[14], To keep the appearance of the Daleks secret, the final scene was removed from all preview tapes and replaced with a title card reading "final scene withheld until transmission", including the copy given to the Doctor Who microsite's "fear forecast" team. The Doctor and Jackie are taken by soldiers to see Torchwood's director Yvonne Hartman, while the TARDIS is impounded with Rose inside. The Doctor tracks the signal back and uses the TARDIS to travel there with Rose and Jackie, arriving at the Torchwood Institute in Canary Wharf. In terms of comic book appearances, Martha has appeared in the Doctor Who Magazine strips from #381 onwards and the Doctor Who Adventures comics from #28 onwards. [31][32] Appearing in Torchwood, it is explained through exposition that Martha is a medical specialist for UNIT,[33] a qualified doctor and bona fide expert on alien life. Conducting an experiment, the Doctor determines that the ghosts are in fact impressions of something forcing its way into this universe. Martha is first seen in action with UNIT in "The Sontaran Stratagem", where Donna Noble, the Doctor's current companion, reacts with shock asking derisively if the Doctor turns all of his companions into "soldiers". Whereas in The Simpsons, Lisa is the character most identified with knowledge and worldliness, in Doctor Who that character is the Doctor. Articles which focus on Martha's race normally attempt to make distinctions between Martha's social status and that of Mickey, and to what extent race or class play a part. When the amnesiac Doctor falls in love in the two-part story "Human Nature" and "The Family of Blood", a pained Martha claims "You had to go and fall in love with a human... and it wasn't me". [20], After its initial airing, the episode was released on DVD with "Fear Her" and "Doomsday" on 25 September 2006. CASUALTY - Kate Hindley ; MILE HIGH (TV series 2003) At a Torchwood party, Yvonne Hartman told Adeola that Pippa always arrived fashionably late. She is a companion of the Tenth Doctor in Doctor Who, after Rose Tyler and before Donna Noble. Within the series' narrative, Martha begins as a medical student who becomes The Doctor's time travelling companion after an incident at the hospital where she works. At the same time the Cybermen arrive, the sphere suddenly activates and begins to open. Drawing from her creator's pool of recurring names, Martha and her family share the last name "Jones" with many other Russell T Davies-penned characters. In its final story — "Last of the Time Lords", Martha was separated from the Doctor for a year, and after saving the world she decided to return to Earth to allow herself to qualify as a medical doctor, look after her devastated family, and get over the Doctor's inability to reciprocate her feelings. [20][21] The character is a 23-year-old medical student from 2008,[22][23] although earlier in the conception process she had been meant to come from the year 1914. The article points out that Martha and Lisa are quite different: primarily, "Lisa is represented as being different from many of her peers... a ‘child genius’... considered to be 'extraordinary'", whereas Martha "is represented as being a comparatively 'normal' young woman", who unlike Lisa invites self-identification. Part 1/2. The majority of this episode takes place in the Torchwood Institute, which is seen on screen for the first time. Agyeman had previously appeared as Martha's cousin Adeola in the 2006 episode "Army of Ghosts". "Smith and Jones" is the first episode of the third series of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. Director Euros Lyn comments that the production team had intended for Agyeman and Clarke to join Torchwood for its third series, but their careers led them elsewhere. The Doctor investigates the mysterious void ship. Jackie explains that a few months previously, millions of ghosts began appearing all over the world. [39] In 2009, Martha was listed among the top 20 Black Sci-Fi Icons by Entertainment Weekly. The episode also features references to other programmes by the BBC. In books, Martha appears in the "New Series Adventures" series of Doctor Who novels, published by BBC Books. [4] Martha becomes frustrated because The Doctor is oblivious to her feelings for him, and she expresses concern that she is simply a rebound after The Doctor's painful loss of his previous companion, Rose Tyler (Billie Piper). engineering and mathematics. It was later revealed Martha was Adeola's cousin. Throughout Doctor Who series three, Martha pined for the Doctor's affection. [15] When asked about canonicity, IDW executive editor Chris Ryall dodged the issue by saying all the comics are "blessed" by Russell T Davies but it is up to the individual how canonical each story is. [27] As with her predecessor Rose, Martha is from London; Brett Mills from the University of East Anglia presumes this is because characters from the capital of the country are "therefore relatable to all British people" because they are seen as "neutral".