Nuala
Did anyone else spot that Eve Myles (playing "Gwen") played the Cardiff-based maid "Gwyneth" in
The Unquiet Dead?
A common Welsh name, but... a descendant, perhaps?
(And you
know my opinions on "Rose ex machina".
scream )
I wonder.... could they actually be picking up on that abandoned plot notion from
The Massacre and running with it?
RTD is sufficient of a Who geek I wouldn't put it past him...
(
The Massacre of St Bartolomew's Eve was a 60s story, in which the Doctor and Co left behind a young Frenchwoman to uncertain fate. A bew companion was introduced at the end of the story, in the present day, and it was originally going to be implied she was a descendant of the woman in question; however, the idea got cut from everything but the novelisation)