Spoilers Doctor Who 2024 (spoilers)

[Aeson]

I was quite pleased with Dot and Bubble. This is the story I had been dreading all season, but they ended up doing something more interesting with it than I expected. To spend that much time with a character that (intentionally) annoying and it still being an enjoyable episode is a bit of a feat.

Was the racism at the as abrupt to you as it was to me? She did turn out to be a truly horrible person but that was like a punch to the face.

 

[Hussar]

Was the racism at the as abrupt to you as it was to me? She did turn out to be a truly horrible person but that was like a punch to the face.

I did something that I rarely do - I went on Reddit and started reading the watch thread. Not a lot of it, but, it did seem really positive.

But, something that came up a bunch of times is that it's not actually a "punch to the face". It's there over and over and over again. All the characters are white. Lindy immediately swipes the Doctor off but talks to Ruby. "He's smarter than he looks". The disgust she shows when she learns that Ruby and the Doctor are in the same room.

I really want to watch this again to be honest. I missed the text here. It went straight over my head.

And, really, I think that's the point of the message.

 

[Aeson]

I did something that I rarely do - I went on Reddit and started reading the watch thread. Not a lot of it, but, it did seem really positive.

But, something that came up a bunch of times is that it's not actually a "punch to the face". It's there over and over and over again. All the characters are white. Lindy immediately swipes the Doctor off but talks to Ruby. "He's smarter than he looks". The disgust she shows when she learns that Ruby and the Doctor are in the same room.

I really want to watch this again to be honest. I missed the text here. It went straight over my head.

And, really, I think that's the point of the message.

I did take note of the lack of diversity in her bubble. Swiping him away didn't register with me. I saw it as something she would do with anyone that annoyed her. I guess I didn't see the rest either.

Was I blinded by my own whiteness?

 

[Ryujin]

Not sure how I feel about two Doctorless (or mostly Doctorless in this case) episodes in a row. A bit jarring.

But, that was... I'm not even really sure how I feel about it. When Lindy betrays September, that's one of the coldest things I've seen in a while. Just brutal how she doesn't show any remorse whatsoever.

This is very, very good SF though. Thought provoking. Yeah, I can totally see the Black Mirror comparison even though I only watched a couple of episodes of Black Mirror. I think I'm going to need some time to digest that one.

A whole lot of social media commentary.

 

[Ryujin]

I did something that I rarely do - I went on Reddit and started reading the watch thread. Not a lot of it, but, it did seem really positive.

But, something that came up a bunch of times is that it's not actually a "punch to the face". It's there over and over and over again. All the characters are white. Lindy immediately swipes the Doctor off but talks to Ruby. "He's smarter than he looks". The disgust she shows when she learns that Ruby and the Doctor are in the same room.

I really want to watch this again to be honest. I missed the text here. It went straight over my head.

And, really, I think that's the point of the message.

Race, class, culture, privilege, social media... The whole lot of it, in one little episode. Pretty heavily packed.

 

[Vael]

Was the racism at the as abrupt to you as it was to me? She did turn out to be a truly horrible person but that was like a punch to the face.

Yes and no. The microaggressions and comments were there, I didn't notice them during the first watch, but they're there on the rewatch. I thought she was pretty horrible from the get go, but I had worried that this whole episode would be "old man yells about the kids and their social medias".

 

[Necropolitan]

I would have liked more information on why the AI decided to kill everyone and where the monsters came from.

I think it would have improved the episode if this information was available from subtext/in the background (the Finetimers ignoring reports of something going wrong with the AI/the monsters being created by a matter replicator/genetic experiment or whatever because it was less interesting than celebrity gossip) and could have provided commentary on how impending disasters/actually important news gets ignored.

Not explaining the reason for the threat worked for 73 yards, but that was because it was supposed to be mysterious.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

I would have liked more information on why the AI decided to kill everyone

Because they were all horrible people.

 

[Ryujin]

Because they were all horrible people.

Vapid, self aggrandizing, narcissistic, small minded, horrible little people. Basically, all the worst characteristics of the worst "influencers."

 

[Necropolitan]

Because they were all horrible people.

Wasn't that just The Doctor speculating?