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ionlylurkhere has a great Martha character study. Martha is one of those characters I want to like, but have difficulty finding a core to thread through; ionlylurkhere does a great job of defining her arc. Given the last minutes of Journey's End, I think I'm going to need it for the Torchwood miniseries.

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Interesting meme. I liked the concept of Martha as I do with Donna. A more modern, go-getting, non-romantic sidekick who doesn't always need the Doctor to come to the rescue.

The concept that is.

Unfortunately (for me at least), Martha began shaping a little too close to a Mary Sue-ish towards the 'Utopia' arc for me. Yes, yes, she walked the world but hello, Time Lord in a bird cage had a wizened hand in it too! LOL. She became a little bit too much for me because the way they sold it in DW, then TW, Martha can't go wrong which was sometimes how I felt they were pushing the Doctor at times.

Her character has been peaks and valleys during the season and while the 'Utopia' arc was a great peak character-wise, it felt to me no logical leap in development from the Martha in the previous episodes to the wandering Jones in the arc.

But, like you said, I want to like her. There's a lot in her I should like. But there are times, it feels like I'm being sold a shiny 21" Dell laptop with only a Pentium 2 chip inside. LOL