#gallifrey war room spoilers

[alyona11]

So War Room 2, huh?

@fiotrethewey I would sue you for the damage caused to my poor heart. I’m going insane

[vivvision]

It's the everything that's sinking me. But I'll try, Leela. For your sake I'll try

[fiotrethewey]

A year ago today, the Gallifrey War Room 1 Teaser Trailer was released, and included these lines - which made me scream in my car when I listened to it for the first time, because sadly due to COVID I never heard the recording:

What is my life?

[false-anomaly]

Just finished Transference. What are you gonna say at my funeral now that you've killed me. God.

[incorrectgallifreyquotes]

Narvin: You go down the path of the resistance, our path... it's not a long life. Lenaris: I don’t know, you seem pretty old. Narvin: ...Thanks.

[trailmixtime]

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 ;-;

[arkytior-lungbarrow]

I can't stop thinking about Narvin at the end of Ambition's Debt. He just sounds so hollow...lost. The war has taken everything from him that he's ever cared even the slightest bit about. He's lost his family, his beacon, his hope and faith, and once again, his rock...one of the few things that's kept him grounded throughout the war. He's closing himself off, shoving away what little he has left, keeping it all at a distance. His resolve - his universe - is just disintegrating around him faster than he has time to truly process. I'm terrified he's heading down a terribly dark path from which we he may never recover.

Someone, please just give this poor man a hug and let him cry.

[thebraxiatelcollection]

“You are not thinking with your head but with your hearts. That isn’t the Romana I remember.” Leela in Enemy Lines.

Updated on my Gallifrey autograph collection! Some signatures you can't see as they are on the inside, but I love this series so much ❤️❤️

[theladyjojogrant]

Having some mildly incoherent thoughts about War Room 2 and the Gally trio this morning. May or may not make sense, spoilers below the cut:

When was the last time we saw Narvin “thinking with his hearts” instead of his head like he does in WR 2?

When he tried to wipe the Daleks from existence to save Romana.

Romana wasn’t there, just like she isn’t here now as Narvin is falling apart.

Narvin and Leela have managed without Romana before, but never for this long, and never like this. When things get bad, really bad, all Leela can do is stubbornly tell Narvin that there is hope, there is a reason to keep going, but she can’t explain why because she doesn’t know herself. She just knows there is hope. There has to be.

But that doesn’t work with Narvin’s analytical, rational mind. Normally, this is where Romana would step in and placate him with facts, numbers, figures. It’s what he understands. But Romana isn’t here. Leela can’t give him the facts he needs to believe in a better future. 

Romana, Leela, and Narvin can no longer function without each other. As the gap where Romana should be widens, everything is tipping out of balance. Leela, Leela is becoming the rational one, the one who must serve the system she hates and play by the rules that go against her deepest values.

Meanwhile, Narvin, Narvin’s rationality is dissolving as he loses his grip on everything and everyone he loves. (Besides, if he doesn’t have anyone to love, who is he? The guy we all hated way back in S1. And he physically can’t become him again. So what does he become if he loses everything?)

[madam-coordinator]

Narvin’s cousin called him Narv?!! Is this why he didn’t want Ace calling him that?!!

[timeladyjamie]

I've started listening to the first boxset of Gallifrey: War Room and...I'm struggling to even make it through the second story. While I do like getting to see Leela shine more (like she did in the previous Gallifrey audios), except taking center stage this time, I do miss the dynamic of the old cast (I’m talking the Gallifrey OT4: Romana, Leela, Brax & Narvin.) It just feels weird without them. I like the dynamic between Leela and the General, and I would love to see more interaction between Leela and Rassilon, but I really don't care for the other characters. I'm honestly left wondering what was Big Finish's thoughts with making War Room? If Leela doesn’t free Romana or do something to bring back her friends or save Gallifrey herself, I’m gonna consider this a wasted boxset.

[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:

[vivvision]

The house of Witforge

[fiotrethewey]

The worst part is I have already doodled [REDACTED] and I can’t show them to you yet.

[false-anomaly]

ALSO ALSO okay i just finished Damned If You Don't and that ENDING!!! Part of me hopes they retcon The Time Vampire and let him find her alive so they can get through the War together & part of me hopes they leave it canon,, like. Do I actually want Leela/Narvin to be happy and to survive YES of course but...... I am a sucker for a tragedy I Fear.........

[incorrectgallifreyquotes]

Narvin: You're lucky you're cute! Otherwise, I would've sold you to the freak show already. Lenaris: What's a freak show? Helico: It's like our family, but people pay to see it.