Doctor Who "Dot and Bubble" Reaction
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- Опубликовано: 1 июн 2024
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Hello girl scouts, it’s time for “Pinned Comment Post Post Ramblings from Future Shayla” - it says something to the testament of your main actors that when you think of an episode where they were in true focus for only the last 5 or so minutes that, that is what sticks out to you most. But going back and really picking up on so many layers, where you see those small moments from the character Lindy telling that she is racist from the very beginning. Looking around seeing all the “bright peppy” colors drawing focus from a rich, all white, privileged, prejudiced society, and ya know, the alien slugs eating people. I know I said Ricky would have gotten on the Tardis had he not been killed, but it’s more complex than that. (He grew up in this bubble after all). The ending look between Lindy and the Doctor can be also taken in so many ways, her realizing, or her being smug at leaving, the actress, Callie Cooke, was amazing in this episode.
Also shoutout to the AI that looked at the white supremacists and thought ‘Yeah, no.’
I can't think of another Who episode which is as elevated by it's ending as this. It didn't just cap the story off, it re-contextualised & enhanced everything that had come before.
"The moment we cast Ncuti, everyone said to me: oh, my God, what's it going to be like when he goes into the past? Because a black Doctor's going to face such racism. You sit there going, what about now? Why do you think racisms only in the past, when you look at what's happening in the world?" -- Russell T Davies talking about this episode
God, Millie is so damn good. Already one of my favorite companions ever. As the white daughter of a black family Ruby has no doubt been through this sort of thing plenty of times and it's really well reflected in her reaction.
I have never been more frustrated with watching an episode of Doctor Who. At first it was because I couldn’t stand how insufferable Lindy was with “I can’t walk without the arrows” and that ending… I felt for the Doctor in the last few minutes. Such a great episode!!
Wouldn't surprise me if the Actor who played Ricky September auditioned to be the 15th Doctor.
ALSO the realisation that lindy happily followed ricky, who was trying to help in the exact same way the doctor was, purely because of his appearance - the more i think about the layers to this episode the more i love what they did with it
To be fair, the actor who played Lindy nailed the assignment. All the actors were great.
I’ll be the first to admit I didn’t pick up on some of the racial micro-aggressions on my first watch. The second watch broke my heart.
Some people might say milled best performance is in 73 yards (and don’t get me wrong she was phenomenal) but I think even though she had virtually no lines in the last scene of Dot and Bubble, her acting and reacting, facial expressions and those pats on Ncuti’s shoulder just said it all this was her best performance so far she is amazing
Fun fact: That ending scene at the dock's was Ncuti's first proper day on set he filmed, after his appearance and bigeneration in "The Giggle". At the time they hadn't even filmed the Christmas special.
Something I sort of loved as far as the messages they were going for was that even Ricky September, a man who didn’t spend much time on social media, had enough private info about himself that Lindy knew his real name, enough information to give his life for her own. Even a “healthy” amount of social media can still give a lot of you away
The sad, angry frustration in that last scene was acted perfectly.
LOVED that darker rendition of The Doctor’s theme at the end. Really hope they put that in the
I'm kind of surprised that so many people just seem to be super sure that Ricky wasn't also a racist. he wasn't as in your face with it as the others, but he was part of the same community and religion. just like everybody else, he was just there for a limited amount of time and was hand selected to be there. he turned his bubble off to read, but what do people think would be the kind of literature available to him in the bubble they all resided in? 🤷♀
Me at the start of the episode: "Poor Lindy"
When I watched this the for the first time, the ending scene broke me. I was in tears. And RTD said something about how when he cast Ncuti, he saw the discourse about racism in the past, and his response was to write a story set in the future where racism still exists because it does still exist in the modern day. Add on top of that the fact that 1) this was Ncuti's first episode, and the first thing he EVER shot for DW was that ending scene. 2) Murray Gold's score with the stripped back, or rather pushed down version of the Fifteen Doctor's theme and 3) the 'left speechless' looks at the end, where the Doctor, who's greatest power is his mind/words, couldn't even use words to make anything better.
There were soooo many overt and subtle signs of racism and prejudice scattered throughout the episode:
Oof! First watch had me feel something I don't ever think I've felt with Doctor Who before - a sense of shame and embarrassment. On rewatch, I couldn't believe I'd missed all the little flags.