Wow -- that Buddy episode was hard to watch. I can only think they are building up to having Martin change his mind about Buddy. That dog is so damn cute and Martin's harassment of him is starting to wear thin. And what was with the weird vet?
I know that Clunes actually loves dogs. I wish the Doc did too.
Please just stop. You are just digging your hole deeper. You do not know me. The fictional "Martin" has nothing to do with my professional work. I have been doing this for 30 years, long before Doc Martin. Personalities are much more complex than you imagine. Please stop annoying me with your fantasies of me and my abilities. It is getting very tiresome. Keep your judgments to yourself. This is only a TV show about a fictional character, who you seem determined to label with a mental illness. I do not know why you want to do this, but if you feel gratified by this, you are certainly entitled to your opinion.
Just stop attacking me.
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I found what you were saying very interesting. It was well informed and your medical/psychiatric knowledge was impeccable. I found the attack on you by the other lady a little over the top. If I could reach out to her I would ask her what her problem is. She has some serious demons. Especially the need to continue on and on. I felt that she was going to keep on until someone said she was correct. It was quite sad. 😢 If you do a little research on her she seems to be very aggressive and argumentative to everybody in all her reviews and comments on boards.
It is a Dramedy and a great one at that. The writing is great and well researched. Also, it IS a British show and therefore the humour is different to US written shows. The fact that someone questions whether Martin is mentally ill or not just speaks to the wonderful writing and the superb acting skills of Martin Clunes. If you watch the Special Features on Season 6, Martin Clunes and Clare Bloom both succinctly explain his backstory. He was a damaged child.
Thank you very much for your interest and support. I found that particular poster quite frustrating and problematic. I did not understand what her problem was and like you I would like to have asked her. She seemed very aggressive and did not respond to reason or kindness on my part. I finally concluded that she would not stop unless I agreed with her or just stopped. Since I could not agree, with integrity, I just stopped. It is very sad.
I do believe that Doc Martin is a great Dramedy. I own the DVDs and watch it over and over. The writing, production values, acting, and stories are so wonderful. The characters are dynamic and multifacited. I am so pleased they are doing at least one more series.
Of course there is conflict. Martin and Louisa are drawn as real people. Real people have conflict. They nmeed to work out their marriage. Doc Martin does not like dogs. That does not make him a monster. He would not actually kill one. In series 3 he had good cause to do just that. The black dog had infected the village children with a bacteria. He innoculated the children and the dog.
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Then they show do more homework/research before they create shows like this.
No tears please, it's a waste of good suffering.share
I considered knocking off after Series 7 too - until I saw the last episode. I can't. I have to see how this thing plays out! 
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What is Martin's problem with Buddy? That Buddy likes him too much and won't leave him alone? I don't watch the show that often, only with someone else when I visit her.
My best guess is, Buddy's supposed to represent how emotionally damaged Martin is. He can only see things in terms of practicality, not how most people would: "Aw, poor dog has no home and seems to want to be my friend..."
sharePractical to save it from its homelessness by putting it down - a dog like that with such a cute personality? I'm surprised animals rights activists aren't boycotting the show.
shareWell, in his mind, yes. That's how he explains it: The dog is a nuisance and could spread disease by running around without a home.
Martin doesn't think in terms of "cuteness" (which, arguably, shouldnt' factor into the decision of whether to euthanize an animal in the first place). Even his own infant son doesn't seem to particularly charm him.
Yeah. It was painful to watch Martin carry his son to the beach for that picnic without any interaction.
shareThe most warm-fuzzy moment we got between Martin and James was when he read him that study (and even that was totally cold in affect, but showed that Martin cared and wanted to share his interests with his son).
shareWas this in the same episode? So Martin read a technical article to a baby? Martin is an odd duck. But at least he tried, I guess.
shareI'm a bit baffled by the Buddy thing. i thought buddy belonged to martin's aunt. So why is it always running around loose?
shareIt's supposedly just a stray with a very strong homing instinct; a dog who took one look at Martin Ellingham and decided that this was his one and only true chum. If tied up he always escapes and zeroes back in on the surgery, his real' home' as he sees it in his doggy brain.
It's a running gag in the series that Martin attracts dogs (for some unfathomable canine reason), and that they will follow him around with unceasing patience and devotion; even when Martin kicks them out, verbally abuses them, tries to give them away, or attempts to euthanise them with lethal injections!
A misanthropic dog hater whom dog's love. It's just a way for the writers to throw in some comedy cutsie dog scenes, and for Martin to be a miserable, curmudgeonly git to his unwanted four-legged 'friend'.
It's a running gag in the series that Martin attracts dogs (for some unfathomable canine reason), and that they will follow him around with unceasing patience and devotion; even when Martin kicks them out, verbally abuses them, tries to give them away, or attempts to euthenise them with lethal injections!
It wasn't specifically a ethanasia drug. It's not as if Martin has a bottle in his collection marked 'Poison For Killing Annoying Dogs'. It was some (unspecified) chemical compound from his medicinal supplies which he knew would kill a dog when injected in the right quantity.
All doctors theoretically have the knowledge (and access to supplies) which could kill both humans and animals. Snuffing out a stray dog with a quick injection would be child's play to a skilled doctor who wanted to do so.
The same breadth of chemical knowledge was used to diagnose the effects of the drug which the vet (mis)treated herself with. Martin is written as being an informed medical expert who would know about these things. The vet was a dotty quack who hadn't looked into the possible chemical side effects upon humans.
It's another running gag in the series that Martin is the only one in Portwenn who genuinely knows his medical facts. Everyone around him irresponsibly self-medicates or does something dangerously stupid at some point. Cue Martin rushing grumpily to the rescue every time a villager keels over unconscious with a 'mystery' illness. Portwenn is (as Martin once yelled with his customary lack of tact) "The village of the idiots!".
The writers could have easily made him an animal lover: As a whole different 'branch' of humor... Instead of him being constantly annoyed by the dog(s) on the show, Martin could have ignored the patients & their emergencies to give various animals 'priority'.
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