✨ you can't let her stab me k9 it's not legal ✨

The thing about Lungbarrow is that romana and Leela were definitely fucking

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)

it's just so funny how show romana is this wonderfully intelligent, competent, comparatively rational character and then audios romana is one wrong turn away from passing out at any given point and probably contemplating whether to kill herself for the greater good or set gallifrey on fire

man, it's so cool when female characters over-indulge and self-destruct and hurt themselves and others on purpose and have no way out but make it worse anyway and bite and scratch and betray everything they stand for for nothing and have no one to blame but themselves.

I feel like he would maybe say it once offhand, and then never again.