Its interesting that you brought up The two-part penultimate episode is
the one where my husband stopped watching, and I still watch, but I
don't enjoy it as much. While I think Tennant is a good Doctor, I
sometimes miss Christopher Eccleston. Can't really put my finger on
it, but you raised some of the issues on my mind. While I don't have
the same response to Freema in a maid costume, she is definitely an
asset to the show. No pun intended guys. Ok maybe pun intended. I
know how you all feel about her
ravenadal wrote:
>
>
>
> 1) Although Freema Ageman's Martha Jones is portrayed as a spunky,
> intelligent and strong-willed character, the writers time and time
> again wrote situations in which she had to pretend to be the doctor's
> maid and/or servant. The two-part penultimate episode has Martha and
> the Doctor marooned at an upper crust boy's school in pre-World War 1
> England where the Doctor is Mr. Chips and Martha is forced to work as a
> scullery maid while protecting the Doctor's secret identity (he has
> become the human John Smith to throw off some particular nasty aliens
> who need to distill some essence of Time Lord in order to continue
> their existence). Throughout the episode Martha is constantly reminded
> of her place. As she is scrubbing a mahogany floor with her brown
> hands, one of the snooty upper classmen remarks to another, "however
> does she know when it is clean?"
>
> In the final episodes of the season, both Martha's mother and sister
> are relegated to wearing maids uniforms as they serve "the Master," the
> second surviving Time Lord.
>
> 2) The Doctor is not a nice guy. He is swift and brutal in exacting
> punishment. He dispatches humans to their inevitable ends without the
> bat of an eye - in the boarding school episode he is more than willing
> to use school boys as cannon fodder - they are only a means to an end.
>
> 3) For a Shakespearean actor, Daniel Tennant is awful at displaying
> believable grief. The muppet playing the 900 year-old doctor in the
> final episode is 10 times the actor Tennant is at demonstrating remorse
> and regret.
>
> 4) Freema Ageman is quite fetching and brings much moxie to her Martha
> Jones character. My favorite image is of her dashing after some unseen
> menace while wearing a leather skirt and a quiver of arrows on her back
> ("Blink").
>
> 5) I have yet to watch any of the "Torchwood" episodes, but the pan-
> sexual-ready-to-hump-anything do do-anything-but-die Hawkins character
> is a hoot.
>
> 6) The actress playing Martha's sister is yummy (especially in a maid's
> costume).
>
> ~rave!
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