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acceber74:

Doctor Who appreciation post:  Martha Jones

Better than ALL of your faves…

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lightspeedsound:

lesserjoke:

alderaantimesalderaanplaces:

>Did you really believe that?

#MY ACTUAL FAVE SCENE #SHE’S JUST LIKE #REALYL? #YOU’RE SUPPOSED TO BE THE MASTER? #AND YOU’RE GENRE SAVVY ENOUGH TO MAKE SURE THE DOCTOR IS DISABLED ASAP #BUT YOU LEGIT BELIEVE THAT THE KEY TO DEFEATING YOU WAS A GAME OF HUNT THE MACGUFFIN?

This scene is about so much more than that, though. Just before this gifset starts, the Master is looking past Martha to address the Doctor. “Such a disappointment, this one,” he says. “Days of old, Doctor, you had companions who could absorb the time vortex.  This one’s useless!” He’s insulting Martha twice over — once with the literal insults he’s saying, and once by addressing his words to the Doctor rather than Martha herself. He’s completely dismissing her as worthless.

This is important — is critical to understanding her character’s arc, I would say — because it’s exactly the sentiment that Martha has been struggling with all season-long. The whole time she’s traveled with the Doctor, she’s felt as though she doesn’t measure up. The Doctor talks about how great Rose was, he keeps secrets from Martha, and then as John Smith he falls in love with Joan Redfern, rather than her. When she meets Captain Jack Harkness, he too enthuses about how amazing Rose was. And when he does, you can tell: Martha Jones doesn’t feel like she can even hope to equal Rose.

That’s what Martha’s journey is all about: struggling to find her own worth as the successor to someone who accomplished great things (not the least of which was winning the Doctor’s hearts). When the Master dismisses her from his consideration and insults her abilities to the Doctor, he’s externalizing Martha’s biggest fears.

And what does she do then? She laughs. She laughs in the face of her tormentor, of her own personal fears personified, and then proceeds to calmly and with a smile explain how she’s foiled his plans. She’s outsmarted and tricked the Master, one of the cleverest minds in the universe. In the process, she shows just how wrong his opinion of her was — which in a way was also the Doctor’s opinion of her and her own opinion of herself. It’s an incredibly powerful moment, and I think it’s the real climax of her dramatic arc that season.

It’s so much more than just being more “genre-savvy” than the Master.

also this is yet another case of white ppl believing fucking any mystical shit ever as long as it is spouted by a POC they think is super ignorant

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kitoky:

#SO I THINK MY FAVORITE PART ABOUT THIS IS MARTHA LOOKING AWAY IN HER GIF #BECAUSE SHE’S THE ONLY ONE THAT DOES#SHE’S THE ONLY ONE THAT REALLY LEFT OF HER OWN FREE WILL AND NOT THAT THE OTHER LADIES AREN’T AWESOME #BUT THE FACT THAT SHE GOT TO KEEP THAT AGENCY TO CHOOSE WHEN TO WALK AWAY AND CHOOSE HER OWN LIFE IS AMAZING TO ME

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tamsindennis:

#’shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?’ yeah. that was me.’

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Can we talk about Martha’s family was enslaved?

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femmeempathmagus:

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loudblackram:

It makes me nine diffrent kinds of uncomfortable, that Roses mother gets her husband back, Donna’s grandpa got fun adventures, Amy got her parents back and Rory’s father gets fun adventures. Martha’s family gets to be slaves.

And everyone calls Martha and her family whiny and annoying when they were subject to racism and SLAVERY.

Martha and her family got SHIT ON the whole season, but we’re supposed to be all sympathetic to TEN’s ass because OH BOO HOO THE MASTER DIED!!! MARTHA HOW COULD YOU LEAVE HIM TO TAKE CARE OF YOUR FAMILY THAT GOT ENSLAVED YOU ARE SO SELFISH!!!!

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This is actually a really good point.
I do like how her mother was concerned for her involvement with the Doctor, which she ought to have been considering his mopping, oblivious behavior. I’m glad she left his ass and found herself in an important, ongoing role involving her protecting the Earth (actively).

I will say that it might have been nice to see more of an awareness of the  historical/contemporary relevance of Martha’s family being made slaves to “The Master” if they were going to include it, cause it’s really only going to hit hard with one group of people and I’m not buying “oh, it’s a different context in England/English media”, cause Britain had slavery/racism too (even do now).

