tbh i think that even unwinnable fights should be winnable. some of the BEST fights i've ever run as a dm were ones i built kill the players (in a fun way. I had some cutscenes prepped so even the loss would be a different flavour of win)- but then they were clever bastards and managed to either win the fights or pull themselves out of trouble. I think it's perfectly fine to plan for a fight that players aren't supposed to win, but you need to let them. if they can't win, they can't lose, and the meaning of that encounter is diminished. do that too many times, and they stop trusting you to give them roleplay prompts and start expecting to sit there waiting while you drive the story for them.
but if they can win... if there is always the chance to win, no matter how impossible the odds, then they ALWAYS have hope. they always get invested. they feel the big emotions of success or the big emotions of failure, and you fucking Win as a dm/roleplay prompter/lead bastard.
I still feel like ascending every time I remember that of all villains from the entire Doctor Who franchise, Beep the Meep was the one they chose to bring back for the 60th anniversary.
this sequence is wild to me. first ted at the end of a bisexual triangle spiral, then in a pink triangle (which is a long standing symbol for queer people and is also mentioned in the scene between colin and trent earlier in the episode), and then that pink triangle becoming another bisexual-coloured triangle.
oh and uhhh... also... the triangle is one of the earliest symbols for bisexuality (predating and inspiring the bisexual pride flag, in fact!):
a couple of bits of information about the biangles:
also... TRI-angles anyone:
...anyways
between the associations of triangles and queerness spoken about by trent and colin earlier in the episode, the explicitly bisexual colours of the triangle ted is put in as well as his comments earlier in the episode about wanting to "try something new", AND this seasons continual and ever increasing gayness..... im pretty sure we'll be getting bisexual ted some time soon!