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[ysobel]

Watching Old Who, my brain keeps wanting to treat it as a ttrpg. "No don't split the party!" and "oop I guessed he rolled a 1 there" and "tha what you get for not doing a perception check" and such.

Also seeing the early Daleks makes me think of Daleks telling scary campfire stories. "AND THEN" (waves flashlight under "face") "SUD-DEN-LY THE DOC-TOR." (Other Daleks shriek and flail in terror) ...or Daleks telling baby Daleks "BE-HAVE OR THE DOC-TOR WILL COME". Are there even baby Daleks? Hmmm.

Also ... is it ever explained why everyone speaks English?

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[blueraccoon]

The TARDIS has a translator circuit in it so you hear the language you speak, which somehow happens to be English for most people (gee I wonder why). Whether or not they explain this in Old Who I'm not sure, but I know it's been a plot point in New Who. Old Who seems to have been a little more opaque about it but I think it came up at a few points.

https://tardis.fandom.com/wiki/Translation_circuit