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To cut a long winded explanation short:

- I really hate the way the stripes cut out on the back of the men’s kit to leave space for the numbers

- The diagonal stripes on the women’s kit are peak

- There are no images of the back of the women’s shirt on the club website, or seemingly anywhere

- Short of going into the physical store at St Mary’s, is there a way of finding out if the women’s kit has the same ‘rear’ design as the men’s?

What with Billie coming back, the Rani and Omega both being hollow shells of characters shoved into the story for no real purpose other than brand recognition, and Susan appearing then disappearing without interacting with the Doctor even once, I’m now sat here thinking back over the season and RTD2 era as a whole and noticing uncomfortable trends.

It seems like every chance of inserting “Recognisable Thing™” into every possible narrative was taken, regardless of whether that negatively impacted the story or not. This has reared its head most prominently in the finale just gone, and also Empire of Death with its total wasting of Sutekh, but I’m realising now that this era has done it LOADS