I'm a big fan of Doctor Who, new and old, but much as I like Martha, she's no Rose or Romana or Leela or Ace, and I might've passed her by had she not been available for a pretty good price, for a 12" doll. I'm glad I didn't, though, because she's really good. I'm not kidding, for a doll I picked up off the shelf at Toys R Us, rather than paying a very large sum of money to buy online from a high-end collectables producer, she's downright sensational. The face really looks like her, and has quite a good expression - a little satisfied smile, much better than the usual blank mannequin look 12" figures often have. Her hair's sculpted, seeing as it'd be impossible to get rooted hair to take or stay in her spiky hairdo, but it looks pretty good - only problem is that the strand that should be hanging down just beside her face seems intent on staying back near her hairline on that side, so I'm trying to figure out how to coax it out and keep it in place without doing any damage to anything. Her outfit is terrific - well-made jeans that fit her legs very well, with just enough tightness to look convincing, a flat burgundy sleeveless top which is only just visible beneath her jacket, but hugs her hips nicely where it shows, and the jacket itself is superb, with exactly the right colour and texture and shine, and it moves just like it should. I've posed her crossing her arms, which is a really difficult pose to get on a lot of figures, between insufficient arm articulation and sleeves not sitting the way they should to mimic a full-size garment, but she looks great. In fact, the only thing Character Options has to learn, based on this figure, is how to advertise - she's listed as having 14 points of articulation, which is decent for a 6" figure but a bit ho-hum for a 12", and I was expecting to end up just having her standing around in a typical neutral 'action figure pose'. But once I got her clothes off (you've got to strip them first, to see how the articulation works, then you come up with a pose, reclothe them, and display them. Stop looking at me like that!), I saw that they'd vastly underrated her poseability. A conservative count would put her at 19 points - counting double joints (which is how super-articulated figures get their counts up in the 30s), she's got 23, and a lot of them are very flexible joints: ball joint neck, sternum ball joint, shallow ball joint waist, ball joint shoulders and hips, cut thighs and biceps, double peg elbows and knees, ball joint wrists, and cut ankles. About all that could be improved on her, without going into wish-list territory, would be more flexible ankle joints, and a greater range of head movement - the ball is at the base of her neck, rather than between the neck and skull, which means she can turn side to side and tilt her head, and look up, but she can't look down. There's a bunch of 12" figures coming out - I also saw a Novice Haim (I think that's her name - the feline nurse from New New New etc. New York), but while I like the costume and makeup design, I don't find it specifically attractive, and seeing as she's only appeared a couple of times I don't mind not having her in the collection. But any characters I do want who get 12" versions, I'll get without hesitation, because this one is excellent value for its price point, and stands up well even to premium 12" dolls.