Actually, I've just seen it and I thought it was awesome. YM definitely does vary, obviously (and I agree about the prosthetic, but well - this was the show that did green painted bubble-wrap as the villain once.
But Martha was awesome. I've experienced desperate hero-worshipping unrequited love - he wasn't a Time Lord, obviously (gay, as I discovered finally only the month before last; me being unrequited and yearning obviously suited him as a sort of camouflage, not that he intended any harm by keeping me hanging all those years, bless) but in my case it lasted seven years or so, not the eighteen months or so we have to assume Martha's did.
But is trying to do good things in the hope of impressing someone who isn't going to be interested in the right way so much to be despised? I thought it was a heart-breaking portrayal of someone who was brought to realise her true potential through - but past - unrequited love (and calling up the young doctor was such a cool move, yah!) because unrequited love happens, it hurts, it's no-one's fault (I love Jack for his calm, unjudgemental "You too, huh?" in the last episode-but-one).
Of course it was the most important thing to her - at the time. I shaped my entire career because of bloke concerned in my case. It was, actually, a good direction; I loved him because - as it turned out - we had a basic congruity of outlook on the world. I learned to look at things more fully because I was in love at a particular time. I became - I believe - a better person as a result. And that sort of development was what I - personally - took from that episode.
And I loved Martha's gesture with the flowers to the Professor.
I was absolutely wibbling throughout, and even when the special effects got silly - and they did, hell they did - I was still wibbling.
That made me cry, anyway, and I'd normally trade a thousand RTDs for one Stephen Moffat.
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But Martha was awesome. I've experienced desperate hero-worshipping unrequited love - he wasn't a Time Lord, obviously (gay, as I discovered finally only the month before last; me being unrequited and yearning obviously suited him as a sort of camouflage, not that he intended any harm by keeping me hanging all those years, bless) but in my case it lasted seven years or so, not the eighteen months or so we have to assume Martha's did.
But is trying to do good things in the hope of impressing someone who isn't going to be interested in the right way so much to be despised? I thought it was a heart-breaking portrayal of someone who was brought to realise her true potential through - but past - unrequited love (and calling up the young doctor was such a cool move, yah!) because unrequited love happens, it hurts, it's no-one's fault (I love Jack for his calm, unjudgemental "You too, huh?" in the last episode-but-one).
Of course it was the most important thing to her - at the time. I shaped my entire career because of bloke concerned in my case. It was, actually, a good direction; I loved him because - as it turned out - we had a basic congruity of outlook on the world. I learned to look at things more fully because I was in love at a particular time. I became - I believe - a better person as a result. And that sort of development was what I - personally - took from that episode.
And I loved Martha's gesture with the flowers to the Professor.
I was absolutely wibbling throughout, and even when the special effects got silly - and they did, hell they did - I was still wibbling.
That made me cry, anyway, and I'd normally trade a thousand RTDs for one Stephen Moffat.