[rereads main post] My bad. I missed the bit about "in the face of glare and me essentially arming myself". S'why I read things the way I did. I is smrt. (Or would that be "smar"?)

And "She's a companion, they're always replaceable" strikes me as less of a "not necessarily a bad thing" than a "not the end of the world or even the programme", though the appeal on behalf of Battersea Companions' Home gave me a chuckle or three. And if Rose really is "being written as this spoilt bitch whose bunny-boiler pouty bottom lip is even now planning to drag the Doctor off to a chapel in Vegas", it's probably best for Piper that she get out whilst the getting's good.