I've written in the past of hope that this is all an incarnation-long story arc but, if that's what Davies is doing, he's doing it so subtly or so poorly that I can't tell for sure.
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I've written in the past of hope that this is all an incarnation-long story arc but, if that's what Davies is doing, he's doing it so subtly or so poorly that I can't tell for sure.