the fact that even RTD wishes he wrote better things for Martha speaks volume about how mistreated she was on the show

She had some of the hardest episodes, emotionally speaking and was just so…active. The doctor turning human, forgetting her and watching him fall in love with someone else, supporting the doctor when they were stuck in time because of the weeping angels, and saving the earth on her own. Literally, on her own. No prophecy, no crack in time, no bad wolf, just her and her own two feet, travelling while the world crashed and burned around her. She’s the strongest companion in nuWho.

Martha is the golden example of what a companion should be. She’s positive, she’s smart as hell, she’s a literal doctor and most of all her life choices are extremely admirable, she’s the only companion out of all the RTD era that didn’t either get her memory wiped or got trapped on a parallel earth.

Martha the Doctor: "I spent a lot of time with you thinking I was second best but you know what? I am good." Rose literally as soon as she meets Martha: "Oh she's good!"

Martha is so underrated. 11 seasons in and she's still the only nuWho companion who left the TARDIS willingly on her own terms. She realized their relationship was toxic, the Doctor didn't value her friendship enough, she'd always want more than friendship, yada yada, it'd never work. So she did the best possible thing for both of them and put a stop to it. And that's just 1 of the reasons why Martha Jones is badass, thank you

“Me too, if I ever pass my exams” Martha being a whole mood in one sentence

“Scared with a gun is a good combination. You wanna risk it?” QUEEN.

I love how during her stint in Torchwood Jack didn't let a single conversation go by without referencing what she'd done in the year of the Master's reign - it's like he wanted to thank her on behalf of everybody on Earth, one person at a time.

“I don’t mean to be rude but the awful thing is it doesn’t even matter what you think” 💀💀💀 sister snapped

Love Russel's era, but the way the show treated Martha... GOD, SHE DESERVED BETTER!!!

She basically flips the bird when describing the bones of the hand.

she’s the most underrated character of the modern era. she’s sassy, knows how to deal with the doctor, she’s INTELLIGENT and she’s the only one to get out alive and safe. love her.

The Doctor and Martha's relationship summarised: Doctor: It's a beautiful moon out tonight. Martha: Yeah. Doctor: You know what else is beautiful? Martha: _blushes_ What? Doctor: Rose.

Martha was the most underrated character in new who

"Anything else I should know?" "I've met Shakespeare" "Well now you've met satan too"

2:42 "Bow tie. Whenever I wear one of these something bad happens." Me: *hmms in matt smith*

marthas character had one of the best personalities especially in the earlier episodes. But this gets overshadowed by her gradually increasing unrequited love for the doctor

Martha is really under-rated, not the my personal fav but she dosent deserve the hate. She saved the world. On. Her. Own. She deserves praise for crying out loud.

Living in 1913. Having to get a job in 1969. The year fighting the Master. How much time did Martha spend with the Doctor? She is such an incredibly strong woman, her character deserved so much better. One of my favourite companions ever.

Can we talk about how Martha had enough of John Smith and just slapped the mess out of him. Lmao

She's so underrated, they didn't give her the best storyline, but she’s brilliant.

I COMPLETELY FORGOT MARTHA AND MICKEY GOT MARRIED

Martha summed up: Doctor: Guess who'd help right now... Martha: Oh, me? Y'know, the one who went round the entire world and convinced people to think of your name and you so that you can rise against The Master and defeat him? Doctor: No, Rose.

"youre completely mad" "youre right, i look daft with one shoe" "you. are. bonkers!" "why, what's wrong with b l u e?" ten confuses declarations of insanity with insults to his fashion sense.

Such an underrated companion. Her stepping away from the Doctor and leading her own life was a brave and powerful move! QUEEN

One more time for the people in the back: Martha is just as great as Rose and Donna and deserves all the same amount of love!

The brightest ever companion, she quit the TARDIS on her terms before the inevitable could happen.

The thing I’ve realized, upon revisiting the Russel T Davies era, is that of the three main companions, Martha is the one *better off* without the Doctor. Rose and Donna are incredibly fun in part because of how they bring out the best in the Doctor and vice versa. Martha is awesome, and grows a lot during her time in the TARDIS, but ultimate she could never be fully actualized as long as she was with (and pining after) the Doctor. Which is part of why it is SO GREAT that we get everybody back for the end of Series 4. Her and Mickey? We love to see it 🙌🏽

MARTHA: Do you just get bored of us one day and disappear CAPTAIN JACK: Not if you’re blonde MARTHA: Ohhhhhh she was blonde?!?! ohhhh what a surpriseeee?!?!

