Your analysis of this show is quite confusing. In S1 and 2 you are quite happy with understanding what is anviled in and shoved in our face, but seem incapable of getting the undertones of what is going on eg. the Doctor as a father figure for example.
What does the Doctor do that's father-figure-like? Try to protect Rose in The Parting of the Ways? Because that's also classic love interest. From the very beginning, Rose and the Doctor are set up as equals, not just in words, but in actions. The only moment that strikes me as attempting to play the 'possible father figure' card is when the Doctor touches her cheek in Father's Day, but only because Pete himself did a similar action earlier in the episode -- touching someone's cheek is not restricted to use between fathers and daughters.
But in S3 the anvils of Marthas love for the Doctor, you choose to ignore it and interpret it as something different.
Oh, the anvils, I got. Whether or not they add up to a genuine love of the Doctor as a person, that's where we disagree.
I love Martha, and I can't say I wasn't fond of the unrequited storyline, in fact at times it thoroughly pissed me off. However, you can't deny it wasn't there.
I didn't. I just don't think that lust, liking the fellow's ride, and being impressed by him add up to love. I don't think that Martha, ten years from now, will still think that she was 'in love' with the Doctor.
What I really fail to understand is a lot of peoples inability to grasp the fact that you can fall in love so easily. Trust me, it happens. Usually it sucks, just like it did with Martha. But it does happen. Maybe you think love is easy and rosy, but it crops up at the really most unfortunate times.
My mom is living with a man that she started dating while he was still married. Just because I don't think infatuation is the same as love doesn't mean that I think love is easy, rosy, and predictable (in fact, I call love unpredictable in one of comments in this very post).
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Date: 2007-09-23 03:07 pm (UTC)What does the Doctor do that's father-figure-like? Try to protect Rose in The Parting of the Ways? Because that's also classic love interest. From the very beginning, Rose and the Doctor are set up as equals, not just in words, but in actions. The only moment that strikes me as attempting to play the 'possible father figure' card is when the Doctor touches her cheek in Father's Day, but only because Pete himself did a similar action earlier in the episode -- touching someone's cheek is not restricted to use between fathers and daughters.
But in S3 the anvils of Marthas love for the Doctor, you choose to ignore it and interpret it as something different.
Oh, the anvils, I got. Whether or not they add up to a genuine love of the Doctor as a person, that's where we disagree.
I love Martha, and I can't say I wasn't fond of the unrequited storyline, in fact at times it thoroughly pissed me off. However, you can't deny it wasn't there.
I didn't. I just don't think that lust, liking the fellow's ride, and being impressed by him add up to love. I don't think that Martha, ten years from now, will still think that she was 'in love' with the Doctor.
What I really fail to understand is a lot of peoples inability to grasp the fact that you can fall in love so easily. Trust me, it happens. Usually it sucks, just like it did with Martha. But it does happen. Maybe you think love is easy and rosy, but it crops up at the really most unfortunate times.
My mom is living with a man that she started dating while he was still married. Just because I don't think infatuation is the same as love doesn't mean that I think love is easy, rosy, and predictable (in fact, I call love unpredictable in one of comments in this very post).