This post and in particular that last statement it was I and majority of people responded to:
Why is it a bad thing? Because she spends about a year away from her medical training, with no reinforcement of any kind mentioned or even hinted at. And that's before her year on walkabout. Taking off for the first few trips with the Doctor, basically up through The Lazarus Experiment? That's a vacation. But when she demanded to become a regular member of the crew rather than remain a guest? That's abandoning your studies to go running off with the Doctor.
Don't righteously act like we're all delusional and that the original poster was not stating that Martha's intentions were to abandoned her studies or any loss of skill during the year gap [which both of you seem to think is overly much] was because of her negligence about her career, even though the Saxon arc was an unfortunate turn of events that were beyond her and the Doctor's control and remote prediction.
If you're going to give the trips prior to Lazurus an "okay", then it applies to her acceptance after Lazurus as well, because any of those trips to England, New Earth, Manhattan, etc. could've ended with unintentional problems. JUST LIKE ROSE LOSING A YEAR. But I don't see any threads dedicated to criticizing Rose as "abandoning her family and Mickey" because she should have KNOWN there could be problems.
So have a thought before you throw around accusations of "Saint Martha" as your dismissal of the counter-opinions here. It's not about idealizing her, it's about both of you trying to recreate this discussion to erase your original point, just like you two want to recreate her canon as not caring about career. Bad tactic, no biscuit.
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Date: 2007-09-24 12:16 pm (UTC)Why is it a bad thing? Because she spends about a year away from her medical training, with no reinforcement of any kind mentioned or even hinted at. And that's before her year on walkabout. Taking off for the first few trips with the Doctor, basically up through The Lazarus Experiment? That's a vacation. But when she demanded to become a regular member of the crew rather than remain a guest? That's abandoning your studies to go running off with the Doctor.
Don't righteously act like we're all delusional and that the original poster was not stating that Martha's intentions were to abandoned her studies or any loss of skill during the year gap [which both of you seem to think is overly much] was because of her negligence about her career, even though the Saxon arc was an unfortunate turn of events that were beyond her and the Doctor's control and remote prediction.
If you're going to give the trips prior to Lazurus an "okay", then it applies to her acceptance after Lazurus as well, because any of those trips to England, New Earth, Manhattan, etc. could've ended with unintentional problems. JUST LIKE ROSE LOSING A YEAR. But I don't see any threads dedicated to criticizing Rose as "abandoning her family and Mickey" because she should have KNOWN there could be problems.
So have a thought before you throw around accusations of "Saint Martha" as your dismissal of the counter-opinions here. It's not about idealizing her, it's about both of you trying to recreate this discussion to erase your original point, just like you two want to recreate her canon as not caring about career. Bad tactic, no biscuit.
I'm leaving this discusion.