Stupid take on racism. If you had actually studied history on first encounters then you’d know those people had no basis in acting on racial stereotypes before. The Doctor would instead be seen as an unknown as there was no previous history of racial interaction so no prejudice. Usually rejection of the unknown is caused by fear , or acceptance by novelty. These people had never met a black person before so their reaction not something that would have really happened. This instead is just race baiting by the writer.
As far as I can see there is a major plot hole in this episode. If, as we see with the death of Ricky September, the Dot can kill people directly then why would it go to all the trouble of creating and controlling these slugs and get them to eat people rather than just killing the people directly. These monsters seem to be a superfluous addition only included to provide a visually scary monster for the viewers.
I'd rate it a 5/10. Thought it was kind of like the opposite of 73 Yards, because while that episode was great for the first three quarters but ended up being a mess in the final quarter 73 Yards was a mess for the first three quarters but then became great in the final quarter. Pros: - Visually this episode is stunning. The "bubbles" around people's heads were very convincing, and I appreciated the false colour grading being used to indicate the tone. - The false positivity for subscribers was a pretty accurate allegory for how some influencers use social media, although it doesn't compare to the amount of world building Black Mirror did with Nosedive. - I loved Ricky as soon as he turned up. There was something genuine about his performance and I liked that they managed to find a way to integrate him into this fake society while still allowing him to have his own personality and perceptive on life. - The actress who played Lindy sold the cold and callousness of her character convincingly, and the twist with her at the end didn't come across as too unbelievable because of this. - Ncuti gave another incredible performance when pleading to Lindy to come with him, and I felt the emotional impact of every word that came out of his mouth. - Very pleased to see that the Doctor still wants to save everyone, no matter how bad they. Cons: - The idea that Lindy couldn't walk without her bubble was ludicrous. Knowing how to walk around objects is basic human spatial awareness that everyone has regardless of their upbringing. - How did no one notice the slugs being all around them? At first I though the bubble was somehow blocking out their image and the noises they make, but that can't be the case because a couple of times people were clearly seen being eaten on their video cam and also everyone in Lindy's call reacted to the noises of a person being eaten in the room Lindy was in. - The flirting between Lindy and Ricky felt unnecessary to me. I guess it was there to make her betrayal appear more shocking, but their relationship had been so shallow and short lived up to that point it didn't seem like there was any possibility of the two forming a serious relationship regardless. - Why was the Doctor so shocked at the fact that the people were being killed off in alphabetical order, but not at the fact that they were being systematically killed in the first place? The Doctor and this Doctor in particular seems to give a lot of weight to the value of life, so the technicities of how people are dying shouldn't matter as much. - If the "dots" are able to kill people with such ease, what was the point of the genetically engineers slugs being there in the first place? - Following my last criticism, how were the slugs able to wipe out those people's entire home world? They are so slow and easy to see coming you would have thought they would have cottoned on to what was going on long before the entire population got killed off, even if they didn't use the obvious "kill everyone in alphabetical order" tell that time. - I am baffled at why they chose to make the dots capable of feeling emotions. One of them trying to kill someone out of anger doesn't gel at all with the the slow and methodical approach they were taking up to that point, and as someone who as written stories criticising AI before RTD should know that the behaviour of even the most complicated AIs is completely deterministic and that they're incapable of having any wants or desires. - While the racism twist largely worked, I wish it was foreshadowed a little better. I've watched 7 reviews of the episode now and not one reviewer clocked the racism angle before the final scene. The first three quarters was so open to interpretation I don't think it would have been possible for them to clock it early either, not unless they were specifically told what to look out far in advance. So many of the racist lines could have easily been mistaken for classism, or, as was the case with me, they could have assumed that Lindy reacted more positively to Ruby simply because she appeared more social media savvy than the Doctor was and tapped into that whole fake positivity way of talking better than he did.
