Doctor Who: Dot & Bubble Ending Explained | Easter eggs and clues she was racist all along
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- Опубликовано: 1 окт 2024
- The ending of Doctor Who's fifth episode caught a lot of people off guard, but here are every interesting detail of the episode and all the signs that Lindy Pepper-Bean was racist from the beginning #doctorwho
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For some of us the racist bits were cleverly hidden by being explicable as typical rich classist and ignorant dismissals. And that the modern media is still geared mostly to white privilege where racism and bigotry is typically more overt than in practice.
I'm a white straight cis man from the UK. Most of the racism I'd put down to classism as I'm working class and have come across such things from rich people before.
In hindsight the racism is more obvious because I'm actively looking for it. Basically I didn't notice because I've not personally experienced it.
Also note that during most of the end scene Lindy only ever responds to and looks directly at Ruby. It’s only when Ruby asks why they won’t let her and the Doctor save them that Lindy turns directly to the Doctor and says “Because you, sir, are not like one of us.”
Full credit to the actress, who did a phenomenal job to both engage and outrage us simultaneously.
There was another bit where Lindy was shocked that Ruby and the Doctor where in the same room 🧍🏻♀️ i am surprised that a lot of people didn’t clock it straight away
That's when it really clicked for me because before then I dismissed everything else as her just being stuck up. She already knew the Doctor and Ruby are friends and nothing in the story established why that would be against the rules, but suddenly them being in the same room was such an issue.
I took it as a reference to Lindy ignoring the people in the office with her (not even noticing when they weren’t there or being eaten by a monster) but constantly interacting online with people who are not in the same room. Not that being in the same room with those you’re talking to is wrong, necessarily, but that it’s weird.
The writing very cleverly kept centering the “it’s about social media” narrative to hide the “no it’s really about racism” angle. Just about everything racist until the end (where everyone is in he same room, talking face to face with no social media being used) can be seen as online cliquishness instead, and it’s only in hindsight, after you know the truth, that you can look back and see that yeah it was there all along.
I was indeed confused by her shock but couldn't figure out why
There's also a scene in front of the elevator, after Lindy finally makes it out of the room in one piece, and the Doctor tells her that she's doing fine and she immediately becomes agitated and fires back "condescending much?", as if to say "how dare you speak to me like that", you then see a puzzled look on his face for a second before his screen is pushed to the side as the elevator doors open.
I didn’t notice at first , just thought they were obnoxious , detached, tech obsessed, social media modern zombies , but you know what you are spot on .
Also the fact that the Doctor had a block option and red frame when literally no one else did
How on earth did I not notice any of this. Woah
This episode made me so uncomfortable and annoyed and i could not for the life of me point out why. I have dark skin, from the uk and honestly this all flew completely over my head.
Im sitting here like "holy shit, how the fuck didnt i realise what was going on"
I spent so much time just thinking she was an idiot and that these people were stupid, it didnt occur to me at all WHY they were acting this way D:
Not even the "You all look the same" or "he's not as stupid as he looks" lines? That's when I started to suspect tbh. But still thought she was probably just being written as just an entitled rich brat. It was the long-haired smug git at the end with the coloniser rhetoric when I finally went "yup, supremacists", then followed by the "voodoo", "screen-to-screen contact", "preserve our standards", "contamination" lines just to hammer it home. But yeah it was there all along which is probably why your subconscious was pinging you and making you uncomfortable and annoyed - it noticed even if you consciously didn't
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I think it was mainly because their behaviour was typical rich kid nonsense and in a different/earlier episode it would’ve been only that. It was only once you dug a little deeper that it became obvious in hindsight.
Damn this was a great episode i cant belive how obvious the racism was and yet i didnt notice untill the last 5 minutes i thought it was because the doctor and ruby were "lower class/ poor" and didnt notice all the comments were soley aimed at the doctor.
