A 100% accurate summary of The Shakespeare Code
MARTHA: Doctor, I have an extremely clever and relevant question about the mechanics of time travel.
TEN: Pfffft, stop worrying about it. Don’t you watch Doctor Who? You should know this show’s handwavey approach to time travel already, silly.
MARTHA: Doctor, I have an extremely clever and relevant question about whether my skin color makes me eligible to get carted off as a slave in this time period.
TEN: Martha, stop trying to understand things, it takes all the wide-eyed wonder out of them. Rose was full of wide-eyed wonder.
CARRIONITES: WITCHCRAFT! MAGIC! MAYHEM!
MARTHA: If I could interject with a couple of observations that happen to be spot-on even if they don’t solve the case right away—
TEN: Martha, why don’t you immediately understand what’s going on?! Rose would understand things! You’ve been here an entire episode and a half, you suck for not being as clever and relevant as Rose was after a season and a half of character development.
CARRIONITES: WITCHCRAFT! MAGIC! MAYHEM!
TEN: Ah-hah, you call it magic, I call it a different but equally valid form of science that happens to be based on words! Your voodoo doll is in fact a DNA replication module!
MARTHA: Doctor—
TEN: Martha, what have I told you about wide-eyed wonder and trying to understand things? TIME TRAVEL IS MAGIC, OKAY.
MARTHA: Doctor, it’s not that, it’s just that we’re going the wrong way.
TEN: No we’re not. God, why did I even bring you along when you never say anything worth listening t—HOLY SHITBALLS WE’RE GOING THE WRONG WAY.
