Oh no, they're not pissing me off. We've hashed out our differences over these characters--it does sound like harping on and on, but it's fascinating to me how opposite our reactions are to the same things. It's like how I don't understand favorite colors--I have one, but it makes no biological sense.
Anyway.
Anyway, I am the type of person who feels *guilty* when someone likes me more than I do them. It makes me feel terrible. I've been the oblivious one, who feels like shit when I learn of it, later than everyone else. So maybe that plays into my unrequited love bit. I'm not saying you (or I, or the Doctor) *should* feel obligated--just that I always *do*. Not that it changes anything. Just makes things harder on me.
So anyway, I think maybe because of that misplaced guilt, I can perversely see where Martha's coming from--because I've been in her place before, too. And I don't read her actions as an explicit, conscious cry that she deserves his recognition, so much as a confused "why?" that I totally relate to. The way I'm reading it, it doesn't look like a pathetic crush but someone who's just unluckily, and from my p.o.v. quite naturally, fallen in love with the one person she can't have. I've felt obsession before, and I've removed myself from its influence.
Anyway, like I said before, I *like* that bit and it's only in the analogous relationship it bears *my* relationship with new Who that it bothers me. The preceding events were much the worst part.
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Anyway.
Anyway, I am the type of person who feels *guilty* when someone likes me more than I do them. It makes me feel terrible. I've been the oblivious one, who feels like shit when I learn of it, later than everyone else. So maybe that plays into my unrequited love bit. I'm not saying you (or I, or the Doctor) *should* feel obligated--just that I always *do*. Not that it changes anything. Just makes things harder on me.
So anyway, I think maybe because of that misplaced guilt, I can perversely see where Martha's coming from--because I've been in her place before, too. And I don't read her actions as an explicit, conscious cry that she deserves his recognition, so much as a confused "why?" that I totally relate to. The way I'm reading it, it doesn't look like a pathetic crush but someone who's just unluckily, and from my p.o.v. quite naturally, fallen in love with the one person she can't have. I've felt obsession before, and I've removed myself from its influence.
Anyway, like I said before, I *like* that bit and it's only in the analogous relationship it bears *my* relationship with new Who that it bothers me. The preceding events were much the worst part.