Archie Panjabi as the rani was legitimately such a stellar casting choice, I need her to do big finish stuff and have them just ignore the fact that a big cgi monster ate her. If we can breeze past all the masters “deaths” with a wave of the hand we can do it for the queen of amoral science projects too.
I still think she should show up now possessed by Omega - she wasn't eaten, she was processed. And then after a little while she shakes Omega off and is back to being the Rani.
That's a good idea.
My preferred option is that it wasn't Omega at all, it was a product of the reality-altering effects of the wish world. (You can tell because it was fuck all like Omega.) So once reality was restored, the Rani was returned to existence. Maybe the Doctor even made sure of it when he made his adjustments.
Oh I also think what we saw wasn't Omega, it was an updated version of the Gell Gaurds and it didn't eat the Rani per say, it captured her and stored her inside it to take back to the original Omega for possesion purposes.

























