Hate Wins and Love Loses

i like the idea that leela's speaking gallifreyan in the gallifrey audios, as are the time lords, because it means whenever romana or brax use a weird human idiom, they're not just using an idiom that makes no sense culturally. they're literally translating human idioms word to word and for this reason they sound totally bizarre to literally anyone else on the planet

leela tries to explain idioms like "you can lead a horse to water but you can't make it drink" to narvin only to realise that 1) she doesn't know the gallifreyan word for horse 2) narvin doesn't know what a horse is and 3) the word romana's been using to translate horse means something like "morons on the high council"

Being a gallifrey fan is so funny because like there’s this guy and he’s a jerk and mean to the characters you like and definitely deserves to be punched and then it’s a few seasons later and suddenly you would die for him

literally can't stop thinking about "you're thinking with your hearts and not your head" bc. it's such a DELICIOUS role reversal. narvin always being the level-headed one and thinking things through before acting n trying to get leela to act rationally rather than emotionally. and now SHE'S the level-headed one trying to get HIM to act rationally rather than emotionally. just. frothing at the mouth about it ;-;

brax should get a shirt saying i left gallifrey and kept an evil spirit in my mind to save my whole planet and all i got was this fifteen minute presidency

andred is a hilarious character because he appears exclusively in a serial designed to marry leela off, a book which implies he's the doctor's dad (and calls him leela's boytoy), and an audio series where he kills a guy, fakes his death, fucks narvin, calls romana a liberal, and then dies. no explanation is ever given for his actions

#he's like the anti-brax. he has no plans he's running on bullshit and somehow it works