[28]. The episode is also the first in which Freema Agyeman appears, although she is not playing the role of Martha Jones, which she would play in series 3, but a minor character named Adeola (who is later revealed to be Martha's cousin). [7][8][9][10] The concept of a CyberKing, mentioned by Mickey, would eventually come to pass in "The Next Doctor" (2008). [16] The episode's Appreciation Index was 86, above the average baseline of 77 for drama series. The whole story wouldn’t work if the Doctor didn’t trust Martha". The most notable of these is the cameo of Barbara Windsor as Peggy Mitchell in EastEnders, where she bars a ghost, who she presumes to be Den Watts, from The Queen Victoria. Alexander Armstrong played Sarah-Jane's computer, Mr Smith in the series 4 finale and then Madge's husband (whose name I forget) in "The Doctor, the widow and the wardrobe". Martha was also intended to make guest appearances in the 2009 series of Torchwood and The Sarah Jane Adventures, but could not due to the actress's other work commitments.[1]. Ele marcou a primeira aparição em tela do Instituto Torchwood e do culto de Skaro, bem como o retorno dos Cybermen do universo alternativo, aparecendo pela primeira vez no universo do próprio Doctor. In the sphere chamber, Mickey explains to Rose that after a battle in the parallel universe the Cybermen mysteriously disappeared. Martha Jones is a fictional character played by Freema Agyeman in the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who and its spin-off series, Torchwood. [30] In casting Martha, the actress Freema Agyeman was reused from her minor role as Adeola Oshodi, in the Series 2 episode "Army of Ghosts". [18] Jacob Clifton of Television Without Pity gave the episode an A- rating. For a moment, she thinks these terms could be racist (the Doctor quips that it is "political correctness gone mad"), but realises Shakespeare is actually enamoured of her. [7] Martha, as voiced by Freema Agyeman, also appears in the 2007 animated serial The Infinite Quest, which aired in twelve weekly segments during the run of the 2007 series. For the American historian, see, Fictional character in the TV series Doctor Who and Torchwood, Carr, Jennifer; Whitelegg, Elizabeth; Holliman, Richard; Scanlon, Eileen and Hodgson, Barbara (2009). Later in the fourth series of Doctor Who (2008), Martha returns for a three-episode arc beginning with the two-part story, "The Sontaran Stratagem" and "The Poison Sky", and ending with "The Doctor's Daughter",[8] in which she meets The Doctor's new companion Donna Noble (Catherine Tate); in the first episode, a more assertive and engaged Martha summons The Doctor to Earth to help uncover a plot by the Sontarans. The first book published was a "Quick Reads" novel, Made of Steel by Terrance Dicks (published prior to her first television appearance), and the character subsequently appeared in all novels in the series, starting with Sting of the Zygons by Stephen Cole and most recently in The Many Hands by Dale Smith. [5][6] In the series finale, "The Sound of Drums" and "Last of the Time Lords", in which The Doctor's nemesis The Master (John Simm) takes over planet Earth, capturing both The Doctor and fellow companion Captain Jack Harkness (John Barrowman), Martha manages to escape by teleporting away but is left alone to save the world. When the hospital she works at is teleported to the Moon, medical student Martha helps save the day alongside an alien time traveller known only as The Doctor (David Tennant). John Barrowman noted that in many ways Martha entered Torchwood as their superior as being employed with UNIT placed her in a higher authority. The power relationship this affords the Doctor and Martha is challenged, in Martha's favour, for the first time in "42", when an alien possession leaves the Doctor "scared"; according to Agyeman, Martha "has to take control". Here's what we think of N026 Army of Ghosts. Davies states that reusing names (such as Tyler, Smith, Harper, Harkness and Jones) allows him to get a grip of the character on the blank page. To thank her for her help, The Doctor invites her to join him for a supposed single trip in his time machine the TARDIS,[2] but later accepts her as his full-time "companion", admitting that she was "never just a passenger",[3] and he even gives her the key to the TARDIS in the episode, "42". Freema Agyeman has a small role in this episode as Adeola Oshodi, an employee of the Torchwood Institute. She's still very much in Martha's life".[35]. Together they fight rhino people, (Sorry, Jadoon) kiss (Make genetic transfers) and save the entire hospital from a crazy Plasmavore and in the end, Martha ends up running away with this strange “John Smith” If you don’t … DOCTOR: If it … Doctor Who Season 2 Episode 12: Army of Ghosts (1) Summary: Location: London, Torchwood TowerDate: 2007Enemies: Cybermen, TorchwoodGhostly beings have been regularly appearing across the world and people, believing them to be their dead loved ones, are welcoming their visits with open arms. In their summary, the researchers concluded: "In discussing our analysis of [Lisa Simpson and Martha Jones] we have highlighted ways in which they could be viewed both as characters with which young people can identify, but also as characters that provide positive role models in terms of their relationship to STEM. (AUDIO: New Girl) She was finding a place to make a romantic liaison with a co-worker named Gareth Evans when she was seized and cyber-converted by Cybermen who had slipped through the Void through a breach in space-time.

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