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* UnintentionallyUnsympathetic: The village of Portwenn in general. For as much has the show likes to paint Martin in the wrong for his undeniable misanthropic behavior and poor bedside manner. The astonishing amount of times the locals get themselves sick and/or injured either through stupidity, stubbornness or just flat out refusing to take Martin’s advice who, for all his flaws, is a trained medical professional. One has to begin wondering if his efforts are wasted on them and if it would be ultimately better if Martin left and just let nature take its course.
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* UnintentionallyUnsympathetic: The village of Portwenn in general. For as much has as the show likes to paint Martin in the wrong for his undeniable misanthropic behavior and poor bedside manner. The astonishing amount of times the locals get themselves sick and/or injured either through stupidity, stubbornness or just flat out refusing to take Martin’s advice who, for all his flaws, is a trained medical professional. One has to begin wondering if his efforts are wasted on them and if it would be ultimately better if Martin left and just let nature take its course.
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* UnintentionallyUnsympathetic: The village of Portwenn in general. For as much has the show likes to paint Martin in the wrong for his undeniable misanthropic behavior and poor bedside manner. The astonishing amount of times the locals get themselves sick and/or injured either through stupidity, stubbornness or just flat out refusing to take Martin’s advice who, for all his flaws, is a trained medical professional. One has to begin wondering if his efforts are wasted on them and if it would be ultimately better if Martin left and just let nature take its course.
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* DiagnosedByTheAudience:
** Martin. He has no grasp of social niceties, is very literal-minded, and lacks a filter between his brain and his mouth. It only becomes apparent once he's free of the chilly confines of London and can no longer bark at people with total impunity.
--->'''Chris:''' Mr. Walton complains that you called him a "mentally deficient parasite."\\
'''Martin:''' ''(earnestly)'' He ''is'' a mentally deficient parasite.\\
'''Chris:''' Right. [[DeadpanSnarker That man, he's always complaining about everything.]]
** Peter Cronk is like Martin. How? We have no idea.
** Aunt Ruth, herself a psychologist, proposes that his coldness is as much rooted in childhood neglect as neuroses. Martin's father ([[IdenticalGrandson also played by Clunes]]) was an ogre, his {{gold digger}} mother detested him utterly, and it's even hinted that she's not his biological mum in any case. What a mess.
** PC Penhale in later seasons, after {{Flanderization}} sets in. Originally stated to have narcolepsy, agoraphobia, and mood swings as the result of a head injury he sustained before being transferred to Portwen (which were portrayed fairly realistically in his introductory episode), these were dropped (possibly because they made it difficult to have him interact with the rest of the cast). Instead, he gained a general incompetence in his job and "quirkiness" to the point that by season 6 he seems more like a boy playing cops and robbers and no longer has the slightest idea of how to actually do his job: his presence in an emergency situation is at best irrelevant and most of the time actually serves to make things worse.
** Martin. He has no grasp of social niceties, is very literal-minded, and lacks a filter between his brain and his mouth. It only becomes apparent once he's free of the chilly confines of London and can no longer bark at people with total impunity.
--->'''Chris:''' Mr. Walton complains that you called him a "mentally deficient parasite."\\
'''Martin:''' ''(earnestly)'' He ''is'' a mentally deficient parasite.\\
'''Chris:''' Right. [[DeadpanSnarker That man, he's always complaining about everything.]]
** Peter Cronk is like Martin. How? We have no idea.
** Aunt Ruth, herself a psychologist, proposes that his coldness is as much rooted in childhood neglect as neuroses. Martin's father ([[IdenticalGrandson also played by Clunes]]) was an ogre, his {{gold digger}} mother detested him utterly, and it's even hinted that she's not his biological mum in any case. What a mess.
** PC Penhale in later seasons, after {{Flanderization}} sets in. Originally stated to have narcolepsy, agoraphobia, and mood swings as the result of a head injury he sustained before being transferred to Portwen (which were portrayed fairly realistically in his introductory episode), these were dropped (possibly because they made it difficult to have him interact with the rest of the cast). Instead, he gained a general incompetence in his job and "quirkiness" to the point that by season 6 he seems more like a boy playing cops and robbers and no longer has the slightest idea of how to actually do his job: his presence in an emergency situation is at best irrelevant and most of the time actually serves to make things worse.