As a white person i think the fact it didnt hit me untill it was spelled out at the end forces us to realise there is still alot of work we need to do to make the world more inclusive
This is it exactly.
well, the doctor was always white, even when he becomes women. Now that he is black, he finally get the taste/feeling of different color/race would change the outcome
1:39 WAIT I totally forgot about that bit! This episode was so damn smart istg
Also, thank you for pointing how this was the first time such a rejection has happened to the Doctor. I realized that very quickly, too, and I think that's a big part of what makes that scene so devastating.
Well, when the Doctor was Jodie, she did face at least a little sexism, which is basically kind of similar to racism.
Also, not that they (The Doctor) remember, but I'd be very surprised if the Fugitive Doctor didn't experience some sexism and racism somewhere along the line in her travels. Not that it counts, since it doesn't inform the current life experience of The Doctor. I just had to point out that, if you believe in the Timeless Child, there is a very high probability that The Doctor has been subjected to racism, and sexism, in their *very long* lifetime.
I'll admit that I totally missed it...There were a few condescending remarks that Lindy had made, but I still missed it right up until the end...Once it was finally out in the open I had to reevaluate the entire episode...Making it quite possibly the most uncomfortable episode I've ever seen...
It was the non stop aggressive comments set my Alarms off.
she was still a cow with Ruby but more like a kid having a tantrum.
Basically Nazi Barbie. Her revulsion of them being in the same room
was another trigger when she told the Doctor and Ruby her "working" friends were all in the room with her. So it wasn't just everyone works alone it was the fact Ruby was with a Black man, The chilling part was about him being disciplined.
Ricky explained he read books barely used the Dot and his interactions with the doctor
a lot more chilled and you could see he was grateful. He would have actually made a brilliant person to save. The sad thing about this episode the trailer was all light and fizzy
the ratings were bad for this episode. Had this included a rection shot from Ricky and the Doctor It would have told people there's a much darker element. The amount of reaction videos that only twigged they were the monsters and this was about racism only twigged right at the end. RTD wrote a story packed like a suitcase and considering that scene
was his very FIRST as the Doctor as he was still filming Sex Ed. The guy has nailed the core traits the Doctor needs and he is bloody amazing I love him and the chemistry with Ruby
Great to see you on the podcast earlier in the week, good job with the video, also something you missed was Lindy saying to Ricky "There was a man, he was horrible, he is sooo going to be disciplined," while talking about the Doctor- the clear implication that he needs to be disciplined for interacting with her because Finetime/the Homeworld society is so segregated
THATS WHY HES MVP. THATS WHY HES THE “91rst doctor who fan” THE “91st doctor who fan”
As a black man I watched the whole episode and didn’t even know they were being racist I thought they were jus dumb
@@thejellybeangamer3284 🗣️🗣️🗣️
P.S. A fun Whovian game to play is "Which Doctor would have just walked away at the end of 'Dot and Bubble'?" My votes would be Nine, Eleven and Twelve.
No other doctor would’ve noticed anything wrong
@@MsJaytee1975Yes! That is perhaps what is most horrific.Doctors 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, and 14 would’ve likely been well-received without constant hostility.
I’m going from the viewpoint of them witnessing this behavior. I’d choose the same Doctors, but in a different order: 9, 12, 11. These Docs were more of a ‘choose your own fate’ mentality, imo. Honorable mention to 10 because of Family of Blood…and because he had Martha as his companion.
Considering what these people are like, they probably would have still treated 12 badly. You, know, he's Scottish. /J
THANKS for this, Tyrell!!!!
Here's my take (and I'm glad to put it here so hardcore Whovians can argue it):
This episode breaks two unwritten rules of the show as it pertains to prejudice/racism. First rule, established in Classic and continuing in Nu: collective racism/prejudice must be overcome for our planet to survive. Second rule, established in Nu: individual prejudice is something to be frowned on but will be overcome one day.
(TEARING SOUND AS RTD RIPS UP THOSE RULES :) )
WOW....Um, gee....
Who is RTD going after? Anti-immigration movements in Europe? The Right worldwide, including in America? The Doctor Who anti-woke crowd? Everyone? Although the Jordan Peele/"Black Mirror" crowd will not be losing sleep over this, I deeply appreciate RTD's willingness to put up a very big finger at people who don't like his direction. This is very different from his first, more subtle DW take.
