While it’s been a long standing occurrence on television, and Doctor Who in particular, for actors and actresses who play a small part on a show to come back later as another character (the sixth Doctor for example) some viewers initially were perplexed at the idea of Freema Agyeman being announced as Martha Jones so soon after they saw her perish as Adeola Oshodi.
It’s been said there would be some kind of (brief) explanation as to why Martha will look like Adeola, and now the folks at SFX believe they have discovered it within their preview copy of the first new Doctor Who novel featuring Matha: “Made of Steel” by Terrance Dicks (available 1 March under the “Quick Read” programme). But books are not necessarily considered “canon” (fact) in the Who universe and this revelation contradicts what Freema has said in interviews!
In “Made of Steel” Martha Jones says:
“My cousin - Adeola. She worked at Torchwood Tower. She never came home after… I just wondered if you might have seen her. She looked a bit like me.”
So there you have it, or maybe not! In a recent interview Freema says:
In the last series you played a character who was killed by Cybermen, Martha isn’t related to that character, is she?
“No, the writers have found a clever way around it.
You’ll see!”
So the mystery continues! We will only know for certain once we hear it with our own ears after the first episode in a month or two…
What do you think?
I hope it’s in the episode but in a way it kind of makes sense that the description isnt in the show cus it might cause confusion and it points more attention to it if it’s in the series. And it seems more appropiate to ask in a story which involves Cybermen
It would be cool if “Adeola”, and “Martha”, were actually TWIN SISTERS, SEPARATED AT BIRTH - and that their families weren’t even, remotely, related, to them - and, that their “families” told each of them, for “security reasons” that they were merely “cousins!”
May be they will put the same reason onm the show
I reckon that ‘Adeola’ is a fake name and her real name is Martha. Well, parrallel Earth Martha. All those torchwood people were actually from the Torchwood on Pete’s world and some came through first with Mickey. This would be a proper sci fi reason not just that they are twins or cousins.
I totally agree with JUDOOOOOOOOOOOOOOON
I have heard that Martha and Adeola were freinds and they knew the ressemblence between the two. The Doctor is said to say to Martha “I recognise you” or something like that. Martha replies that her mate Adeola was rcently burried after the battle of Canary Wharf
I hope to god they’re not friends. Or cousins. Maybe twins but its still a bit tacky, I want a proper sci-fi reason.
Terence Dicks is god. LOL Seriously, it’s awesome that he’s still writing Who-related stuff after all these years…
terence dicks just doesn’t do it for me. I think that the book is right in saying that martha and adeola are cousins. easy way round it s’pose.
Aw, Terence Dicks is awesome, and he’s a Classic Who writer, which makes him even cooler.
I just thought of something, though; I saw on this site that in the trailer for Series 3, Martha is shown on the moon. Does this mean that she’s from the future?? If so, maybe Adeola was an ancestor.