#lenaris

[incorrectgallifreyquotes]

Lenaris: What is she doing with her face? Narvin: Leela is telepathically sending me a message. Narvin: But since I do not agree with her plan I am ignoring her.

[the-worms-in-your-bones]

the fact that narvin has been sitting by lenaris this whole time, talking to her, hoping she would wake up...

[measured-robshearfan]

This could be considered either a failure to commit to the portrayal of Gallifrey as a fascist society with a supreme leader / God at the top, or an interesting take on morality, but:

Gallifrey: War Room seems, to me, to be almost intentionally opposed to the idea of the banality of evil. I couldn't point at anyone in the ensemble of characters that has appeared in these 3 box sets who is just following orders without thinking about them and being loyal because it's the right and proper thing to do to keep society going, no matter how horrid the things one must do.

Rassilon of course doesn't count, because he isn't following orders, he is the orders. He is the founder God of Gallifrey the Empire, the Father of Time, the Lord President Eternal of the Time Lords.

Then the Resistance, meaning Narvin, Leela, Eris, Helico, Lenaris, and anyone else I might be forgetting, are obviously fighting directly against the Rassilonian order.

Clemantia is outside the system, she does not fight for any higher purpose that needs defending at all costs, she fights only for herself and is aware of her own lack of morality. She does whatever deal benefits her the most, allows her to get richer, and brings her closer to getting as far away from the war in a nice luxury home.

And then we get inside the War Room.

Ollistra does what she considers best for Gallifrey, but not only does even she show some doubts (as seen in her conversation with Clemantia in Ambition's Debt), but she's also starting to fear Rassilon and keeping secrets for him, all the while resenting her future self and being power hungry and self-oriented.

Rasmus and the General are both trying to fight the Time War in what they each consider to be “the right way”, but they are aware this is not exactly what Rassilon or Ollistra are doing, and they stand directly at odds with Ollistra because of this.

Then there's Veklin, who was always oh so loyal to her Ollistra and, while always speaking her mind (and being told to shut up every time), had no problems following orders, ever... until Ambition's Debt, where she started to question this Ollistra, if the deaths of so many Time Lords were really necessary, and now has decided that this Ollistra, the matrix projection who is jealous of her real flesh and blood future self, is not worth her loyalty, not her Ollistra after all.

The closest we get is Cresta, who is still working for Rassilon, following his orders, believing, building weapons for him... but that is mostly because of naivety, and as this naivety is broken and she's exposed to what Rassilon's Gallifrey actually entails, even her belief is starting to crack.

[alyona11]

It's out! Beware of the spoilers for War Room 2 Transference! This project took me about a week and 120 drawings to complete. After I collected the drawings together I kinda figured out there were things that I could have done differently but I really love this draft. Super proud of finishing it. Animatics are always very exhausting to make because you need to think about so many things at once and you have to relisten to the material to see the image in your head and then decently transfer it into an image. It's also trickier when it isn't a music video but the characters just having a conversation. But surprisingly it wasn't a huge problem with this scene in particular because it was written and acted so dynamically. I think War Room 2 turned out a very solid boxset and switched my brain into "thinking about Gallifrey" mode! Big cheers to @fiotrethewey for writing this scene and supporting this project in progress. Cheers to Sean Carlsen for playing this scene so heart wrechingly! Under the cut I'll post the storyboards with some notes:

[raspberry-gloaming]

I'm still on Time War 2 but I desperately want to finish all the Time War Boxsets and get onto War Room so I can buy War Room 2 because I desperately already find fascinating and love Helico and Lenaris despite so far the only thing I've heard of them is that heartbreaking animatic by @alyona11 (it's gorgeous I love it)

Especially the main reason I'm so encapsulated is an anthropological perspecitve it feels like I'm jumping around going INTERCASTE! INTERCASTE! like Gallifreyan society/ies is so fascinating but all the characters we ever get to know are the 1%, while there's such a rich undercurrent of lower classes and castes that we have hardly anything about! And they're intercaste (I'm pretty sure at least again I haven't actually listened to the audio yet) which is NOT going to be a common thing this is like very rare circumstances and I've got so many thoughts about that kinda stuff ahhhhhh I'm so excited to listen even if it doesn't give that much lore so big up @fiotrethewey who wrote that episode and them

[vivvision]

The house of Witforge

[filmjunky-99]

s t a r t r e k d e e p s p a c e n i n e created by rick berman, michael piller Shakaar [s3ep24]

[incorrectgallifreyquotes]

Lenaris: you’re pretty cool! Narvin: oh my god prepare to be very disappointed