Lizardsquid, maker of noises @lizardsquid@computerfairi.es

@softgoat it's not any weirder than writing regular fiction about kids

goooodnight ♥

@audrey good luck!

@nautilee national transfers take 2 hours, international ones take literal days, so even if you had money it wouldn't help

@nautilee but it's 10pm, all the banks are closed

"Your debit account has been overdrawn by $15! You will be subject to fees if you don't fix this before modif midnight"

Firstly, how do you expect me to pay a fee if I didn't have any money in the first place.

But secondly, how the heck am I supposed to get that money in before then???

The Ambassador's of Death is really a good example of why you shouldn't make a story that long – for example, there's a whole plotline where, after Liz is captured, she attempts an escape, only to be caught and re-captured just before she can get back to the Doctor.

And the story spends at least 5 minutes on these scenes, which do not progress the story at all – the situation at the end of the scenes is exactly the same as what it was at the start.

@DialMforMara As far as I remember, I like the seasons after this one!

But this season just drags on way too much.

(Also, wouldn't we be spending basically the same amount of time with the characters if we had five 4-episode stories instead of three 7-episode stories?)

@wntrdrgn@snouts.online so soft...

@June is there anything in particular that people do that makes it harder to deal with your bpd?

a 4 episode story is 1.5 hours total, which is a reasonable amount.

A 6 episode story is 2 hours and 24 minutes, so it's already longer than a feature film.

A 7 episode story is nearly 3 hours long.

Also: I don't understand why the stories are 7 episodes instead of 6.

A 6 episode format would aleviate at least some of the pacing problems

I'm 3 stories in to season 7, and while I really like Petwee's Doctor, and the Brigadier, and liz shaw, and the concepts behind the stories...

they're really way too long and slow paced.

Spearhead from Space was great, but both The Silurians and The Ambassadors of Death are 7 episode stories that really should only be 4 episodes.

It took until Season 12 for them to realise that 4 episode stories worked much better

@memnus@octodon.social meep!