#like the artifice and fake aspects of the set embraced and you realize all this ancient politeness and custom is surrounded by void

[rassilon-imprimatur]

All my love to Terrance Dicks, but asserting mercy in the Arc of Infinity novelization was cowardice, Nyssa absolutely killed those men. 

#stasar it's so stupid I love it so much #unironically love the beam effect #for as dull as the Gallifrey of Arc is I always find the dead jet black just at the edge of every corner #like the artifice and fake aspects of the set embraced and you realize all this ancient politeness and custom is surrounded by void #and that politeness masks BRUTAL laws and executions over tea and murmurs and I dunno #suddenly Nyssa's on something like Traken but the truth of how cold the Time Lords truly are keeps eating away at the performance of it all #and meanwhile she's going blindingly fight-or-fight just to give the Time Lords another reason to gossip about letting lesser species in #y'know? #I love Arc lmao it's stone cold boring and yet somehow so soaked in the autumnal and wet chill of s18 #I just like sitting in it y'know? It's a good Worst Of The Davison Era (affectionate) pick