Gallifrey + "Journey's End" + "Secret Diary of a Call Girl"

Listened to Gallifrey: Appropriation while I worked on my cross stitch.  I love it because it's the point where Narvin begins to set aside tradition and the blind support of the presidency and take an independent moral stand.  Which is, of course, interpreted as supporting Romana, but I don't think that's quite the case.

Two quotes:

"I do apologise, Narvin, I thought you were an alien coming to kill me."
"I quite understand, sir, we all have days like that."

(re: Narvin) "I don't know if you've noticed, but he seems to have become Romana's man somewhat."

Also, Matthias is a toad, but he's as much a victim of Brax's scheming as Jason Kane or the Mim.  He's the sacrifice, left in charge of Gallifrey so that Brax can save Romana.

Then I watched Secret Diary of a Call Girl, then switched that off to find that "Journey's End" is airing.  And it made me angry, because Billie is so vibrant and clever and charismatic when she's given the right script, and she was just wasted in "The Stolen Earth" and "Journey's End".  Especially the second one.  She only seems to come alive in the beach scene, but even then, her performance totally lacks the maturity of her Secret Diary work.  Le woe.

Also, regarding "Secret Diary": ( (spoilers) )

Now TNG is on the telly.

Ro: "So this admiral wanted me to betray the Federation..."
Picard: "A STARFLEET ADMIRAL? A TRAITOR? THAT NEVER HAPPENS!"