I've been thinking, because my job is very demanding, that you're probably right, Randy. Following on from raggedman above, I'd been expecting, if not an actual picture of beavers building dams, at least a picture of Tennant over a headline about beavers building dams. Instead, to one side, quite small, apropos very little, comes:
"Beavers build dams! Doctor Who doesn't know if chopping down trees is pacifist!"
De-Time Warring might just be big enough, and secret enough, to justify how much they've already given away, to get people expecting something big.
And Rose's fate... I don't think it's been mentioned yet, but of all "Midnight"'s 10th-Dr-writ-small moments, the bit where his pacifism aggravates the situation to the point where the person who's idea he'd shot down for contravening his principles has to go ahead and execute said idea, killing herself in the process because that's how bad things had gotten, all to save him.
Haus noted above that River Song was the (then) latest in a long and venerable line of people who could back up the man who never would; I'd imagine Rose will make Tenth see the error of his ways, by taking up arms and dying in the charge. |
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