I knew they were unlikable, they seemed racist, but I was thrown when Lindy got that dudes brain 'sploded by a dot. That is a step above what I imagine the run of the mill shitty person capable of
Im just finding out now its a race thing, i am white yes and i didnt get it at all, “its coz he’s black” kinda ruins the twist for me, i thought they rejected his help because they were assholes. But i never Once thought of Race in the episode, until i read the reviews afterwords
There was also a race issue in BOOM. Dr is in distress and they still have a gun pointed at him. Never do they consider Ruby a possible danger. This dynamic is an interesting one to watch. The writing is brilliant and makes me believe they possibly are getting input from black writers as well. Excellent review.
Couple questions. Why were they being eaten in alphabetical order? If the dot knows peoples real names which is why it didn't go by whatever the guy's name was that had goth in his name, then why didn't it know Ricky's real name?
I think we're gonna see her again,The Betrayer/Lynds lol...and.....I think that end with the Dr going off and yelling with irritation, THAT WAS THE MOST DOCTOR-ING IVE SEEM HIM ACT!😂✌️🍻🤟
i want an episode written in series 15 or 16 about memory wipe about the doctor forgetting his character development from 2 to 15 ,and only remembers things from the "first "doctor era,what means that he also forgets about his discoveries about being the TC and time war ,and ruby ,or Ruby and Belinda or I don't know needs to help the doctor discover who wiped temporarily his memories ,it would be like tabula rasa ,a buffy TVS episode,i hope Russell can write something like that ,or neil gaiman?
@@edjacksonindc You mean the ultimate. Guide?, well i was speaking about a full episode of gatwa ,You loser without a heart ,gatwa deserves an episode like that ,and maybe Will see if first was a racist ,and maybe i hope that Will be a good future episode ,and i mean bigeneration doesn't mean this episode imagination theory is impossible
A brilliant take on racism
Stupid take on racism. If you had actually studied history on first encounters then you’d know those people had no basis in acting on racial stereotypes before. The Doctor would instead be seen as an unknown as there was no previous history of racial interaction so no prejudice. Usually rejection of the unknown is caused by fear , or acceptance by novelty. These people had never met a black person before so their reaction not something that would have really happened. This instead is just race baiting by the writer.
As far as I can see there is a major plot hole in this episode. If, as we see with the death of Ricky September, the Dot can kill people directly then why would it go to all the trouble of creating and controlling these slugs and get them to eat people rather than just killing the people directly. These monsters seem to be a superfluous addition only included to provide a visually scary monster for the viewers.
I'd rate it a 5/10. Thought it was kind of like the opposite of 73 Yards, because while that episode was great for the first three quarters but ended up being a mess in the final quarter 73 Yards was a mess for the first three quarters but then became great in the final quarter.
Pros:
- Visually this episode is stunning. The "bubbles" around people's heads were very convincing, and I appreciated the false colour grading being used to indicate the tone.
- The false positivity for subscribers was a pretty accurate allegory for how some influencers use social media, although it doesn't compare to the amount of world building Black Mirror did with Nosedive.
- I loved Ricky as soon as he turned up. There was something genuine about his performance and I liked that they managed to find a way to integrate him into this fake society while still allowing him to have his own personality and perceptive on life.
- The actress who played Lindy sold the cold and callousness of her character convincingly, and the twist with her at the end didn't come across as too unbelievable because of this.
- Ncuti gave another incredible performance when pleading to Lindy to come with him, and I felt the emotional impact of every word that came out of his mouth.
- Very pleased to see that the Doctor still wants to save everyone, no matter how bad they.
Cons:
- The idea that Lindy couldn't walk without her bubble was ludicrous. Knowing how to walk around objects is basic human spatial awareness that everyone has regardless of their upbringing.
- How did no one notice the slugs being all around them? At first I though the bubble was somehow blocking out their image and the noises they make, but that can't be the case because a couple of times people were clearly seen being eaten on their video cam and also everyone in Lindy's call reacted to the noises of a person being eaten in the room Lindy was in.
- The flirting between Lindy and Ricky felt unnecessary to me. I guess it was there to make her betrayal appear more shocking, but their relationship had been so shallow and short lived up to that point it didn't seem like there was any possibility of the two forming a serious relationship regardless.
