Welcome to the club, chica. At first I was so grateful for no romantic entanglements, but damn, the joy they share and the way she keeps him honest is just too perfect not to pair them up.
I don't think platonic relationships are any better than romantic relationships, and I don't really see any reason to privilege them over the romantic. I know a lot of people are attracted to deep friendships without adding the romantic entanglements and find the portrayals of such relationships very fulfilling.
I'm just not one of those people. My favorite type of love story is one about friends who fall in love.
Or maybe I'm just contrary. I could never ship Ten/Martha because the producers so clearly wanted us to. And I was entirely indifferent to Ten/Rose until about the last 3 minutes of the second series. but give me a couple that's clearly not supposed to be a ship, and I'm all over it.
I'm not saying that one is better than the other. But I think that forcing one type into the other is inorganic, and also devalues the original type of relationship, whichever it is.
Both types of relationships have much value, but they are not always interchangable, and platonic friendship doesn't always (in fact, rarely) leads to love. Otherwise, we'd all be screwing all our friends constantly!
And, I'd argue that the producers didn't actually want us to ship Ten/Martha, since they consistently set it up as an unrequited relationship, and not in an UST-y way.
If that's your ping point, that's cool - but I really don't see it whatsoever, and think it's actually opposite of what they're saying this season, about what the Doctor needs to learn.
wow, look what you've started. I'm going to have to agree with you, though. I think the Doctor is just one of those types who doesn't fall for the girl who's drooling all over him, and so the Martha thing could never have worked. But there is a chemistry between Donna and the Doctor that is pretty darling, whether something comes of it or not.
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The thing that's SO GOOD about their relationship that is utterly UNromantic, and beautifully platonic.
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I'm just not one of those people. My favorite type of love story is one about friends who fall in love.
Or maybe I'm just contrary. I could never ship Ten/Martha because the producers so clearly wanted us to. And I was entirely indifferent to Ten/Rose until about the last 3 minutes of the second series. but give me a couple that's clearly not supposed to be a ship, and I'm all over it.
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Both types of relationships have much value, but they are not always interchangable, and platonic friendship doesn't always (in fact, rarely) leads to love. Otherwise, we'd all be screwing all our friends constantly!
And, I'd argue that the producers didn't actually want us to ship Ten/Martha, since they consistently set it up as an unrequited relationship, and not in an UST-y way.
If that's your ping point, that's cool - but I really don't see it whatsoever, and think it's actually opposite of what they're saying this season, about what the Doctor needs to learn.
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