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