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Titan's comicline features heavy forshadowing towards the events of 'The End of Time,' and I doubt something like this would have been included on accident. [[User:OttselSpy25|OS25]] ([[User Talk:OttselSpy25|Talk]]) 22:01, March 7, 2017 (UTC) | Titan's comicline features heavy forshadowing towards the events of 'The End of Time,' and I doubt something like this would have been included on accident. [[User:OttselSpy25|OS25]] ([[User Talk:OttselSpy25|Talk]]) 22:01, March 7, 2017 (UTC) | ||
: Foreshadowing, sure. Songs not ending prematurely and stuff. | |||
: However, in this case, the situation is quite different. A [[Cerebravore]] delivers a telepathic attack against the Doctor, twice. Here's a description of the mechanics of such attacks from the intro to Issue 3: "First comes a telepathic attack, a magnification of a person's worst fear, to weaken their prey. Then the cerebravores use the host to manifest physically - and sow even more fear!" This is a close quote from in-comic description from Issue 2. So all these images the Doctor sees are "manifestations of his worst fears". (Let me state that I think him being afraid of an abstract Time Lord is doubtful to say the least, but this is what we get from the story.) So he is afraid of Cybermen, of the Beast, of Sutekh, of the Master, of Time Lords and of Rassilon. Almost all of that makes some sense. But you cannot be afraid of images you have not seen yet. The Doctor has never been shown clairvoyant (methinks) in the vulgar sense of the word. He has a reason to fear Rassilon, but there was no story prior to ''The End of Time'' showing his encounter with Dalton's Rassilon. So why would his fear take this particular face? The same goes for Simm's Master, with even less space for speculation. Unfortunately, here the foreshadowing explanation does not fit. [[User:Amorkuz|Amorkuz]] [[User talk:Amorkuz|<span title="Talk to me">☎</span>]] 22:26, March 7, 2017 (UTC) | |||
