After the tragic departure of Rose at the end of season two, The Doctor wasn’t really in the market for a new companion. He’d only just lost the one he loved (even if he didn’t tell her) after all. Despite this, he ended up saving Earth from the Jadoon and met Martha Jones, a medical student, while he was there.
She was with him throughout some interesting season three adventures, from what is widely regarded as the best episode of the show (‘Blink’) to the return of The Master. We’ve listed ten reasons why Martha was the best companion The Doctor had.
10 She Saved His Life A Few Times
She was already quite well-accustomed to saving lives, with her background as a medical student. However, Martha was able to save the life of the regenerating Time Lord pretty much as soon as she met him. The hospital (which was on the moon during the first episode of season three) ran out of oxygen, leaving The Doctor to die. Martha effectively sacrificed herself for him, giving him her last breath and allowing him the time to save the world.
9 And The Planet
Speaking of saving the world, Martha managed to do exactly that when The Master had shrunk The Doctor into some sort of strange bug-like miniature Time Lord in a cage. She wandered the Earth for a year, which is a really long time that you don’t quite appreciate when condensed into one Doctor Who episode, telling people to say The Doctor at the same time.
For reasons unbeknown to us mere humans, this brought The Doctor back to life and allowed him to, you guessed it, save the Earth again.
8 And It Led To Her Joining UNIT
After her time bopping around the universe in the TARDIS, Martha Jones didn’t really fancy going back to her regular life. She had displayed quite an impressive gift for the whole time travel/alien-hunting thing, so joined up to UNIT. While working for UNIT, she returned to Doctor Who in a fight against the Sonatarens. It was only a few episodes into season four, marking quite a quick return for a companion of the past, but decked out in all-black, she looked cool and helped save the day once more.
7 She Worked With Torchwood
Following her time working with UNIT, she went over to work for Torchwood alongside Captain Jack Harkness. She stood in for Owen Harper and defeated The Pharm.
The actress who plays Martha, Freema Agyeman, must really love the Doctor Who franchise because this return actually took place on the show Torchwood, a more adult-oriented spin-off of Doctor Who focused on Captain Jack and his team
6 And Then Came Back Again
At the end of season four, Martha returned again, this time to help against the looming threat of Davros and his huge squad of Daleks. Her reappearance might have been overshadowed by the return of Rose, but she was used to this by now, and she slotted into the now rather huge squad quite nicely. By this point in the story, Martha was a trained professional and used to dealing with the looming threat of aliens every single day- she was able to teach The Doctor a few things.
5 And Then Had Mickey With Her
The last time we ever saw Martha Jones, she had left Torchwood and UNIT behind and gone freelance, hunting aliens. As The Doctor is on his farewell tour, knowing he is about to die, he waves a solemn goodbye to Martha as she fights a Sontaran.
It would be sad, but then we see Mickey! He seems to have finally freed himself from the curse of Rose constantly, unrelentingly leading him on and rubbing her love for The Doctor in his face and found a wife who actually treats his as he should be treated.
4 The Doctor Wasn’t Interested
The love story between Rose and The Doctor was nice enough. We saw her flirting with the Ninth Doctor quite a lot, but her infatuation with Ten was pretty overwhelming, and the show turned into a strange story of unrequited love, even though we knew exactly how The Doctor felt. Martha’s season was similarly built on unrequited love, but this time it was truly unrequited. The Doctor saw Martha as a friend, and although it might have been frustrating to her to hear Rose’s name every two minutes, it was refreshing to have a season less centered on a love story.
3 And She Let Rose Be More Important
Season three, on the whole, was surrounded by the mention of Rose and The Doctor longing for her return. You could tell that Martha didn’t enjoy being second best and seeing The Doctor pretty much explain that he’d rather have Rose there, but eventually, she understood.
By the time Rose returned and The Doctor told her about it, the look on her face spoke a thousand words. She looked truly over the moon that Rose had found her way back to The Doctor and it was perfect.
2 She Was Intelligent
Rose might have had a few moments where she proved herself to The Doctor, but she wasn’t there to shed intelligent insight into situations. Rose often wound up doing some stupid things or remained there to laugh at when she didn’t know what was going on. Martha was The Doctor’s match: she knew what she was doing. As a student nurse, Martha had a knowledge of science that meant The Doctor wasn’t necessarily the smartest person in the room, and she almost exclusively avoided winding up in lack-of-common-sense situations.
1 She Made Her Own Decision To Leave
One of the most powerful things about Martha’s character was her exit. She was with The Doctor for just one season, but by the time she decided to leave, she did it on her own terms. She didn’t want to hear about Rose any longer, and she realized her family needed her more than The Doctor did. She didn’t die, she didn’t get teleported into an alternate universe, she didn’t lose her memory. She left because she wanted to.
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