true. We will have to have the female character doom!thread some other time, because I swear I am signing off now, really. (I was canning jam at a friend's for most of the evening, and my bloodstream is still solid sugar. It has mostly worn off. I might sleep sometime this month.)

I definitely did feel that the the push-pull of their relationship was changing, and that less-adventurous Doctor idea makes sense. My first reading of it was that for whatever reason - new Doctor, or just known each other for longer - he's treating Rose more as an equal now. So instead of him just pulling her along, when she pulls, he goes. I rather like that idea.

The thing is, I think these characters are actually well-drawn enough that we're not being completely insane trying to read these things into them. But that could be the fanbrain talking.

Alright. You sleep too! It's not that much earlier there.