>>Wrt One then he may just be speaking of humans more generally, it's unlikely that he'd ever think of Time Ladies in such terms (higher species and all that).

Someone, unfortunately I can't remember who, had a well-articulated theory that Time Lords -- having come from a regimented class system -- might assume that ''woman human'' constitutes a rank, and therefore their biases aren't based so much on biology [like ours] but on rank prejudice. Which I can buy.

>>from when I realised that the scuttling things were Daleks

The Captain saying ''Haha, they're probably just rats'' and getting immediately face-slammed by a Dalek is such a classic Who thing. I was barking

>>Twelve speaks without thinking here - as One has obviously never put the universe back together

I believe it may be a reference to The Three Doctors.