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New S4 pics... with Martha bonus! YAYZ!

She's got a ring on her finger which, understandably, folks are wondering if it means she's engaged/married. Possibly. As a woman could only ever get over someone by being suddenly married off. *insert massive eyeroll here*

Although - as my brain is full of crackspec as anyone who reads my Who posts probably knows at this point - I'm wondering if it might be a modified version of this ring....



I'm thinking a Master possession in S4 is all but an inevitability. It's not only an old skool thing he does, but he totally has no body now (as Jedi!Doctor burninated it).

I do have to admit, as long as she doesn't end up Truly Dead by the end of it, I think the idea of Master!Martha is kind of hot. However, that could just be me desirous to see (Not)Martha kick the Doctor's scrawny ass ("Second best", I'll show him "second best"), so I could be a little biased.

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I sometimes question how much drama the loss of Gallifrey really has given the Doctor's character compared to old school.

Oh, it never gave it more drama; it helped with the shift simply because it was different. Or it helped for Nine, at least, and I think a big part of why it worked better there than with Ten is that—hullo, RTD!—it was more understated. (There are a lot of things I like about how S3 dealt with the Gallifrey arc, including the Chameleon device and Martha's collateral involvement… but, dude.) On the whole I don't prefer the New Skool approach to the Old, but if you *are* going to suddenly shift to what Davies likes to do, it helps to make it more different in other respects, not less. Um. That's not coming out very coherently.

fantasyjax makes some really good points in that regard.

That was an excellent post.