Russell T Davies And The Unconcious Racism
I don’t know why, but this wee snippet from The Writer’s Tale has popped back into my head…
DONNA:
It’s like Ten Little-
DOCTOR:
Niggles aside, let’s look in the library.
I just can’t quite like RTD anymore, not after that, not after really thinking about that. I once saw him critising Midsomer Murders (which oh so very deserves criticism, just not for that) for having someone saying ‘bastard’ before the watershed, while he’s the one trying to sneak the N word into a family programme. He cut it for being ‘risky’, which sounds a lot like ‘I would do this if I thought I could get away with it.’
It’s just…that word is the most taboo word in the Western world, and here he is reducing it to a schoolboy joke, like how he snuck ‘bitch’ into New Earth. Giggle, snicker, naughty RTD said a bad word! Yeah, I don’t think so…