[ SECRET POST #172 ]

[shahni.livejournal.com]

⌈ Secret Post #172 ⌋

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Comments

Re: Not the secret maker but a rabid Martha fan

[scornedsaint.livejournal.com]

the earliest posts on her MySpace blog and her most recent post.

Oh, the myspace. This brings up a whole other issue with Martha that I want to briefly rant about. I think part of the reason I didn't like her was because of the BBC and RTD banging into my head "YOU ARE GOING TO LOVE MARTHA, DAMMIT" I hate it when a network/writer does that, because eventually I end up resenting the character because I feel like I'm being forced to like them. The myspace was, to me, RTD saying "See, she's just like you! Love her or else we'll kill that puppy over there!" I'd rather make up my own mind about a character than have a writer tell me.

/oddly placed rant.

Anyway, back to the topic at hand, I guess we'll have to agree to disagree. She has changed some, but not to the extent that I would have liked. I think it's partly because with Rose there was this clear character arc; it was all about finding out Who She Was, and she was really on the way by PotW. With Martha, I'm not sure what her motivation is, and I'm a little frustrated.

Re: Not the secret maker but a rabid Martha fan

[chicafrom3.livejournal.com]

Aww. Martha's MySpace, to me, is like Mickey's website--I think of it solely in terms of viral marketing. It's fairly cool viral marketing, actually. If it's designed to make us think that she's JUST LIKE US OMG it fails on several levels because I loathe MySpace on principle. But as viral marketing and helping maintain the illusion that it's a part of the real world and the Doctor could maybe choose me as his next companion it's fairly cool. Not as cool as Mickey's website, though. Why has no one taken over updating Mickey's website for season 3?

Anyway, back to the topic at hand, I guess we'll have to agree to disagree.

I guess we will! :) Rose's arc vexes me because it seems, to me, to be a negative character arc; she winds up in worse shape than when she started. Despite getting her Dead Father(tm) alive and rich, her mom happy and pregnant, TotallyAwesomeMickey!(tm), and a fabulous job, she's miserable about it, and she started off with her Dead Father still dead, her mom clingy and overprotective, Mickey also clingy and insecure, and a job that she apparently didn't enjoy working in a shop, and was much happier with it. And that bothers me immensely.

Er. If that makes sense.

Agree to disagree! Ys! That!