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Been watching the final part of The Key to Time, the 26-episode/6-story Doctor Who season. So, the Doctor and Romana are hunting down this Key which could bring about the end of the universe, eh? And an evil godlike being wants to get its hands on it? And then it turns out that Astra, a seemingly teenage girl, actually is the Key and will have to be sacrificed to save the universe?

...Joss Whedon has seen this, hasn't he?

(ETA: between this one, various stuff in Nine and Ten's run, and the Two story I watched yesterday, The Wheel in Space, I need to do some thinking about the Doctor's willingness or otherwise to put his companions above other people/the world/the universe. The Armageddon Factor has him turning over a device that gives the owner omnipotent power to the Black Guardian because his minion threatens Romana - who, quite sensibly, is yelling her head off at him to let her die, that in the scheme of things her life doesn't matter, and he roars back "of course it matters!" But there are at least two Second Doctor stories I've heard recently, Wheel and Evil of the Daleks where he's fully, almost coldly, prepared to sacrifice Jamie and Victoria/Zoe to save the Earth. Hm, maybe these are thoughts for two_love...)