Yeah, similarities are always Important. But I also loved Martha because, while Rose seemed to have given up (left high school unfinished and started working on a shop, and suddenly unemployed), Martha was still fighting, and intended to do so until the very end. On those episodes where she had to play the Doctor's maid and people told her she couldn't be a doctor because she was a woman and black she wouldn't stop to tell those people how stupid they sounded. That was the moment I learnt I couldn't love a companion the way I loved Martha.
I think I understand you. We're so used to see badly developed plots and characters that we think that's the only way it can be done. I always see it on female characters: they are usually classified as "sluts" or "virgins", and while I see it clearly, most people say I'm overthinking stuff. But that's because I've read about TV and movie tropes, and it's a subject I'm very interested on. I think I can apply what you said (the difference tumblr has made for me... ) on my experience, because it helped me see awful stuff, but also articulate what I thought on the awful stuff I already noticed. And also, I'm taking TV and film studies at college, so over the course of the past year and a half I've learnt to notice the little things on scripts (mostly). That has also made a difference, I think.
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Date: 2015-01-06 12:27 pm (UTC)I think I understand you. We're so used to see badly developed plots and characters that we think that's the only way it can be done. I always see it on female characters: they are usually classified as "sluts" or "virgins", and while I see it clearly, most people say I'm overthinking stuff. But that's because I've read about TV and movie tropes, and it's a subject I'm very interested on. I think I can apply what you said (the difference tumblr has made for me... ) on my experience, because it helped me see awful stuff, but also articulate what I thought on the awful stuff I already noticed. And also, I'm taking TV and film studies at college, so over the course of the past year and a half I've learnt to notice the little things on scripts (mostly). That has also made a difference, I think.