A 100% accurate summary of The Shakespeare Code
Reblogged from doormat-ethic
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.Martha was one of my favorite companions, but the Doctor always treated her like this.
Fortunately I think this episode was about the worst of it, and he was never quite so ostentatiously horrible to Martha in any of the others… but god, it burns. Especially since he spent most of Smith & Jones going “Y-you understand things! And figure them out! *______* And you ask clever and relevant questions! NOT THAT I’M ASKING YOU TO BE MY SPACE GIRLFRIEND but pleasepleaseplease at least be my space ‘it’s complicated’?”
