7. Martha Walking The Entire Earth And Saving The World Using Only Her Words
The Doctor has saved the world more times than the show's fans would care to count and it must be a challenge for the writers to come up with new ways for our beloved Time Lord to achieve global salvation. Admittedly, some of them are more believable than others. Just take the Series 3 finale, for example, in which Martha Jones single-handedly walked the entire Earth to tell everyone how great the Doctor was before returning her home planet to its former glory by making everyone look up at the sky and shout his name at the same time and... yeah, that's about it. It wouldn't have been possible had it not been for the Master's Archangel Network so it was ironic that he was ultimately responsible for his own downfall. Does it make a whole lot of sense, though? It paved the way for the Tenth Doctor to make a triumphant return but there was something cringeworthingly preach-worthy about the whole thing. He's not the Messiah, he's a very naughty Time Lord!
Dan Butler
Doctor Who Editor
Dan Butler is the Doctor Who Editor at WhatCulture.com. When he isn't writing his own articles or editing other people's, he can be found trawling the internet for gifs of Steven Moffat laughing. Contact him via dan.butler@whatculture.co.uk.
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