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[Doctor Who] All of Galifrey is time-locked. How do the people living on the planet experience this?

The entire planet is Time-Locked. At first I thought that meant the entire place was just permanently frozen in time. But then that one Christmas episode showed that Galifrey, despite being time-locked, was still capable of actively trying to return to the universe.

So does the whole Time-Lock thing mean that Galifrey is somehow stuck in its own little pocket dimension somewhere by itself, cut away from the rest of the universe, but is still a perfectly inhabitable, functioning, active planet? Does the average Galifreyan now lock up at a night sky without stars, since their own planet is alone in this little pocket universe?

And since the Time Lords were a pretty isolationist culture anyways, do they even really mind this state of affairs all that much? After all now they can be all by themselves, completely untouchable, forever.

Or is there something about the Time-Lock (besides the isolation) that makes the situation unpalatable?
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We see how a time lock functions in the series 4 finale when the team at Torchwood III activate one to defend themselves from a dalek. It's sort of like a little bubble of time that can't be traversed in any of the four dimensions. From inside the bubble looking out, everything is frozen in time, but relative to inside the bubble time still flows as normal. We don't get to see what happened from the dalek's perspective though.

>And since the Time Lords were a pretty isolationist culture anyways, do they even really mind this state of affairs all that much?

I'd imagine time lord society is split on the issue. There are definetly those who are OK with the time lock (Mostly those supportive of Romana's presidency), but there are certainly Gallifreyans who preferred being the dominant power in the universe and would like to go back.