I've thought about Martha and Nine meeting, and while I do like the idea, they'd have had a very, very different dynamic than Martha and Ten. Rose was very much a child...lived with her mum, silly relationship with an immature boy, clearly not terrifically bright, lived only for the moment and really could barely take care of herself.
Martha, on the other hand....brilliant woman, strong-willed. Lived on her own Studying for an amazing career. Was basically the stable influence and peacekeeper of her family. No relationship because she needed none. An independent, powerful adult.
Rose and Nine's relationship was very much inferior to superior. It always struck me as more father/daughter or older brother/baby sister than the romantic one the writers kept trying to shoehorn it into. Ten and Rose as lovers made a little more sense, because Ten strikes me as fundamentally more immature than Nine did, and in some ways he seemed to live for the moment the same way Rose did. But it was still inferior/superior; he was the dominant partner in the relationship, and they knew it.
Martha, however, related to Ten almost as an equal. I always go back to "Blink" when I think of this; the one moment when Martha appears on the tape. She pokes her head into the screen and snaps indignantly about how she has to work in a shop to support the Doctor. He has to shoo her off screen. Yes, there were definitely moments when the Doctor showed his power and Martha submitted, but for the most part their relationship struck me as much more egalitarian than that of Rose and either Doctor did. In many ways, Martha took care of the Doctor the same way she took care of her family. And that....that would not have worked with Nine. Don't get me wrong, I think they would have been a fantastic pair, but there would have been bloody fireworks.
*surveys the last page*....Look what you made me do :p.
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Martha, on the other hand....brilliant woman, strong-willed. Lived on her own Studying for an amazing career. Was basically the stable influence and peacekeeper of her family. No relationship because she needed none. An independent, powerful adult.
Rose and Nine's relationship was very much inferior to superior. It always struck me as more father/daughter or older brother/baby sister than the romantic one the writers kept trying to shoehorn it into. Ten and Rose as lovers made a little more sense, because Ten strikes me as fundamentally more immature than Nine did, and in some ways he seemed to live for the moment the same way Rose did. But it was still inferior/superior; he was the dominant partner in the relationship, and they knew it.
Martha, however, related to Ten almost as an equal. I always go back to "Blink" when I think of this; the one moment when Martha appears on the tape. She pokes her head into the screen and snaps indignantly about how she has to work in a shop to support the Doctor. He has to shoo her off screen. Yes, there were definitely moments when the Doctor showed his power and Martha submitted, but for the most part their relationship struck me as much more egalitarian than that of Rose and either Doctor did. In many ways, Martha took care of the Doctor the same way she took care of her family. And that....that would not have worked with Nine. Don't get me wrong, I think they would have been a fantastic pair, but there would have been bloody fireworks.
*surveys the last page*....Look what you made me do :p.