Restarted his heart in Shakespeare Code (although arguably this wasn't her training as he was giving her orders on what to do), CPR in Smith and Jones (noted in essay now), collected DNA (via allowing her hand to be kissed; this does assume Gatiss/Lazarus is a sloppy kisser, ew!) in Lazarus which did advance the plot, although it was gathering more data about what they already knew rather than sending the plot in a whole new direction.
This really isn't meant as Martha bashing. She is well away in the lead in Saving The Doctor's Bacon - she saved him far more often than he saved her (especially if you count The Year That Wasn't). And as a tech writer, I'm thrilled beyond belief that she read the manual in Smith and Jones and 42. Plus she is so far the only companion in ever who came on to the TARDIS with some knowledge of time travel fiction and was asking specific questions about the rules, and I've aways been a bit pissed that the Doctor was a dick about it.
Martha is fabulous. I still see a lot of myself in her. But I also see a whole heck of a lot of myself in Donna.
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Date: 2008-05-02 10:17 pm (UTC)This really isn't meant as Martha bashing. She is well away in the lead in Saving The Doctor's Bacon - she saved him far more often than he saved her (especially if you count The Year That Wasn't). And as a tech writer, I'm thrilled beyond belief that she read the manual in Smith and Jones and 42. Plus she is so far the only companion in ever who came on to the TARDIS with some knowledge of time travel fiction and was asking specific questions about the rules, and I've aways been a bit pissed that the Doctor was a dick about it.
Martha is fabulous. I still see a lot of myself in her. But I also see a whole heck of a lot of myself in Donna.