I still may never forgive the Who writing team for just not giving us a well-rounded character when it came to Martha. I seriously think they gave us more in one episode for Rose's dead father than we got most of the series with Martha. Most the time I had no idea of her drive, other than she was in "love" with the Doctor. Which...I guess really was her drive? But then some of the time she didn't even really seem to like or care about the Doctor - or rather, parts of the Doctor... It was just really sloppy, IMO.
But it is nice that they showed an actual *positive* companion departure. Well, positive for Martha. The four people before her that the Doctor traveled with in New Who just did not end up well. Adam: hole in head. Jack: immortally alone. Mickey: in AU (but probably happier). Rose: in AU. Even the person he tried to travel with - Reinette - wound up waiting for him for the rest of her life.
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I still may never forgive the Who writing team for just not giving us a well-rounded character when it came to Martha. I seriously think they gave us more in one episode for Rose's dead father than we got most of the series with Martha. Most the time I had no idea of her drive, other than she was in "love" with the Doctor. Which...I guess really was her drive? But then some of the time she didn't even really seem to like or care about the Doctor - or rather, parts of the Doctor... It was just really sloppy, IMO.
But it is nice that they showed an actual *positive* companion departure. Well, positive for Martha. The four people before her that the Doctor traveled with in New Who just did not end up well. Adam: hole in head. Jack: immortally alone. Mickey: in AU (but probably happier). Rose: in AU. Even the person he tried to travel with - Reinette - wound up waiting for him for the rest of her life.