You know, when I first watched that episode, I LOVED that line and hadn't thought of anything that would contradict it, but on rewatches, yeah, it was quite obvious that it HAD been contradicted.
Not only with the ones you mentioned, but the Face of Boe flat-out tells the Doctor that they'll only meet three times and we saw all three times in the show ("The End of the World," "New Earth," and "Gridlocked").
I like shinyopals' take that it was a bet that Rose made with Jack some time ago. That works.
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Date: 2008-08-23 11:17 pm (UTC)Not only with the ones you mentioned, but the Face of Boe flat-out tells the Doctor that they'll only meet three times and we saw all three times in the show ("The End of the World," "New Earth," and "Gridlocked").
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