Beyond the specific context, and the specific threat, can I just say how much it hit me in the heart for the Doctor to be saying to a canonically gay woc companion “You’re safe in here. You’re safe in here, and you always will be.” It felt like that reassuring hand on the shoulder that we so rarely get irl. Sometimes I forget how not-safe I feel every day, that what feels like the norm should never be, that we deserve better.
I can’t find the right words, but that framing of that huge interior space as a place where Bill would always be safe just really resonated with me. I hope so very much that it wasn’t some sort of ironic foreshadowing, that the writers will hold true to it, because I know I am not the only one who that is going to resonate with, and I particularly want the kids watching to have that. Especially right now. Needed.