Martha, who was a full-time companion for one year, has been in a total of 12 novels, plus the one that's theoretically her own, which fills in what she was doing during The Year That Never Was.
By contrast, Rose, who was a full-time companion for two years, was in a total of 12 novels. Myself, I'd love to see a novel that's theoretically her own which fills in what she was doing during all that universe-hopping leading up to the end arc of Series 4.
As of next April's releases, there will have been a total of 4 Donna novels, and 4 Ten-by-himself novels.
Let's be fair and base this on number-of-appearances versus 'who do you like better?'.
Let's say that each episode with each of them as the sole companion counts as 1 unit, each where they had to split with another companion as half a unit. Rose, with 19 solo-companion episodes and 10 split-companion episodes, gets 24 units. Martha, with 10 solo-companion episodes and 8 split-companion episodes, gets 14 units. Donna, with 8 solo-companion episodes and 5 split-companion episodes, gets 11 units (I'm counting Midnight as a partial). Ten solo gets the Christmas special, plus the still-up-in-the-air number of specials next year - let's give him 5 units just to be on the safe side.
Set the template based on Rose, who was first at bat. 12 books were published featuring her during her first 22.5 units.
Using that math, Martha should have been in 7 books. Donna should have been in 6 books. Ten solo should be in 2 books (maybe 3).
That even works out with the publication schedule, which has had 6 books per series, plus let's say 3 books for Series 4.5 (since it's just under half a series' worth of material), for a total of 27 books.
Donna: Shorted 2 books
Rose: Shorted 1 book
Ten Solo: Over 2 books
Martha: Over 6 books
The rest of the overage is books that in theory should've primarily featured Jack or Mickey.
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Anyway...
It's like the BBC decided that they really wanted to push Martha, and so they've spent the entire time she was on the show and then off again trying to cram her down everyone's throats. And I say the BBC rather than TPTB, because you'll notice (as even Freema Agyeman has started to comment on, bless) that both towards the end of Martha's run and when they brought her back, she's been all by herself a whole lotta the time.
And now she's probably headed to Torchwood as Owen's replacement, with Mickey replacing Tosh. Versus RTD leaving her to Moffat's tender mercies, 'cos god knows with the way he was foaming at the mouth at SDCC he might've up and killed her off.
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Date: 2008-07-29 10:59 pm (UTC)By contrast, Rose, who was a full-time companion for two years, was in a total of 12 novels. Myself, I'd love to see a novel that's theoretically her own which fills in what she was doing during all that universe-hopping leading up to the end arc of Series 4.
As of next April's releases, there will have been a total of 4 Donna novels, and 4 Ten-by-himself novels.
Let's be fair and base this on number-of-appearances versus 'who do you like better?'.
Let's say that each episode with each of them as the sole companion counts as 1 unit, each where they had to split with another companion as half a unit. Rose, with 19 solo-companion episodes and 10 split-companion episodes, gets 24 units. Martha, with 10 solo-companion episodes and 8 split-companion episodes, gets 14 units. Donna, with 8 solo-companion episodes and 5 split-companion episodes, gets 11 units (I'm counting Midnight as a partial). Ten solo gets the Christmas special, plus the still-up-in-the-air number of specials next year - let's give him 5 units just to be on the safe side.
Set the template based on Rose, who was first at bat. 12 books were published featuring her during her first 22.5 units.
Using that math, Martha should have been in 7 books. Donna should have been in 6 books. Ten solo should be in 2 books (maybe 3).
That even works out with the publication schedule, which has had 6 books per series, plus let's say 3 books for Series 4.5 (since it's just under half a series' worth of material), for a total of 27 books.
Donna: Shorted 2 books
Rose: Shorted 1 book
Ten Solo: Over 2 books
Martha: Over 6 books
The rest of the overage is books that in theory should've primarily featured Jack or Mickey.
----------------------------
Anyway...
It's like the BBC decided that they really wanted to push Martha, and so they've spent the entire time she was on the show and then off again trying to cram her down everyone's throats. And I say the BBC rather than TPTB, because you'll notice (as even Freema Agyeman has started to comment on, bless) that both towards the end of Martha's run and when they brought her back, she's been all by herself a whole lotta the time.
And now she's probably headed to Torchwood as Owen's replacement, with Mickey replacing Tosh. Versus RTD leaving her to Moffat's tender mercies, 'cos god knows with the way he was foaming at the mouth at SDCC he might've up and killed her off.