There will be a lot of criticism of Ncuti crying *again.* But from the point of view of this American, this cry is more out of the tradition of 19th-century Frederick Douglass than a 20th-century British-created Time Lord, recreated in this century to great impact.
Bloody well put
I don't think he breaks those rules bc the collective racist society dies out specifically due to their racism
Yeah I clocked all of them being white right of the start, I was like... that's a very white bubble
I tried to do screengrabs to count up the microaggressions but was derailed by my ADHD. Thank you for this! Perhaps this is why he spent the last few thousand years as a white man. Were his regenerations over and over into a white male driven by a desire to avoid this very scenario when dealing with his favorite mortal species? Even since 2005 most Time Lords have presented as white. What are the rest of them afraid of?
Hats off to RTD for ripping the bandage off of this very sore issue at the core of the character.
The acting is sooooo good XD
Also, Lindy gets her motor skills back when everything is “so manual”. Which means she walks into poles, needs to be told when to go pee, and needs arrows to walk all as an act. That she feigns helplessness as a way of being manipulative. And that when he gets her motor skills back she commits murder. Note also that she’s casual about committing murder, which means she’s done it before.
The whole racism thing went completely over my head….
God,I am thick, aren’t I?
Good video. I admit, I did not catch it until the end. On re-watch it is noticeable all the way through. I am American, and don't always catch what is being said, until a re-watch honestly.
honestly i saw it as both the doctor and ruby are just not rich gen-zers. thats why they cant be seen with them.
I was just watching the Doctor Who Podcast, I went to check your channel for a new video, and then I got the notification for this video lol
Hahah thanks for watching I’ve always got something to say 😂
Sometimes it shocks me how much I ignored and explain away racism, I felt like something was off the whole episode but only really accepted that it was racism right at the end, I think I've just been conditioned to think this is normal which makes Ncuti's reaction hit even harder
I refuse to call them "Influencers." It is quite arrogant to think they actually have that much influence.
I didn't think of her as racist at the beginning simply because she didn't have any non-white friends.
This is PEAK WHO!!!!! The subtlety and power of the episode is still quite underrated! You notice that it is the racist and bigotted grifting outrage merchants like Nerdrotic, Critical Drinker, Bowlestrrck etc., many of which have ties to racist right-wing Culture War think tanks like the Heritage Foundation who literally want to turn back the clock on civil, viting and LGBT rights, who pander to and whip up toxic fandom, who hate on such episodes. It's like a Litmus test. Just have a character that is not a straight, white cisgender male and a story line that espouses progressive ideas or exposes inhumanity, and they dissolve in a wingeing tizzy, like they did with one of the greatest Who episodes, Rosa.
^
Using the term cisgender male shows everyone just how stupid you are...
It was obvious - when you were looking for it. I wasn’t, and no an all-white community is not inherently bad/racist like RDT appears to think. I grew up in a small-white town, there simply weren’t any black or Asian (or any non-white) people living there yet.
The themes of this episode imply that an all-white community should be an immediate red flag, but without full context it isn’t. By the same logic any homogenous racial makeup is.
Their subtle racism was in their behaviour and actions, primarily. That they were all willing to die outside the dome than be rescued by a black man was the final confirmation of that.
I did feel “off” about lindy but I didnt notice the racism throughout until the end really. When they made it clear, I looked back and it was then obvious what it was all about
This makes sense, Jodie Whittaker's doctor has an episode where her sexuality is in question I think it's the king Henry one. It was a great episode.
Side note: Doctor's Age, in excess of 4.8 Billion Years.... 2k was past a long time ago before Doctor 1 (after mind wipe/upload to matrix)
Thank you for making this video ♡
The racism elements i didn't spot till the end. It's when she betrays Ricky it becomes obvious that it confirms to you she's a vile character
As a brown woman, I also didn't notice until the end of the episode. It's so shocking looking back. I'm going to have to go and watch it again.
Great breakdown! 💜💜➕🌈🟦
Im white, and honest to god i did notice that they were all white, but i forgot this was russel t davies and i wrote it off as the normal reasons why all the people on tv are white
I missed the whole racism thing that I’m willing to watch it again 😊
Microaggressions as easter eggs what?
