there was a crowd, too?

re: the scene in the sea devils where the doctor touches the master's waist. I am now imagining theta manhandling koschei in the lab by holding his waist and pushing/pulling him out of the way

no one knows if watching a new tv show is possible

A trope that gets to me: 'guard dog' character and their partner who are both fully aware of it and honestly don't care/kind of like it. Someone says "call your guard dog off" and their partner does call them off. That person, their 'guard dog', is someone who is unreservedly, irrefutably loyal to them. Someone undoubtedly dangerous who is willing to kill, to maim, to obey, simply because of their love for one another. There's no manipulation involved— it is loyalty, brutal, dogged loyalty. And it goes both ways.

so obsessed with 12 he only interacted with queer women (and nardole) and then regenerated into a queer woman like wth was that

do you ever think about how “awkwardly standing there while another version of herself blatantly flirts with her friend(s)” is something that has happened to romana twice

Going to start Imperatrix now, in which, I assume, Romana makes herself a leopard and thinks “surely I would never eat people's faces”, or something like that.

on a bit of a “let leela be flawed please i’m begging” crusade rn sorry. i mean there’s a lot of nuance but still basically i think every time we get on romana or narvin’s case for political evils we must remember leela is their right hand arm. man. and she does it on purpose

#leela's whole thing right is like #she very much sees herself as like some righteous crusader- just like dr who- and that'a why she's all like #wanting to help the common folk and fight the tyranny of the time lords or whatever #she's always fighting for her noble cause #almost to the point of arrogance (see s5) because She Is Right and all these Time Lords who nevsr accept or want her are proving her point #to her that she is better than them #i think it's why she never fits in with anyone but the doctor because nobody else has that same kind of 'fighing for the underdog while #being part of the aristocracy; which romana is the closest second and that's why leela is attracted to her - in a magnetic way i mean #because leela wants a place to Belong. and i think whether she'll admit it or not; romana represents that to her #idk if that made sense i just woke up but yeh #it's kind of a cynical read but you're right; for all her talk she is complicit a LOT (@sircarolyn)

romana's backstory for gallifrey is "tortured for twenty years" and then every single character in gallifrey pauses at least once per episode to say "well well well... WHY would ROMANA ban TORTURE? could it perhaps be... because of the mysterious terrible events she went through for twenty years? we will literally never know"

Early Narvin being SO offended that he can’t get information with the MIND PROBE, something daleks are also known to use…..

look at these whiny snowflake """torture victims""" telling us who we can and can't torture