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**[[spoiler: She just inches back over the horizon in the final episode where a hallucination of her - while still as unpleasant as ever - warns Martin that his son, James, is starting to resent him as Martin resented her, implying that he still has time to avoid making the same mistakes she did]].
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** Series 10 features two: in one episode, a man gets his foot caught in a tidepool as the tide is coming in; if Al and Morwenna hadn't been nearby to hear his cries for help, he would have eventually drowned, and in the penultimate episode, [[spoiler: Martin accidentally cuts open a artery in his arm, forcing Louisa to quickly clean out the wound and stitch it shut without any painkillers before desperately trying to get Martin to a hospital before he bleeds to death]].
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** Series 3 episode, where Holly 9Louisa's friend) collapses on a glass bottle after the spine injury and suffers from massive blood loss, certainly qualifies.
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** Series 3 episode, where Holly 9Louisa's (Louisa's friend) collapses on a glass bottle after the spine injury and suffers from massive blood loss, certainly qualifies.
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* NightmareFuel:
** Series 3 episode, where Holly 9Louisa's friend) collapses on a glass bottle after the spine injury and suffers from massive blood loss, certainly qualifies.
** Series 6 features one of the most memorable and scary scenes, where Louisa gets hit by a car.
** Series 3 episode, where Holly 9Louisa's friend) collapses on a glass bottle after the spine injury and suffers from massive blood loss, certainly qualifies.
** Series 6 features one of the most memorable and scary scenes, where Louisa gets hit by a car.
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* IdiotPlot: The HostageSituation in the Christmas episode. There are multiple times when one of them could have sneaked out a request for help (even if the village didn't have a new policeman yet, one could presumably be summoned from elsewhere). At one point, Martin is left ''alone'' with another character to whom he could easily whisper "there's a mental patient with a gun in my surgery", but he doesn't.
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** The group of teenaged girls who mock and laugh at Dr. Martin in almost every episode. They exist to laugh at the misfortune of others, though it's usually targeted towards the doctor, and each girl has no character of her own other than being [[JerkAss rude to anyone who passes by them for no real reason other than that they can]], and overall they have no real importance to the series whatsoever.
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** The group of teenaged girls who mock and laugh at Dr. Martin in almost every episode. They exist to laugh at the misfortune of others, though it's usually targeted towards the doctor, and each girl has no character of her own other than being [[JerkAss [[{{Jerkass}} rude to anyone who passes by them for no real reason other than that they can]], and overall they have no real importance to the series whatsoever.
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* IdiotPlot: The HostageSituation in the Christmas episode. There are multiple times when one of them could have sneaked out a request for help (even if the village didn't have a new policeman yet, one could presumably be summoned from elsewhere). At one point, Martin is left ''alone'' with another character to whom he could easily whisper "there's a mental patient with a gun in my surgery", but he doesn't.
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* WhatAnIdiot: The HostageSituation in the Christmas episode. There are multiple times when one of them could have sneaked out a request for help (even if the village didn't have a new policeman yet, one could presumably be summoned from elsewhere). At one point, Martin is left ''alone'' with another character to whom he could easily whisper "there's a mental patient with a gun in my surgery", but he doesn't.
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* IronyAsSheIsCast: Dr. Martin Ellingham is a stuffy JerkWithAHeartOfGold who considers dogs to be unhygienic menaces at best. Creator/MartinClunes is well-known for his long-standing love of dogs.
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* RecycledTheSeries: Kind of an odd example. A character, played by Clunes appeared in a film ''Saving Grace'' and later two prequel miniseries. In making this series, the character was given a ReTool with DoctorJerk added to the character (who was originally just a FishOutOfWater), and his last name was changed to Ellingham (an [[SignificantAnagram anagram]] of the last name of the show's writer Dominic Minghella).
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* TheWoobie: Martin sometimes becomes one, especially when his parents are involved.
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* TheWoobie: Martin sometimes becomes one, especially when his parents are involved.involved.
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