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Doctor Who: Dot and Bubble

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(spoilers for the most recent episode ahead)

I haven’t been talking much about Doctor Who on this blog recently but I’m very impressed by the new season. (Apart from “Space Babies”. Just not for me, that one.) “Dot and Bubble” is a very clever episode, with the most hateable main character Doctor Who has ever had, and yeah I’m ashamed to say that I didn’t work out until RIGHT before the twist that this was a planet of racists. It’s so obvious when you look back at it (Lindy immediately blocking the Doctor, Lindy saying that the Doctor looks “stupid”…) but I didn’t notice. So I guess this episode indicates I too have a bubble of sorts.

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lb1205rb:

thedoubteriswise:

what’s funny about the devil’s chord is that it’s a doctor who episode about the beatles that isn’t really about the beatles, except how the plot is:

  1. there is a world filled with music
  2. it is attacked by a shrill, campy villain of indeterminate gender who steals all the music
  3. this eventually results in a gray, lifeless, post-nuclear wasteland
  4. the only survivors who can remember music travel using a machine capable of traversing time and space to ultimately
  5. enlist the help of the beatles, who
  6. bring back music by playing together, magically restoring color and life and defeating the villain

which is also the plot of classic 1968 animated film Yellow Submarine. not clear on how intentional this is.

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