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Okay, Jenny wasn’t as Super-Special Awesome Mary-Sue as she could’ve been (insert Rose joke here), as she at least refrained from sexing up Jack Harkness and playing yenta to the Doctor and the Master, though she still pressed a lot of buttons. Death scene with everyone feeling sad, check, plus inexplicable resurrection, check… angsty backstory… character treating her like a jerk until he realizes she’s awesomesauce… et al, et al. I can just feel the YA novels about her adventures in space waiting to be written.

Come on now. After hyping that the Doctor had a daughter – oooh, did the Rani steal his DNA? Did he have a biological daughter and abandon her? – it turns out to be a pretty straight-forward one-shot deal. It’s kinda like the monster in Cloverfield in that it’s just a monster.

But aside from some rather dubious choices there, the actress did manage to make the character endearing and the writing was alright when not being stupid (aliens fighting for no good reason, superstitious aliens worshipping advanced technology… all that’s missing is the Doctor mocking Spock and we’ve got a TOS episode).

Although what was the point of Martha being in this? At first I thought “oooh, we’re getting some nice double-action in seeing the Doctor’s other legacy, his Daughter and the Doctor-in-training Martha, with her Hath companion!” But no, as it turns out, getting subjected to freezing temperatures, radiation, and losing her new friend were really just pointless. She could’ve followed the Doctor’s advice and stayed where she was and everything would’ve turned out just fine (unless everyone else’s nostrils were plugged up, I guess). And her friend wouldn’t have died that way. So, Martha’s main purpose here was to get the in-story equivalent of “She’s gone and she ain’t coming back!” because traveling with the Doctor is too haaaaard. GAG. At least let her go on crazy adventures with Jenny. They could be like Misty Knight and Colleen Wing… Harley Quinn and Poison Ivy… Thelma & Louise.

Look, she’s basically the Doctor with nicer breasts anyway, and she loves the military. It’s like she was made for Martha to be Docsexual for. And for all the tiemcock fangirls, this is why ~~God~~ the Doctor invented the sonic strap-on. I’ll be quiet now.

It’s canon: The universe hates the Doctor. He just starts to grow back his familial affection when his daughter gets fridged. Honestly, the Doctor saying “hey, maybe [not official companion] can travel like us” is like Captain Kirk falling in love with a hot babe. It can only end in tears. ONLY IN TEARS. Still, at least he got to play God afterwards. That always makes him feel better. “HEY, DUM-DUMS, BASE YOUR ENTIRE SOCIETY ON HOW AWESOME I AM!”

We also found out that the Doctor made a house call for some lucky lady, if you know what I mean and I think you do. Cue the Doctor/Master mpreg. His semi-annual Time War angst provided some nice follow-through on last arc’s UNIT shenanigans. He hates guns and soldiers because of self-loathing for his own participation in the Time War, where presumably the Time Lords jumped out from their foxholes to take pot shots at the Daleks with their Colt .45s. Really, couldn’t advanced alien weaponry have more in common with a DVD player? Then he could look at someone watching Daredevil on DVD with a face like “you absolute fuck.” And it’d be for a reason other than that they’re watching Daredevil.