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  • In "Planet of the Ood," upon seeing the Ood Brain, Rose gets unexpectedly angry as soon as the Doctor explains how the Ood Brain is the telepathic center connecting all of the Ood together and the Ood are being held back by the electric field around it, griping, “They’re supposed to be connected. The song, it’s like our bond, Doctor.” And after Halpen's conversion into an Ood, it's Rose who shuts down the electric barrier. It's been less than a year since Rose and the Doctor dealt with the Master cutting off their telepathic bond. Rose couldn't undo what the Master did to her, but she can regain some of the autonomy he stole from her by restoring the telepathic link between the Ood.
  • In "The Sontaran Strategem," the Doctor comes up with the solution to mine the entrances to the factory to contain the Sontarans and minimize human casualties. Not only is the solution only made possible because of a smoother relationship between the Doctor and Colonel Mace (because of Rose encouraging the Doctor to be more cooperative), but it also shows flashes of the Time War, and the Doctor understanding military strategy. He doesn't even think of it that way, thinks of it as defense and "safety measures," (which foreshadows a later argument with Jenny in "The Doctor's Daughter" about soldiers wanting to stop the fighting), but being a soldier isn't just identifying targets and shooting. For all the times he's reminded of the War, there are still ways he's been impacted and doesn't even realize.
  • In "The Doctor's Daughter," the Doctor's determination to protect himself from Jenny makes sense given his past. Rose's pushback, meanwhile, highlights how much the lack of a father in her childhood affected her upbringing. She would not react well to the Doctor refusing to accept his daughter. Not only that, but Rose is also familiar with Jenny wanting the Doctor's acceptance because it reminds her of what it was like talking to the parallel universe version of her father in Pete's World.
  • The Sequel Hook at the end of Time is Still a-Flying shows that in Pete's World, Dr. Malcolm Taylor is the one who's engineered the dimension hoppers for Mickey, Pete and Jackie to hop to the Doctor's universe and back. It makes sense, since the Malcolm Taylor in the Doctor's universe is familiar with wormhole theory.
  • In Forever and Never Apart, one of the prominent themes is the return of Bad Wolf. It’s foreshadowed most strongly perhaps in "Planet of the Ood", when Ood Sigma says "A song has been sung for generations of a Wolf who would break the circle," but it comes up in other ways, too. But birth in general, and especially unusual births, are a major theme in the story, but unlike season 4, it's not foreshadowing the Metacrisis but the Bad Wolf's resurgence:
    • "Partners in Crime" — Miss Foster is seeding the planet to grow Adipose from fat
    • "The Fires of Pompeii" — Roman seers are being converted into Pyroviles as they breath in the rock dust
    • "Planet of the Ood" — Klineman Halpen becoming an Ood after drinking the Ood graft.
    • The Sontaran two-parter — The Sontarans try to turn Earth into a clone planet so they could create more warriors. Oh, and the Martha clone.
    • "The Doctor’s Daughter" — Jenny is created by progeneration when the humans forcibly take a sample of the Doctor’s tissue.
    • "The Unicorn and the Wasp" — Reverend Golightly is a hybrid child, which is unusual in itself. The way the genetic lock broke and he realised his full identity is also unusual, as is his connection with his mother’s necklace.
    • The Library two-parter — The Vashta Nerada hatch from eggs that were laid in the trees that became the books that were sent to the Library.
    • "Midnight" — The whole concept of the entity is shrouded in mystery. How can it exist when the planet is irradiated with lethal radiation? And why did it select Sky? It has no origin story.
    • "Turn Left" — The Time Beetle attempts to create a new life for Rose where she didn't go back into Henrik's, and the Doctor died in the explosion
    • "The Stolen Earth"/"Journey’s End" — finally, the rebirth of Bad Wolf.
  • In "The Stolen Earth," Mickey takes over what was Rose's arc in the show, trying to seek out the Doctor, and killing the Dalek that tried to kill Donna's family. But instead of going inside their house to make contact on the Subwave network, he decides to dimension-hop to Torchwood to get back in touch with Jack, since he's not paying as much attention to timelines like Rose was in the show, and Jack's the closest thing to a trustworthy face Mickey can think of while the Doctor and Rose are gone.

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