- Why was the Doctor so shocked at the fact that the people were being killed off in alphabetical order, but not at the fact that they were being systematically killed in the first place? The Doctor and this Doctor in particular seems to give a lot of weight to the value of life, so the technicities of how people are dying shouldn't matter as much.
- If the "dots" are able to kill people with such ease, what was the point of the genetically engineers slugs being there in the first place?
- Following my last criticism, how were the slugs able to wipe out those people's entire home world? They are so slow and easy to see coming you would have thought they would have cottoned on to what was going on long before the entire population got killed off, even if they didn't use the obvious "kill everyone in alphabetical order" tell that time.
- I am baffled at why they chose to make the dots capable of feeling emotions. One of them trying to kill someone out of anger doesn't gel at all with the the slow and methodical approach they were taking up to that point, and as someone who as written stories criticising AI before RTD should know that the behaviour of even the most complicated AIs is completely deterministic and that they're incapable of having any wants or desires.
- While the racism twist largely worked, I wish it was foreshadowed a little better. I've watched 7 reviews of the episode now and not one reviewer clocked the racism angle before the final scene. The first three quarters was so open to interpretation I don't think it would have been possible for them to clock it early either, not unless they were specifically told what to look out far in advance. So many of the racist lines could have easily been mistaken for classism, or, as was the case with me, they could have assumed that Lindy reacted more positively to Ruby simply because she appeared more social media savvy than the Doctor was and tapped into that whole fake positivity way of talking better than he did.
There is so many clues about the ending it’s baffling people think it came out of left field after looking back on it.
I knew they were unlikable, they seemed racist, but I was thrown when Lindy got that dudes brain 'sploded by a dot. That is a step above what I imagine the run of the mill shitty person capable of
It caught me a little by surprise, then I thought back on it and was like "Ooooooohhh!".
Im just finding out now its a race thing, i am white yes and i didnt get it at all, “its coz he’s black” kinda ruins the twist for me, i thought they rejected his help because they were assholes. But i never Once thought of Race in the episode, until i read the reviews afterwords
There was also a race issue in BOOM. Dr is in distress and they still have a gun pointed at him. Never do they consider Ruby a possible danger. This dynamic is an interesting one to watch. The writing is brilliant and makes me believe they possibly are getting input from black writers as well. Excellent review.
in boom i rather think it’s about the fact he’s holding a sacred member of the anglican marines
Thank you Max for the response. 🙏🏿. That would again be a "I don't think that's what it was moment ". I thought that immediately
Couple questions. Why were they being eaten in alphabetical order? If the dot knows peoples real names which is why it didn't go by whatever the guy's name was that had goth in his name, then why didn't it know Ricky's real name?
That was clever! I never noticed that all the characters apart from the Doctor were white. I would have noticed if all the characters were black?!?!?!
holy cow you're right
I think we're gonna see her again,The Betrayer/Lynds lol...and.....I think that end with the Dr going off and yelling with irritation, THAT WAS THE MOST DOCTOR-ING IVE SEEM HIM ACT!😂✌️🍻🤟
Love the shirt, where did you get it from? :D (also great video too, i really enjoy your episode analysis each week)
The way she escaped was very nuts!
Don't worry but just to let you know the Characters name is Lindy Pepper-Bean.
Susan Twist was in it.
THEY RECOGNISED HER TOO
spells tardis
SLUGS RULE!
i want an episode written in series 15 or 16 about memory wipe about the doctor forgetting his character development from 2 to 15 ,and only remembers things from the "first "doctor era,what means that he also forgets about his discoveries about being the TC and time war ,and ruby ,or Ruby and Belinda or I don't know needs to help the doctor discover who wiped temporarily his memories ,it would be like tabula rasa ,a buffy TVS episode,i hope Russell can write something like that ,or neil gaiman?
That would be boring, and they've already done something kinda similar.
@@edjacksonindc You mean the ultimate. Guide?, well i was speaking about a full episode of gatwa ,You loser without a heart ,gatwa deserves an episode like that ,and maybe Will see if first was a racist ,and maybe i hope that Will be a good future episode ,and i mean bigeneration doesn't mean this episode imagination theory is impossible
i thought the slugs were really creepy