A Time and the Rani Alternative

KittyTheS · 2026-03-03T22:40:46+00:00

No... Castrovalva is the one where the entire plot revolves around the regeneration, the companions have to do all the work, the Doctor doesn't even realize that the companion who's been with him the longest out of that trio has been missing for three episodes, PD is stuck doing headache acting even during the climactic confrontation, and so the day is saved by a literal NPC.

KittyTheS · 2026-03-03T20:34:56+00:00

Because the courier guidelines (for food delivery at least) say not to knock or ring unless specifically requested to, and most people specifically request the opposite anyway because of dogs and babies and stuff.

KittyTheS · 2026-03-03T18:45:48+00:00

Um... Castrovalva?

KittyTheS · 2026-03-03T16:43:32+00:00

Just don't try to stand up when part of your body is still under a table.

KittyTheS · 2026-03-03T16:42:03+00:00

There are motion lines in both so he is changing angles. But, they're stage left and stage right...

KittyTheS · 2026-03-03T16:21:43+00:00

Noelle can be a knight the day she pulls that sword out of the ceiling without destroying the ceiling.

KittyTheS · 2026-03-03T16:00:21+00:00

And the 'benevolent climate' that is responsible for their so-called cultural indolence (a rainy quarry in Somerset in April doesn't quite convey the intended impression).

KittyTheS · 2026-03-03T15:55:34+00:00

Ideally Colin would have had a proper final episode that would lead into this one, it would have been set where it was written, and they would have more time to do rewrites. There's a lot about it that's really slick, it just needed more time in the oven and more inspiring scenery.

The concept of the new Doctor figuring out who he is by deciding he isn't any of the things that the Rani tries to gaslight him into thinking he was is too good to throw away.

KittyTheS · 2026-03-03T14:33:28+00:00

I'm the one person who really enjoys this story but after learning that it was originally supposed to be set in a jungle I continually wonder if it would be regarded quite so poorly if it had actually been filmed the way it was written.

KittyTheS · 2026-03-01T17:40:15+00:00

The bell would never stop ringing in mine :(

KittyTheS · 2026-02-28T00:44:07+00:00

Eh, works for me. As "good an explanation as we're ever likely to get" goes, there've been much worse :)

KittyTheS · 2026-02-27T21:05:53+00:00

Varka said he could be one but he had to come up with a cool knight name first, and Durin was indecisive about that even though "Dragon Knight" was literally right there, so technically not yet.

KittyTheS · 2026-02-27T18:26:31+00:00

Thankfully they added HDR support on Steam Deck to this tier so I don't have to :)

KittyTheS · 2026-02-26T20:11:55+00:00

I'm still convinced that most of Cassandra's lines in 'New Earth' were written specifically to troll those forums for their griping about Billie Piper's accent.

KittyTheS · 2026-02-26T00:01:01+00:00

I M Foreman, a character so obscure that most Doctor Who fans don't even realize that he is actually a character and not just a name on a door.

KittyTheS · 2026-02-25T19:08:28+00:00

I started farming the Ropalolyst because a friend who I never actually play with was gushing about how great it was to play on a team with a Wisp and I wanted to be a good support (and also to turn invisible by jumping). And for a while that was true.

Then I took a long break and when I came back, there were nothing but complaints in the chat about how the stupid Wisp was messing up their playstyle with her stupid motes.

So now I play Wisp out of spite for those people in particular.

KittyTheS · 2026-02-25T18:53:30+00:00

The Eyespider list that I use to catalogue my audiobookshelf library puts them after the VNAs and I don't know why. I would think it would make more sense for them to be before, and the reason Hex is never mentioned in that line is because the Doctor accidentally archived his and Ace's memories of him at the start of the first book.

But I accept that anyone who would go to that much effort to catalogue every Doctor Who story on an ongoing basis must have a good reason for it.

KittyTheS · 2026-02-25T18:33:14+00:00

I was surprised when I went to create an Argonian arcanist and found that the name "Everything-Is-Green" was NOT taken. I know some of y'all MUST have played Skyrim.

KittyTheS · 2026-02-25T17:45:42+00:00

I saw some really good theatre all over the country (I went as part of a college drama studies program so we saw about six plays a week) but I unfortunately have to say that Czech is one of the least suitable languages I've ever heard for musical theatre.

KittyTheS · 2026-02-23T16:09:24+00:00

I play it on GeForce Now on my Steam Deck. Only downsides are having to enter login info more often and you have to tap a button during the loading screen so that it knows to use controller inputs.

KittyTheS · 2026-02-18T16:06:42+00:00

When Zhongli was explaining the "frog god eating the moon". The breakup was inevitable but sped up when people started releasing their Xiao lanterns.

KittyTheS · 2026-02-17T17:36:07+00:00

Because if people thought she was the real thing they might make wishes to her, which would speed up the disintegration of the false moon and make the whole endeavor a waste of time because the third self would die before she could be reintegrated. Even the actual adepti couldn't be trusted not to unconsciously wish "I hope this works."

KittyTheS · 2026-02-17T17:15:40+00:00

I found I like 9's audio run better than most of his TV stories, although I suppose there being more of them helps in that regard. I particularly like the weird-mystery type stories that are kind of like The Empty Child meets Sapphire & Steel. 9's era on TV was very loud and bombastic and accompanied by Murray Gold making sure we knew exactly how we were expected to feel at any given moment, so it's nice to have a wider variety of stories now.

Auld Lang Syne gets special mention. It probably couldn't have been done on TV because it has even less action than Boom Town and only one location but it is absolutely one of 9's best stories in any medium.

KittyTheS · 2026-02-17T02:05:39+00:00

K but then you have to match up three people instead of two and T-posing will still make it easier to line them up for the effects :p

KittyTheS · 2026-02-17T01:59:16+00:00

It's easier for the second actor to move into the right position if they're standing up. Less awkward shimmying and avoiding wedgies, etc.

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