Lizardsquid, maker of noises @lizardsquid@computerfairi.es

I finished Season 7!

Inferno was much better than I remember it being, but still felt one episode too long.
I really enjoyed the parallel universe stuff this time around.

Thankfully: no stories after Inferno are this long (unless you count trial of a timelord as 1 story instead of 4)

We're now up to the danger zone: the last time I tried to watch through the classic series, this is where I stopped.

n~~~n
~y~y~
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How the squid lost its shell: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4vxoP-IF2M

thankyou for all the support!

This is enough to pay back what we owe, and for groceries for quite some time

My bank account is overdrawn by $40 and we're gradually running out of food.

Toss us a few kofi's to help pay back what we owe?

ko-fi.com/charlotte

squeakles

goooodnight ♥

"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.

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

merp!