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Friday, March 4, 2011

The Great 30-Day Who MEME!!!! - Day Sixteen

What is your favorite Martha moment?

I am such a sucker for musicals...

The problem with Martha is.... HOW DO YOU PICK ONE MOMENT!? Martha is just so wonderful and badass!

I think though.... I think my favorite Martha moment is during the whole 'Human Nature/Family of Blood' fiasco. Here's Martha in a time period that's so hostile towards her, abandoned by the Doctor, heartbroken watching him fall in love with someone else when he finally gets the chance to fall in love, and instead of telling the Doctor where to shove his Tardis she keeps going. She holds aliens hostage, figures out what's going on with zero help, and never whines or complains or anything. Believe me, if I was in Martha's place I would be whining up a storm. Mostly over being black, female, and a maid in a time period that is not very friendly to people who are black, female, or lower class just so the Doctor can play Professor in a romanticized setting.

Yeah, that would turn me into Naggy Mc'Nag-nag.

So what about you? What's your favorite moment starring Martha?

Tomorrow: Favorite Donna moment!

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NB2000 115p · 734 weeks ago

Right, extremely bad post, the early Stolen Earth review has thrown me completely off schedule so I'm working on my Journey's End review atm.

MARTHA IS TOO WONDERFUL AND EVERY MOMENT OF HER IS AWESOME! That said, I had to chose the moment in Last of the Time Lords where she LAUGHS AT THE MASTER! He's about to execute her in front of her family and friends and she UTTERLY OWNS HIM.

Sorry no pictures or videos, didn't get a chance to go find any. You all know what moment I mean though right?

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Medli 141p · 734 weeks ago

This is tough! I love the one you mentioned, particularly when she names all the bones of the hand to Joan, but there's also her laughing in the Master's face in Last of the Time Lords, saving the day in Smith and Jones, walking the world in the Year That Never Was, the Expelliarmus moment... yeah, Martha's awesome.

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Dragon Elexus 124p · 734 weeks ago

I'm seconnding this, pretty much. In the later stretch of the season, Martha got pretty badass, and I suspect it was both being alone in 1913 and the Year That Never Was that made this happen.

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echinodermata 118p · 734 weeks ago

Bones of the hand! That scene reminds me so much of why I loved Martha since the beginning. She's knowlegeable, and is ready to make herself known and not shy away from confrontation. Because so much of season 3 was her having to prove her worth, her knocking it out of the park with medical knowledge just makes me want to flail and hug her. SHE IS AWESOME, and this to me was her crowning moment of awesome.

So many of her other crowning moments are somewhat tarred by the context, which is that Ten doesn't appreciate her enough. So bones of the hand is a scene that I can rewatch over and over without having to be reminded at every turn why I disliked her overall character arc.

Also? COMBATING RACISM, C'MON! That shit was amazing.

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psycicflower 114p · 734 weeks ago

THIS to your whole comment. I love Joan's face in the second last panel.

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fantasylover12001 · 734 weeks ago

Oh I love that scene and how her "Oh yeah, lady? Try me." attitude.

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Hypatia_ 99p · 734 weeks ago

It's gotta be when she leaves the TARDIS. "I spent all that time thinking I was second best, but you know what? I am good." YES YOU ARE MARTHA JONES. You not only saved the world, you spent a YEAR in constant danger with no help from anyone, including the Doctor, to do it. You are a first-class badass.

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flamingpie 89p · 734 weeks ago

I'm seconding this one. YOU TELL HIM MARTHA.

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bookling 93p · 734 weeks ago

YES. I so fucking cheered.

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__Jen__ 99p · 734 weeks ago

Ahhh I can't decide, so it's list time!

In no particular order:
1. Taking care of business in Human Nature/FoB - hands, tricking the aliens, resolving the cliffhanger, slapping ten and on and on.
2.Any time she opens a manual.
3. All of the dorky bits- worries about killing her grandfather, submarine movies, expelliarmus...
4. LAUGHING AT THE MASTER!
5. Leaving the Doctor
6. Calling up Hot!Doctor Tom
7. Interactions with the Hath

I could just keep going... CAN YOU TELL I LOVE MARTHA? :D

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psycicflower 114p · 734 weeks ago

Martha/Manual is the only ship that can challenge Martha/Tom for me. Well that and Martha/Dorky bits.

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PeterRabid 81p · 734 weeks ago

Pretty much everything, but my favorite would have to be at the end of "Gridlock," when she gets a chair and sits down, refusing to leave until Ten stops avoiding the subject.

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fantasylover12001 · 734 weeks ago

You guys said all my favorite moments so I'll just second them all and add in Stolen Earth because she was freaking awesome in that whole ep.

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hassibah 113p · 733 weeks ago

"I am good" hands down!

You know, since I can't say everything. "Expelliarmus" being first runner up.

Edit: OH shit the part where she saves the Doctor's ass in 42 is totally badass too. Um, damn.

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