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I actually thought the wheelchair was a shout out to dream warriors. I may just have missed the line about the leg when someone came into the room to say something to me.
i don’t know which Dream Warriors you mean, and Google is giving things that don’t seem to apply here. please give a link?
Shona’s comments about the male scientist’s actions are about 6 or 7 minutes in, on the version i streamed, anyway.
I would actually count the description of the male scientist’s actions as a definite plus, to the extent that I was actually kinda surprised to see it included on a problematic-stuff list. After three-odd seasons of the Doctor kissing people without permission, FINALLY we get a woman saying that ‘even’ an unwanted leg-touch (which the man thinks is perfectly fine and harmless) is actually totally gross. And it’s a woman doing the calling-out. (And then, interestly, the male scientist is the first to die and goes pretty much totally unmourned.) I dunno the spirit in which his character was intended, but I really did think those lines were a Good Thing.
in that sense you have a good point (and i did love that he got shlurped up by the tv unmourned, although i didn’t love that this was Troughton’s son’s debut in the show).
i guess it just seemed out of place in a kids’ christmas show? (although for realism reasons, you could be right about that) and the main reaction of the other ladies was more “ew” at her description than “ew” at his actions?
I just watched it again and here are (the slightly paraphrased) lines:
Shona: I was fine until he put his hand on my knee and then I was just grossing out.
[The two other women stare at the man]
Man: It was intended as a comfort!
Scottish woman: For whom?
Then Shona starts talking about his nose hair and then they’re a bit ‘ew’, I think.