love plotline... I guess I've since decided to see that more about Martha's insecurities than anything else. She's smart, she's going to be a doctor, but she constantly compares herself to a woman that she never met and who the Doctor has only said a few words about, and seems to need the Doctor's approval/love in order to validate herself. So the fact that she takes a stand in the end and realizes that she only needs her OWN self-respect is something that I find really positive. In that sense, I can almost explain it away as not having much to do with the Doctor at all.

[rynne]

She was a university student who... basically didn't seem to care at all about studying or making it back in time for exams. I DID NOT UNDERSTAND. :D*g* I got that bit. She never saw him make a blunder driving the TARDIS, so she would have assumed that he could get her back with maybe only a day or two having passed, where she'd have no difficulty picking up her life. The only time the TARDIS didn't go where the Doctor told it was in Utopia, which was the beginning of the end. Also, I sorta have to wonder about the timing of his asking her. Would she have been so eager if she hadn't just come from another instance of her family's slow implosion? I think wanting to get away from that was a factor in her decision to go with the Doctor. But yeah, I took a year and a half off my university studies, so maybe I can understand wanting time away from that. :p