mrv3000 | *ponders*

I think Martha wins.

Okay, I haven't yet seen *all* of the classic series, but a lot. I was thinking about this last night - Martha's come out better than just about any other companion, hasn't she?

Pros:

She's alive.
Her family is in one piece.
She's back in the same time *and* the same place as where she started, and so has the choice to pick up where she left off.
Her mother's back with her father. (I'm guessing this is a pro.)
Her family remembers everything to know how completely awesome she is. Also, she has people to talk to about her travels, without them wanting to lock her away.
No weird physical changes (i.e., immortal or hole in the head)
Came to realization to move on with her life now instead of 20 years later. (i.e., Sarah Jane)
Got to go out saying everything she wanted to say, as well as realizing that she's worth something on her own without needing to compare herself to someone else.
Has hot pediatrician to chase after.
Has the Doctor on speed-dial.

Cons:

She lost her flat. *BOOM*
Didn't get that kind of relationship she wanted with the Doctor.

I'm trying to think if any other companions came out better.

Ian and Barbara - They'd probably be the biggest competition for Martha, I'm thinking. They went back to their same time and place. Probably settled down and had a couple of kids... But they don't have the Doctor on speed-dial. That's a preeetty big trump card.

Jamie and Zoe - They got their lives back, but they didn't remember their time with the Doctor. That sucks.

Liz and Jo - I kinda want to put them off in a different category, since they were around during the Earth-bound years, and never did that "TARDIS life" thing. They wound up in the same time and place because they never really went anywhere.

Some wound up a bit better off in the end than when they started, like Leela. And Romana as well, probably - she wound up as another dimension's Time Lord instead of whatever she was doing on Gallifrey before. (Wasn't she working for some government department or something?) But their lives were still drastically altered.

The cool thing about Martha is she was also drastically altered, but it was all *internal.* For all intents and purposes, she's got her life back exactly where she left it. But what she does with it now is really what she'll make of it. That's rather snifty. I think I'm more interested in post-Doctor Martha than with-Doctor Martha. And so I think it could be cool to see her pop up once or twice in S4.

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I really liked that Martha got to keep all the experience she got during the year that wasn't. And I really hope she pops up again with all her new skill intact and gets to save the planet a few more times, because as much as I didn't quite like her at the beginning, she's really grown on me.

I said in another post that I thought she'd make a better ex-companion than a companion. After this episode, I actually wouldn't mind seeing her again as opposed to everything up to this point, when I was just so DONE with the character. But with the Doctor, she was always going to be doing that comparing thing in her head. As well as in spite of *logically* knowing the Doctor was never going to have that kind of relationship with her, emotionally she probably would still be hoping for it. And she's just kind of held back when she's like that.

I'd metaed about Martha having her own perception filter when it came to the Doctor a while back. Nice to see she's got it completely off now.

And while I'm a total lurker on your lj and don't even know if you do Eureka, I thought I might pimp this to you: http://jennyo.livejournal.com/813129.html?view=8992329

Nope, never seen Eureka. :)

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