Doctor: Good old JK Jk Rowling: The Doctor was in an intense relationship with the Master.

Honestly, Martha and Mickie getting married was probably one of the most beautiful things on the show. Two characters, both in love with people who don't value them enough for who they are. The Doctor only saw Rose. Rose only saw the Doctor. Martha and Mickie deserve each other.

it really wasn't fair what they did to martha. i think she got so much hate because: 1. she came right after rose, who was a fan favorite, and they were going to dislike _anyone_ who replaced her. 2. she fell in love with the doctor (honestly, can👏🏻 you👏🏻 blame 👏🏻her👏🏻???) i feel like they should have either kept martha's feelings platonic, or kept catherine tate as the companion in season 3 and added martha in season 4. but who knows if that would have subsided all the hate. either way, she was an amazing character and was probably more of an equal to the doctor than river song was. -because at least she didn't let her love for the doctor control her actions or feelings.- 🤭🤭

Looking back on her, she's honestly one of the best companions in Doctor who. She didn't do what the Doctor told her if she knew it was wrong and she knew that the Doctor was looking down on her which is why she left

"good old j.k!" oh doctor if only you knew don't get a twitter

Imagine a companion who was actually useful. We need another Martha

"Scared and holding a gun, good combination, want to risk it?" What a line haha

She is fucking incredible. Practically every companion stayed with the doctor untill they forcibly couldn't. Martha knew she was giving up the most incredible life but she saw what it could do and was strong enough to leave.

Martha: *runs back to the door* knock knock KNOCK, Is he alright???! Woman: *I is shooketh*

Martha wasn’t my favorite companion but OHHH man was it great when she came back twice in season 4. She was so good as a character post-companion, and she really matured as a result of her time with 10.

High-key the best companion. Sure, Rose was the love interest and Donna was the best friend but Martha is iconic all on her own, even without the Doctor. And she does still have great chemistry with him anyway.

“It’s like when you fancy someone and they don’t even know you’re there” “You too, huh?”

Martha: Don't just stand there move!!!! GOd yOu'Re USelESs aS a HuMAn

Martha is so underrated. I do understand how the doctor was so upset about losing Rose but when Amy was teleported away by the Weeping Angels the Doctor greeted Clara with open arms and treated her with great respect.

I used to be part of the old doctor who fandom so I don’t know what’s going on now, but I always found it funny how the fandom in the old days used to say that Martha was horrible and how she was the worst character and interestingly she was the only black woman in the show... 🧐

"God you're rubbish as a human" has to be a personal favourite Martha quote of mine.

"Then I could get sectioned!" I love that line

Martha is my fav companion in the new series. She is smart, knows what to do, is a literal doctor and is rather independent and thoughtful. She literally saved the world by walking around the world as it fell around her due to the Master and Toclafane. She never got caught thanks to her perception filter in the year she walked the earth and only got caught because she let herself get caught. She was fearless in her impending execution the Master was gonna do to her, and had the courage to smile and scoff at the Master even while she was kneeling before him on the verge of being executed. Honestly Martha deserves more appreciation.

6:58 Martha: What’s your name then Lucifer Morningstar. So tell me what is it you desire?

"Looks scared..." "Scared and holding a gun, good combination, do you want to risk it?"

"God, you're rubbish as a human"

Martha is still my favorite companion. Amy comes close to being my favorite for how long she was with the Doctor and how close they became, to the point where the Doctor was like family. But Martha is so human. Her struggle with the Doctor and reason for leaving are so down to Earth and I find her compelling because she shows that the writers know that world ending conflicts in space and time don’t mean that interpersonal conflicts you’d see in real life don’t exist.

Martha isn't my favorite, but she is a great companion for a number of reasons -She has personality and spunk -She's an actual doctor, making a nice foil to a man coasting on a medical profession's title -She's competent and gets stuff done -She's thinks for herself -She's honest and accepts when things don't work out (ex. the Doctor and her) -She's been through living for three months in the racist 1910s, being trapped by the weeping angels in the '60s, and surviving for a whole year on a war-torn earth just to save humanity - and STILL came out stronger.

