I thought it was that the fireplace kept skipping each time it reconnected and he thought he'd fixed it at the end?
Idk, he mentions a loose connection at both the beginning and the end of the ep though. Edit -- I was wrong about something in an earlier post (I type too fast!!) After he left Rose and Mickey and Reinette is a few months older he marvels that seconds = months, but he doesn't say it TO them.
Which was all ~symbolicalness~ of how mayfly we humans are to him, no?
Which makes **total** sense that it came right after SE, since that kind of highlight's Ten's phobia about the whole wither-and-die thing. But - and yes, I'm overthinking this, but w/e - the wither-and-die thing HAD to have been at the front of his mind in an in-character Ten. He had to know he couldn't keep Reinette long as a companion - he knew everything else about her biography, surely he knew she was supposed die soon. She was too important to history, which was the point behind the ship being named after her at all. Maybe it was intended to be a one-or-two trip deal? He didn't invite her until she indicated she didn't want him to leave, so maybe he was thinking that all along and was just bummed he didn't have a chance for even that? Idk.
Then again, Tennant says in the ROTC commentary that had she come onboard as a companion, that his personal canon is that she would have been turned into a Cyberman in Pete's World. So either way, she was hosed. XD
but Rose seemed weird like someone had stolen her memory or something
Clearly they were starting on the series arc with the Silents a few episodes early ... she just didn't remember!!! >.^
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Idk, he mentions a loose connection at both the beginning and the end of the ep though. Edit -- I was wrong about something in an earlier post (I type too fast!!) After he left Rose and Mickey and Reinette is a few months older he marvels that seconds = months, but he doesn't say it TO them.
Which was all ~symbolicalness~ of how mayfly we humans are to him, no?
Which makes **total** sense that it came right after SE, since that kind of highlight's Ten's phobia about the whole wither-and-die thing. But - and yes, I'm overthinking this, but w/e - the wither-and-die thing HAD to have been at the front of his mind in an in-character Ten. He had to know he couldn't keep Reinette long as a companion - he knew everything else about her biography, surely he knew she was supposed die soon. She was too important to history, which was the point behind the ship being named after her at all. Maybe it was intended to be a one-or-two trip deal? He didn't invite her until she indicated she didn't want him to leave, so maybe he was thinking that all along and was just bummed he didn't have a chance for even that? Idk.
Then again, Tennant says in the ROTC commentary that had she come onboard as a companion, that his personal canon is that she would have been turned into a Cyberman in Pete's World. So either way, she was hosed. XD
but Rose seemed weird like someone had stolen her memory or something
Clearly they were starting on the series arc with the Silents a few episodes early ... she just didn't remember!!! >.^