K Tempest Tumbles

karnythia:

sourcedumal:

omolara-oolong:

nerdyhbic:

OMG YOU GUYS!!! ISN’T THE DOCTOR SUCH A GOOD FRIEND? HE TOOK MARTHA TO A TIME IN HISTORY WHERE SHE WAS TREATED AS SUB-HUMAN BECAUSE HE JUST LOVED HER AS HIS FRIEND SO FUCKING MUCH.

THIS WAS GOOD FOR HER BECAUSE WE JUS LOVES US SOME SERVITUDE. THERE WERE LIKE, RAINBOWS AND UNICORNS AND SHIT TOO.

Because taking Martha to places where she’s treated as less than for the color of her skin is how the Doctor shows his love, y’all…

And Lawd KNOWS us darkies luv massa so much! Especially when missus tells us how us darkies can’t be nothin…

Every time I see these scenes the history major in me starts twitching. Black women had been training to be doctors in the UK & the US for almost 40 years at this point. Were there a lot of them? No. But there was a lot of coverage of the ones who did succeed. If she knew women were training to be doctors, then she knew some of them were women of color.

One more ticky mark of fail to add to Paul Cornell’s ticky mark of fail for this episode. (sidenote: sadly for me, I actually like this two-parter quite a lot. there are many good and great things about it. But the issues are sooooo issue-y. And I know that Cornell probably meant well but, you know, intentions and a nickel will get you a piece of candy at the corner shops.)

What pisses me off is that whenever I bring the point up about how the Doctor was irresponsible for bringing Martha to this era, certain people go: But it was the TARDIS! The TARDIS chose, not him!

Well then, that makes it ALL BETTER, right?? First: that was a handwavy thing Cornell or whoever on the creation team did to take away the Doctor’s responsibility, which is a dick move, and just goes to prove that they lack balls. Second, that would make the TARDIS a fucking asshole. Someone should have slapped her in the face when they had the chance in The Doctor’s Wife. Third, WTH is with the Doctor letting the TARDIS decide? Isn’t it his job to keep Martha safe? jebus.