Martha was my favourite companion of the new who. She's such a good character. It's a shame that many don't like her.

Why does Hollywood keep making “powerful” females arrogant and snarky? Why can’t we have more women like Martha Jones? Martha Jones isn’t amazing because of some superpower or because she has advanced fighting skills or anything like that, Martha Jones is amazing because of who she is as a person. She doesn’t show she’s good through boasting about it, she shows that she’s good through her actions. We need more powerful, female characters like Martha Jones.

Honestly I love Martha especially because she’s poc and the way her character written is beautiful she’s engaging and smart and she really really cared for the doctor and she has so much trust in him she’s my favorite

How? How do you neglect to include her most badass moment: the standoff with The Master? "Is that your weapon? PRAYER?" "Right across the world! But with fifteen satellites!"

6:05 she should have concluded that with “and I can break every one of them”

Martha: you haven't got a plan Doctor: yeah I do, the plan was to get in here Martha: then what? Doctor: uhhhhh come up with another plan

Martha is a character that just gets better the older you get, I didn't really like her as a child but as an adult I love her ❤

Shes always been my favourite. She was wildly independent, incredibly confident, and anyone who went through what she has would've gone insane

I feel like Martha was shit on. she was a really good character and the series treated her like crap and stuff. nice to see a bit of love for Martha here

Martha Jones was very good, and Freema Agyeman did her very well. She is smart and steadfast (and the plots challenge her that way beyond what most companions have seen), and also has a very big heart and a romantic streak. Talking to her mother on the phone while falling into the sun in "42", keeping watch over the Doctor in "Human Nature/The Family of Blood", spreading the word about the Doctor (and finding out the terrible secret of the Toclafane) in "Last of the Time Lords", and comforting her dying clone in "The Poison Sky": they gave her many scenes that could easily have degenerated into pretentious melodrama, but Agyeman consistently found a simple, starkly human expression that made them work.

Martha picking up a job to support the Doctor, while being a throwaway line, is such a good show of character

6:37 Martha's "I do what I like" really shaped me as a young woman.

im sorry but did the master just kill Lucifer, the devil himself? And his name was Tom? this changes everything

Doctor Who just doesn’t have actors and actresses like this anymore it’s depressing. And I can’t believe you missed the parts where Martha openly laughs right in the masters face and wrecks his entire plans

She made the Doctor approach things he didn't like to talk about on HER timetable, not his. She was forced to be the problem solver of many of her adventures in place of the Doctor. She saved the world on her own. And then, she left on her own. Where most companions fall victim to one terrible circumstance or another that prevent them from continuing with the Doctor, Martha simply stepped away and found her own path for helping humanity advance. Martha Jones was the Doctor's Apprentice, and she was brilliant!

Martha is SUCH an underrated companion and it makes my heart swell seeing all this love for her in the comments ❤️

I loved her as a character. Dunno why RTD had to go ham with the whole crush thing

ill say it once ill say it again: martha would have been better for the doctor than rose: because she actually stood up to him and challenged him, and made him THINK instead of treating him like a king and accepting him as better and smarter without question. i fucking love martha jones, she was the first companion i ever met and she is the reason that i got into doctor who, i will die on this hill

The best companion. She’s clever enough to be a foil to the doctor whilst being compassionate and energetic. Perfect foil for Ten, and I love her growth into self acceptance across the series.

i know i'm late to this video but i'm revisiting it and i just have to say martha is probably one of if not the most badass of ten's companions. she literally took so many of the situations where any of the other companions would have been stuck and ran with it, taking control and getting everything fixed pretty quickly even without the doctors help. she honestly doesn't deserve the hate she gets- she's a great character. wish they'd treated her better in the end- least she got her happy ending, one of the only companions who can claim getting one, too.

Tom Milligan Tom Ellis LUCIFER MORNINGSTAR

Martha Jones needs more recognition, she was amazing

“Tom Milligan” Me: no it’s Ellis

7:40 c'mon Martha be honest you just came all this way to see me still struggling to conquer your shyness Jack? my favorite line and its not even in Doctor Who

Such an underrated companion!

How about "Sylvia Noble being every mother ever."