*This

Not to mention that the treatment of Martha’s family as characters themselves in comparison to the families of other companions is also rather problematic as well, because at times, the characterization of her family members, especially her mother, fall prey to stereotypes of black people in the media(i.e. the angry black woman trope in Francine’s case, Martha’s father divorcing his wife to hook up with a younger white woman, Tish only being viewed as a sexual object both by Lazarus and the Master, etc).

God why have I never even though about this

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hndwrttn:

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Doctor? It’s Martha and I’m bringing you back to earth. 

AND HIS ASS CAME BACK ON THE DOUBLE TOO

HIS OWN FUCKIN WIFE HAD TO CARVE INTO A DAMN MOUNTAIN TO GET HIS ATTENTION

MARTHA FUCKIN JONES MADE ONE PHONE CALL

CUZ MARTHA FUCKIN JONES AIN’T THE ONE TO FUCK WITH

Rory & Amy had to deface a field with their car.

Donna had to go on solo mystery adventures to maybe run into him.

And Jack had to set up an alarm system designed around the Doctor’s detached hand.

Even Winston Churchill can’t just ring up the TARDIS any old day, he gets forwarded to River.

Martha HBIC Jones is the only person who’s got a direct line to the Doctor.

Bringing this back because BITCHES NOT EVEN HIS FUCKING WIFE COULD GET A DIRECT LINE.

Martha. Fuckin. JONES.

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doctor who meme: [1/4] brotps
> martha jones and donna noble 

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lokiintheskywithdiamonds:

Doctor Who Meme ✖ [1/9] Scenes

Sonnet 18

I love the look on Martha’s face.

Because I bet she read that Sonnet when she was in school.

And the realization that that fucking sonnet is going to be about HER RADIANT BLACK BEAUTY!!!

Martha Fucking Jones gets POETRY written for her that lasts through the ages.

YAAASSSS

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doctor who meme

→ one/six companions: Martha Jones

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Okay what if Amy and Rory and Martha ended up in the same room and they had to do something to save the world and Amy and Rory are trying to figure it out and Martha’s in the corner filing her nails and Amy and Rory or like omg what do we do and Martha strolls over and sighs like  there there children I’ve got this. And then she saves the world aGAIN and the Ponds are like who are you. And she puts on some sunglasses and says “I’m Martha Jones” and then a rope ladder drops from the sky and she’s airlifted away to heavy metal and glitter canons. - fourofthem (x)

Okay what if Amy and Rory and Martha ended up in the same room and they had to do something to save the world and Amy and Rory are trying to figure it out and Martha’s in the corner filing her nails and Amy and Rory or like omg what do we do and Martha strolls over and sighs like 

there there children

I’ve got this.

And then she saves the world aGAIN and the Ponds are like who are you.

And she puts on some sunglasses and says “I’m Martha Jones” and then a rope ladder drops from the sky and she’s airlifted away to heavy metal and glitter canons.

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How come almost nobody on Earth remembers that they were under the reign of the Master?

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sittingamongstclouds:

Oh yeah, cause Martha ‘BAMF’ Jones effectively managed to reverse time, undoing the Master’s actions. (The Year That Never Was)

Listen to me: she reversed time.

Who can do that?!

Nobody but Martha Jones herself.

Did she use weapons or have some kind of superpower(s)? Nope, she was as human as she can be. No looking into the Heart of the TARDIS, gaining Time Lord knowledge or hell, even having memory powers resulting from an unusual crack in her wall. Nope, Martha instead used the powerful effect of words and thoughts. Overloading the Master’s Archangel Network with all of the people’s concentrated thought of one simple word: Doctor, Martha eventually reversed the Doctor’s age and saved Earth from a sadistic overlord.

Most importantly, she saved her entire family and later in the end, herself.

This woman REVERSED FUCKING TIME and didn’t need no damn god powers to do so.

She is 100% FLAWLESS

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Oh Martha, you’re a star.

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Can I get a roll call for Martha Jones fans?

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mostlycreepy:

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Can we talk about how much shit in this frickin scene that was probably lost on majority of the audience?

Because here is this Black woman who has been working her ass of for this man, while he’s been treating her like shit.

And Jack finally tells her about Rose, the BLOND Rose, and it just straight up reveals to her that she’s been unfairly compared to a white woman.

And in both this society and the world of Doctor who, when a Black woman tries to be amazing in the face of a white woman? The world will shut her down and tell her how worthless she is.

Yes, and it is perhaps more galling that the message was lost on the showrunners themselves.

Just saying.

B O O M

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