oh my god I am going to miss Bill so much
First time I watched this, I thought it was just a funny subversion of the whole “Companion in love with the Doctor” which has been with every female companion since the revival, bar Donna. It’s made even more funny when you remember that Twelve is hearing this from Cyber-Bill.
Only recently on rewatch I realised the emotional significance. Bill isn’t out to her foster mother. But she’s been open with Twelve about her sexuality from the start and he’s never batted an eyelid. He’s the closest she has to family and he adores her. Theirs is the closest to a paternal or teacher/student relationship since Seven & Ace. When she says ‘glad you knew that’, she’s not teasing him with some possible secret crush, she’s saying ‘thank you for knowing the real me and accepting me’. I love them.



