Not only is she photogenically beautiful, she has a burning fire within her when she's under stress, and it's not to be messed with! I remember growing up, people I knew never liked Martha... I didn't understand why because I loved her from the first episode. It was amazing watching her character grow, from vulnerable, polite and curious - to ultimate bad ass, strategic, unapologetic and forceful. In the end she learnt that she never needed the Doctor the way she originally wanted him, AND THAT IS SELF-EMPOWERMENT #boss

What pissed me off but was also hilarious was how a lot of women who were interested in the doctor tried shitting on Martha because they were threatened by her. Rose for example was obviously jealous of her and acted snarky towards her by saying “I was the first, not you”, because she just KNEW how inferior she was to Martha. Yet the doctor constantly chose her over Martha because… She’s blonde? Martha was just as bold as her and as human as her but was better in every way, shape or form. She didn’t need the Tardis to save the doctor as well. She did that all on her own with her own determination. Rose was okay, but it took Martha and Donna being with him to make me see just how much the doctor wasted on “loving” her. Donna challenged him, and Martha worked with him. Rose however only followed him, so what was so good about her?? Then there was the matron in the family of blood episode who was completely disgraceful towards Martha as well. I could accept her being a product of her time, but what disgusted me in that episode is that at the end, the doctor actually asks her to come with him. This isn’t even a “you, me and Martha travelling together” thing, he explicitly invited her to REPLACE Martha as his companion, and it’s only from the Matron saying no to his pleas that he resigns himself and goes back to the girl who put her back out for him by living in the 1900s as a black woman (KNOWING she would get horrible treatment from most people, including the doctor himself) as if he’s going back to a wrecked apartment after losing the lottery. What the actual fuck? The matron would have never done that for John Smith, so why is the doctor acting like he missed out on something good in having Martha his companion instead of the Matron who he’s known for three days? It’s like there’s a pattern of women who knew they weren’t as good as Martha trying to compensate by acting awful towards her. And the worst part is that the doctor KIND OF encouraged this treatment by actively acting better towards them than he did with her. Even after all of these years, this pisses me off so much. Martha was too good for the doctor. Girl deserved better.

Martha and The Doctor were the dream team and I’m so mad how the fandom treated her :/ their sarcasm was iconic togetherrr!! she was (and still is!!) my favorite companion

Martha Jones was so underrated, she deserved better even if the doctor kept rejecting her 😂

God, I love Martha so much. When she showed up in Torchwood I actually cried. It made me so happy to see her again.

I just met this woman at the New Zealand Comic Con convention. She was really friendly and eager to talk! I remember when I lived in the UK, I would always be home after school and watch Dr Who on CBBC!

Wish she'd stuck around on Torchwood for season 3, she was a great addition to the cast. Though on the bright side she dodged miracle day.

I love how she is a doctor in the show New Amsterdam 😂

"GOOD OLD JK!!" That didn't age well good god

She's so cute, funny, and likeable. Love her!

I love Martha, she walked the earth for the person she cared about and yet she's hardly remembered.

Wow, so many iconic scenes with Martha... o wait this is every scene with her

The Doctor helping Shakespeare defeat witches with a spell from Harry Potter has got to be the most British thing the world has ever seen. AND I AM HERE FOR IT!!!

I've always loved how diverse DW has been, and unlike most programmes instead of pretending racism doesn't exist they actually address it, but don't support it, which makes everything seem more real (very glad they don't support racism), when 12th punches the dude that insults Bill is just iconic 👏👏

You know what I'm about to say it... I honestly think Martha was a good companion because she saved the doctor in more ways than one and did so many feats without any superpowers at all.

Is it just me who way preferred Martha to Rose? Honestly, she's so underrated.

The bit where Martha knocks on the door in Human Nature is everything, that was when I realised I truly liked her... shame it was so late in the series really. I got a newfound appreciation of Martha when I rewatched the series.

I have never watched a single Doctor Who but KZfaq's recommendations just suggested me here and, this woman has me bawling

shouldn't this be like her entire screentime

"What else have you got, A laser spanner?" "I did, but it was stolen by Emily Pankhurst, cheeky woman." Honestly that is the best

"I'LL DO WHAT I LIKE." Martha Jones, the woman you are

7:05 I forget Lucifer was in doctor who.