I don't recall the stories in your first sentence, sounds like I'd like them though.
There are many ways to do 'it' and maybe it's good for you to be taken out of your moral comfort blanket from time to time...
There are deaf people living today who view the desire to cure deafness as eugenics, as kind of genocidal threat to their culture. It's not a stretch to imagine them existing...
..But the people in that episode were Lombardics, not humans. They'd never heard of Earth.
It is supposed to be entertaining and also a sermon.
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brb Monkhouse Stampede, Sun 1 Jun 2025, 2:56,
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The first is the one with the social media zombies from the last series and the second is the first episode of this series. Are you defending something you haven't seen?
If so by all means carry on; I'll take any excuse to put off watching the series finale. The Guardian already gave away that Gatwa was leaving at the end of this series (stop putting spoilers in the article's title for fuck's sake!), and then Aunty Beeb did the same thing with who he'll be regenerating into. I feel even more certain that I'll be skipping the next series now.
As to the deaf character, what monkeon said earlier is starting to make me wonder if she was there just because RTD wishes he'd thought of the subtitle badges* the last time he had a main character who was deaf. The episode with Greg Davies and the silently chanting ghosts.
* Which, to take a leaf out his book, are obviously ableist for assuming that deaf people can read. Or perhaps he was so keen to put his message across that he didn't have time to write a plot that makes any sense.
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jonbob loves you, Sun 1 Jun 2025, 3:53,
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I've seen every available episode (including the psy trance telesnaps), I simply didn't recognise your descriptions
because of the differences in our perception, I guess. I'd genuinely love an episode where the Doctor genocides a planet full of racists, but the closest thing we have to that would be the Time War arc...
The episode you're citing showed The Doctor in tears over the fact that the coddled and privileged RICH kids (for that is how they were described) refused help from an outsider and were basically killing themselves. It's baffling how some people interpret things with the subtlety of a brick to the face!
I'd only vaguely heard Gatwa was leaving, I hadn't heard who his replacement was, and I'm half convinced that we still haven't. "Introducing Billie Piper" is not the same thing as "introducing Billie Piper as The Doctor" and the last regeneration was a bit of a red herring too... But I'm fine with pretty much anyone playing the role as long as they're good and not a cunt.
Why do you say the assumption of literacy is ableist? Could you guide us through your thought process please?
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brb Monkhouse Stampede, Sun 1 Jun 2025, 14:02,
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The one that made us suck our teeth in slightly was when Ruby was sat with the people with disabilities that Conrad had ignored and they just assumed that she didn't have a disability because it wasn't visible.
But anyway, I'm hoping that Billie Piper is just a stunt cast for a christmas special. The regeneration was atypical.
Ncuti was great, let down by rushed scripts.
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antmulder Flick your icefloss, Sun 1 Jun 2025, 20:53,
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