See, except for the mood patches. Gridlock didn't impress me, but that's beside the point...
I do believe it's deliberate, though I don't think it was necessarily deliberate from the get-go--the whole 'ushers in a Golden Age' bit about Harriet Jones in S1 is utterly fucked by the Doctor in TCI, and I don't think that the whole Master bit had come to mind for RTD and the writers by then.
As for the themes, though, hasn't he said something about Ten's massive hubris, that his good intentions always go south? (Or am I confusing that with someone's meta journal entries?)
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I do believe it's deliberate, though I don't think it was necessarily deliberate from the get-go--the whole 'ushers in a Golden Age' bit about Harriet Jones in S1 is utterly fucked by the Doctor in TCI, and I don't think that the whole Master bit had come to mind for RTD and the writers by then.
As for the themes, though, hasn't he said something about Ten's massive hubris, that his good intentions always go south? (Or am I confusing that with someone's meta journal entries?)