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Yeah, Battlefield/Remembrance is a pair of stories which both involve delving into a mythos, whether of *Doctor Who* itself or of British folkloric national identity, both of which involve a vision of UNIT that is removed from either the “present” of 1989 or the comfy home territory of the 1970s UNIT family (in one, it’s a proto-UNIT group; in the other, it’s the UNIT of the future), both of which involve the Doctor following up on his own plan (in one case very comfortably because it’s his past self’s, in the other he’s completely perplexed by what his future self has been doing), and both stories end with a confrontation over whether to use a huge nuclear device, with the Doctor’s level of sincerity confronting Davros and Morgaine varying somewhat…

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I'd never picked up on Shou Yuing trying to bang ace before. I'd always read it as a bored teen in the country surrounded by old people, finds someone her own age who is a hell of a lot of fun and way cool and wants to be by her side for the ride. Oh wait...

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Regarding Ace’s android assumption, according to Andrew Cartmel’s book Script Doctor it’s because the knights’ armour was supposed to be flashy and futuristic but the design team entirely failed to understand that (along with a lot of other things, which is one of a number of reasons why Ben Aaronovitch can’t bear to watch it).

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I suspect any influence on Steven Moffat took the following route

Battlefield -> The first couple of years of New Adventures -> Steven Moffat

This is weirdly the era that looks like they were making TV versions of New Adventures books.

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Not sure I buy that. He will have seen them and stuff can sink into your brain even if you don't consider it a favourite. The bits of the old show that are most Moffat though are weirdly seasons 2-3 and 25-6 I think. Not sure what to make of this.

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