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posted January 23rd 2023

The very first scene with Leela in the Gallifrey series is of her trying to leave. This is a position she never manages to escape from, one of knowing she is not welcome and does not belong. In Enemy Lines she says it most pointedly, telling Romana 'no matter how many years I spend on Gallifrey, some Time Lords still consider me nothing but a guest. I'm not welcome here at the best of times'. It is, of course, deeply unfair for the Time Lords to write Leela off as a stupid alien, but even in the first series, the fact is that she has lived on Gallifrey for at least twenty years and is still treated like an idiot. It is only breifly in series 4 that she almost makes Romana realise that Gallifrey 'is your world. And I have no place on it', but despite making the best attempt to break free that she ever does, she still gets drawn back