Simply replacing Martha with some other potential love interest for The Doctor wouldn't be a good basis for a compelling character
Exactly what I thought when I heard they were replacing one attractive young woman with another. I liked Rose far more with Christopher Eccleston's doctor and I felt that in the later Tennant episodes, she was also guilty of making the "cow eyes" rather too often. I'm not one of those purists who insists that the doctor remains asexual - I grew up with Doctor Who (my doctors were Jon Pertwee and Tom Baker) and there was often a frisson between him and his female companions, but it was never this overt.
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Date: 2007-07-03 02:17 pm (UTC)Exactly what I thought when I heard they were replacing one attractive young woman with another.
I liked Rose far more with Christopher Eccleston's doctor and I felt that in the later Tennant episodes, she was also guilty of making the "cow eyes" rather too often.
I'm not one of those purists who insists that the doctor remains asexual - I grew up with Doctor Who (my doctors were Jon Pertwee and Tom Baker) and there was often a frisson between him and his female companions, but it was never this overt.