GALLIFREY: TIME WAR: HOMECOMING: This hole was made for me:
Rassilon’s death cult and the Dalek’s apocalypticism, the religious fervor mounting as they spiral towards each other. “There is no CIA anymore, only me” (the mix of cocky and pathetic & the awareness that Narvin could simply regrow the CIA from himself like he’s a plant cutting, but that this version of him very probably won’t…There He Is My Weird Little Man). Eris’ skeletal battle TARDIS. Leela, again, jumping into the void with the most fragile of tethers because that’s what she does, she saves who she can, even if it’s Romana, especially if it’s Romana.
Tell me again how you’re not a traitor. The Daleks using null space because of course they do, the War can’t be stopped that easily. Narvin staring his whipped-dog fear in the face as Rassilon takes over the ship. Leela doesn’t need Narvin to ask her to protect Romana but the fact that he does is very…..and she’s gonna take that responsibility maybe a little too seriously, isn’t she. Narvin asking to hold Livia’s hand as they die is the sweetest and saddest thing. Sentimentality indeed.
In the beginning was the word: Romana, who has spent the entire series trapped between her trauma from Etra Prime and her devotion to/obsession with/self-destructive, is it codependency if the planet is slightly psychic, whatever with Gallifrey, & also the possibility of elsewhere Dr Who and Brax represent - Romana, having been pinned beneath all that history and re-enacted trauma, now imprisoned in the Matrix archives as Daddy God King Rassilon re-writes the world. i am chewing on my keyboard ~
Livia remains low-key one of the more intriguing, complex characters in DW. i’d love to know what the fuck her deal is
Speaking of Trump analogues: Mantus trying to sell out to the Daleks is very Chris Noth in “Revolution of the Daleks”.
DW’s optimism and BF’s endless content ethos aside….you could kill off Narvin right here and it’d be fine, narratively speaking.
may or may not ever write anything coherent about TW 🤝 Flux but like. This series has been about trauma and imperialism and how the system will crush you or mold you or just spit you out, and about destruction as a devotional act, and history as a cycle, and the collapsing of institutional into familial abuse. not saying it’s perfect but when it works oof ouch does it work
i am. hmm. wary, of War Room presumably picking up Leela’s guilt at being a collaborator bc with Big Finish that could go any which way but like imagine if they don’t fuck it up…society_if.png, etc