Most powerfull sene i dockter why ever ? 500.000 ! People refuse to see this blaten racist bullshit episode !
At the end I was thinking the master was right!!! lol
It's was ok
Is it racism... Or simply ELITISM?
Both
Why not both elitist to Ruby racist to the doc.
Both, but they often go hand in hand in reality
The cometary on racism not arappernt even in the plot.
It wasn’t obvious to me until the end, but there were more pointers to it than were listed in this video.
@nerissarowan8119 it's not obvious at all. The context comes off as xenophobic, not specifically racist. Only those who have watched the extra content show or seen the online reviews acknowledge the racist take. It was a pretty poor portrayal for what was intended - but that's the less of this episodes issues.
@@damientom that’s not the case at all. I’ve seen comments from a lot of people of colour who immediately recognised the kind of micro-aggressions that they themselves have experienced. After watching it, my partner and I considered all the potential microagreessions, and there were a lot but coming from a place of privilege (never having experienced them ourselves) we probably missed some.
@nerissarowan8119 microaggressions are suitable and indirect instances of discrimination. Their occurrence in the episode did not directly indicate racism, discrimination based on skin colour, rather than general xenophobia or elitism - hence the comatray on racism was not obvious, and honestly, it is not be difficult to make it obvious in the conclusion if they wanted it, but they haven't.
@@damientom there are a couple of comments which directly suggest racism, as does the difference between how the main character treats Ruby vs the Doctor. As I said, it wasn’t clear to me until the end what the cause was; I considered they could have been elitist, but looking back the signs are there. You personally don’t need to see them for them to be there. It is a fantastic example of how privilege blinds us to what’s going on around us. I think it was very well done.
Sea sickening.
Before Lindy killed Ricky, I didn’t like her, but I didn’t hate her. It wasn’t really her fault she was raised in an echo chamber and helpless without a bubble
Easily the stupidest episode in the last 60 plus years. First, the Doctor deals with a ton of races all the time. Many all look the same like Daleks, Cybermen, and Sontarans. These aliens, and yes they're not humans, may not have more than one race and that's why the Doctor surprised them. Secondly, an episode where a lamp post is a favorite character makes me shake my head. I thought it may be a commentary on social media but, no, lets be racists! SMH Lastly, the ending where the Doctor basically throws up his hands and says he can't solve the issue but only, maybe, take them somewhere in the TARDIS is just plain wrong. This is the Doctor that solved the Heaven Sent dilemma! It would have been more amusing if it was about mental health, the Dot had become sentient and mad at the Bubbleheads, and how the Doctor might have addressed that issue. But that's too hard, evidently. Just a very, very sad, non-canonical Doctor Who episode.
Huh?
@@Naren25 What was confusing?
@@vickanid1862 Incomprehensible nonsense about the Doctor surprising Daleks and a lamp post being a character. Apart from the first and last sentence I couldn't follow your point at all
@@Naren25 Ha Ha! Well, let me be a bit more clear. The Doctor doesn't surprise Daleks, my point was he deals with a spectrum off races all the time and this particular planet where the Dot and Bubble exist may be a single race. They may treat the Doctor differently for two reasons: he's not part of their social circle and he doesn't look anything like anyone they've known.
The lamp post is a bit of a joke. The bubble-heads (my nickname for those who use this Dot and Bubble system) can't even walk without Dot's help! When a lamp post was in one's path, she ran into it several times!
Lastly, the Doctor has had severe challenges. In Heaven Sent, Time Lords basically trap him in a chamber made of very tough material with a deadly foe for centuries. He regenerates after being killed and is killed many times. Still, he conquers this trap and these bad Time Lords. Yet, he can't figure out how to help these bubble-heads and, probably, the Dot. SMH Does that help?
@@vickanid1862they aren’t though. The lines from Lindy are all direct racism parallels, her lines about The Doctor having a duty to protect her and how he’s getting disciplined when they get to Homeworld allude to slavery still existing