Let’s talk about Doctor who (2024)

I give my thoughts on the newest season of Doctor Who.
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[@evilzer0572]

Nice video I like the way you display your view

[@dwfan91-]

Very interesting video, good review!

[@deadman746]

Thank you for this. I like seeing analyses. In good faith and candor, I must say my opinions of the season were much more negative. I would be interested in your reaction to the finale, as many who were very positive until the last episode became very negative after it showed.
Let's talk about "Dot and Bubble." Reportedly, in para text, this was originally written around 2005-2006 but rejected as unfilmable with the existing technology. _Black Mirror_ did not start until 2011. So it would be more appropriate to say the episode was very _Twilight Zone_ or _Night Gallery,_ as without timey-wimey stuff, _BM_ could not have influenced it.
The _racism_ stuff seemed to me tacked on, and it did not work for me. I can think of several reasons.
1. I knew RTD said 15 was going to encounter racism. I saw where "Dot and Bubble" was going from almost the first frame. I groaned, thinking " it can't be this banal and obvious," but it was.
2. If 15 was so keen to save them, why didn't he just tell 14, who is more albinized? Or show his past selves as in "Rogue," making the point that melanization didn't change who you are? It would have been more interesting than the _gotcha_ of "you stupid audience didn't pick up because all white people are racist," which is what it felt like to me.
3. 15 is Rwandan. Gatwa is Rwandan, which doesn't mean The Doctor is, but in paratext 15 talked about a Rwandan proverb on one of the Doctor's devices, which does draw a connection with The Doctor and Gatwa, as modelling a skirt after a kilt does for Scottish upbringing. Now, the Rwandan genocide was by ethnic Hutus against ethnic Tutsis. Hutus slaughtered Tutsis with cheap machetes at three times the rate Nazis slaughtered Jews with dehumanizing technology. While the two groups were mostly scarcely distinguishable, Gatwa is very clearly Tutsi (tall with a narrow nose). There are many lessons about racism there, but RTD ignored all of them. Frankly, I can see RTD reciting Kipling's "The White Man's Burden" unironically in a pith helmet. The commentary was superficial and vapid, which _Doctor Who,_ at least before Chibnall, almost never was.
It also was redolent of "The Star Beast," where a species made bad by solar influences was considered all bad and worthy of punishment rather than treatment as individuals. If I wanted that kind of neoliberal/right-wing stereotypy, I'd watch one of the thousand shows that never rise above that level. I despair of fans who buy it uncritically, believing that because RTD performatively assets he wants diversity that by definition he cannot do the opposite. I feel the same way about the sexism and transphobia in "The Star Beast," the racism in "Wild Blue Yonder," and the racism and sexualized top/bottom treatment in "The Giggle," and I despair of the fandom who do appear oblivious.
It is not merely Trump who can hoodwink his fans; RTD does even a better if less directly dangerous job because he's such a good writer. Chibnall broke the suit, but at least he wrote badly, while RTD successfully sells it to otherwise sane people.