... pets Ten, who I think must have misunderstood C. S. Lewis on this point. Heeeee.
... from a slightly different though still Oxonian shared context: “And if you can quote Kai Lung, we should certainly get on together.” Oh yes, excellent.
... “it makes no difference at all.” “I forgive you.” Oh, Ten. You got it so terribly, terribly wrong. Verklempt, indeed. It's a masterpiece in getting it wrong. Although I, too, want to re-read The Four Loves now. I think maybe the thing is that Ten swapped Friendship-love for Eros-love (Eros love being completely singleminded and ready to do anything to be with the beloved). So Ten/Master really *was* a love story, and Twelve/Missy has returned it to its proper place. (I wrote a crack theory once about how they might originally have fallen out... *g*)
Agree that Nine’s line is more problematic, and that your emendation is what Eleven or Twelve would have said at that point. “Clara Oswald. Your assistant?” “My friend.” Someone, somewhere, called out Nine on that line. But I presume RTD chose that phrasing in order to make Adam feel how much he'd messed up.
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Heeeee.
... from a slightly different though still Oxonian shared context: “And if you can quote Kai Lung, we should certainly get on together.”
Oh yes, excellent.
... “it makes no difference at all.” “I forgive you.” Oh, Ten. You got it so terribly, terribly wrong.
Verklempt, indeed.
It's a masterpiece in getting it wrong. Although I, too, want to re-read The Four Loves now. I think maybe the thing is that Ten swapped Friendship-love for Eros-love (Eros love being completely singleminded and ready to do anything to be with the beloved). So Ten/Master really *was* a love story, and Twelve/Missy has returned it to its proper place. (I wrote a crack theory once about how they might originally have fallen out... *g*)
Agree that Nine’s line is more problematic, and that your emendation is what Eleven or Twelve would have said at that point. “Clara Oswald. Your assistant?” “My friend.”
Someone, somewhere, called out Nine on that line. But I presume RTD chose that phrasing in order to make Adam feel how much he'd messed up.